Pollution Is Colonialism

Taking plastic pollution as its case study, this text is primarily a methods text that makes the case that methodology is always a land relation. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an anticolonial scientific practice aligned with Indigenous, particularly Métis, concepts of land, ethics, and relations.

Pollution is Colonialism was published in May, 2021. The introduction is free online here pdf .

Interviews on the book have been published by Duke Press and NextNature Net.

Dr. Max Liboiron is leader in both developing and promoting anticolonial research methods into a wide array of disciplines and spaces. As founder of CLEAR, an interdisciplinary plastic pollution laboratory whose methods foreground humility and good land relations, Liboiron has influenced national policy on both plastics and Indigenous research, invented technologies and protocols for community monitoring of plastics, and led the development of the interdisciplinary field of discard studies.

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