Edwin Ng
\nDeakin University<\/p>\n
This article stages a conversation between an emergent Buddhist social theory and current thinking in the humanities and social sciences on the affective and visceral registers of everyday experience\u2014or what falls under the rubric of \u201caffect studies.\u201d The article takes the premise that prevailing models of Buddhist social theory need updating as they remain largely confined to macropolitical accounts of power, even though they argue for the importance of a mode of sociocultural analysis that would anchor itself on the \u201cself\u201d end of the self\u2013society continuum. The article will thus explore ways to develop a micropolitical account of the ethical and political implications of Buddhist spiritual-social praxis\u2014specifically mindfulness training\u2014by formulating some hypotheses for dialogical exchange between Buddhist understandings and the multidisciplinary ideas informing the so-called \u201caffective turn.\u201d <\/p>\n
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