Tyson Yunkaporta
Biographic Data
| ID | 124574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tyson Yunkaporta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tyson |
| FAMILY NAME | Yunkaporta |
| SIGNATURE | YUNKAPORTA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2256-3819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘ Alone Australia ’, nature connection and spiritual complexity in popular culture
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, scholars of religion have focused considerable attention on the rise of religious diversity and the non-religious, particularly in Western secular societies. More recently, two parallel worldview trends have been increasingly observable and attracting significant scholarly attention. More people are identifying as spiritual, be they religious or not, and reporting a strong connection with nature, which …
Indigenous Embassy
The keynote essay for Swamphen Volume 11 comes from a collaboration of Indigenous scholars Tyson Yunkaporta, Nkwi Flores and Gabriela Romero
Danger Is a Signal, Not a State
This paper describes the health and wellbeing applications of a protocol designed from a Gumbaynggirr Australian First People’s concept, Bigaagarri. The protocol reframes threats to health and wellbeing as part of a communicative system of environmental signals, rather than an individualised, behavioural fight–flight–fear response. Developed by a Muruwari Gumbaynggirr researcher, the protocol enfolds Aboriginal perspectives of health values and t…
Contributions From Aboriginal Australian Psychology
This collaboration between an Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian scholar explores a simple but important contention: that human memory is not stored in the brain alone but shaped through ongoing relationship with land. Aboriginal Australian traditions demonstrate that memory is carried and passed through natural systems, with the aid of story, song, and sacred sites. We explore how such place-based cultural memory practices integrate locate…
Riotous methodological and methodointuitive reflections on (non)religion, spirituality and the multispecies turn
The 'multispecies turn' in the social sciences and humanities is informing many disciplines including animal studies, anthropology, Indigenous studies and, more recently, sociology of religion. Scholars working on multispecies relations employ various methods and methodologies, many of which are challenging modern, Western, Christian paradigms and practices that are anthropocentric and focus on logos/words/texts/beliefs. This discussion examines …
Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous systems knowledge applied to protocols for governance and inquiry
This paper details the progress to date of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab (IKS Lab) at Deakin University in establishing organisational processes and methods of inquiry grounded in Indigenous protocols. Continuity of traditional knowledge and practice in the Lab requires a deep‐time perspective of complex systems both local and nonlocal, ensuring that ancient psycho‐technologies are retrieved forward for context‐dependent, collectively resp…
Molecular Decolonization
Indigenous peoples are resilient peoples with deep traditional knowledge and scientific thought spanning millennia. Global discourse on climate change however has identified Indigenous populations as being a highly vulnerable group due to the habitation in regions undergoing rapid change, and the disproportionate burden of morbidity and mortality already faced by this population. Therefore, the need for Indigenous self-determination and the forma…
Wik pedagogies
This paper explores the possibilities of designing a Wik pedagogy, drawing on the language and culture of the remote community of Aurukun on Cape York. The research was inspired by the emergence of Aboriginal pedagogy theory in recent decades, along with a resurgence of interest in cognitive linguistics indicating an undeniable link between language, culture and cognition. We are Aboriginal researchers, relatives with strong family ties in the Au…
Sand Talk
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schr dinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently? Sand Talk provides a template for living. It's about how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense…
Reclaiming aboriginal knowledge at the cultural interface
Disciplining the savages
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Reclaiming aboriginal knowledge at the cultural interface
Disciplining the savages
Wik pedagogies
This paper explores the possibilities of designing a Wik pedagogy, drawing on the language and culture of the remote community of Aurukun on Cape York. The research was inspired by the emergence of Aboriginal pedagogy theory in recent decades, along with a resurgence of interest in cognitive linguistics indicating an undeniable link between language, culture and cognition. We are Aboriginal researchers, relatives with strong family ties in the Au…
Sand Talk
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schr dinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently? Sand Talk provides a template for living. It's about how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense…
Molecular Decolonization
Indigenous peoples are resilient peoples with deep traditional knowledge and scientific thought spanning millennia. Global discourse on climate change however has identified Indigenous populations as being a highly vulnerable group due to the habitation in regions undergoing rapid change, and the disproportionate burden of morbidity and mortality already faced by this population. Therefore, the need for Indigenous self-determination and the forma…
Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous systems knowledge applied to protocols for governance and inquiry
This paper details the progress to date of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab (IKS Lab) at Deakin University in establishing organisational processes and methods of inquiry grounded in Indigenous protocols. Continuity of traditional knowledge and practice in the Lab requires a deep‐time perspective of complex systems both local and nonlocal, ensuring that ancient psycho‐technologies are retrieved forward for context‐dependent, collectively resp…
Riotous methodological and methodointuitive reflections on (non)religion, spirituality and the multispecies turn
The 'multispecies turn' in the social sciences and humanities is informing many disciplines including animal studies, anthropology, Indigenous studies and, more recently, sociology of religion. Scholars working on multispecies relations employ various methods and methodologies, many of which are challenging modern, Western, Christian paradigms and practices that are anthropocentric and focus on logos/words/texts/beliefs. This discussion examines …
Indigenous Embassy
The keynote essay for Swamphen Volume 11 comes from a collaboration of Indigenous scholars Tyson Yunkaporta, Nkwi Flores and Gabriela Romero
Danger Is a Signal, Not a State
This paper describes the health and wellbeing applications of a protocol designed from a Gumbaynggirr Australian First People’s concept, Bigaagarri. The protocol reframes threats to health and wellbeing as part of a communicative system of environmental signals, rather than an individualised, behavioural fight–flight–fear response. Developed by a Muruwari Gumbaynggirr researcher, the protocol enfolds Aboriginal perspectives of health values and t…
Contributions From Aboriginal Australian Psychology
This collaboration between an Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian scholar explores a simple but important contention: that human memory is not stored in the brain alone but shaped through ongoing relationship with land. Aboriginal Australian traditions demonstrate that memory is carried and passed through natural systems, with the aid of story, song, and sacred sites. We explore how such place-based cultural memory practices integrate locate…
‘ Alone Australia ’, nature connection and spiritual complexity in popular culture
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, scholars of religion have focused considerable attention on the rise of religious diversity and the non-religious, particularly in Western secular societies. More recently, two parallel worldview trends have been increasingly observable and attracting significant scholarly attention. More people are identifying as spiritual, be they religious or not, and reporting a strong connection with nature, which …
Indigenous (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Traditional knowledge (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)