Theories of Change

Infrastructural theories of change, and ethics of compromise and incommensurability. The maturing of concepts as Dr Max Liboiron has serves two years as an activist in university administration. twitter

All of my talks have bibliographies now as part of citational politics. I find all of these texts useful. enlarge

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Max gave the example of participation in and ownership of research results as an example where compromise is required between two goods.

University policy now requires indigenous people grant permission before grant funding is sought but when research is complete the graduate students involved cannot be denied access to data necessary to complete degrees.

The public keynote for the "Ecologies of Justice: Wasteland, Wastewater, and Human Disposability" symposium. This talk draws on case studies from plastic pollution research and activism that use muddy concepts of justice to show three things: a range of concepts of justice at work in activism and science; how the conflation or combination of some forms of justice can cause harm; and to ground a call for fellow researchers to use a more intentional and systematic approach to evoking models of justice in our work.

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Environmental scientist Max Liboiron ties principles of humility and accountability to research that respects people and their relationship with the land. nature