Vanessa Andreotti is an Educational studies Professor and researcher on Race, Inequalities and Global Change at the University of British Columbia. Her work focuses on the limits of the modern story of development and human evolution and the adjacent possibilities of setting our horizons beyond what we can imagine within modern institutions and ways of knowing and being.

Music is “Nature Shuffle" by Ketsa

Learn more about Vanessa’s work: https://decolonialfutures.net/

About the podcast: https://www.astemperaturesrise.com/

Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/m/astemperaturesrise

Show notes:

* Vanessa’s mixed race background of white German and Indigenous Brazilian = born from a paradox

* the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective: https://decolonialfutures.net/

* working at the crossroads of historical and ongoing violence and questions of unsustainability

* communities around unsustainability and communities around violence generally do not intersect or connect because many of the solutions proposed become contradictory

* in order for us to deal with what’s to come we must hold space for what’s difficult, what’s painful, what’s complex, what’s paradoxical without being immobilized or wanting to be rescued

* biointelligence

* remove the neurobiological barriers that make us feel separate

* social cartography of "the house that modernity built” https://youtu.be/nAke2iQ53jc

* the house is getting bigger than what the planet can support, based on separability

* metabolism to talk about the dynamic nature of things, to focus on the movement of things in this entanglement

* fear of scarcity becomes a pattern of accumulation

* need evacuation from the house

* indigenous proverb that it’s only when the water hits our hip that we start to swim

* the indigenous don’t have the answers either but they can remind us that our bodies know how to swim

* need to activate our exiled capacities

* maybe the house was built to protect us from death, pain, scarcity, and a fundamental sense of worthlessness

* unless we can live and die well we will try to protect the entitlements that the house of modernity has promised

* Sharon Todd, we need to face humanity and all the human wrongs and process the shit otherwise it saturates in the bodies and can become epigenetic

* we romanticize the work and only want to connect with the rainbows and unicorns and not the shit

* thus indigenous often have practices such as entheogens or sensory deprivation or long term dancing to interrupt the normal way of being and seeing

* we need to develop culturally appropriate practices that also will help bring forward such maturity and sobriety and trust

* recalibrating our compass

* like composting we have to find the right amount of humor, movement, intellect, affect etc...

* affective forecasts that keep us from doing the work

* the metabolism is sick and the young people are feeling it

* individual hearts cannot deal with collective pain — there are practices of collectivizing the heart

* we can calibrate our heart but it’s one of the capacities that have been exiled

* if we don’t collectivize the heart we get overwhelmed and the pain then does not process

* pain is a teacher

* we can attach to the pain and it becomes a form of currency that establishes worth in a community

* no community is self-sufficient in terms of medicines, we need to cross pollinate

* stories as alive, as entities

* sensing sight (Dougald Hine) in vibrational attunement

* accountable autonomy rather than narcissistic freedom

* Preparing for the end of the world as we know it: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/preparing-end-world-we-know-it/

* imaging education in the year 2048: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rEAY3eMbNQ

* need to sober up, clean up, show up

* education is about eldership, preparing us to be good ancestors

* John Cryer, Cree elder, story of the four mountains about human development

* who you are is the medicine you carry