Mindfulness and its discontents : education, self, and social transformation / David Forbes.
| Author/creator | Forbes, David, 1949- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Black Point, Nova Scotia ; Winnipeg, Manitoba : Fernwood Publishing, [2019] |
| Copyright Date | ©2019 |
| Description | vii, 246 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Non/Song of My Non/Self -- A Fateful Deal -- McMindfulness and Neoliberalism: A Prophetic Critique -- The Mindfulness Industrial Complex: The Happy Self -- Seeing Things “As They Are”: Relative and Absolute -- Mind, Self, and Transformation -- Smile, Anger, Judgement -- What Water? Moral Passion and Truth in David Foster Wallace -- Interiority: The Persistence of Inner Life -- Interiority: Self and Moral Development -- Culture as Context: Malignant Normalcy -- Society as Context: Neoliberal Education -- Social-Emotional Learning and Mindfulness -- Neuroscience: The Search for the Golden Egg -- New Visions for a Counter Program |
| Abstract | "Mindfulness, a way to alleviate suffering by realizing the impermanence of the self and our interdependence with others, has been severed from its Buddhist roots. In the late-stage-capitalist, neoliberal, solipsistic West, it becomes McMindfulness, a practice that instead shores up the privatized self, and is corporatized and repackaged as a strategy to cope with our stressful society through an emphasis on self-responsibility and self-promotion. Rather than a way to promote human development and social justice, McMindfulness covertly reinforces neoliberalism and capitalism, the very self-promoting systems that worsen our suffering."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | "In Mindfulness and Its Discontents, David Forbes provides an integral framework for a critical, social, moral mindfulness that both challenges unmindful practices and ideas and provides a way forward. He analyzes how education curricula across North America employ mindfulness: to help students learn to succeed in a neoliberal society by enhancing the ego through emphasizing individualistic skills and the self-regulation of anger and stress. Forbes argues that mindfulness educators instead should uncover and resist the sources of stress and distress that stem from an inequitable, racist, individualistic, market-based (neoliberal) society and shows how school mindfulness programs can help bring about one that is more transformative, compassionate and just."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-232) and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Forbes, David, 1949- Mindfulness and its discontents. Winnipeg, Manitoba ; Halifax, Nova Scotia : Fernwood Publishing, 2019 1773631187 9781773631189 |
| ISBN | 1773631160 (softcover) |
| ISBN | 9781773631165 (softcover) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | BF637 .M56 F67 2019 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |