Cross Contamination

Max Liboiron
Maru García
Pollution is a means by which colonialism is enacted. So argues artist-cum-geographer Max Liboiron in their influential 2021 book Pollution Is Colonialism, a manifesto that also details the author’s work running an anticolonial science lab at Memorial University of Newfoundland. The Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) investigates plastic pollution while experimenting with decolonial approaches to science and seeking to model new relat