{"product_id":"the-ends-of-research-9781478020790","title":"The Ends of Research","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Ends of Research\u003c\/i\u003e Tom Özden-Schilling explores the afterlives of several research initiatives that emerged in the wake of the “War in the Woods,” a period of anti-logging blockades in Canada in the late twentieth century. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among neighboring communities of White environmental scientists and First Nations mapmakers in northwest British Columbia, Özden-Schilling examines these researchers’ lasting investments and the ways they struggle to continue their work long after the loss of government funding. He charts their use of planning documents, Indigenous territory maps, land use plots, reports, and other documents that help them not only to survive institutional restructuring but to hold on to the practices that they hope will enable future researchers to continue their work. He also shows how their lives and aspirations shape and are shaped by decades-long battles over resource extraction and Indigenous land claims.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this nuanced ethnographic study of the lives and work of two intertwined communities of professional researchers in British Columbia, Tom Özden-Schilling captures the researchers’ hopes, dreams, frustrations, and disappointments as they struggle to make a living and make their work matter to current and future generations. Extremely well written and tightly argued, \u003ci\u003eThe Ends of Research\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive and timely work of scholarship that makes important contributions to anthropology and science studies.” -- Paul Nadasdy, author of * Sovereignty’s Entailments: First Nation State Formation in the Yukon *\u003cbr\u003e“In this wonderful book Tom Özden-Schilling rightly challenges and nuances overly simplistic narratives that present contemporary resource governance processes as either simply an antipolitical form of rule by experts or a neoliberal regime of token gestures to regulation in the service of capital. Extending the dialogue between critical science and technology studies, northern and Indigenous studies, and scholarship on environmental conflicts, \u003ci\u003eThe Ends of Research\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the best books I’ve read on Indigenous-settler relations in natural resource science.” -- Tyler McCreary, author of * Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities: Colonial Extractivism and Wet’suwet’en Resistance *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTimeline of Key Events  vi\u003cbr\u003e A Note on the Maps  ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Nostalgia: Placing Histories in a Shrinking State  35\u003cbr\u003e 2. Calling: The Returns of Gitxsan Research  73\u003cbr\u003e 3. Inheritance: Replacement and Leave-Taking in a Research Forest  111\u003cbr\u003e 4. Consignment: Trails, Transects, and Territory without Guarantees  149\u003cbr\u003e 5. Resilience: Systems and Survival after Forestry’s Ends  190\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue  224\u003cbr\u003e Notes  237\u003cbr\u003e References  259\u003cbr\u003e Index  287","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409015087447,"sku":"9781478020790","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478020790.jpg?v=1730505097","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ends-of-research-9781478020790","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}