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In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that
many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid - loss,
heartbreak, vulnerability, fear - boldly reinterpreting them, fully
embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his
relentless search for meaning. Beginning with 'Alone' and closing
with 'Withdrawal', each piece in this life-affirming book is a
meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and
broaden our perspectives on life: pain and joy, honesty and anger,
confession and vulnerability, the experience of feeling overwhelmed
and the desire to run away from it all. Through this lens,
procrastination may be a necessary ripening; hiding an act of
freedom; and shyness something that accompanies the first stage of
revelation. Consolations invites readers into a poetic and
thoughtful consideration of words whose meaning and interpretation
influence the paths we choose and the way we traverse them
throughout our lives.
The author of Consolations collects his best poetry and offers a deep-dive into the significance each one holds.
'Great poems,' David Whyte has said, 'are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.' Essentials is a collection of his own best poems, each in their way about capturing the experience itself, whether that is in the daily shifts, the ever-turning seasons or the bigger cycle of gain and grief that are part of our journey through life.
Each poem is accompanied by a short context on where and when it was written. Together they form an elegant testament to David Whyte's most closely-held understanding - that human life cannot be apportioned out as one thing or another; rather, it is best seen as a living conversation, a way between and beyond, made beautiful by darkness as well as light, at its essence both deeply solitary and profoundly communal.
Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis,
continues to devastate contemporary Britain. In The Violence of
Austerity, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the voices
of campaigners and academics including Danny Dorling, Mary O'Hara
and Rizwaan Sabir to show that rather than stimulating economic
growth, austerity policies have led to a dismantling of the social
systems that operated as a buffer against economic hardship,
exposing austerity to be a form of systematic violence. Covering a
range of famous cases of institutional violence in Britain, the
book argues that police attacks on the homeless, violent evictions
in the rented sector, the risks faced by people on workfare
schemes, community violence in Northern Ireland and cuts to the
regulation of social protection, are all being driven by reductions
in public sector funding. The result is a shocking expose of the
myriad ways in which austerity policies harm people in Britain.
Drawing upon a wide range of sources of empirical evidence,
historical analysis and theoretical argument, this book shows
beyond any doubt that the private, profit-making, corporation is a
habitual and routine offender. The book dissects the myth that the
corporation can be a rational, responsible, 'citizen'. It shows how
in its present form, the corporation is permitted, licensed and
encouraged to systematically kill, maim and steal for profit.
Corporations are constructed through law and politics in ways that
impel them to cause harm to people and the environment. In other
words, criminality is part of the DNA of the modern corporation.
Therefore, the authors argue, the corporation cannot be easily
reformed. The only feasible solution to this 'crime' problem is to
abolish the legal and political privileges that enable the
corporation to act with impunity.
Frank Pearce was the first scholar to use the term 'crimes of the
powerful.' His ground-breaking book of the same name provided
insightful critiques of liberal orthodox criminology, particularly
in relation to labelling theory and symbolic interactionism, while
making important contributions to Marxist understandings of the
complex relations between crime, law and the state in the
reproduction of the capitalist social order. Historically, crimes
of the powerful were largely neglected in crime and deviance
studies, but there is now an important and growing body of work
addressing this gap. This book brings together leading
international scholars to discuss the legacy of Frank Pearce's book
and his work in this area, demonstrating the invaluable
contributions a critical Marxist framework brings to studies of
corporate and state crimes, nationally, internationally and on a
global scale. This book is neither a hagiography, nor a review of
random areas of social scientific interest. Instead, it draws
together a collection of scholarly and original articles which draw
upon and critically interrogate the continued significance of the
approach pioneered in Crimes of the Powerful. The book traces the
evolution of crimes of the powerful empirically and theoretically
since 1976, shows how critical scholars have integrated new
theoretical insights derived from post-structuralism, feminism and
critical race studies and offers perspectives on how the crimes of
the powerful - and the enormous, ongoing destruction they cause -
can be addressed and resisted.
This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and
legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United
Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for
their human rights violations. Based on an analysis of the range of
mechanisms of accountability that currently exist, it argues that
that those demands are a response to the failure of neo-liberal
policies that have dominated the practice of politics and law since
the emergence of this debate in its current form in the 1970s.
