Homecraft

After first detailing some of the main paths in the emerging field of critical phenomenology, this article uses the framework of a desire path, a path which both emerges and diverts from the larger tradition, in order to name and identify homecraft as a recurring motif in the field. Homecraft describes the way those in diaspora, who are by definition displaced from home, attempt to move simultaneously in two directions, towards a home which no longer exists, while also re-homing themselves through a creative process of building, creating, and making. Although this dual positionality is not exclusive to phenomenology, this article seeks to understand how the concept of orientation can help to retheorize different dimensions of diasporic spaces, including the spatiality of race, class, and gender, in order to (re)create spaces of home and belonging.