Chat with Tyson Yunkaporta – author, academic, maker, and Indigenous thinker of the Apalech clan in North Queensland. We talk about the need for Indigenous thinking in our food systems, decolonising agriculture, and how non-Indigenous growers and eaters can work in solidarity with First Peoples.
Tyson’s work examines global systems from an Indigenous perspective. It explores how we we learn, look at, and talk about patterns of creation, and how we can learn to live within those patterns again.
We talk to Tyson about what this means for the food sovereignty movement – which itself was born out of Indigenous and peasant struggles, and in which advocating for the rights and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples is a core principle. We explore how we can build solidarity-based communities that respect and work with Indigenous knowledges, and build food systems based around those principles.
Tags: agriculture, capitalism, culture, diversity, ecology, economics, history, indigenous-knowledge, indigenous-people, inequality, land, mining, permaculture, racism, social-change, strange-attractor, sustainability, systemic-change, systems-science, and thinking
Format: Conversation/Exchange
Creator(s): Tyson Yunkaporta (https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/tyson-yunkaporta)
Publication Date: 2021, Feb 8th
View Resource:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61XN9_uILpU