All research and teaching methods can align with or against colonialism, as all methods have land relations. Even when working toward benevolent goals such as environmentalism, environmental science, education, and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Dr. Max Liboiron will draw on their new book, Pollution is Colonialism, to work with class participants to identify how anti-colonial science and research are not only possible, it is currently being practiced in ways that enact more ethical modes of being in the world.

Resources:

Books/Literary Texts/Articles

• A Third University is Possible by la paperson

• Pollution Is Colonialism by Dr. Max Liboiron (Free intro chapter here. 30% discount if you buy from Duke Press: E21LBRN)

• Decolonizing Geoscience Requires More than Equity and Inclusion, Dr. Max Liboiron

• The Economization of Life by Michelle MurphyOn Ethnographic Refusal: Indigeneity, ‘Voice’ and Colonial Citizenship by Audra Simpson

• The Ruse of Consent and the Anatomy of ‘Refusal’: Cases from Indigenous North America and Australia by Audra Simpson

• Place in Research: Theory, Methodology, and Methods by Eve Tuck and Marcia McKenzie

• Unbecoming Claims: Pedagogies of Refusal in Qualitative Research by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

• Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

• Refusal as Research Method in Discard Studies by Alex Zahara