This special episode features the word ‘YAAMA’.

Rather than our usual aim to bust a buzzword, here in episode 4 we talk to Tracey Cameron about the term Yaama, which can mean many different things as Tracey so kindly and generously explains in the recording.

Tracey is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Indigenous Studies in the School of Education and Social Work at The University of Sydney. She’s an Aboriginal person and one of Australia’s leading language activists who is part of the project to re-awaken the Gamilaraay language that she also teaches at the university.

If you’d like to read or hear or see more from and about Tracey, you can check out her academic profile here: https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/tracey-cameron.html or follow these links:

https://honisoit.com/2017/03/yaama-tracey-ngaya/

https://soundcloud.com/usydslc/reviving-the-gamilaraay-language-tracey-cameron-priscilla-strasek

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/awaye/features/word-up/word-up/8415166

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/episode-1-introducing-deep-listening-tracey-cameron/id1690304005?i=1000615097730

You can also find us and leave comments and likes on Instagram: @busting.buzzwords

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

Hosts:

Clara Sitbon and Ben Nickl

Have a buzzword you’d like us to talk about? You can email us at busting.buzzwords@gmail.com

• Production Credits and Acknowledgments: Karen Ho: visual design and cover art, @karencyho on Instagram or check out karencyho.com
• Jacob Craig: audio production.
• Tyler Mahoney: episode recording.
• Joshua Dowton: Welcome to Country recording.
• FASS Media Room: episode recording studio/main recording venue (located on Gadigal Country of the Eora Nation).

We thank the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the technical team for their invaluable support.

We thank Michael West as a member and representative of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council for recording a Welcome to Country segment for the podcast's pilot season. We thank the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council for the opportunity to collaborate on this project and hope to continue in future. Please note that Michael West/the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council holds the sole copyright to the Welcome to Country segments. No reproduction, edits, or re-use of any kind of these segments is permitted without express and written confirmation from Michael West and the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council.

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