Offering a new approach to understanding how struggles for hegemony
are refracted through a range of legal challenges to corporate
human rights violations, the book offers a fresh perspective for
understanding how those struggles are played out in the global
sphere. In order to analyse the prospects for using human rights
law to challenge the right of corporations to author human rights
violations, the book explores the development of a range of
political initiatives in the UN, the uses of tort law in domestic
courts, and the uses of human rights law at the European Court of
Human Rights and at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This
book will be essential reading for all those interested in how
international institutions and NGOs are both shaping and being
shaped by global struggles against corporate power.
In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood where the true way was wholly lost -DANTE
Like Dante, many of today's corporate workers find themselves lost in the day-to-day duties of their jobs. Our lives seem shaken by the events of September 11 and the seemingly endless examples of corporate scandal, it's become more difficult than ever to find meaning in the workplace.
Has your work lost its meaning? Are you afraid of pursuing your dreams for fear of failing or--worse--getting fired? Do you yearn to find creativity, and even joy, in your job?
In The Heart Aroused, David Whyte brings his unique perspective as poet and consultant to the workplace, showing readers how fulfilling work can be when they face their fears and follow their dreams. Going beneath the surface concerns about products and profits, organization and order, Whyte addresses the needs of the heart and soul, and the fears and desires that many workers keep hidden.
Through the poetry of both classic and modern masters, Whyte helps readers find both professional and personal fulfillment. In Beowulf, Whyte uncovers the key to confronting office conflicts. Like the poem's courageous hero, readers will travel to the belly of the beast of a problem and emerge triumphantly with a solution. The poems of Pablo Neruda help on find inner silence even in the busiest, most confining office space. With T.S. Eliot as a guide, Whyte teaches readers to appreciate the need to open themselves up to possible failure--and as a result, probable success.
At a time when corporations are calling on employees for more creativity, dedication, and adaptability, and workers are trying desperately to balance home and work, this revised edition of The Heart Aroused is the essential guide to reinvigorating the soul.
There is evidence that economic fraud has, in recent years, become
routine activity in the economies of both high- and low-income
countries. Many business sectors in today's global economy are rife
with economic crime. Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud
shows how neoliberal policies, reforms, ideas, social relations and
practices have engendered a type of sociocultural change across the
globe which is facilitating widespread fraud. This book
investigates the moral worlds of fraud in different social and
geographical settings, and shows how contemporary fraud is not the
outcome of just a few 'bad apples'. Authors from a range of
disciplines including sociology, anthropology and political
science, social policy and economics, employ case studies from the
Global North and Global South to explore how particular values,
morals and standards of behaviour rendered dominant by
neoliberalism are encouraging the proliferation of fraud. This book
will be indispensable for those who are interested in political
economy, development studies, economics, anthropology, sociology
and criminology.
This edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power
through a series of case studies of political violence arising from
state 'counter-terrorism' strategies. The book examines how state
counter-terrorism strategies are invariably underpinned by terror,
in the form of state political violence. It seeks to answer three
key questions: To what extent can counter-terror strategies be read
as a form of state terror? How fundamental is state terror to the
maintenance of a neo-liberal social order? What are the features of
counter-terrorism that render it so easily reducible to state
terror? In order to explore these issues, and to reach an
understanding of what it means to say that the 'war on terror' is
terror , the contributing authors draw upon case studies from a
range of geographical contexts including the UK and Northern
Ireland, the US and Colombia, and Sri Lanka and Tamil Eelam.
Analysing these case studies from a psychological-warfare and
hegemonic perspective, the book also includes two chapters from
Noam Chomsky and John Pilger, which provide a global and historical
context. This book will be of great interest to students of
critical terrorism studies, political violence, war and conflict
studies, sociology, international security and IR.
This edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power
through a series of case studies of political violence arising from
state counter-terrorism' strategies. The book examines how state
counter-terrorism strategies are invariably underpinned by terror,
in the form of state political violence. It seeks to answer several
key questions: To what extent can counter-terror strategies be read
as a form of state terror? What are the features of
counter-terrorism that render it so easily reducible to state
terror? If state terror is a necessary product of state
counter-terrorism, what does this mean for how we resist the war on
terror'? How fundamental is state terror to the maintenance of a
neo-liberal social order? The chapters analyse this process in a
range of contexts including: Spain; the UK and Northern Ireland;
the US and Colombia; the US and Puerto Rico; Israel and Gaza; the
US and European powers in the Sahara; Indonesia and Timor-Leste and
West Papua; Sri Lanka and Tamil Eelam; the UK and immigrants
(especially from suspect communities'), political dissidents and
asylum seekers. Contributors use the case studies to understand
what it means to say that the war on terror' is terror, and explore
this in a psychological warfare sense (the creation of widespread
fears of state violence in order to achieve political, social or
military aims), or in a hegemonic sense (to develop a state of fear
of sub-state terrorists' in order to escalate state political
violence). This book will be of great interest to students of
critical terrorism studies, political violence, war and conflict
studies, sociology, international security and IR.
Contents: Frank Pearce: Holy Wars and Spiritual Revitalization -
Steve Tombs/Dave Whyte: Scrutinizing the Powerful: Crime,
Contemporary Political Economy, and Critical Social Research -
Laureen Snider: Researching Corporate Crime - Geoffrey Tweedale:
Researching Corporate Crime: A Business Historian's Perspective -
Roy Coleman: CCTV Surveillance, Power, and Social Order: The State
of Contemporary Social Control - Gary Fooks: In the Valley of the
Blind the One-Eyed Man Is King: Corporate Crime and the Myopia of
Financial Regulation - Eileen Berrington/Ann Jemphrey/Phil Scraton:
Silencing the View from Below: The Institutional Regulation of
Critical Research - Colm Power: « Telling It Like It Is? Power,
Prejudice, Politics, and People in the Qualitative Process - Penny
Green: Researching the Turkish State - Anne Alvesalo/Erja Virta:
Researching Regulators and the Paradoxes of Access - Paddy
Hillyard: Imaginative Crimes or Crimes of the Imagination:
Researching the Secret State - Anette Ballinger: Researching and
Redefining State Crime: Feminism and the Capital Punishment of
Women - Joe Sim: Whose Side Are We Not On? Researching Medical
Power in Prisons - Steve Tombs/Dave Whyte: Unmasking the Crimes of
the Powerful: Establishing Some Rules of Engagement.
This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and
legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United
Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for
their human rights violations. Based on an analysis of the range of
mechanisms of accountability that currently exist, it argues that
that those demands are a response to the failure of neo-liberal
policies that have dominated the practice of politics and law since
the emergence of this debate in its current form in the 1970s.
Offering a new approach to understanding how struggles for hegemony
are refracted through a range of legal challenges to corporate
human rights violations, the book offers a fresh perspective for
understanding how those struggles are played out in the global
sphere. In order to analyse the prospects for using human rights
law to challenge the right of corporations to author human rights
violations, the book explores the development of a range of
political initiatives in the UN, the uses of tort law in domestic
courts, and the uses of human rights law at the European Court of
Human Rights and at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This
book will be essential reading for all those interested in how
international institutions and NGOs are both shaping and being
shaped by global struggles against corporate power.
Drawing upon a wide range of sources of empirical evidence,
historical analysis and theoretical argument, this book shows
beyond any doubt that the private, profit-making, corporation is a
habitual and routine offender. The book dissects the myth that the
corporation can be a rational, responsible, 'citizen'. It shows how
in its present form, the corporation is permitted, licensed and
encouraged to systematically kill, maim and steal for profit.
Corporations are constructed through law and politics in ways that
impel them to cause harm to people and the environment. In other
words, criminality is part of the DNA of the modern corporation.
Therefore, the authors argue, the corporation cannot be easily
reformed. The only feasible solution to this 'crime' problem is to
abolish the legal and political privileges that enable the
corporation to act with impunity.
We have reached the point of no return. The existential threat of
climate change is now a reality. The world has never been more
vulnerable. Yet corporations are already planning a life beyond
this point. The business models of fossil fuel giants factor in
continued profitability in a scenario of a five-degree increase in
global temperature. An increase that will kill millions, if not
billions. This is the shocking reality laid bare in a new,
hard-hitting book by David Whyte. Ecocide makes clear the problem
won't be solved by tinkering around the edges, instead it maps out
a plan to end the corporation's death-watch over us. This book will
reveal how the corporation has risen to this position of near
impunity, but also what we need to do to fix it. This book is
relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13, Climate
action -- .
