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Articles

Polleri, Maxime. 2025. Fukushima and the Politics of Nuclear Disaster Recovery. Current History. 124(863) : 216-221.

Polleri, Maxime. 2024. Sécularisation au Japon et texture du religieux. RELIER. 32(2).

Polleri, Maxime. 2024. Déchets. Anthropen.

Polleri, Maxime. 2022. Toward an Anthropology of Misinformation. Anthropology Today. 38(5): 17-20.  

Meng, Zaiqiao, Anya Okhmatovskaia, Maxime Polleri, Yannan Shen, GuidoPowell, Zihao Fu, Iris Ganser, Meiru Zhang, Nicholas King, David Buckeridge, Collier Nigel. 2022. BioCaster in 2021: Automatic Disease Outbreaks Detection from Global News Media. Bioinformatics. 38(18): 4446-4448. 

Polleri, Maxime. 2021. Radioactive Performances: Teaching about Radiation after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. Anthropological Quarterly. 94(1): 93-123. 

Polleri, Maxime. 2020. Post-political Uncertainties: Governing Nuclear Controversies in Post-Fukushima Japan. Social Studies of Science. 50(4): 567-588.

Polleri, Maxime. 2019. Conflictual Collaboration: Citizen Science and the Governance of Radioactive Contamination after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. American Ethnologist. 46(2): 214-226.

Polleri, Maxime. 2018. Beyond a Place: Fieldwork as a Concept. In Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition, edited by E.A. Schultz, R.H. Lavenda and R.R. Dods, 47-48. 4th Canadian Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Polleri, Maxime. 2017. Exchanging Business Cards in Japan: Oh! So You Are an… Anthropology Today. 33(3): 23-24.

Polleri, Maxime. 2017. Radioactive Contamination and Citizen Science after Fukushima. Digital Series on “Sensorial Engagements with a Toxic World,” edited by C. Fukuda. Second Spear, Medical Anthropology Quarterly. March 29.

Polleri, Maxime. 2016. Tracking Radioactive Contamination after Fukushima. Anthropology Now. 8(2): 90-103.

Chapitres de livre

Polleri, Maxime. 2018. Indeterminate Life: Dealing with Radioactive Contamination as a Voluntary Evacuee Mother. In Bearing the Weight of the World: Exploring Maternal Embodiment, edited by A. Einion and J. Rinaldi, 151-170. Bradford: Demeter Press.

Recensions

Polleri, Maxime. 2025. Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape. Pacific Affairs. 98(2): 386-388.

Polleri, Maxime. 2024. Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone. Asian Ethnology. 83(2): 382-384.

Polleri, Maxime. 2022. The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making. Anthropological Quarterly. 95(2): 489-492. 

Polleri, Maxime. 2021. Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now. The Holocene. 31(4): 694-695.

Polleri, Maxime. 2021. The Visible and Invisible Atom: From Hiroshima to Fukushima. Metascience. 30(1): 83-86.

Polleri, Maxime. 2025. Radioactive Flower Beds and the Legacy of Fukushima. The Diplomat. June 5.

Polleri, Maxime. 2024. For Japan, Whaling Is Intertwined with Maritime Sovereignty. The Diplomat. December 9.

Polleri, Maxime. 2024. Japan’s Aging Population Will Increase Disaster Vulnerability. The Diplomat. January 22.

Polleri, Maxime. 2023. Fukushima Wastewater Issue Will Further Divide a Nation, Split Families, and Cause ‘Atomic Divorce.’ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. October 17. 

Polleri, Maxime. 2023. The Release of Fukushima Wastewater Will Symbolically Hurt Japan. The Diplomat. 25 August. 

Polleri, Maxime. 2023. The Fukushima Wastewater ‘Discharge’: What’s in a Name? The Diplomat. 12 June.  

Polleri, Maxime. 2022. Our Contaminated Future. Aeon. 15 december. 

Polleri, Maxime. 2022. The Legacy of Shinzo Abe in Fukushima. Japan Today. July 23. 

de Troullioud de Lanversin, Julien, Maxime Polleri. 2022. Four Unanswered Questions about the Intersection of War and Nuclear Power. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. April 19.  

