Indigenous perspectives on decolonial futures

This online gathering aims to explore cultural difference, colonial culture, modern societies as well as Indigenous worldviews, perspectives and philosophies. Practical decolonial actions that flow from these perspectives will also be considered along with potential emergent decolonial futures. The gathering will include interactive exercises, general questions, and discussion. Any and all are welcome to attend this event.

This gathering will be facilitated by Dr. Yin Paradies, an Aboriginal-Asian-Anglo Australian of the Wakaya people from the Gulf of Carpentaria. Yin is Distinguished 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. He is a animist anarchist abolitionist activist scholar 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, generosity and an ethos of down-shifted collective sufficiency, direct participation and radical localisation.