I am thrilled to have Tyson Yunkaporta’s new book, Right Story, Wrong Story, loaded on my e-reader, a pre-release copy from Text Publishing who are the latest partners to join our Floating Stories Lab and Voyage Virage Book Club journey. Yunkaporta’s debut book Sand Talk is a seminal text and urgent introduction to indigenous systems thinking that soon became an international best seller. He followed it up with a cheeky, edutaining podcast, The Other Others, produced through the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab Tyson runs at Deakin University. The podcast, in Tyson’s words, is where he has ‘unlikely, borderline seditious and kind of inappropriate yarns with surprising people about how an Indigenous complexity science lens can be applied to solving the world's most wicked problems.’ Will his new book will be just as entertaining and informative as his work-to-date? Let’s read it together! The ebook and print editions release October 3rd, and pre-order is available now via Text Publishing. I’ll leave you with the publisher’s teaser below.
The award-winning author of Sand Talk returns with a formidably original yarn with Indigenous thought leaders from around the globe.
Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta’s bestselling debut, was, said Melissa Lucashenko, ‘an extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming’.
Right Story, Wrong Story extends Yunkaporta’s explorations of how we can learn from Indigenous thinking. Along the way, he talks to a range of people including liberal economists, memorisation experts, Frisian ecologists, and Elders who are wood carvers, mathematicians and storytellers.
And, as he argues, story is at the heart of everything. But what is right or wrong story? This exhilarating book is an attempt to answer that question. Right Story, Wrong Story is a formidably original essay about how we teach and learn, and how we can talk to each other to shape forms of collective thinking that are aligned with land and creation.
Right Story, Wrong Story releases on October 3rd, pre-orders open now.
