The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science After the War in the Woods (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781478020790)

In The Ends of Research Tom ﾖzden-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, ﾖzden-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. By focusing on researchers' experiences and personal attachments, ﾖzden-Schilling illustrates the complex relationships between researchers and rural histories of conservation, environmental conflict, resource extraction, and the long-term legacies of scientific research.

Author: Tom ﾖzden-Schilling
ISBN-10: 1478020792
ISBN-13: 9781478020790
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2023
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d