{"id":2968,"date":"2014-08-21T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T23:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/dannyfisher\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2014-08-22T09:11:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T16:11:48","slug":"a-roundabout-defense-of-the-mandala-form-for-the-buddhist-peace-fellowship-national-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/dannyfisher\/2014\/08\/a-roundabout-defense-of-the-mandala-form-for-the-buddhist-peace-fellowship-national-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"A Roundabout Defense of the \u201cMandala Form\u201d for the Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s National Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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That\u2019s the title of my latest post<\/a> for the Buddhist Peace Fellowship\u2019s Turning Wheel Media<\/a>, as well as one of my recent talks for the recent\u00a0Eco-Dharma Conference & Retreat<\/a>\u00a0at the Wonderwell Mounatin Refuge in Springfield, NH.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a snippet:<\/p>\n

Those participating in the environmental movement \u2014 and, by extension, the Eco-Dharma movement \u2014 have a problem to address. This problem finds its roots, I think, in exactly the things that [Katie Loncke and Dawn Haney]\u00a0and the BPF raise with this panel: white supremacy and capitalism.<\/p>\n

Defining these terms as completely as possible involves discussing a range of issues too vast and varied for just a few minutes of remarks, so I\u2019m not even going to try. For our purposes today, I\u2019d like to look at the problem of cultural hegemony within the North American environmental movement, specifically the hegemony of white male capitalists. For the uninitiated, cultural hegemony has to do with ways a ruling class, whether they are aware of it or not, dominate others: by making their own values, customs, ideas, communication styles, needs, and so on the universal norm for everyone, rather than a norm among others. With this unassailable status quo firmly in place, alternative values, customs, ideas, communication styles, needs, and so on are effectively marginalized.<\/p>\n

So where do we see this hegemony of white male capitalists with the North American environmental movement?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>. A video of the talk from the Eco-Dharma Conference & Retreat should also be coming soon.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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