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Worth your time on this question

Everything worth your time on the question: Which rooms am I genuinely part of?

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Leila Scannell and Robert Gifford

A clear framework for the attachment people feel to places, useful when belonging is geographic rather than social.

Bonnie Hagerty

Hagerty defines belonging as fit plus valued involvement, which gives you two separate things to test rather than a feeling to chase.

Henri Tajfel and John Turner

Tajfel and Turner on how groups form identity, including the uncomfortable part about who gets left outside it.

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