ABSTRACT
The professor's favourite painting, pride of place, was locatable on the wall in the form of a carbonised frame. The professor's home had been her deep taproot; now a spade had cut through it. James Krasner proposes that domestic space is a concept realised through movement: While the home is both a cultural formulation and a building, it is, more than either of these, a cluster of tactile sensations and bodily positions that form the somatic groundwork through which we experience its emotional sustenance. Although Krasner suggests that tactile relations between body and home are most evident when one or other or both is at risk, he focuses more on risk to body than to home. While the meaning and practice of home is created through body and movement, as Krasner explores, it is also created through constructions in language. The professor loved words and was a devotee of etymologies –etymological dictionary, friend since youth, burnt.
