Böcker av Vanessa Machado De Oliveira

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 we're 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.

Questo libro si propone di condurre uno studio sulla libertà dell'individuo in merito all'uso di sostanze stupefacenti considerate illecite dall'ordinamento giuridico, alla luce della frammentarietà dell'applicazione del diritto penale, che dovrebbe limitarsi a sanzionare le pratiche considerate dannose per la collettività. A tal fine, si avvale dell'analisi di alcune disposizioni penali in materia di contrasto all'uso di sostanze stupefacenti, ponendole in contrasto con il dettato costituzionale e con i principi ispiratori del diritto penale.

Dieses Buch zielt darauf ab, eine Studie über die Freiheit des Einzelnen in Bezug auf den Konsum von Betäubungsmitteln durchzuführen, die von der Rechtsordnung als illegal angesehen werden, und zwar im Hinblick auf die fragmentarische Anwendung des Strafrechts, das sich darauf beschränken sollte, Praktiken zu sanktionieren, die als schädlich für die Gemeinschaft angesehen werden. Zu diesem Zweck werden einige der strafrechtlichen Bestimmungen zur Bekämpfung des Konsums von Betäubungsmitteln analysiert und mit den verfassungsrechtlichen Vorgaben und Grundsätzen des Strafrechts verglichen.

O presente livro tem por finalidade realizar um estudo acerca da liberdade do indivíduo quanto ao uso de substâncias entorpecentes consideradas ilícitas pelo ordenamento jurídico, tendo em vista a fragmentariedade da aplicação do Direito Penal, o qual deve se limitar a sancionar práticas consideradas lesivas à coletividade. Utiliza-se, para tanto, da análise de alguns dos dispositivos penais concernentes ao combate ao uso de substâncias entorpecentes, contrapondo-os aos ditames constitucionais e princípios embasados do Direito Penal.