{"product_id":"disrupting-white-mindfulness-race-and-racism-in-the-wellbeing-industry-9781526162069","title":"Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisrupting White Mindfulness\u003c\/i\u003e offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives that shape the mindfulness industry - whiteness, postracialism and neoliberalism. Its positioning as ‘apolitical’ forges institutions that fit comfortably into increasingly divided societies. The race-gender profile of these institutions reveals a White, middle-class profile of decision-makers, educators and staff that is mirrored in its audiences. Mechanisms that recycle the industry’s whiteness include corporatist pedagogies, edicts of authority, disengagement with difference and inappropriate uses of mindfulness that distance People of the Global Majority. A growing emergent movement focused on a justice-infused mindfulness and liberatory wellbeing decolonises mindfulness and de-centres whiteness. Its premise in indigenous, global South, queer knowledges leverages difference to produce multiple solutions focused on liberation. There is room for White Mindfulness to change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Karelse delivers a cracking Black Feminist call to decolonise \"Wellbeing\" with her forensic exposé of the darkside of the White Mindfulness industry and its colonial co-option of Eastern teachings for Western gain.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeidi Safia Mirza, author of \u003ci\u003eRace, Gender and Educational Desire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eDisrupting White Mindfulness\u003c\/i\u003e offers a generous and critical lens of exploration helping to free the ancient practice of mindfulness from systems of dominance, restoring the practice back to its original project of liberation for all who seek it.’\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLama Rod Owens, author of \u003ci\u003eLove and Rage\u003c\/i\u003e and co-author of \u003ci\u003eRadical Dharma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Karelse importantly invites the mindful to reimagine their communities, untethering themselves from the de facto white, colonial cultures that undergird and infuse their most popular forms. She instead encourages others to imagine along with her how such practices can be used to foster a more inclusive and just world through intrapersonal and collective reflection, new forms of community building, and action.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamie Kucinskas,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mindful Elite: Mobilising from the Inside Out\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSituating spirituality: Context, Practice, Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: encountering the world of White Mindfulness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The roots of exclusion and Othering\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Othering: the roots of colonisation and Orientalism\u003cbr\u003e2 Cementing whiteness: inclusion through a neoliberal, postracial lens\u003cbr\u003e3 Western Buddhism: a postracial precursor to White Mindfulness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Wrapping Mindfulness in whiteness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Stuck in whiteness: patterns in Western mindfulness organisations\u003cbr\u003e5 Reproducing whiteness: pedagogies of limitation\u003cbr\u003e6 Corporatising education: metrics, tools, and neoliberal skills\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Embodying justice, changing worlds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 White Mindfulness, Black Lives Matter, and social transformation\u003cbr\u003e8 Taking back the future: beyond Eurocentric temporality\u003cbr\u003e9 Disrupting space: the politics of pain and emotion\u003cbr\u003e10 Politicised twenty-first century mindfulness: creating futures of belonging\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: embodied liberation and worldmaking\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041027522903,"sku":"9781526162069","price":63.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526162069.jpg?v=1750948659","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disrupting-white-mindfulness-race-and-racism-in-the-wellbeing-industry-9781526162069","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}