Maxime Polleri

Maxime Polleri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval and a member of the Graduate School of International Studies. As an anthropologist of technoscience, he studies the governance of disasters, waste and misinformation, with a primary focus on nuclear topics and a regional expertise on Japan. Dr. Polleri is the author of Radioactive Governance: The Politics of Revitalization in Post-Fukushima Japan, which examines the worst industrial nuclear catastrophe to hit Japan. The book explores how different groups clash and collaborate to govern something as controversial as radiation risks and post-disaster recovery.