Social Healing

Social Healing draws on a transdisciplinary approach—bringing sociology, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality together—to understand health, social suffering and healing in our contemporary world. It shows how we can transform the present discourse and reality of social suffering by multi-dimensional movements of social healing. The author argues for the need for a new art of healing in place of the dominant and pervasive technology and politics of killing. It discusses manifold creative theories and practices of healing in self, society, and the world as well as new movements in social theory, philosophy, and social sciences which deploy creative methods of art and performance in healing our psychic and social wounds. It explores the spiritual, social, ethical, and political dimensions of health and healing. This pioneering work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social theory, sociology, politics, philosophy, and psychology.

Foreword Mamphela Ramphele Preface Acknowledgment and Gratitude Social Healing: An Introduction and an Invitation PART I The Visions, Calling and Challenges of Social Healing 1 Social Healing: Society as a Patient, Metapathology, and the Challenges of Self and Social Transformations 2 Social Healing: The Calling of Transformative Harmony 3 Life World and Living Words 4 Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: Social Healing, Posthumanism and New Horizons of Theory and Practice and the Calling of Planetary Conversations 5 Healing the Dualism between Subjectivity and Objectivity: Transforming the Subjective and the Objective and the Calling of Transpositional Subjectobjectivity 6 Social Healing and Healing Epistemologies: With and Beyond Epistemologies from the South, Ontological Epistemology of Participation, Multi-topial Hermeneutics and the Contemporary Challenges of Planetary Realizations 7 Healing the Theoretical Pathology of Eurocentrism and Ethnocentrism: Social Theories, Asian Dialogues and Planetary Conversations PART II Global Social Healing and the Calling of Planetary Lokasamgraha 8 Interrogating, Confronting and Reconstituting Displacement and a New Politics, Poetics and Spirituality of Dwelling: The Ethics, Aesthetics and Responsibility of Home and the World 9 Healing Identities: Identity and Ahimsa 10 Social Healing and Circles of Gender Liberation 11 Social Healing and the Challenges of Transforming Caste Domination and the Challenges of Structural Transformations and Transformation of Consciousness: Ambedkar, Shankara and Beyond 12 Social Healing and Networks of Agape and Creativity: Learning Across Borders and the Calling of Planetary Realizations 13 Healing and the Challenges of New Institutions of Learning: Universities at the Cross-Roads and the Challenges of Experimental Creativity and the Challenges of Alternative Planetary Futures 14 Social Healing and a New Art of Border Crossing 15 Healing the Wounds of Roots and Routes: Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes, Ethnicity and the Calling of Socio-Cultural Regeneration and Planetary Realizations 16 Healing the Wounds of Religious Ignorance and Arrogance: The Multiverse of Hindu Engagement with Christianity and Plural Streams of Creative Co-Walking, Contradictions, Confrontations and Reconciliations 17 Social Healing and the Challenges of Transforming Suffering and Striving for Reconciliation and Peace 18 COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma, Healing and Transformations: Ethics, Politics and Spirituality, and Alternative Planetary Futures 19 Global Social Healing: Upholding our World, Regenerating Our Earth and the Calling of a Planetary Lokasamgraha Afterword FRED DALLMARY Index

Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India.