Hiring: Inuit Research Assistants (remote work)
We are looking to hire several Inuit Research Assistants to help us conduct a systematic literature review to look at the role of Nunavut Arctic College in research,…
Author: Max Liboiron
Catching an Authentic Lake Trout: Knowledge Legitimization in Academia
Drawing from my lived experience with Lake Trout as a member of NunatuKavut who grew up in southern Labrador and a student at a colonial university, I discuss…
Citational politics in tight places
How might we improve citational politics in “tight places” where not only the norms of citation but also the structure of knowledge or research overdetermines what might be…
Starting CLEAR, maintaining CLEAR
I get a lot of emails asking how I started the lab, how junior scholars might start labs, and how to transform existing labs. This post outlines how…
Master’s Student position: Wild food movements and contaminants of concern in Imappivut
In partnership with the Nunatsiavut Government, we are recruiting a Master’s student to work on the project Wild food movements and contaminants of concern in Imappivut.
Hiring two research assistants in Indigenous quantitive methodologies
CLEAR is hiring two part-time research assistants to help study Indigenous and decolonial quantitative methodologies.
CLEAR mini-documentaries
CLEAR has worked with Couple3 Films to make a series of short documentaries about the lab and our processes. We’ve also brought those processes into the filmmaking.
Join us for ‘Laboratory Life’ film launches
The Lab Life series investigates what seem like mundane lab practices, but are critical to scientific humility, accountability and equity.
Citational politics bibliography
A bibliography on the politics of citation and references
Firsting in Research
Declaring that a research is the “first” to discover, do, or go somewhere is not only rarely correct, given myriad local knowledges since time immemorial, but is also…
Firsting in Research
Declaring that a research project is the “first” to discover something is not only rarely correct, given the myriad local knowledges operating since time immemorial, but is also…
How to Twitter Conference (#Discard2020)
In November 2020, Discard Studies held our first ever Twitter Conference. Here’s how it worked! #TwitterConference
There’s no such thing as “We”
Put simply, evoking the universal “we” is a way to discard differences and maintain business as usual.
Roundup: Waste & COVID-19
What do we know about the relationships between waste and COVID-19? Some figures and insights are emerging, but given that we’re in the thick of the pandemic and…
CFP: Discard Studies Twitter Conference!
Discard Studies is throwing a Twitter conference! Twitter conferences are accessible, create a permanent record of scholarship, support conversations with diverse audiences, and best of all, the prese…
Discard Studies Solidarity Strike
The field of discard studies is united by a critical framework that questions premises of what seems normal or given, what is valued and not valued, and the…
Waste is not “matter out of place”
Douglas’ theory of matter out of place is about power. Something in the wrong spot, something poisonous, is not matter out of place. Unless it threatens power.
Not all marine fish eat plastics
The Gulf Stream, which curves along the southern shore of Newfoundland, is saturated with plastics. Fish that feed from the surface waters, where plastics tend to accumulate, are…
Top Discard Studies articles in 2018
What are the most frequently read articles on Discard Studies? You might be surprised by #1!
Waste colonialism
Waste colonialism refers to how waste and pollution are part of the domination of one group in their homeland by another group. The concept has been gaining traction…
The Dirt
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field.
The what and the why of Discard Studies
We tend to think that we are familiar with waste because we deal with it every day. Yet, this is not the case–most aspects of waste are entirely…
Discard Studies going dark, being reborn in 2018
Dear Discard Studies Readers, I have been posting on this blog every week for the past seven years. It has been a pleasure. I began as a PhD…
Article Alert! New texts in discard studies (Nov & Dec 2017)
Since critical discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in…