Vanessa Andreotti: "Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
(Conversation recorded on March 25th, 2024)
Show Summary:
In this episode, Nate is joined by educator and researcher Vanessa Andreotti to discuss what she calls "hospicing modernity" in order to move beyond the world we've come to know and the failed promises that "modernity" has made to our current culture. Whether you refer to it as the metacrisis, the polycrisis, or - in Nate's terms - the human predicament, Vanessa brings a unique framing rooted in indigenous knowledge and relationality to aid in understanding, grieving, and building emotional resilience within this space. What does it mean to live and work within systems that are designed to fail, embedded in an aimless culture? How do we as individuals steady ourselves and create inner strength before engaging with such harrowing work? Importantly, what could education look like if founded in the principles of intergenerational knowledge transmission and emotional regulation, that are centered on our collective entanglement with the Earth?
About Vanessa Andreotti:
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 more than 100 published articles in areas related to global and climate education. She has also worked extensively across sectors internationally in projects related to global justice, global citizenship, 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, one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective and one of the designers of the course Facing Human Wrongs: Climate Complexity and Relational Accountability, available at UVic through Continuing Studies.
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https://thegreatsimplification.squarespace.com/episode/125-vanessa-andreotti
To watch this video episode on Youtube → https://youtu.be/h5kQ7_IZ8YI
00:00 - Intro
1:52 - The House of Modernity
16:34 - Hospicing the House of Modernity
22:56 - Theory of Change
31:49 - Affective Responses
43:55 - Healing Trauma
54:42 - Relational Intelligence
59:11 - Metabolical Literacy
1:04:59 - Dopamine Dependence
1:07:25 - Depth Education
1:09:27 - Reception with Young People
1:14:38 - How Do You Keep Going?
1:20:22 - Personal Advice
1:28:34 - What Would You Do with a Magic Wand?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Great Simplification. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Nate Higgins. |
| 0:06.3 | On this show, we describe how energy, the economy, the environment, and human behavior all fit together and what it might mean for our future. |
| 0:15.2 | By sharing insights from global thinkers, we hope to inform and inspire more humans to play emergent roles in the |
| 0:22.7 | coming great simplification. |
| 0:27.3 | Today's guest is Vanessa Andriotti, who is the dean of the Faculty of Education at the University |
| 0:34.3 | of British Columbia at Victoria on Vancouver Island. |
| 0:38.9 | Today we discuss Vanessa's work on projects related to global justice and citizenship, |
| 0:45.8 | indigenous knowledge systems, and nature, as well as her book, hospicing modernity, |
| 0:52.3 | facing humanity's wrongs and the Implication for Social Activism. |
| 0:56.8 | When discussing the Metacrisis, sometimes it can be difficult to see alternative paths |
| 1:02.6 | out of the challenges we face. |
| 1:05.1 | Vanessa is one of the leading thinkers towards alternative ways of learning and living. |
| 1:11.3 | I hope you enjoy this conversation with Vanessa Andriotti. |
| 1:20.4 | Oh, Vanessa. |
| 1:22.0 | Hi, Nate. |
| 1:23.0 | Great to see you. |
| 1:24.3 | You too, you too. |
| 1:26.9 | You are one of the most requested podcast guests in our, uh, |
| 1:33.0 | inbox, uh, over the last six months. And here we are, finally, after two reschedules. Um, so, uh, welcome. |
| 1:42.9 | Thank you. Very happy to be here. |
| 1:45.1 | So lots to discuss. |
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