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Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry

Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry

Karelse, Cathy-Mae

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyMeditation

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1526176262
ISBN13: 9781526176264
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: May 28 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Disrupting white mindfulness presents a thought-provoking critique of the prevailing narratives that shape the mindfulness industry, namely whiteness, postracialism and neoliberalism.

The industry presents itself as 'apolitical', but this only serves to create institutions that fit comfortably into our increasingly divided societies. The White, middle-class profile of decision-makers, educators and staff is mirrored in its audiences, and the industry's whiteness is endlessly recycled through corporate pedagogies, edicts of authority, disengagement with difference and inappropriate uses of mindfulness that distance People of the Global Majority.

At the same time, an emergent movement focused on a justice-infused mindfulness and liberatory well-being is decolonising mindfulness and decentring whiteness. Rooted in indigenous, global South, queer knowledges, this movement leverages difference to produce new possibilities for liberation. As this book shows, there is room for White Mindfulness to change.

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