{"product_id":"mindfulness-and-its-discontents","title":"Mindfulness and Its Discontents","description":"\u003cp\u003eMindfulness, 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, McMindfulness covertly reinforces neoliberalism and capitalism, the very self-promoting systems that worsen our suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMindfulness and Its Discontents\u003c\/em\u003e, David Forbes provides an integral framework for a critical, social, moral mindfulness that both challenges unmindful practices and ideas and provides a way forward. He analyzes how education curricula across North America employ mindfulness: to help students learn to succeed in a neoliberal society by enhancing the ego through emphasizing individualistic skills and the self-regulation of anger and stress. Forbes argues that mindfulness educators instead should uncover and resist the sources of stress and distress that stem from an inequitable, racist, individualistic, market-based (neoliberal) society and shows how school mindfulness programs can help bring about one that is more transformative, compassionate and just.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487751807349,"sku":"9781773631165","price":18.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781773631165.jpg?v=1786354976","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/mindfulness-and-its-discontents","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}