Season 3: Episode 15 - The Power of Protesting in Place with Tyson Yunkaporta

To what extent do we each view the world through rose-coloured glasses? How much of our ecosystems have a 'darker' side that we might benefit from accepting and powerfully protest in place?

In this episode; Tyson Yunkaporta offers a valuable indigenous inspired perspective on education, including the more concerning problems faced by communities around the world. His unique perspective gives insight into areas and problems that are often hidden in plain sight, and his awareness of the causes and consequences of these guide his strategy in teaching, academia, and life.

Tyson is an Indigenous thinker, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University, and author of Sand Talk.

Tyson is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne.