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About the Book

Described as a “thought-provoking guide to facing global pandemics, climate change, and other modern crises with maturity, humility, and integrity,” Hospicing Modernity is a challenging and transformative book. Part Indigenous and Educational approaches to climate change, part workbook, and part manifesto (and full of poems and stories), this text asks us to feel more deeply into the roots of our current crises and question many of our foundational beliefs and assumptions that perpetuate them.

About the Author

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.