Pollution Is Colonialism
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Pollution Is Colonialism

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Pollution Is Colonialism

About this book

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 Métis, 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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the 
scientists 
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understand 
without 
having 
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sit 
them 
down 
for 
days 
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days 
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stories. 
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you 
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reading 
this 
as 
an 
academic, 
expert, 
teacher, 
and/or 
storyteller, 
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think 
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an 
important 
part 
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the 
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when 
to 
tell 
parts, 
which 
parts 
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the 
parts 
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when 
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This 
chapter 
is 
about 
modern 
environmental 
pollution, 
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it 
has 
also 
been 
craſted 
as 
an 
invitation 
for 
you 
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look 
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the 
structuring 
logic 
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your 
own 
discipline 
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forms 
of 
knowledge 
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to 
see 
what 
its 
land 
relations 
are, 
what 
might 
be 
colonial 
about 
it, 
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which 
naturalized 
and 
seemingly 
benign 
techniques 
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use, 
universalize, 
separate, 
produce 
property, 
produce 
difference, 
maintain 
whiteness. 
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our 
methodological 
inter-
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do 
not 
address 
land 
relations, 
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address 
colonialism 
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just 
end 
up 
with 
another 
study 
on 
“mismanaged” 
waste 
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another 
Stanley 
ver-
dict. 
Let’s 
do 
better. 
This 
page 
intentionally 
left 
blank

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Land, Nature, Resource, Property
  6. 2. Scale, Harm, Violence, Land
  7. 3. An Anticolonial Pollution Science
  8. Bibliography
  9. Index