Hospicing Modernity (Buch von 2021)

Verbindungen

• Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti verfasste ~
• ~ behandelt Moderne

Angaben

Vanessa Machado de Oliveira: Hospicing Modernity. Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. North Atlantic Books, 2021.

Das Buch ist nur wenig originell und zuweilen etwas langatmig. Siehe auch die Rezension auf resilience.org

Klappentext

This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plans for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing this planet.

Driven by expansion, colonialism, and resource extraction and propelled by neoliberalism and rabid consumption, our world is profoundly out of balance. We take more than we give; we inoculate ourselves in positive self-regard while continuing to make harmful choices; we wreak irreparable havoc on ecosystems, habitats, and beings with whom we coexist. But instead of drowning in hopelessness, how can we learn to face our reality with humility and accountability?

With exercises used with teachers, NGO practicioners, and global changemakers, Machado de Oliveira offers us thought experiments that ask us to:

• Reimagine how we respond to crisis and relearn how to interact with difference, uncertainty, complexity, and failure
• Expand our capacity to hold personal and collective space for pain and grief
• Interrupt our satisfaction with modern-colonial desires that cause harm
• Create space for change that isn’t driven by desperate hope or a fear of desolate hopelessness