Sitting in the Fire Together: People of Color Cultivating Radical Resilience in North American Insight Meditation
Drawing upon ethnographic research conducted in California with BIPOC practitioners of mindfulness, this article examines their efforts to create “safe spaces” to collectively experience and process painful embodied emotions around racialized trauma. These collective spaces, I argue, help meditators...
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| 格式: | 电子 文件 |
| 语言: | English |
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2021
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Journal of global buddhism
Year: 2021, 卷: 22, 发布: 1, Pages: 121-139 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ 种族主义
/ 有色人种
/ Trauma
/ 注意力
/ 冥想
/ 空间
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BL Buddhism KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
PoC
B Race B Intersubjectivity B Mindfulness B American Buddhism B Emotions B Resilience |
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| Rights Information: | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
| 总结: | Drawing upon ethnographic research conducted in California with BIPOC practitioners of mindfulness, this article examines their efforts to create “safe spaces” to collectively experience and process painful embodied emotions around racialized trauma. These collective spaces, I argue, help meditators move from experiencing painful emotions as internal to their personal experience as individuals, and instead help relate their difficult emotions with those experienced and shared by other racialized minorities. Building such safe space communities help raise awareness of the shared socio-political nature of their individual emotions. This collective experiencing of racialized embodiment fosters a type of radical resilience, and, ultimately, develops an awareness of collective responsibility, care for community and direct action for racial justice within the individual meditator. |
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| ISSN: | 1527-6457 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of global buddhism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4727595 |