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Title: | Ecologies of the self in practice - meditation, affect and ecosophy | Authors: | Carvalho, António | Keywords: | Mindfulness; Vipassana; Meditation; Technologies of the self; Ecosophy; Affect | Issue Date: | 2017 | Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | Project: | SFRH/BD/62928/2009 | Serial title, monograph or event: | Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography | Volume: | 99 | Issue: | 2 | Abstract: | Drawing upon current concerns within non-representational and post-humanist 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 of affect within ecosophy, the paper offers a step-by-step analysis of the emergence of meditative subjectivities, suggesting that they point towards ways of being in the world that challenge the autonomous modern self. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/83463 | ISSN: | 1468-0467 | DOI: | 10.1080/04353684.2017.1306970 | Rights: | embargoedAccess |
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