Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism,

by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

• Published by: North Atlantic Books
• Pages: 304
• Publish date: Sep 21, 2021
• ISBN 9781623176242

A challenging yet important book for anyone involved in trying to change the world, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira asks us “are we doing really enough?” or are we just trying to make ourselves feel better while still letting the world fall apart? Machado de Oliveira provides exercises for us to complete to understand why we are where we are, why we shouldn’t be okay with that and how to not settle for anything less than what it will take to both stop and undo the harm we are causing.

About the Author: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti (she/her) is a Latinx professor at the University of British Columbia. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities, and Global Change. She began her career as a teacher in Brazil in 1994 and has since led educational and research programs in countries including the UK, Finland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Brazil, and Canada.

Andreotti works across sectors in international and comparative education, particularly focusing on global justice and citizenship, Indigenous and community engagement, sustainability, and social and ecological responsibility. Her research examines relationships between historical, systemic, and on-going forms of violence, and the inherent unsustainability of modernity. Andreotti is one of the founding members of Gesturing Decolonial Futures Collective (decolonialfutures.net) and Teia das 5 Curas, an international network of Indigenous communities mostly in Canada and Latin America. She currently collaborates with with these groups to direct research projects and learning initiatives related to global healing and wellbeing in times of unprecedented challenges.

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Erin Remblance established her early career in blue-chip fast-moving consumer goods companies in Sydney & London, but always sensed there was more important work to be done. Having children gave her the space to explore the environmental and cultural crises on the planet that need to be urgently addressed. She shifted her focus to dedicate her life towards educating people on climate change, degrowth, planetary boundaries, modern monetary theory and more. Erin is a writer, researcher, co-creator of (re)Biz, wife, and mother of three children. She lives north of Sydney, Australia with her family, on the occupied ancestral country of the Gayemagal people.

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