Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds, and Lived Emplacement

Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived Emplacement is a compilation of eighteen previously published articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost researchers in environmental, architectural, and place phenomenology.

1. An Introduction: Going Places Part I: The Value of Phenomenology for Studying Place 2. Lived Bodies, Place, and Phenomenology 3. The Wellbeing of People and Place 4. Body-Subject, Time-space Routines and Place Ballets 5. Whither Phenomenological Research?: Possibilities for Environmental and Place Studies; Part II: Understanding Place Phenomenologically 6. Merleau-Ponty, Lived Body and Place: Toward a Phenomenology of Human Situatedness 7. Serendipitous Events in Place: The Weave of Bodies and Context via Environmental Unexpectedness and Chance 8. Architecture, Place, and Phenomenology: Buildings as Lifeworlds, Atmospheres, and Environmental Wholes 9. The Value of Phenomenology for a Pedagogy of Place and Placemaking 10. A Phenomenological Reading of Jane Jacobs' Death and Life of Great American Cities; Part III: Places, Lived Emplacement, and Place Presence 11. Place, Placelessness, Insideness, and Outsideness in American Filmmaker John Sayles' Sunshine State 12. Place, Belonging, and Environmental Humility: The Experience of "Teched" as Portrayed by American Writer Louis Bromfield 13. Finding One's Place: Environmental and Human Risk in Filmmaker John Sayles' Limbo 14. Phenomenology and Uncanny Homecoming: Homeworld, Alienworld, and Being-at-Home in Alan Ball's HBO Television Series, Six Feet Under 15. A Phenomenology of Inhabitation: The Lived Reciprocity between Houses and Inhabitants as Portrayed by American Writer Louis Bromfield 16. Using Place to Understand Lifeworld: The Example of British Novelist Penelope Lively's Spiderweb 17. Moments of Realization: Extending Homeworld in British-African Novelist Doris Lessing's Four-Gated City 18. Looking at a Photograph-André Kertész's 1928 Meudon: Interpreting Aesthetic Experience Phenomenologically