Hospicing Modernity

How can we confront collapse with care and compassion?

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. She is a former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change and a former David Lam Chair in Critical Multicultural Education. Vanessa has worked extensively across sectors internationally in areas of education related to global justice, global citizenship, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge systems and the climate and nature emergency. Vanessa is the author of “Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity’s wrongs and the implications for social activism” and “Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion”.

She says in an interview with evolve: “Modernity is a living story with several characteristics. It's a story that inhabits us, it's a singular story of progress, development and civilization. It is so powerful that it conditions the ways that we relate to the world, the ways that we think, imagine, hope, process both emotions and trauma, and the possibilities that we have for relating to each other and creating or enabling different futures.”

In Radio evolve we share a recording from an evolve LIVE! Event with Vanessa in 2024, in which she speaks about the process of hospicing a worldview that no longer serves us and how we can usher into a new way of seeing and inhabiting the world.