Overview

Bringing together a diverse chorus of voices and experiences in the pursuit of collective bodily, emotional, and spiritual liberation, Practicing Yoga as Resistance examines yoga as it is experienced across the Western cultural landscape through an intersectional, feminist lens. Naming the systems of oppression that permeate our lived experiences, this collection and its contributors shine a light on the ways yoga practice is intertwined with these systems while offering insight into how people challenge and creatively subvert, mitigate, and reframe them through their efforts. From the disciplines of yoga studies, embodiment studies, women’s and gender studies, performance studies, educational studies, social sciences, and social justice, the self-identified women, queer, BIPOC, and White allies represented in this book present an interdisciplinary tapestry of scholarship that serves to add depth to a growing assemblage of yoga literature for the 21st century.

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Author:   Cara Hagan (Appalachian State University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.080kg
ISBN:  

9780367753900

ISBN 10:   0367753901
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   09 January 2023
Recommended Age:   From 13 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I: Invitations 1. Essential Questions for Inner and Outer Liberation 2. Towards a White Spiritual Antiracism Part II: Yoga, Self, and Community 3. Embodied Radical Healing through the Collective: A Black Lotus Autoethnography 4. Reclaiming Spaces, Reshaping Practices: Yoga for Building Community and Nurturing Families of Color 5. The City of Radical Love: A Philly Story of Oppression, Resistance, and Healing 6. Body Science of Survivorship: Mapping the Neurological Impacts of Interlocking Systems of Oppression and Co-Designing Equitable Solutions Through Movement and Breath 7. Pedagogy of Movement: Yoga in Migrant Projects from a Race and Class Perspective 8. White Hygiene, White Womanhood, and Wellness in the United States 9. Incomplete: Impeding the Settler Colonial Project through Yoga for Black Lives 10. Hozho Yoga: Indigenous Movements Illuminating Human and More-Than-Human Interconnections 11. Yoga Asana and the Performance of Gender in American Exercise 12. Embodying Liminality through Yoga: An Autoethnography Exploring the Spaces Between Part III: Yoga in Educational Spaces 13. Yoga, Engaged Pedagogy, and the Process of Becoming: Explorations of a Socially Just Yoga Intervention 14. White Teachers, Brown Yoga: Teacher Candidates Learning Yoga 15. Trials and Transformations: Ruminations of a Community College Yoga Teacher 16. Situating Girls of Color in K-12 Yoga Research: Reflections and Results from Studying an After School Yoga Program for At-Risk Youth 17. Yoga and Arts: Positive Disrupters in the School to Prison Pipeline 18. Tending Communities: Yoga as an Integrative, Collaborative, and Transformative Practice

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Cara Hagan is an assistant professor and scholar of dance studies at Appalachian State University. Hagan founded and facilitates the Boone, North Carolina-based organization, Small and Mighty Acts (SAMA). She is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of movement, digital space, words, contemplative practice, and community.

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