Learning to Love offers a range of perspectives on the embodied, relational, affective, and sociopolitical project of "learning to love" at the New Life Center for Holistic Growth, a popular "mind-body-spirit" bookstore and practice space in northeast China, in the early part of...

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1. Verfasser:	Pritzker, Sonya E. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	[Ann Arbor] University of Michigan Press 2024
Schlagworte:	Intimsphäre Selbstverwirklichung China Holistic medicine / China Mind and body Asian history Asiatische Geschichte HISTORY / Asia / China International relations POL054000 Politik und Staat Médecine holistique / Chine
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Zusammenfassung:	Learning to Love offers a range of perspectives on the embodied, relational, affective, and sociopolitical project of "learning to love" at the New Life Center for Holistic Growth, a popular "mind-body-spirit" bookstore and practice space in northeast China, in the early part of the 21st century. This intimate form of self-care exists alongside the fast-moving, growing capitalist society of contemporary China and has emerged as an understandable response to the pressures of Chinese industrialized life in the early 21st century. Opening with an investigation of the complex ways newcomers to the center suffered a sense of being "off," both in and with the world at multiple scales, Learning to Love then examines how new horizons of possibility are opened as people interact with one another as well as with a range of aesthetic objects at New Life. Author Sonya Pritzker draws upon the core concepts of scalar intimacy-a participatory, discursive process in which people position themselves in relation to others as well as dominant ideologies, concepts, and ideals-and scalar inquiry-the process through which speakers interrogate these forms, their relationship with them, and their participation in reproducing them. In demonstrating the collaborative interrogation of culture, history, and memory, she examines how these exercises in physical, mental, and spiritual self-care allow participants to grapple with past social harms and forms of injustice, how historical systems of power continue in the present, and how they might be transformed in the future. By examining the interactions and relational experiences from New Life, Learning to Love offers a range of novel theoretical interventions into political subjectivity, temporality, and intergenerational trauma/healing
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-295) and index IntroductionLearning To LoveEntangling DifferentlyImplicit Justice?Justice in a HantopiaSituating the ResearchOverview of ChaptersChapter One: Suffering/DesireThe Tentativeness of DesireTelling SufferingTelling-in-RelationThe Feeling of HomeSpace InvasionThe Timid and Weak TypeAwkward IntroductionsConcluding ReflectionsChapter Two: Home/HorizonsAtmospheresTextuality and the Agency of AtmopsheresBoundary MakingOpening the SpaceClosing the SpaceConcluding ReflectionsChapter Three: The Great SelfReconfiguring the Body-SelfBig Self, Little SelfThe Distributed BodyEnacting the Inner OtherTime TravelThe MadhouseDis-concertConcluding ReflectionsChapter Four: Considering CultureChinese Education Methods...or What?Western MethodsProgress Plus Social DaodeFake FlowersConcluding ReflectionsChapter Five: Wrangling With GhostsConversations With GhostsThe Agency of ImagesThe Indexicality of GhostsCultural Time in JiapaiBig Data CloudFrameworks of ThoughtConcluding ReflectionsChapter Six: These Burdens We Carry We Have So Much Hurt Speaking of Shame The Hate in My Heart Those Things That Are Collective Concluding ReflectionsChapter Seven: Tinkering with the PatriarchyThe Permeability of PatriarchyMens Work That Home in Your Heart Rethinking the YijingConcluding ReflectionsConclusionPerplexing Particulars in the Era of Covid Stay With Us Concluding ReflectionsBibliography
Beschreibung:	x, 309 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780472056866 9780472076864