{"product_id":"outgrowing-modernity-navigating-complexity-complicity-and-collapse-with-accountability-and-compassion-paperback","title":"Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVanessa Machado de Oliveira\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAwo Fatokun Faniyii\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eKeri Facer\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe inevitable is coming fast. We know it in our bones--and it's past time to face it. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The highly anticipated follow-up to Hospicing Modernity: how we activate responsibility, nurture care, and grow up in the face of collapse--includes reflections, exercises, and prompts \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClimate collapse, social crisis, the decline of modernity: colonialism, capitalism, and our full-faced denial have ushered in an urgent new era. \u003ci\u003eHospicing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e asked us to grow up, step up, and show up for our communities and the living Earth. \u003ci\u003eOutgrowing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e helps us make sense of where we're going--and deepen what's possible--in a time of endings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVanessa Machado De Oliveira helps us face the logics and workings of modernity, bringing us to clear-eyed terms with its expiration. She explores the impacts of colonialism as \u003ci\u003eneurocolonization\u003c\/i\u003e an oppressive function of modernity that rewires how we think, act, imagine, and adapt. These impacts are wide-ranging and run deep: they cut us off from our natural ways of building community and seeking pleasure. They choke our ability to cope with trauma and embrace complexity. And they trap us in a state of artificial comfort and denial that keeps us from collectively growing up--even when our existence demands it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book invites you to interrupt 5 lies that neurocolonization instills in us--beliefs (and behaviors) that have condition us to think we're \u003ci\u003eowed\u003c\/i\u003e the following, regardless of others or the planet: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoral and epistemic \u003cb\u003eself-righteous authority\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnrestricted, \u003cb\u003eunaccountable autonomy\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eArbitrating truth, law, and common sense\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAffirming one's virtues\u003c\/b\u003e, innocence, and purity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eExploitative appropriation and accumulation\u003c\/b\u003e of various forms of capital\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn moving away from these ingrained worldviews, we can choose instead to develop 4 capacities necessary to our--and Earth's--survival: \u003cb\u003esobriety\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ematurity\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ediscernment\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eresponsibility\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMachado De Oliveira moves beyond critique into a praxis of strategic disinvestment: one that invites us to recognize what no longer serves us and reinvest in nurturing structures and lifeways that restore our knowledge in the value of life for life's sake.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti 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 led educational and research programs in the UK, Finland, Aotearoa\/New Zealand, Brazil, and Canada. Andreotti works across sectors in international and comparative education with a focus on global justice, citizenship, Indigenous and community engagement, sustainability, and social and ecological responsibility. Her research examines relationships between historical, systemic, and ongoing forms of violence and the inherent unsustainability of modernity. Andreotti is a founding member 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 collaborates with these groups to direct research projects and learning initiatives related to global healing and wellbeing in times of unprecedented challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52689474912589,"sku":"9798889842507","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/DEJvV7aWSc9798889842507.webp?v=1761974448","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/outgrowing-modernity-navigating-complexity-complicity-and-collapse-with-accountability-and-compassion-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}