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The phenomenology of home requires a differing notion of embodiment, perception, space/time, imagination, and animality. Home is in lived space, a deep psychic structure, and a dialogue with built structures and the natural world. Home requires cultivation that can increase our sense of belonging, shelter, direction and purpose. Home shows us trajectories of the back and forth dialogue with the inanimate world, deep past, ancestors, qualities of the things, animals and the natural world. Home is key to dwelling in space in a centered way and appropriating the deep past. The meaning of home can lead to social efforts at providing homes and deepening ecological and historical awareness.
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Mazis, G.A. (2022). Home Rediscovered in Embodied Space/Time, Emotion, Imagination and the Human Animal. In: Murungi, J., Ardito, L. (eds) Home - Lived Experiences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70392-9_7
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