RT Article
T1 Mindfulness and resonance in an era of acceleration: a critical inquiry
JF Journal of management, spirituality & religion
VO 15
IS 2
SP 178
OP 195
A1 Kristensen, Mette Lund
LA English
PB International Association of Management, Spirituality & Religion
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1670079015
AB The paper emerges from the trend toward a commodification of mindfulness practices, known as McMindfulness. Drawing on a critique of late-modern temporality, the paper examines the use of mindfulness practices as a remedy for the consequences of societal acceleration. However, the paper suggests that mindfulness practices risk reinforcing the problems they were expected to solve. Against the backdrop of the notion of resonance, the paper suggests a non-instrumental path for mindfulness practices, which have the potential to counterbalance the acceleration in social and working life and to provide the basis for the good life by assisting experiences of resonant relationships. However, the institutionalized capitalistic logic that permeates societal acceleration challenges legitimation of such mindfulness-based experiences of resonance. Therefore, the paper advocates more humanistic logic that embraces deeply rooted universal human capacities and needs for attention, awareness, relationality, and caring.
K1 McMindfulness
K1 Mindfulness
K1 acceleration
K1 critical reflection
K1 Resonance
DO 10.1080/14766086.2017.1418413