Frank Pearce was the first scholar to use the term 'crimes of the
powerful.' His ground-breaking book of the same name provided
insightful critiques of liberal orthodox criminology, particularly
in relation to labelling theory and symbolic interactionism, while
making important contributions to Marxist understandings of the
complex relations between crime, law and the state in the
reproduction of the capitalist social order. Historically, crimes
of the powerful were largely neglected in crime and deviance
studies, but there is now an important and growing body of work
addressing this gap. This book brings together leading
international scholars to discuss the legacy of Frank Pearce's book
and his work in this area, demonstrating the invaluable
contributions a critical Marxist framework brings to studies of
corporate and state crimes, nationally, internationally and on a
global scale. This book is neither a hagiography, nor a review of
random areas of social scientific interest. Instead, it draws
together a collection of scholarly and original articles which draw
upon and critically interrogate the continued significance of the
approach pioneered in Crimes of the Powerful. The book traces the
evolution of crimes of the powerful empirically and theoretically
since 1976, shows how critical scholars have integrated new
theoretical insights derived from post-structuralism, feminism and
critical race studies and offers perspectives on how the crimes of
the powerful - and the enormous, ongoing destruction they cause -
can be addressed and resisted.
There is evidence that economic fraud has, in recent years, become
routine activity in the economies of both high- and low-income
countries. Many business sectors in today's global economy are rife
with economic crime. Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud
shows how neoliberal policies, reforms, ideas, social relations and
practices have engendered a type of sociocultural change across the
globe which is facilitating widespread fraud. This book
investigates the moral worlds of fraud in different social and
geographical settings, and shows how contemporary fraud is not the
outcome of just a few 'bad apples'. Authors from a range of
disciplines including sociology, anthropology and political
science, social policy and economics, employ case studies from the
Global North and Global South to explore how particular values,
morals and standards of behaviour rendered dominant by
neoliberalism are encouraging the proliferation of fraud. This book
will be indispensable for those who are interested in political
economy, development studies, economics, anthropology, sociology
and criminology.
A radical, "crystalline" ("Elle") approach to integrating our work,
relationships, and inner selves from the bestselling author, poet,
and speaker.
The author of "Crossing the Unknown Sea" and "The Heart Aroused"
encourages readers to reimagine how they inhabit the worlds of
love, work, and self-understanding. Whyte suggests that separating
these "marriages" in order to balance them is to destroy the fabric
of happiness itself. Drawing from his own struggles and the lives
of some of the world's great writers and artists-from Dante to Jane
Austen to Robert Louis Stevenson-Whyte explores the ways these core
commitments are connected. Only by understanding the journey
involved in each of the three marriages and the stages of their
maturation, he says, can we understand how to bring them together
in one fulfilled life.
Crossing the Unknown Sea is about reuniting the imagination with our day to day lives. It shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspect of our lives meaning and direction. For anyone who wants to deepen their connection to their life’s work—or find out what their life’s work is—this book can help navigate the way. Whyte encourages readers to take risks at work that will enhance their personal growth, and shows how burnout can actually be beneficial and used to renew professional interest. He asserts that too many people blindly trudge through a mediocre work life because so many “busy” tasks prevent significant reflection and analysis of job satisfaction. People often turn to spiritual practice or religion to nurture their souls, but overlook how work can actually be our greatest opportunity for discovery and growth. Crossing the Unknown Sea combines poetry, gifted storytelling and Whyte’s personal experience to reveal work’s potential to fulfill us and bring us closer to ultimate freedom and happiness.
Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis,
continues to devastate contemporary Britain. In The Violence of
Austerity, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the voices
of campaigners and academics including Danny Dorling, Mary O'Hara
and Rizwaan Sabir to show that rather than stimulating economic
growth, austerity policies have led to a dismantling of the social
systems that operated as a buffer against economic hardship,
exposing austerity to be a form of systematic violence. Covering a
range of famous cases of institutional violence in Britain, the
book argues that police attacks on the homeless, violent evictions
in the rented sector, the risks faced by people on workfare
schemes, community violence in Northern Ireland and cuts to the
regulation of social protection, are all being driven by reductions
in public sector funding. The result is a shocking expose of the
myriad ways in which austerity policies harm people in Britain.
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