(Vol 2) The Hyper-Individualism of Nonviolent Communication
$12.00
Parts 5-7 of my essay series on the ways in which nonviolent communication (NVC) is rooted in and promotes hyper-individualism.
Content:
- challenging the ideology of personal responsibility
- rejecting the myth of individual autonomy
- the ableism (erasure of disabled minds/bodies) within NVC
- how NVC is built upon unrealistic expectations of self-control
- NVC's inadvertant support of diet culture
- the impact of our environment, the nervous system, and power dynamics on our behavior
Most of the essays are written in response to the original theory of NVC from the book Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshal Rosenberg, but you do not need to have read the book in order to understand the critiques. In fact, the topics in the essays are relevant to anyone who wants to learn about what hyper-individualism means, how it's deployed, and more interdependent and nuanced alternatives to it.
70 pages on folded 8.5x11 paper (stapled)