Chemical Futures and Environmental Data Justice

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  • Michelle Murphy University of Toronto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40349

Author Biography

Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto

Michelle Murphy is a technoscience studies scholar and historian of the recent past whose research concerns decolonial approaches to environmental justice; reproductive justice; Indigenous science and technology studies; infrastructures and data studies; race and science; and finance and economic practices. Murphy's current research focuses on the relationships between pollution, colonialism, and technoscience on the lower Great Lakes. Murphy is a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Science and Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice, as well as Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit, which hosts a lab and is a home for social justice and decolonial approaches to science and technology studies. She is Métis from Winnipeg, from a mixed Métis and French Canadian family.

(Source: https://www.history.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/michelle-murphy)

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Our Home on Native Land by Kelly King. Three women, a dog, and a cat sit on steps outside of an old house. They are coloured in sepia. Vines of s’gepn—the wild potato plant—climb the sides of the house, coloured in green with the flowers in pink. The grass in front of them women has also been coloured in green.

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Published

2022-10-18

How to Cite

Murphy, M. (2022). Chemical Futures and Environmental Data Justice. UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, 21, 45–48. https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40349

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Vol. 21 (2022): Memories and Futurities

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