Gwyneth Jones | Reawakening to Kinship: Dr. Yin Paradies, Professor of Race Relations at Deakin University. @gwynethjones8292 | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Dr. Yin Paradies is Professor of Race Relations at Deakin University, where he conducts research on racism and anti-racism as well as teaching and researching Indigenous knowledges and decoloniality. Yin is a climate and ecological activist who is committed to understanding and interrupting the devastating impacts of modern societies. He seeks meaningful mutuality of becoming and embodied kinship with all life through transformed ways of knowing, being and doing that are grounded in wisdom, humility, respect and generosity. Yin is an Aboriginal-Asian-Anglo Australian of the Wakaya people from the Gulf of Carpentaria. He is an anarchist radical scholar who seeks to cultivate a closer connection to Country, and engage in an ethos of down-shifted collective sufficiency, voluntary simplicity, frugality, direct democracy and radical localisation.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How decolonisation is much deeper than reviving old languages or reclaiming land - it is about reawakening to our interconnectedness with life
- How emptiness and loneliness are NOT natural states of being, despite the narratives we are told about the human condition
- The vital task of forming community and making kin and what to do once we have found it
- What it means to embrace a humble, ethical, embodied life in harmony with nature, in which we embrace our ‘enoughness’ rather than seeking further success and power
- The challenges of communicating the core ideas of decolonisation to mainstream culture
- What it means to move away from our story of linear progress and change
The Story Anew is a podcast and video series in which we'll meet amazing people from all over the world who are working to redefine the dominant narrative of our times - that of infinite growth and consumption. These are the people working towards what Joanna Macy calls The Great Turning - the shifting of our Industrial Growth Society, which prioritises infinite growth over life - to a Life Sustaining Society.
The people you'll meet are working in regeneration, activism, systems design, permaculture, trauma healing, decolonisation, climate change and generally working to fundamentally change the way we do things as a species so that we can live on this planet more harmoniously with our fellow beings and become good ancestors.
Hosted by Gwyneth Jones (www.gwynethjones.coach)
Dr. Yin Paradies is Professor of Race Relations at Deakin University, where he conducts research on racism and anti-racism as well as teaching and researching Indigenous knowledges and decoloniality. Yin is a climate and ecological activist who is committed to understanding and interrupting the devastating impacts of modern societies. He seeks meaningful mutuality of becoming and embodied kinship with all life through transformed ways of knowing, being and doing that are grounded in wisdom, humility, respect and generosity. Yin is an Aboriginal-Asian-Anglo Australian of the Wakaya people from the Gulf of Carpentaria. He is an anarchist radical scholar who seeks to cultivate a closer connection to Country, and engage in an ethos of down-shifted collective sufficiency, voluntary simplicity, frugality, direct democracy and radical localisation.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How decolonisation is much deeper than reviving old languages or reclaiming land - it is about reawakening to our interconnectedness with life
- How emptiness and loneliness are NOT natural states of being, despite the narratives we are told about the human condition
- The vital task of forming community and making kin and what to do once we have found it
- What it means to embrace a humble, ethical, embodied life in harmony with nature, in which we embrace our ‘enoughness’ rather than seeking further success and power
- The challenges of communicating the core ideas of decolonisation to mainstream culture
- What it means to move away from our story of linear progress and change
The Story Anew is a podcast and video series in which we'll meet amazing people from all over the world who are working to redefine the dominant narrative of our times - that of infinite growth and consumption. These are the people working towards what Joanna Macy calls The Great Turning - the shifting of our Industrial Growth Society, which prioritises infinite growth over life - to a Life Sustaining Society.
The people you'll meet are working in regeneration, activism, systems design, permaculture, trauma healing, decolonisation, climate change and generally working to fundamentally change the way we do things as a species so that we can live on this planet more harmoniously with our fellow beings and become good ancestors.
Hosted by Gwyneth Jones (www.gwynethjones.coach)
