Pollution Is Colonialism

Accessible text offering an account of anticolonial scientific practice, based on insights from running a lab conducting research on plastic pollution and fish in Newfoundland.

I'm really glad I read this before going into a PhD program in an environmental sciences school. Max does a wonderful job of laying out the colonial assumptions baked into a lot of even well-intentioned environmental science and examples of how her lab at Memorial University works to challenge those assumptions while still engaging in rigorous, peer-reviewed research. One of the most accessible academic books I've read in a while.