
Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic [ENCORE] /294
For The Wild
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Do You Do Research on Indigenous Land When You're Not Invited?
In your work with the civic laboratory for environmental action research, or clear, which is a feminist, anti colonial marine science laboratory that studies plastic pollution. And when i think about it, methodology remains deeply tangled in respectability and credibility. But arguably we should be centring respect, not respectability. So i'm wondering what protocol has clear created to keep good relations and respect at the core of your work? Well, there're probably liveraly, like a hundred of them. An easy one would be: We don't do research on indigenous land when we aren't invited. Seems super simple, but your average scientist and your average environmentalists will go to beaches and clean them up without permission.
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