Deathworlds to Lifeworlds : : Collaboration with Strangers for Personal, Social and Ecological Transformation / / ed. by Valerie Malhotra Bentz, James Marlatt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Azarova, Tetyana,; Bentz, Valerie,; Buechner, Barton,; Cockayne, Darlene,; Crockford, Lorraine,; Davidson, Lori,; Decker, Jennifer,; Dziubińska, Małgorzata,; Elias, Michelle,; Estrada, Carol,; Grossman, Valerie,; Haddad, David,; Jones, David,; Kacperczyk, Anna,; Konecki, Krzysztof,; Lange, Łucja,; Marlatt, James,; Martini, Natalia,; Myagmarjav, Tsolmontuya,; Nishii, Ayumi,; Opland, Debra,; Rehorick, David,; Ritter, Ann,; Spann, Rik,; Strohmayr, Whitney,; Tarasiuk, Dagmara,
• HerausgeberIn: Bentz, Valerie Malhotra,; Marlatt, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 369 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Foreword --; Contents --; Part I: Lifeworlds in Deathworlds in Łódź, Poland --; Chapter 1 From Deathworlds to Lifeworlds Through Collaborative Transformative Phenomenology --; Chapter 2 Deathworld of the City of Łódź: Insider Experience --; Chapter 3 Deathworld of the City of Łódź: Outsider Lived Experiences --; Chapter 4 Phenomenology of Trash --; Chapter 5 Walking with Homeless Persons in Kraków and Łódź --; Chapter 6 The Experience of Precognition --; Chapter 7 Personal Discovery and Transformation Through the Study of Lived-Experience --; Part II: Experiences of Lifeworlds and Deathworlds --; Chapter 8 Restoring Lifeworlds Through Phenomenological Writing, Reflection and Collaboration --; Chapter 9 Be-ing with Dying: A Personal Experience with the Death of a Young Person --; Chapter 10 Inspiration in Times of Personal Challenge: A Mindful Inquiry --; Chapter 11 The Deathworld of First Responders: Being a Stranger to Oneself --; Part III: Lifeworlds and Deathworlds in We-Relationships --; Chapter 12 Grief and Unraveling in Romantic We-Relationships --; Chapter 13 Overcoming Deathworlds of Addiction, Self-Injury, and Stress --; Chapter 14 Military Wife and Mother: Lifeworlds and Deathworlds Surrounding Military Life --; Chapter 15 Embracing Endless Liminality: Improvisation and the “Practical Mystic” --; Part IV: Deathworlds and the Indigenous --; Chapter 16 Indigenous Worldview and the Vision of a Peace Educator --; Chapter 17 Colonization of the Lifeworld of Sheepherder Communities of Mongolia --; Chapter 18 Deathworld Encroachments on the Amazon Rainforest --; Chapter 19 Sustaining Lifeworlds in the Face of Famine, Water Shortages, and Malaria --; Part V: Transformative Phenomenology Practice --; Chapter 20 Transformative Phenomenology as an Antidote to Technological Deathworlds --; Epilogue: The Essence of Collaborative Transformative Phenomenology --; About the Authors --; About the Editors --; Endorsements --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110691818; 9783110750720; 9783110750706; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754155; 9783110753929
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110691818
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Valerie Malhotra Bentz, James Marlatt.

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 Łodź (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