Epistemic Justice, Mindfulness, and the Environmental Humanities: Reflections on Teaching

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Climate change

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Wordery

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Taylor & francis

Epistemic Justice, Mindfulness, and the Environmental Humanities: Reflections on Teaching : Routledge : 9780367479626 : 0367479621 : 30 Nov 2021 : Epistemic Justice, Mindfulness, and the Environmental Humanities explores how contemplative pedagogies and mindfulness can be used in the classroom to address epistemic and environmental injustice. In recent years, there has been a groundswell of interest in contemplative pedagogies in higher education, with increasing attention from the environmental sciences, environmental humanities, and sustainability studies. Teachers and writers have demonstrated how mindfulness practices can be a key to anti-oppression and anti-racist efforts, both in and out of the classroom. Not all forms of contemplative pedagogy are suited for this anti-colonial and anti-oppressive resistance, however. Simply adopting mindfulness practices in the classroom is not enough to dislodge and dismantle white supremacy in higher education. Epistemic Justice, Mindfulness,

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