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Max Liboiron
Canadian academic
Max Liboiron is a Canadian researcher and designer known for their contributions to the study of plastic pollution and citizen science.[1][2]
Career
Liboiron directs the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), an interdisciplinaryplastic pollution laboratory based at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.[3] Liboiron was the Managing Editor of the online journal Discard Studies for nearly a decade,[4] which publishes research on industrial waste and its social, political, cultural, and economic implications.[5]
Liboiron is professor of geography at Memorial, with cross-appointments to the university's Department of Sociology, Environmental Sciences, and the Fisheries and Marine Institute. From 2018 to 2020, they served as Memorial's inaugural Associate Vice-president, Indigenous Research.[6]
Research Methods
Liboiron and their lab have created several research methods aimed to bring humility, accountability, and good land relati
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Max Liboiron
Dr. Max Liboiron’s research, mentorship, and administrative work focus on developing and promoting anticolonial methods in 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 created protocols for fostering research collectives. Recently, they are a co-director of the IndigeLab Network, a new international research hub where Indigenous researchers collaborate on innovative methods for creating and maintaining research collectives.
Liboiron’s first book, Pollution is Colonialism (Duke Press, 2021), bridges Science and Technology Studies (STS), Indigenous studies, and discard studies while providing a framework for understanding all research methods as practices that align with or against colonialism. Focusing on plastic pollution, the text models an anticol
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Landon Liboiron Biography
Jan 5, 1992Birth Place:
Jenner, Alberta, Canada
Biography
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