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In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an anticolonial scientific practice aligned with Indigenous, particularly M�tis, concepts of land, ethics, and relations. Liboiron draws on their work in the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)--an anticolonial science laboratory in Newfoundland, Canada--to illuminate how pollution is not a symptom of capitalism but a violent enactment of colonial land relations that claim access to Indigenous land. Liboiron's creative, lively, and passionate text refuses theories of pollution that make Indigenous land available for settler and colonial goals. In this way, their methodology demonstrates that anticolonial science is not only possible but is currently being practiced in ways that enact more ethical modes of being in the world.

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Liboiron has written a text for the ages. -- Orion magazine Demonstrates how science can and should be informed by Indigenous ethics and ways of understanding relations...Both a handbook on method and a call to rethink how we live our lives on occupied land. -- Smithsonian Magazine Offers a model that exemplifies what engaged anticolonial feminist research practice should look like. -- Ethnos Should be required reading for researchers who are working in any type of laboratory setting...I also believe that a more general audience will find this work interesting and thought provoking. -- International Journal of Environmental Studies

"""Liboiron has written a text for the ages."" -- ""Orion magazine"" ""Demonstrates how science can and should be informed by Indigenous ethics and ways of understanding relations...Both a handbook on method and a call to rethink how we live our lives on occupied land."" -- ""Smithsonian Magazine"" ""Offers a model that exemplifies what engaged anticolonial feminist research practice should look like."" -- ""Ethnos"" ""Should be required reading for researchers who are working in any type of laboratory setting...I also believe that a more general audience will find this work interesting and thought provoking."" -- ""International Journal of Environmental Studies"""

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Max Liboiron is associate professor of geography at Memorial University. Donna Postel, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, is absolutely passionate about audiobooks and has narrated close to fifty titles across multiple genres, from memoir and biography to literary fiction, romance, mystery, and suspense. She uses her innate curiosity, talent, and decades of experience on stage and in the recording studio to bring books to life. When she's not in the studio, she can be found down at the barn cleaning up after and occasionally riding horses.

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