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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 Metis, 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

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Max Liboiron is associate professor of geography at Memorial University. Donna Postel should have known what path her future would take back in the first grade. Instead of playing a duck or a tree in the first-grade play, she was cast as the narrator, the only speaking role. Now, she can almost always be found in her state-of-the-art studio, where she has recorded hundreds of commercials, corporate narrations, and audiobooks.

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