Pinned in our map here.
a feminist, anti-colonial laboratory, which means our methods foreground values of humility, equity, and good land relations.
They’re working to do research differently. Directed by Dr. Max Liboiron at Memorial University, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
They are specialized in community-based monitoring of plastic pollution, particularly in wild foodways in Nunatsiavut, and the creation and use of anti-colonial research methodologies.
We know them since 2015 when we started to reproduce their babyleg to to trawl for floating marine plastics in Concarneau (Brittany) and then in several rivers.
We often reuse many essay and methodologies from CLEAR like, for example, ‘Decolonizing your syllabus? You might have missed some steps’
Decolonizing your syllabus is different than including some Indigenous writers on the reading schedule.
Books
Liboiron, M. (2021). Pollution is Colonialism. Durham: Duke University Press.
Liboiron, M. and Lepwasky, J. (2022). Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power. Cambridge: MIT Press.