Graduate Student, Media, Culture and Communication
International Fellow, AAUW
Thesis Title: Transforming Pollution: Ocean Plastics and Body Burdens
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Brett Gary
Robin Nagle Lisa Gitelman Erica Robles |
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Max Liboiron's dissertation inquires how science investigates a phenomenon that challenges the tenants of scientific knowledge production. Using case studies of ocean plastics and plastic chemicals that accumulate in human tissue (body burdens), she argues that plastic pollution’s unique longevity and ubiquity is causing a paradigm shift for concepts of what pollution is and how it works.
Her artistic work is a cross between a sociological laboratory “experiment,” environmental activism, and models of economic change. Gallery visitors are invited to take pieces of her trash-installations away according to one or two rules of exchange. These interactions show that people are not inherently self-maximizing or selfish, but generous, creative, and even daring in their relationships to goods and to each other. www.maxliboiron.com
She is a regular contributor the the Discard Studies Blog:
http://discardstudies.wordpress.com
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