Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change at the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia. Her teaching and research focus on analyses of historical and systemic patterns of reproduction of knowledge and inequalities and how these limit or enable possibilities for collective existence. Vanessa works with different communities in creative, collaborative inquiries and cartographies related to ideals of globalism and global change through intellectual, embodied, aesthetic and dissociative practices.

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Articles & Essays

Towards Braiding

By Elwood Jimmy and Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

Towards Braiding, a book available here as a PDF and the accompanying program of artist residencies, gatherings, workshops, and other forms of engagement are part of a learning journey that

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Form

Brutal Kindness

By Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

We welcome you to our country Our borders open only to a few We ask for nothing in return, except That you recognize the deepest wisdom That when in Rome

Multi-layered Selves: Colonialism, Decolonization and Counter-Intuitive Learning Spaces

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Pedagogy, Otherwise (8/27)

Multi-layered Selves: Colonialism, Decolonization and Counter-Intuitive Learning Spaces

By Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

As I wondered about the best way to write this text, two related events caught my attention. First, I received a call for publications with the title “After De-colonizing…What?” issued

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Pedagogy, Otherwise (7/27)

Torpor and Awakening

By Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

This text is an adapted transcript of a keynote presented at the Indigenous Scholars Conference: Indigenous Epistemologies: Re-Visioning Reconciliation on 26 March 2015, at the University of Alberta. It has