Deathworlds are places on planet earth that can no longer sustain life. These are increasing
rapidly. We experience remnants of Deathworlds within our Lifeworlds (for example traumatic
echoes of war genocide oppression). Many practices and policies directly or indirectly are
Deathworld-Making. They undermine Lifeworlds contributing to community decline illnesses
climate change and species extinction. This book highlights the ways in which writing about
and sharing meaningful experiences may lead to social and environmental justice practices
decreasing Deathworld-Making. Phenomenology is a method which reveals the connection between
personal suffering and the suffering of the planet earth and all its creatures. Sharing can
lead to collaborative relationships among strangers for social and environmental justice across
barriers of culture politics and language. Deathworlds into Lifeworlds wakes people up to how
current economic and social forces are destroying life and communities on our planet as I have
mapped in my work. The chapters by scholars around the world in this powerful book testify to
the pervasive consequences of the proliferation of Deathworld-making and ways that
collaboration across cultures can help move us forward. -Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd
Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a Member of its Committee on Global Thought.
Recognizing the inseparability of experience consciousness environment and problematics in
rebalancing life systems this book offers solutions from around the world. -Four Arrows aka
Don Trent Jacobs author of Sitting Bull's Words for A World in Crises et al. This unique book
brings together 78 participants from 11 countries to reveal the ways in which phenomenology -
the study of consciousness and phenomena - can lead to profound personal and social
transformation. Such transformation is especially powerful when Deathworlds - physical or
cultural places that no longer sustain life - are transformed into lifeworlds through
collaborative sharing even when (or perhaps especially when) the sharing is among strangers
across different cultures. The contributors share a truly wide range of human experiences from
the death of a child to ecological destruction in offering ways to affirm life in the face of
what may seem to be hopeless death-affirming challenges. -Richard P. Appelbaum Ph.D. is
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus and former MacArthur Foundation Chair in Global and
International Studies and Sociology at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is also
a founding Professor at Fielding Graduate University where he heads the doctoral concentration
in Sustainability Leadership. Deathworlds is a love letter for the planet-our home. By
documenting places that no longer sustain life the authors collectively pull back the curtain
on these places rendering them meaningful by connecting what ails us with what ails the world.
-Katrina S. Rogers Ph.D. conservation activist and author Deathworlds to Lifeworlds
represents collaboration among Fielding Graduate University the University of Lodz (Poland)
and the University of the Virgin Islands. Students and faculty from these universities
participated in seminars on transformative phenomenology and developed rich phenomenologically
based narratives of their experiences or others'. These phenomenological protocol narratives
creatively modify and integrate with everyday experience the conceptual frameworks of Husserl
Schutz Heidegger Habermas and others. The diverse protocol authors demonstrate how
phenomenological reflection is transformative first by revealing how Deathworlds which lead to
physical mental social or ecological decline imperil invaluable lifeworlds. Deathworlds
appear on lifeworld fringes such as ext
