Disrupting White mindfulness : race and racism in the wellbeing industry / Cathy-Mae Karelse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karelse, Cathy-Mae, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism.

Mindfulness (Psychology)--Social aspects.

Mindfulness (Psychology).

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy--Social aspects.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.

Race relations.

Personal coaching--Social aspects.

Personal coaching.

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Biography/History:

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 the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 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.

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

Introduction: encountering the world of White Mindfulness

Part I: The roots of exclusion and Othering

1. Othering: the roots of colonisation and Orientalism

2. Cementing whiteness: inclusion through a neoliberal, postracial lens

3. Western Buddhism: a postracial precursor to white mindfulness

Part II: Wrapping mindfulness in whiteness

4. Stuck in whiteness: patterns in Western mindfulness organisations

5. Reproducing whiteness: pedagogies of limitation

6. Corporatising education: metrics, tools, and neoliberal skills

Part III: Embodying justice, changing worlds

7. White Mindfulness, Black Lives Matter, and social transformation

8. Taking back the future: beyond Eurocentric temporality

9. Disrupting space: the politics of pain and emotion

10. Politicised twenty-first century mindfulness: creating futures of belonging

Conclusion: Embodied liberation and worldmaking

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 8, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526162076

1526162075

OCLC:

1379265561