Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion

Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti 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 led educational and research programs in the UK, Finland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Brazil, and Canada. Andreotti works across sectors in international and comparative education with a focus on global justice, citizenship, Indigenous and community engagement, sustainability, and social and ecological responsibility. Her research examines relationships between historical, systemic, and ongoing forms of violence and the inherent unsustainability of modernity. Andreotti is a founding member 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 collaborates with these groups to direct research projects and learning initiatives related to global healing and wellbeing in times of unprecedented challenges.