Radical mindfulness: why transforming fear of death is politically vital

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsement -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- An Opening: A Conversation With Dylan Thomas (Qwul'thilum) -- 1 Introduction: Fear of Death as a Driver of Injustice -- Death, "The Absolute Master" -- Why Mind-Body Practices Matter Politically -- A Synthetic Analysis -- A Parting Note On Positionality -- Notes -- References -- 2 The Will to Supremacy -- The Drum Major Instinct and the Will to Supremacy -- The Will to Supremacy and the Will to Power -- Buddhism, Basic Anxiety, and the Will to Supremacy -- Transforming Basic Anxiety Into Appreciation for Basic Goodness -- Joining Existential Change Strategies With Collective Action -- Notes -- References -- 3 White Supremacy: James Baldwin On Death Denial and Whiteness -- Baldwin's Existential Explanation for White Supremacy -- The Wages of Whiteness -- Embodied Social Change -- Notes -- References -- 4 Class and Colonial Supremacy: John Mohawk On Oppression in the Western World -- Encountering John Mohawk -- Marx and the Haudenosaunee -- Dialectical Anthropology and the Reproduction of Original Communism -- John Mohawk Returns the Gaze -- A Dialectical Return to Communism -- Notes -- References -- 5 Human Supremacy: Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory -- Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory -- Indigenous Approaches to Death -- Coast Salish Ways of Death and Life -- Lessons for Environmentalism -- Notes -- References -- 6 Male Supremacy: Rita Gross and Hsiao-Lan Hu's Buddhist Feminism -- Trungpa's Buddhist View of Liberation -- Rita Gross's Buddhist Feminism -- An Interlude On the Treatment of Existential Fear in Western Feminism -- Intersectional Buddhist Feminism as Radical Mindfulness -- Notes -- References -- 7 Practice for a Just, Livable Future -- Notes -- References -- Coda: A Contemplation On Basic Goodness -- Notes.

Introduction: Fear of Death as a Driver of Injustice -- The Will to Supremacy -- White Supremacy: James Baldwin on Death Denial and Whiteness -- Class and Colonial Supremacy: John Mohawk on Oppression in the Western World -- Human Supremacy: Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory -- Co-authored with Darcy Mathews -- Male Supremacy: Rita Gross and Hsiao-Lan Hu's Buddhist Feminism -- Conclusion: Practice for a Just, Liveable Future.

Radical Mindfulness examines the root causes of injustice, asking why inequalities along the lines of race, class, gender, and species continue to exist. Specifically, James K. Rowe examines fear of death as a root cause of systemic inequalities and proposes a more embodied approach to social change as a solution

Radical Mindfulness examines the root causes of injustice, asking why inequalities along the lines of race, class, gender, and species continue to exist. Specifically, James K. Rowe examines fear of death as a root cause of systemic inequalities and proposes a more embodied approach to social change as a solution