A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism: Reclaiming the Mindful Commons (Routledge Studies in Sustainability)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (554 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073FP29Q3 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 327 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Peter Doran is a lecturer at the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
In this consumer age, the underlying teachings of Buddhist mindfulness offer more than individual well-being and resilience. They also offer new sources of critical inquiry into our collective condition, and may point, in time, to regulatory initiatives in the field of well-being.This book draws together lively debates from the new economics of transition, commons and well-being, consumerism, and the emerging role of mindfulness in popular culture. The power of capital is the power to target our attention, mould market-ready identities, and reduce the public realm to an endless series of choices. This poses questions about the recovery of the 'mindful commons': the practices we must cultivate to reclaim our attention, time and lives from the forces of capitalization.?This is a valuable resource for students and scholars of environmental philosophy, environmental psychology, environmental sociology, well-being and new economics, political economy, environmental politics, the commons and law, as well as Buddhist theory and philosophy.. This has far-reaching implications for our psychological, physical and spiritual well-being, and ultimately for our global ecology. The 'attention economy' can be understood as a new arena of struggle in our age of neoliberal governmentality; as the forces of enclosure – having colonized forests, land and the bodies of workers – are now
About the AuthorPeter Doran is a lecturer at the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.