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Mindfulness and Its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation

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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, ...

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Mindfulness and Its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation 2019, Fernwood Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781773631165

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