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Mindfulness and Its Discontents - Education, Self, and Social Transformation (Paperback)
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Mindfulness and Its Discontents - Education, Self, and Social Transformation (Paperback)
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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. 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.
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