{"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 \u003ci\u003eHospicing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e 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 is the former Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria and former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change at the University of British Columbia. She is a Brazilian\/Canadian educator, artist, and researcher who has spent over three decades tracing the architecture and aftershocks of modernity: its promises, violences, and delusions of separation. Her work invites a reckoning with the ontological assumptions driving systemic harm and extinction-level thinking. She has published more than 100 academic papers and is the author of \u003ci\u003eHospicing Modernity \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOutgrowing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, co-author of \u003ci\u003eBurnout From Humans: A Little Book About AI That Is Not About AI\u003c\/i\u003e, and a co-weaver of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures arts and research collective.\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":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51888799318304,"sku":"9798889842507","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9ne9s4df239798889842507.webp?v=1781922345","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/outgrowing-modernity-navigating-complexity-complicity-and-collapse-with-accountability-and-compassion-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}