This month’s r3.0 Bioregional Open Dialogue focuses on The Movements of Living Place: Bodies and Bioregional Intelligence, with Joshua Waters presenting on his work with the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Australia, and the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Collective. In particular, he will explore a recent article that he has just submitted with Distinguished Professor Yin Paradies on Bodies as Intermediaries, in a Bioregional context.
Speaker Profile: Joshua Waters is a First Nations K/Gamilaroi man, PhD student and Senior Research Fellow with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. His work explores the critical role of Indigenous Knowledges in global higher education and institutional contexts.
Joshua is also a core member of Deakin University's Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) Lab and a Director of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Collective (IKSC) where he supports a number of regional, national and international partnerships and research projects aimed at utilising Indigenous knowledges and complexity for global systems innovation and change. He is author of several peer reviewed papers, including An Indigenous process method for conducting the literature review and Indigenous systems knowledge applied to protocols for governance and inquiry