by Max Liboiron
Two main projects have emerged from my research and activism around plastic pollution: a manuscript, “Techniques of Definition: Defining Harm in Plastic Pollution,” and a citizen science project to investigate the state of ocean plastics in Newfoundland.
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by Max Liboiron
Critical Discard Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary sub-field that takes waste and wasting, broadly defined, as its topic of study. The field questions premises of what seems normal or given, and analyzes the wider role of society and culture, including social norms, economic systems, forms of labour, ideology, infrastructure and power in definitions of, attitudes toward, behaviors around, and materialities of waste, broadly defined. As its starting point, critical Discard Studies holds that waste is not produced by individuals and […]
Categories: Current Projects
Max Liboiron