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Max Liboiron: Pollution Is Colonialism (Paperback, 2021, Duke University Press) 4 stars

In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as …

An amazing book that I will need to track down a physical copy of so that I can go back to seek wisdom from it's pages. It's voice feels familiar yet it challenges the reader to see and interrogate their ties to place that we bring to our work. It explains a framework of research that foregrounds maintaining good relations and argues for the values of local and ungeneralizeable knowledge in anti-colonial scientific work. How that might apply to the readers context is a challenge left to the reader but I'm left feeling supporting in engaging with that work and I know the door to reflect on these ideas is always open between the covers.