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” (New York University Press, 2026), which examines the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Dr. Polleri has also critically studied the search for an informed and willing host regarding the disposal of Canada’s high-level radioactive waste in a deep geological repository situated in the province of Ontario. Similarly, he is interested in underscoring how temporal imaginaries influence the governance of spent nuclear fuel in Japan, as well as its burial for millennia.

Other areas of interests include an anthropological approach to misinformation and disinformation studies. An edited volume on this topic is currently under advance contract with Routledge.