Author: Pollution is Colonialism (2020), Discard Studies (2021)
CLEAR lab at @clear-lab.bsky.social
Max Liboiron
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We’re in Nunatsiavut this week to share results in the final year of a nine year plastic monitoring project! And it’s good news: we’re not concerned about plastics as a contaminant in the region.
If you’d like a copy of the final report, let us know!
Day after tomorrow in Oxford, UK. A workshop on theories of change for folks who try to move the mountain with their research, writing, teaching, etc.
The first one at LSE is along the main themes from Pollution is Colonialism, ie, how to do research when our disciplines, institutions, and methods are based in colonialism.
The second talk at UCL is a deeper dive into one example of that-- contaminant statistics. For non-statisticians . :)
Re-reading @maxliboiron.bsky.social’s Pollution Is Colonialism & this sentence from the introduction really leapt out at me in this technofascist neocolonial moment: “You can’t make & hoard capital without stealing Land first.”
I'm giving two talks in London-- one today, one tomorrow!
Research is a Land Relation
3 February 2026, 5-6.30pm, LSE, OLD 3.24
www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
Counting across worlds
IAS Common Ground, G11, South Wing UCL
Wednesday, Feb 4 from 5 pm to 7 pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/counting-a...
If you're in London in February and want to get your geek on with me:
"This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of 2 Indigenous researchers to collaborate through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics."
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Hello London-ish people! I will be there doing a book talk on Pollution is Colonialism week after next! Feb 3. Free and open to all!
What can plastic fragments found in an animal’s digestive tract tell us about the geographies it has traversed?
For Places, @maxliboiron.bsky.social wrote about the different world animals reveal through their appetites.
“The heart of gut forensics is not classification, but learning how to see.”
New paper! "Struggling with Citational Politics as a Pathway to Unlearning and Relearning for Collective Action" on the material challenges of trying to cite ethically.
We did a citation experiment. We found there were specific stages, and they didn't advance linearly.
kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku...
⭐ JOB OPPORTUNITY ⭐
CLEAR is seeking a Research Coordinator to lead the day-to-day coordination of a horizon scan on Indigenous approaches to contaminant monitoring.
More details: civiclaboratory.nl/2026/04/27/p...
This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.
