Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry by Cathy

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Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives and norms that shape the Mindfulness Industry. Mindfulness is now common throughout the West, but this book reveals how the industry is infused with whiteness and late capitalism.

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Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives that shape the mindfulness industry - whiteness, postracialism and neoliberalism. Its positioning as 'apolitical' forges institutions that fit comfortably into increasingly divided societies. The race-gender profile of these institutions reveals a White, middle-class profile of decision-makers, educators and staff that is mirrored in its audiences. Mechanisms that recycle the industry's whiteness include corporatist pedagogies, edicts of authority, disengagement with difference and inappropriate uses of mindfulness that distance People of the Global Majority. A growing emergent movement focused on a justice-infused mindfulness and liberatory wellbeing decolonises mindfulness and de-centres whiteness. Its premise in indigenous, global South, queer knowledges leverages difference to produce multiple solutions focused on liberation. There is room for White Mindfulness to change.

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Mindfulness is now common in the West. Over the last four decades it has exploded in the US and UK and is currently found in boardrooms, bedrooms, schools, prisons, hospitals, health services and on talk shows. Part of the flourishing wellness industry, its central concerns are health and wellbeing. Established through the gateways of science and the psy-disciplines, it is firmly installed in dominant cultures featuring favourably in public media, business schools, apps, and digital media. Yet popular mindfulness is infused in whiteness and late capitalism. Cathy-Mae Karelse reveals how its easy fit in Western society replicates social norms, dominant narratives, and Othering. What is essentially White Mindfulness reflects racialised institutional profiles and a largely White, middle-class audience. Working alongside neoliberalism and postracialism, whiteness is invisibilised socially and institutionally. It marginalises and excludes People of the Global Majority from meaningful leadership and decision-making. Cloaked in these ideologies, efforts to diversify are non-starters. One-size-fits-all mindfulness models are unsuited to the Global Majority and uncritical pedagogies disconnect White Mindfulness from justice. Decolonisation initiatives include a growing movement of radical, unbound, innovations established in embodied justice. An emergent, justice-infused mindfulness and wellness agenda foregrounds collaboration, cooperation, co-regulation, and community. Responsive to intersectional, systemic crises, this movement builds on the social capital, talent, and knowledges of the global majority. It leverages difference and embraces indigenous, queer, global South perspectives to inform solutions to systems change. These developments widen the solution space and offer pathways and an invitation for White Mindfulness to transform radically.

Author Biography

Cathy-Mae Karelse (she/her) is a scholar-practitioner, changemaker and public speaker on issues of race, difference and belonging. She received a PhD from SOAS in 2019. Her work addresses all landscapes: the inner, outer and in-between. She is currently the DEI Lead at The Mindfulness Initiative and holds the position of Systems Change Lead at Resilience Capital Ventures. She works on policy and change programmes globally.

Table of Contents

Introduction: encountering the world of White MindfulnessPart I: The roots of exclusion and Othering1 Othering: the roots of colonisation and Orientalism2 Cementing whiteness: inclusion through a neoliberal, postracial lens3 Western Buddhism: a postracial precursor to White MindfulnessPart II: Wrapping Mindfulness in whiteness4 Stuck in whiteness: patterns in Western mindfulness organisations5 Reproducing whiteness: pedagogies of limitation6 Corporatising education: metrics, tools, and neoliberal skillsPart III: Embodying justice, changing worlds7 White Mindfulness, Black Lives Matter, and social transformation8 Taking back the future: beyond Eurocentric temporality9 Disrupting space: the politics of pain and emotion10 Politicised twenty-first century mindfulness: creating futures of belongingConclusion: embodied liberation and worldmakingIndex

Review

'Karelse delivers a cracking Black Feminist call to decolonise "Wellbeing" with her forensic exposé of the darkside of the White Mindfulness industry and its colonial co-option of Eastern teachings for Western gain.'Heidi Safia Mirza, author of Race, Gender and Educational Desire 'Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a generous and critical lens of exploration helping to free the ancient practice of mindfulness from systems of dominance, restoring the practice back to its original project of liberation for all who seek it.'Lama Rod Owens, author of Love and Rage and co-author of Radical Dharma'Karelse importantly invites the mindful to reimagine their communities, untethering themselves from the de facto white, colonial cultures that undergird and infuse their most popular forms. She instead encourages others to imagine along with her how such practices can be used to foster a more inclusive and just world through intrapersonal and collective reflection, new forms of community building, and action.'Jamie Kucinskas, author of The Mindful Elite: Mobilising from the Inside Out and Situating spirituality: Context, Practice, Power'Karelse's clear, fluid writing transports the reader through various dimensions of its arguments with finesse. Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry is an original work that, at a time when capitalist relations and the breakdown of mental health are intensifying, offers a new perspective on how we can change our mindset. Anyone committed to anti-racism, or who considers themselves an ally, will benefit from the lucid and straightforward way it demonstrates the importance of intersectional approaches to mindfulness.'Laura Brito, The Sociological Review -- .

Long Description

Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives that shape the mindfulness industry - whiteness, postracialism and neoliberalism. Its positioning as 'apolitical' forges institutions that fit comfortably into increasingly divided societies. The race-gender profile of these institutions reveals a White, middle-class profile of decision-makers, educators and staff that is mirrored in its audiences. Mechanisms that recycle the industry's whiteness include corporatist pedagogies, edicts of authority, disengagement with difference and inappropriate uses of mindfulness that distance People of the Global Majority. A growing emergent movement focused on a justice-infused mindfulness and liberatory wellbeing decolonises mindfulness and de-centres whiteness. Its premise in indigenous, global South, queer knowledges leverages difference to produce multiple solutions focused on liberation. There is room for White Mindfulness to change.

Details ISBN1526162067 Short Title Disrupting White Mindfulness Publisher Manchester University Press Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1526162067 ISBN-13 9781526162069 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-05-23 Subtitle Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry UK Release Date 2023-05-23 Imprint Manchester University Press Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2023-05-23 Pages 272 Author Cathy-Mae Karelse DEWEY 361.3 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2023-09-27 We've got this

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