Plastic governance changes when Indigenous voices lead. Researcher Riley Cotter joins Plastic Podcast to discuss microplastics research, Indigenous participation, and the colonial assumptions built into many environmental institutions. Rather than presenting Indigenous peoples as a single group or treating knowledge as an add-on, the conversation centers sovereignty, diversity, relationships, and the right to shape research and policy. This episode examines Indigenous plastic pollution governance and what justice-oriented participation requires from scientists, governments, and environmental organizations.
Episode Guests: Riley Cotter
Read Riley Cotter’s Review of Participation of Indigenous Peoples in Plastics Pollution Governance
Read Dr. Max Libiron’s article Pollution is Colonialism
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Hosted, produced, and edited by Clark Marchese
Cover art and PFM logo by Laurel Wong.
Theme music by Tadeo Cabellos