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OverviewLearning to Love offers a range of perspectives on the embodied, relational, affective, and sociopolitical project of “learning to love” at the New Life Center for Holistic Growth, a popular “mind-body-spirit” bookstore and practice space in northeast China, in the early part of the 21st century. This intimate form of self-care exists alongside the fast-moving, growing capitalist society of contemporary China and has emerged as an understandable response to the pressures of Chinese industrialized life in the early 21st century. Opening with an investigation of the complex ways newcomers to the center suffered a sense of being “off,” both in and with the world at multiple scales, Learning to Love then examines how new horizons of possibility are opened as people interact with one another as well as with a range of aesthetic objects at New Life. Author Sonya Pritzker draws upon the core concepts of scalar intimacy—a participatory, discursive process in which people position themselves in relation to others as well as dominant ideologies, concepts, and ideals—and scalar inquiry—the process through which speakers interrogate these forms, their relationship with them, and their participation in reproducing them. In demonstrating the collaborative interrogation of culture, history, and memory, she examines how these exercises in physical, mental, and spiritual self-care allow participants to grapple with past social harms and forms of injustice, how historical systems of power continue in the present, and how they might be transformed in the future. By examining the interactions and relational experiences from New Life, Learning to Love offers a range of novel theoretical interventions into political subjectivity, temporality, and intergenerational trauma/healing. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sonya E PritzkerPublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press ISBN: 9780472076864ISBN 10: 0472076868 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 31 July 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction Learning To Love Entangling Differently Implicit Justice? Justice in a Hantopia Situating the Research Overview of Chapters Chapter One: Suffering/Desire The Tentativeness of Desire Telling Suffering Telling-in-Relation The Feeling of Home Space Invasion The Timid and Weak Type Awkward Introductions Concluding Reflections Chapter Two: Home/Horizons Atmospheres Textuality and the Agency of Atmopsheres Boundary Making Opening the Space Closing the Space Concluding Reflections Chapter Three: The Great Self Reconfiguring the Body-Self Big Self, Little Self The Distributed Body Enacting the Inner Other Time Travel The Madhouse Dis-concert Concluding Reflections Chapter Four: Considering Culture Chinese Education Methods…or What? Western Methods Progress Plus Social Daode Fake Flowers Concluding Reflections Chapter Five: Wrangling With Ghosts Conversations With Ghosts The Agency of Images The Indexicality of Ghosts Cultural Time in Jiapai Big Data Cloud Frameworks of Thought Concluding Reflections Chapter Six: These Burdens We Carry “We Have So Much Hurt” Speaking of Shame “The Hate in My Heart” “Those Things That Are Collective” Concluding Reflections Chapter Seven: Tinkering with the Patriarchy The Permeability of Patriarchy Men’s Work “That Home in Your Heart” Rethinking the Yijing Concluding Reflections Conclusion Perplexing Particulars in the Era of Covid “Stay With Us” Concluding Reflections BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationSonya E. Pritzker is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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