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1001 ▼a Carlin, Charles.
24514 ▼a The Therapeutics of Subjectivity: Nature, Ethics, and Ceremony in an American Desert.
260 ▼a [S.l.]: ▼b The University of Wisconsin - Madison., ▼c 2019.
260 1 ▼a Ann Arbor: ▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, ▼c 2019.
300 ▼a 172 p.
500 ▼a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: B.
500 ▼a Advisor: Woodward, Keith A
5021 ▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019.
506 ▼a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
520 ▼a The dissertation is an ethnographic investigation of a practice of ceremonial fasting in wild landscapes. For forty years, guides at a small school in eastern California have facilitated the fasting programs in the nearby Inyo mountains and Death Valley. I explore the fasting practice as a therapeutics of subjectivity-a way to soften the experiential and conceptual borders between self and world in order to render them more perceptible and to shift one's experience of self. The dissertation, therefore, engages geographic debates on experimental practices, creative solutions to socio-ecological crisis, the fraught entanglements of so-called Indigneous and Eurocentric worlds, and the geography of psyche. Chapter 2 is an auto-ethnography of the practice. Focused on my own experience in one of the school's programs, I conceptualize the experience as a more-than-humany therapy that shifts one's perception of self into the landscape. Chapter 3 takes up geographic debates on ecosophy-a critical and ethical perspective inspired by the work of Felix Guattari and Arne Naess. I suggest that ecosophical subjectivity be thought of as an identity and sense of self that both understands and experiences being human as arising from multiple nonhuman components of subjectivity and many inter-species relationships. The chapter includes an ethnography of the fasting practice and discusses the ritualized practice of storytelling and listening that is key to the school's work. I argue that the practice represents a complex integration of ancient forms and contemporary contexts. Chapter 4 details the school's history and places that history in the fraught context of the contemporaneous rise of the American counter-cultural environmental movement and the American Indian Movement. Finally, chapter 5 utilizes Jungian and Pueblo concepts of psyche and animate landscapes to theorize the school's work. The chapter meditates on the signifance of thresholds in the practice of fasting and their paradoxical being as borders between worlds that may, in fact, provide an extraordinary experience of everyday space instead of facilitating passage to an extraordinary space. I conclude with a proposed research program for further study of extraordinary spaces of consciousness and the relationship between time spent in wild spaces and psychological well-being.
590 ▼a School code: 0262.
650 4 ▼a Geography.
650 4 ▼a Environmental studies.
650 4 ▼a Environmental philosophy.
690 ▼a 0366
690 ▼a 0477
690 ▼a 0392
71020 ▼a The University of Wisconsin - Madison. ▼b Geography.
7730 ▼t Dissertations Abstracts International ▼g 81-04B.
773 ▼t Dissertation Abstract International
790 ▼a 0262
791 ▼a Ph.D.
792 ▼a 2019
793 ▼a English
85640 ▼u http://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T15493955 ▼n KERIS ▼z 이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
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