McMindfulness: how mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality

"What if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the neoliberal status quo? In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser debunks the so-called "mindfulness revolution," ex...

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Main Author: Purser, Ronald E. 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Repeater 2019
Series:A Repeater books paperback original
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"What if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the neoliberal status quo? In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser debunks the so-called "mindfulness revolution," exposing how corporations, schools, governments and the military have co-opted it as technique for social control and self-pacification...challenging the narrative that stress is self-imposed and mindfulness is the cure-all." - Verlag
Physical Description:296 Seiten 20 cm
ISBN:9781912248315