Polleri, Maxime. 2022. A Close Call at Ukraine Reactor: On Luck and Nuclear Disasters. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. March 4.  

Polleri, Maxime. 2022. Ethnographies of Nuclear Life: From Victimhood to Post-Victimization. Platypus: The CASTAC Blog. 1 March.  

Polleri, Maxime. 2021. Phantomatic Evidence. For the exhibit: Picturing the Invisible. Directors Gallery, Royal Geographical Society. From October 25 to December 23.   

Polleri, Maxime. 2021. Q&A: “Conflictual Collaboration: Citizen Science and the Governance of Radioactive Contamination after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster.” American Philosophical Society. May 11.

Polleri, Maxime. 2021. Why Japan Might Not Abandon Nuclear Power. The Diplomat. March 11.

Polleri, Maxime. 2020. The Legacy of Shinzo Abe in Fukushima. Japan Today. July 23. 

Polleri, Maxime. 2020. Fukushima: Le Retour à la Terre Radioactive. Tempura. 3: 32-42.

Polleri, Maxime, Tracy, Cameron, Likhacheva, Elizaveta and Evgenia Stepnykh. 2020. Improving the Communication of Risks Before, During, and After a Nuclear Accident. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. August 31.

Polleri, Maxime. 2020. Being Clear-Eyed About Citizen Science in the Age of COVID-19. Sapiens. July 15.

Polleri, Maxime. 2020. Patterns of Contamination: From Fukushima to COVID-19. UCL Medical Anthropology. Co-existing with Covid-19: Moving into the Post-pandemic World with the Social Sciences, May 28.

Polleri, Maxime. 2020. Thinking ahead on Post-COVID-19 Vulnerabilities. UCL Medical Anthropology. Consciously Quarantined: A COVID-19 Response from the Social Sciences, April 4.

Polleri, Maxime. 2019. The Truth about Radiation in Fukushima. The Diplomat. March 14.

Polleri, Maxime. 2019. Teaching about Radiation after Fukushima. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. February 26.

Polleri, Maxime. 2018. Risk is your Business: Citizen Science after Fukushima. Somatosphere. December 10.

Polleri, Maxime. 2017. Futatabime. Sekiguchi Global Research Association. Atsumi International Foundation.

Polleri, Maxime. 2016. Shiru to Wakaru. Sekiguchi Global Research Association. Atsumi International Foundation.

Polleri, Maxime. 2016. Notes from the Field: Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride. The SAGA Exchange. 1(2): 3.

Ph. D., York University, 2019 
Postdoctorat, Stanford University, 2020 
Postdoctorat, McGill University, 2021 

Recherches en cours 

2025-2027, Vaccine acceptance in the context of potential highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) outbreaks: Looking beyond online misinformation, Institut des maladies infectieuses et immunitaires et les Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (Subvention projet – Annonce de priorités : Recherche sur la préparation en cas de pandémie et d’urgence sanitaire), collaborateur. (200 000$)

2024-2027, Vers une anthropologie de la mésinformation : Étude de cas sur le transport interprovincial et l’enfouissement des déchets nucléaires au Canada, FRQSC, Soutien à la recherche pour la relève professorale, chercheur principal. (43 319$)

2023-2025, La désinformation comme signal: Une approche en sciences sociales appliquée à la vaccination contre la COVID-19, FRQ, Programme de recherche sur la désinformation au Québec, co-chercheur. (187 406$)

2023-2025, Le tombeau nucléaire canadien : étude sur l'acceptabilité sociale du stockage géologique des déchets nucléaires, CRSH développement Savoir, chercheur principal. (52 123$) 

Recherches terminées 

2025, Gouvernance des imaginaires nucléaires dans l’IA, Semestre franco-québécois d’échanges autour de l’intelligence artificielle, IVADO-Inria. (6000$)

2024, Initiative d’appui à la participation: Séminaire de l’Institut international de recherche en éthique biomédicale (IIREB), Fonds de Recherche du Québec.

2021-2023, Le tombeau nucléaire canadien : étude sur l’acceptabilité sociale des déchets nucléaires en Ontario, Fonds de démarrage, Université Laval (20 000$)