Chapter 3, "Sense of place and identity", explores the relationship between sense of place and identity. It develops the idea that our individual sense of place as an aspect of our identity is a reciprocal relationship: places impress themselves upon us, and we in turn endow places with significance. Places speak to us in certain ways; we are disposed to speak back to them in accordance with our patterns of response and conviction. The focus will then shift to the historical phenomenon of dispossession (with specific reference to the United Kingdom and Ireland), where individuals and communities were forcibly removed/alienated from places to which they had been historically attached, and often traumatised as a result. Dispossession, it will be argued, is a key element in a weakened sense of place, or a kind of rootlessness where sense of place connotes deep loss and/or nostalgia. The chapter also makes a case for the relationship between sense of place and wellness, and asks the question how a sense of place might be reclaimed. Anticipating Chapter 6, it links the process of reclaiming, asserting or expressing a sense of place to the process of representation, that is, giving form and substance to one's sense of place via what Gunther Kress (2010) would call "representational resources". [For the complete volume, "Sense of Place, Identity and the Revisioning of Curriculum. Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education. Volume 17," see ED673693.]