This Second edition expands the provocative analysis of the racist colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance into other sectors and offers practical advice on how anyone can be a healer.
How can we shift philanthropy toward social reconciliation and healing if the cornerstones are exploitation, extraction, and control? Drawing from Native traditions, Villanueva.
Across history and to the present day, the accumulation of Wealth is steeped in trauma.
In Decolonizing Wealth, Edgar Villanueva looks past philanthropy\'s glamorous, altruistic fa�ade and into its shadows: white supremacy, savior complexes, and internalized oppression.
It\'s an industry whose name means the love for humankind, yet it does more harm than good.
The $1 trillion philanthropic industry is one example of a system that mirrors oppressive colonial behavior.
With increasing frequency, we are presented with the inescapable truth that systemic racism and colonial structures are foundational principles to our economies.
The world is out of balance.
This Second edition expands the provocative analysis of the racist colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance into other sectors and offers practical advice on how anyone can be a healer.
All our thriving is mutual.
All our healing is mutual.
All our suffering is mutual.
As Villanueva writes Everyone has a role in the process of healing.
Drawing from Native traditions, Villanueva empowers individuals and institutions to acknowledge and begin to repair the damage done through his Seven Steps to Healing: Grieve, Apologize, Listen, Relate, Represent, Invest, and Repair.
Across history and to the present day, the accumulation of Wealth is steeped in trauma.
Story as Medicine explains how sharing our stories is a vital part of that process.
Medicine Beyond Money relates inspiring examples of people using their resources to decolonize entertainment, museums, libraries, land ownership, and much more .
The Second edition has two new chapters.
In this critically important book, he shows how to make money a tool of love, to help us thrive rather than to hurt and divide us.
Edgar Villanueva has seen past the field\'s glamorous, altruistic fa�ade, and into its shadows: white supremacy, savior complexes, and internalized oppression.
Though it seems counterintuitive, the $1 trillion philanthropic industry has evolved to mirror colonial structures ultimately doing more harm than good.
This Second edition expands the provocative analysis of the racist colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance into other sectors and offers practical advice on how anyone can be a healer
