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Book 2023ed: the Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh amidst the brutality of the Second Indochina War (1955-1975), and the African-American studies professor and cultural critic bell hooks in the face of systemic oppression in the United States of the 1980s.

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,‘I Would Prefer Not to’: Violence, Subtraction, and Contemplative Pedagogy,uage and meaning shape our perceptions of violence—what Žižek calls ‘symbolic violence’. Contemplative practices like mindfulness meditation are then linked to Žižek’s seemingly ludicrous counsel to ‘do nothing’ in the face of these types of violence.

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,‘I Will Not Run’: Mindfulness in Contexts of Violence, from ideologically saturated contexts of violence. On this basis, I raise possibilities for further transdisciplinary studies of contemplative pedagogies in a world that continues to be beset by violence of all kinds.

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se studies illustrating mindfulness meditation in different This book is a philosophical and historical study that explores how meditative practices for cultivating mindfulness can be regarded as a unique form of education against violence—one that emphasizes stopping and contemplation as a necessar

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Book 2023of education against violence—one that emphasizes stopping and contemplation as a necessary precursor to action. It brings together the idiosyncratic but insightful musings on violence by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek with recent research on mindfulness and violence as a lens. Using this lens,