Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism free ebook download.

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Author(s):	Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1623176247
Pages:	304	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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For fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, a book about facing the multiple crises of modernity--and hospicing modernity--with maturity, humility, and integrity.

This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan 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 the planet were part of.
 
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 the ecosystems, habitats, and beings with whom we share our planet. But instead of drowning in hopelessness, how can we learn to face our reality with humility and accountability?
 
Machado de Oliveira breaks down archetypes of cognitive dissonance--the do-gooder who does "good enough," then retreats to business as usual  the incognito capitalist who, at first glance, may seem like a radical change-maker--and asks us to dig deeper and exist differently. She explains how our habits, behaviors, and belief systems hold us back...and why it's time now to gradually disinvest. Including exercises used with teachers, NGO practitioners, and global changemakers, she offers us thought experiments that ask us to:
 
  Reimagine how we learn, unlearn, and respond to crisis
  Better assess our surroundings and interact with difference, uncertainty, complexity, and failure
  Expand our capacity to hold personal and collective space for difficult and painful things
  Understand the "5 modern-colonial e's": Entitlements, Exceptionalism, Exaltation, Emancipation, and Enmeshment in low-intensity struggle activism
  Interrupt our satisfaction with modern-colonial desires that cause harm
  Create space for change driven neither by desperate hope nor a fear of desolate hopelessness
 
For fans of adrienne maree brown, Sherri Mitchell, and Arundhati Roy, Hospicing Modernity challenges our assumptions and dares to ask more of us, for the sake of us all.

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