Max Liboiron
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Max Liboiron | |
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| Known for | |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | New York University[citation needed] |
| Thesis | Redefining Pollution: Plastics in the Wild (2012) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | |
| Sub-discipline | Science and technology studies |
| Institutions | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Website | maxliboiron.com |
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 interdisciplinary plastic pollution laboratory based at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.[3] Liboiron is also the Managing Editor of the online journal Discard Studies,[4] which publishes research on industrial waste and its social, political, cultural, and economic implications.[5]
Liboiron is Associate Professor of Geography at Memorial, with cross-appointments to the university's Department of Sociology and the Fisheries and Marine Institute. They also serve as Memorial's Interim Associate Vice-President for Indigenous Research.[6]
Citizen science
Liboiron's fine arts training has contributed to their research on oceans plastics.[clarification needed] The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum exhibited BabyLegs as part of its Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial from May 2019 to January 2020, which recognized designers "forging meaningful connections between humanity and the Earth".[7][8]
Liboiron is a proponent of the Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) movement, which argues that high equipment costs and intellectual property restrictions stifle scientific progress.[9]
Equity in academia
Liboiron's ideal of equity in academia is premised on deciding author order by consensus; valuing care work and other forms of labour that are usually left out of scientific value systems; and taking intersectional social standing into account.[10][11]
Writing
Pollution is Colonialism
Liboiron's book Pollution is Colonialism argues that the environmental policies of many jurisdictions, and the dominant science upon which those policies are based, are characterized by colonialism.[12]
Redefining pollution and action: The matter of plastics
Their article Redefining pollution and action argues that in order to find attainable solutions to plastic pollution, it is necessary to consider the physical characteristics of plastics, such as density, size, or their molecular bonds.[13]
Awards
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- 2020-2021 Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Research Fellow, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto[14]
- 2019-present Circle Holder, Science for the People[15]
- 2018 Nature Inspiration Award (adult category), Canadian Museum of Nature[16]
- 2015 Next Generation Polar Researchers, Memorial University of Newfoundland[17]
- 2015 Making and Doing Prize, Society for the Social Studies of Science[18]
References
- ^ "Dr. Max Liboiron". Oceanic Global. 2019-02-11. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
- ^ "Do-it-yourself science is taking off". The Economist. 2017-12-19. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
- ^ Buder, Emily. "The Feminist, Anti-Colonialist Scientific Approach to Micro-plastics and Pollution - The Atlantic". www.theatlantic.com. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
- ^ "Max Liboiron". Memorial University of Newfoundland. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "What is discard studies?". Discard Studies. 2018-08-01. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
- ^ Newfoundland, Memorial University of. "Research". Memorial University of Newfoundland. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
- ^ Dr. Max Liboiron "BabyLegs" | Nature–Design Triennial, retrieved 2021-06-10
- ^ "Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial | Exhibitions | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum". collection.cooperhewitt.org. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
- ^ "By GOSH, it's Global Open Science Hardware!". HackSpace magazine. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
- ^ Liboiron, Max; Ammendolia, Justine; Winsor, Katharine; Zahara, Alex; Bradshaw, Hillary; Melvin, Jessica; Mather, Charles; Dawe, Natalya; Wells, Emily; Liboiron, France; Fürst, Bojan (2017-10-19). "Equity in Author Order: A Feminist Laboratory's Approach". Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. 3 (2): 1–17. doi:10.28968/cftt.v3i2.28850. ISSN 2380-3312.
- ^ ChawlaDec. 20, Dalmeet Singh; 2018; Pm, 1:50 (2018-12-20). "Assigning authorship for research papers can be tricky. These approaches can help". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
{{cite web}}:|last2=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Liboiron, Max (2021). Pollution is Colonialism. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-1-4780-2144-5.
- ^ Liboiron, Max (2016). "Redefining pollution and action: The matter of plastics". Journal of Material Culture. 21 (1): 87–110. doi:10.1177/1359183515622966. S2CID 51917993 – via SAGE.
- ^ "Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Fellow, 2020-21 | JHI". humanities.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
- ^ "Strong Animals: Humility in Science". Science for the People. 22 January 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "2018 Award Winners: Nature Inspiration Awards | Canadian Museum of Nature". nature.ca. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
- ^ "Arctic and Northern Regions Archives". Gazette - Memorial University of Newfoundland. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
- ^ "Building DIY citizen science technology to see invisible marine plastics". Society for Social Studies of Science. 2015-12-29. Retrieved 2021-06-11.