Yarning for a Better World: Extractivism, Mining and Indigenous Issues in Australia and at Large with Claire Burgess - Episode 31

Rising with the Tide

Season 3 continues to take surprising turns as your hosts attempt their first proper livestream! Jamie picks up his shovel and kindly digs through the Earth's core to the other side of the world for us to meet Claire Burgess, PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania, in the land down under.

As we cartoonishly hang upside down, unaccustomed to the reversed gravitational waves of Australia, Claire answers our barrage of questions regarding her research on mining and "green" extractivism. We discuss why copper is the new oil, indigenous knowledge and just what the heck 'yarning' means. As we near the end of our conversation, we realise that Australia's place in colonial/settler issues is much more pervasive than we knew of, and that the modernisation and proliferation of "green mining" is just beginning... But, while Jamie takes a page from Minecraft's book and pushes us up to the European continent block by block, we also find ourselves yearning for more yarning around these topics, that feel ever so present and, thankfully, more and more talked about.

You can find Claire on Twitter - @Claireburgo

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Songs for the Episode is "Little things" by Ziggy Ramo ft. Paul Kelly