Healing Resistance

Author: Kazu Haga
Publisher: Parallax Press
ISBN: 1946764442
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
An expert in the field offers a mindfulness-based approach to nonviolent action, demonstrating how nonviolence is a powerful tool for personal and social transformation Nonviolence was once considered the highest form of activism and radical change. And yet its basic truth, its restorative power, has been forgotten. In Healing Resistance, leading trainer Kazu Haga blazingly reclaims the energy and assertiveness of nonviolent practice and shows that a principled approach to nonviolence is the way to transform not only unjust systems but broken relationships. With over 20 years of experience practicing and teaching Kingian Nonviolence, Haga offers us a practical approach to societal conflict first begun by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement, which has been developed into a fully workable, step-by-step training and deeply transformative philosophy (as utilized by the Women’s March and Black Lives Matter movements). Kingian Nonviolence takes on the timely issues of endless protest and activist burnout, and presents tried-and-tested strategies for staying resilient, creating equity, and restoring peace. An accessible and thorough introduction to the principles of nonviolence, Healing Resistance is an indispensable resource for activists and change agents, restorative justice practitioners, faith leaders, and anyone engaged in social process.

Hell, Healing, and Resistance

Author: Daniel Hallock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 466

Book Description
No one knows the human cost of war better than those who were there. In these accounts, veterans take readers through this century's battle fields and back home, revealing their inner scars and the ongoing suffering they and their families endure.f

Working Cures

Author: Sharla M. Fett
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807853788
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts.

Anti-Asian Violence in North America

Author: Patricia Wong Hall
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742504592
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Violent and sometimes fatal acts of racial hatred are drawing increasing attention around the nation. Asian American and Asian Canadian authors discuss the impacts of racial crime, exploring the relationship between the physical or verbal acts to issues of ethnic identity, civil rights of immigrants, Internet racism, sexual violence, language and violence, economic scapegoating, and police brutality. They offer suggestions for combating hate crime with coalition building and community resisatnce, as well as legal prosecution and police training. The compelling narratives are a valuable resource for courses in Asian American studies, race and ethnic studies, sociology, criminology, and for anyone who wants to understand racial violence in North America. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Black Joy

Author: Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982176555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
A timely collection of deeply personal, uplifting, and powerful essays that celebrate the redemptive strength of Black joy--in the vein of Black Girls Rock, You Are Your Best Thing, and I Really Needed This Today. When Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts wrote an essay on Black joy for The Washington Post, she had no idea just how deeply it would resonate. But the outpouring of responses affirmed her own lived experience: that Black joy is not just a weapon of resistance, it is a tool for resilience. With this book, Tracey aims to gift her community with a collection of lyrical essays about the way joy has evolved, even in the midst of trauma, in her own life. Detailing these instances of joy in the context of Black culture allows us to recognize the power of Black joy as a resource to draw upon, and to challenge the one-note narratives of Black life as solely comprised of trauma and hardship. Black Joy is a collection that will recharge you. It is the kind of book that is passed between friends and offers both challenge and comfort at the end of a long day. It is an answer for anyone who needs confirmation that they are not alone and a brave place to quiet their mind and heal their soul.

Healing a Broken World

Author: Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451405477
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Moe-Lobeda shows how the advent of globalization places a new horizon on the spiritual quest for religious experience. "Healing a Broken World" places spirituality and contemplative experience in relation to today's most-pressing problems.

Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

Author: James H. Sweet
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807878049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe--addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing. In Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, James H. Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected.

Yakama Rising

Author: Michelle M. Jacob
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816530491
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
Yakama Rising argues that Indigenous communities themselves have the answers to the persistent social problems they face. This book contributes to discourses of Indigenous social change by articulating a Yakama decolonizing praxis that advances the premise that grassroots activism and cultural revitalization are powerful examples of decolonization.

Moving Away from Diets

Author: Karin Kratina
Publisher: Helm Publishing
ISBN: 9780963103383
Category : Body image
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Best selling book and continuing education course for dietitians, nutritionists, nurses and eating disorder/obesity counselors. Resource for the nondiet approach to weight counseling with therapy strategies. Written by experts in the Health at Every Size field. Call publisher for CE test.

Working with Resistance

Author: Martha Stark
Publisher: Jason Aronson
ISBN: 9780765703705
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
Working with Resistance is about heartache, grieving, letting go and moving on - as the patient's resistances are worked through and her defences are overcome. It is, therefore, a book about hope that arises in the context of discovering that it is possible to survive the experience of heartbreak, sadder perhaps but certainly wiser and more realistic.