2017
DOI: 10.1080/04353684.2017.1306970
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Ecologies of the self in practice – meditation, affect and ecosophy

Abstract: Drawing upon current concerns within non-representational and posthumanist theory, this paper explores the potential of meditation to trigger non-modern forms of affect. Supported by qualitative methodology which included participant observation at mindfulness and Vipassana retreats and semi-structured interviews with meditators, the paper analyses a number of subjective transformations characterized by struggle, embodiment, porosity and fragmentation. Following the call for deeper and more comprehensive forms… Show more

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“…Both Carvahlo (2017) and Buckingham (2017) look to the adoption of Eastern practices in the West as an empirical evidencing of what ecosophical practices might look like. For Carvahlo (2017), meditation is critically held as both with potential to act as a salve, or escape from injustices in the world, and as a digging deeper, facing up to what Buckingham terms 'micropolitical' (2017) practices that are the grounding of prior and primary injustice. Buckingham uses yoga as a window to reflect on her selfhood, as both an academic and activist, embodied self and thinking mind.…”
Section: Developing Ecosophical Geographiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Both Carvahlo (2017) and Buckingham (2017) look to the adoption of Eastern practices in the West as an empirical evidencing of what ecosophical practices might look like. For Carvahlo (2017), meditation is critically held as both with potential to act as a salve, or escape from injustices in the world, and as a digging deeper, facing up to what Buckingham terms 'micropolitical' (2017) practices that are the grounding of prior and primary injustice. Buckingham uses yoga as a window to reflect on her selfhood, as both an academic and activist, embodied self and thinking mind.…”
Section: Developing Ecosophical Geographiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As questões que levantam são inúmeras e a vários níveis, designadamente: características burocrático-institucionais; os projetos políticos que promovem; implicações na governação em múltiplas escalas (local, regional, nacional) e setores (território, ambiente, saúde, ciência etc. ); potencial inclusivo e emancipatório que comportam; relação entre leigos e peritos; impactos na produção de públicos e de novos coletivos; relação entre democracia representativa e participativa (Carvalho;Nunes, 2013). A estes dispositivos são ainda atribuídas limitações e fragilidades em torno de questões de representatividade ou do perigo de manipulação e cooptação (Carvalho;Nunes, 2014).…”
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“…); potencial inclusivo e emancipatório que comportam; relação entre leigos e peritos; impactos na produção de públicos e de novos coletivos; relação entre democracia representativa e participativa (Carvalho;Nunes, 2013). A estes dispositivos são ainda atribuídas limitações e fragilidades em torno de questões de representatividade ou do perigo de manipulação e cooptação (Carvalho;Nunes, 2014).…”
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