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John Murungi, PhD, JD, is Professor of Philosophy at Towson University, USA.  His research focuses on twentieth-century continental European philosophy, philosophy of law, and African and African American philosophy.  He is the author of An Introduction to African Legal Philosophy, African Musical Aesthetics, African Philosophical Illuminations, and African Philosophical Currents.  He has also co-edited and authored chapters in Sensorial Trajectories; Elemental Sensuous:  Phenomenology and Aesthetics; Rendezvous with the Sensuous:  Readings on Aesthetics; Symbolic Landscapes: Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes; and Lived Topographies and their Mediational Forces, among others.  He is the co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, and the founder of the Geo-Aesthetics Conference Series.Linda Ardito, PhD, researches and writes extensivelyon the arts and humanities after a long and distinguished career in New York as Professor of Music.  She has co-edited and authored chapters in Sensorial Trajectories; Elemental Sensuous:  Phenomenology and Aesthetics; and Rendezvous with the Sensuous:  Readings on Aesthetics.  She has also authored chapters in Creativity:  Fostering, Measuring and Contexts, and Symbolic Landscapes, as well as entries in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; The Grove Dictionary of American Music; The Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development; and journal articles in Skepsis; International Journal of Musicology; and Perspectives of New Music, among others.

• Preface.- Introduction.- Sedentary and Nomadic Spaces.- Overcoming Homelessness and the Geography of Self-Affirmation.- Home as Institution of Propriety.- The Weaving of Worlds: Gloria Anzaldúa on Border Wall Rhetoric.- A Phenomenological Visit to a Japanese Rock Garden.- The Nutrition-Home Axis: A Philosophical and Practical Inquiry.- Home Rediscovered in Embodied Space/Time, Emotion, Imagination and the Human Animal.- Home on the Road: Pilgrimage, Place and Peripatetics.- The Lived Experience of Being Outside of Home and the Uncanniness of Corporeal Consciousness.- There is no Place Like Home.- Homelessness: Countering the Destruction of Home: A Return to Sensuous Communication.- Index.