Max Liboiron
Title
Max Liboiron
Birthplace
Red River Métis/Michif, Canada
Primary Sources
Liboiron, M., & Cotter, R. (2023). Review of participation of Indigenous peoples in plastics pollution governance. Cambridge Prisms: Plastics, 1, e16. https://doi.org/10.1017/plc.2023.16
Liboiron, M., & Lepawsky, J. (2022). Discard studies: Wasting, systems, and power. MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543651/
Liboiron, M. (2021). Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion. Nature Geoscience, 14, 876–877. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00861-7
Liboiron, M. (2016). Care and solidarity are conditions for interventionist research. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 67-72.
http://estsjournal.org/article/view/85
Liboiron, M., & Lepawsky, J. (2022). Discard studies: Wasting, systems, and power. MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543651/
Liboiron, M. (2021). Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion. Nature Geoscience, 14, 876–877. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00861-7
Liboiron, M. (2021). Pollution is colonialism. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/pollution-is-colonialism
Ngata, T., & Liboiron, M. (2021). A Māori Approach to starting research from where you are. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 7(2), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v7i2.37648
Liboiron, M., Tironi, M., & Calvillo, N. (2018). Toxic politics: Acting in a permanently polluted world. Social studies of science, 48(3), 331-349.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306312718783087Ngata, T., & Liboiron, M. (2021). A Māori Approach to starting research from where you are. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 7(2), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v7i2.37648
Liboiron, M., Tironi, M., & Calvillo, N. (2018). Toxic politics: Acting in a permanently polluted world. Social studies of science, 48(3), 331-349.
Liboiron, M. (2016). Care and solidarity are conditions for interventionist research. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 67-72.
http://estsjournal.org/article/view/85
Secondary Sources
McClintock, N., & Morris, G. (2024). Urban geographies of waste. Urban Geography, 45(4), 518–527. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2319437
Peryman, M., Cumming, R., Ngata, T., Farrelly, T. A., Fuller, S., & Borrelle, S. B. (2024). Plastic pollution as waste colonialism in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Marine Policy, 163, 106078. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106078
Lusher, A. L., Provencher, J. F., Baak, J. E., Hamilton, B. M., Vorkamp, K., Hallanger, I. G., Pijogge, L., Liboiron, M., Bourdages, M.P.T., Hammer, S., Gavrilo, M., Vermaire, J. C., Linnebjerg, J. F., Mallory, M. L., & Gabrielsen, G. W. (2022). Monitoring litter and microplastics in Arctic mammals and birds. Arctic Science, 8(4), 1217-1235.
https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2021-0058
Jungnickel, K. (Ed.). (2020). Transmissions: Critical tactics for making and communicating research. MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/transmissions
Peryman, M., Cumming, R., Ngata, T., Farrelly, T. A., Fuller, S., & Borrelle, S. B. (2024). Plastic pollution as waste colonialism in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Marine Policy, 163, 106078. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106078
Lusher, A. L., Provencher, J. F., Baak, J. E., Hamilton, B. M., Vorkamp, K., Hallanger, I. G., Pijogge, L., Liboiron, M., Bourdages, M.P.T., Hammer, S., Gavrilo, M., Vermaire, J. C., Linnebjerg, J. F., Mallory, M. L., & Gabrielsen, G. W. (2022). Monitoring litter and microplastics in Arctic mammals and birds. Arctic Science, 8(4), 1217-1235.
https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2021-0058
Jungnickel, K. (Ed.). (2020). Transmissions: Critical tactics for making and communicating research. MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/transmissions
Extra Resources
Liboiron, M., Higgins, M., & Tolbert, S. (2024). In conversation with Max Liboiron: towards an everyday, anticolonial feminist science (education) practice. In S. Tolbert, M. F. G. Wallace, M. Higgins, & J. Bazzul (Eds.), Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene, Volume 2 (1st ed., pp. 343-361). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35430-4_19
Dr. Max Liboiron on building feminist and anticolonial technologies in compromised spaces. (2022, January 27). Feminist Publishing and Tech Speaker Series. YouTube. Accessed May 5, 2023.
https://youtu.be/Rya5Gom5o20
Max Liboiron. (n.d.). About. Accessed October 10, 2025. https://www.maxliboiron.com/
Collection
Citation
“Max Liboiron,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/785.