Cvetkovich, Ann
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"In Learning from the High Priestess, Ann Cvetkovich draws from the toolboxes of theory, conceptual analysis, and somatic practice to assemble a survi
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val guide for artists, academics, and activists facing the crises of the current world. Through conversation with a wide range of thinkers, particularly Black, Indigenous, and other racialized feminist thinkers, Cvetkovich explores a wide range of resources for understanding, practicing, and developing "self care" and "mental health" in ways that are in balance with collective political efforts and which pursue decolonization of the body and mind. The book is comprised of four main chapters, each a mini-essay on a key theme: care, disability and madness, trauma and somatics, and breath. The essays engage both academics and non-academics and examine a vast range of coping and countering practices. By so doing, Cvetkovich seeks to articulate what she calls a "somatic politics," which she defines as a set of discourses and practices for activist and artistic work which center an emotional well-being that includes body, mind, and all their entanglements"-- Provided by publisher.
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