Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, by Tyson Yunkaporta

• 256/288 pages
• Publisher: Harper One in the United States
• ISBN: 978-0062975621
• Publisher: Text publishing in Australia
• Published: 3rd Sept 2019
• ISBN: 9781922790514

In Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta brings an Indigenous perspective to various aspects of our lives, including money, eduction, power, economics and ownership. Yunkaporta belongs to one of the most sustainable cultures on Earth, Indigenous Australians having lived in harmony with nature for over 60,000 years and the lessons and ‘yarns’ he shares in this book leave us questioning everything we thought we knew about the world.

This Upstream podcast with Tyson Yunkaporta is a good introduction to Indigenous Economics

About the author, Tyson Yunkaporta:

“Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and author of Sand Talk. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises.”

About Erin Remblance, your host during #DegrowthLitMonth:

Erin Remblance established her early career in blue-chip fast-moving consumer goods companies in Sydney & London, but always sensed there was more important work to be done. Having children gave her the space to explore the environmental and cultural crises on the planet that need to be urgently addressed. She shifted her focus to dedicate her life towards educating people on climate change, degrowth, planetary boundaries, modern monetary theory and more. Erin is a writer, researcher, co-creator of (re)Biz, wife, and mother of three children. She lives north of Sydney, Australia with her family, on the occupied ancestral country of the Gayemagal people.

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