Author: Jeanine M. Canty File Type: pdf This book is an edited collection of essays by fourteen multicultural women (including a few Anglo women) who are doing work that crosses the boundaries of ecological and social healing. The women are prominent academics, writers and leaders spanning Native American, Indigenous, Asian, African, Latina, Jewish and Multiracial backgrounds. The contributors express a myriad of ways that the relationship between the ecological and social have brought new understanding to their experiences and work in the world. Moreover by working with these edges of awareness, they are identifying new forms of teaching, leading, healing and positive change. ul l*l ul Ecological and Social Healing is rooted in these ideas and speaks to an edge awareness or consciousness. In essence this speaks to the power of integrating multiple and often conflicting views and the transformations that result.? As women working across the boundaries of the ecological and social, we have powerful experiences that are creating new forms of healing. This book is rooted in academic theory as well as personal and professional experience, and highlights emerging models and insights. It will appeal to those working, teaching and learning in the fields of social justice, environmental issues, womens studies, spirituality, transformativeenvironmentalsustainability leadership, and interdisciplinaryintersectionality studies. **Review Jeanine Canty brings us one of those rare and priceless books that free us from conventional reality and, in so doing, illumine our own gifts for personal and collective healing. Like a clarion call to affirm the authority of our often-marginalized experience, Cantys powerful essay, along with the womens voices she has assembled here, thrill me with the challenge to see and act in new ways. The intellectual excitement as well as the emotional grounding that I find in this collection charge my life with a sense of truth and adventure.-- Joanna Macy, author, Coming Back to Life Ecological and Social Healing is a transformative collection of womens voices whose pain, passion, and resilience are a representation of millions of women whose stories are powerful interventions that interrupt a master narrative and shape what it means to live in a diverse, inclusive, and ecological world. Their stories offer hope for ecological and social healing beginning with self, transformed into social praxis. A must read to further understand ourselves in a complex relationship with our natural and social environments. --Suzanne Benally, executive director, Cultural Survival Ecological and Social Healing is one of the most inspiring and beautifully conceived compendium of texts by formidable women writers and scholars on the most salient and urgent issues of our troubled Anthropocene. It is a clarion call, an imperative, a spiritual crossroads for understanding and appreciating our interconnectedness and indebtedness to one another and the more-than-human. From explications of the profound spiritual traditions of Navajo and Filipino cultures, to talk of restructuring our global economy and so much more, this compelling book teems with antidotes to living in a dark, paralyzed,wounded time. Let us gather and absorb the gnosis here and act on it. Many kudos to editor Jeanine M. Canty for moving our century forward.-- Anne Waldman, poet We often speak of books breaking new ground. Ecological and Social Healing heals it. It asks us all to reconnect areas of life that have been falsely divided to (re)discover the wisdom necessary to bear witness to the pain of the societal disconnect that has led to the degradation of our collective habitat. Only from that place of honoring can true healing begin. It is more than just reclaiming the feminine and the indigenous. It is reclaiming the whole. -- Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Sensei About the Author Jeanine M. Canty, PhD, professor at Naropa University, intersects issues of social and ecological justice within the transformative learning process. Selected works have been featured in The Wiley Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology, International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, Sustainability The Journal of Record and World Futures Journal of New Paradigm Research.

Author: Scott Wilson File Type: pdf Provocative exploration of a new concept of joy within psychoanalytic and cultural studies. This provocative book introduces a new concept of joy within psychoanalytic and cultural studies that provides a different way of understanding the structures of affect produced by shifts in contemporary culture and economy. In so doing, the author offers a radically refigured Lacanianism that is developed through a critical reading of Deleuze. One of the most exciting, provocative, and creative theoretical works in psychoanalysis and cultural studies today. Scott Wilson elaborates a wholly original idea, the treatment of joy as an arche-concept radically de-territorialized and freed from the orthodoxies of Lacanian jouissance or Barthesian pleasure, now able to hook up with practically every relevant theorist who could have something to contribute to an analysis of global consumer capitalism. This is a unique work that raises central questions for media theory, political theory, literary and film studies, and psychoanalysis. It provides a compelling alternative to the hegemony of Zizuek in cultural studies. Diane Rubenstein, author of This Is Not a President Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary Wilsons insightful argument is buttressed not only by his deft treatment of theory taken from works by Deleuze, Foucault, Lacan, and others but also by a host of diverse and striking examples drawn from popular culture. References from the music of Iggy Pop, to the films Trainspotting, Memento, and Fight Club, to the phenomena of heroin addiction and anorexia, and to television programs such as The Office serve to sharpen his argument and illustrate it convincingly. Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons, editor of On Bataille Critical Essays Scott Wilson is Reader in Cultural Theory at Lancaster University in England. He is the author of several books, including Bataille (coauthored with Fred Botting). **