Description: Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among neighboring communities of White environmental scientists and First Nations mapmakers in Canada, Tom Özden-Schilling explores the legacies of scientific research that emerged in the wake a period of anti-logging blockades in the late twentieth century.
Review Quotes: "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, The Ends of Research 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
"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, The Ends of Research 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 "The Ends of Research is a stimulating ethnography that productively lingers on the ambiguities of environmental research."--Gabriel Urlich Lennon, Anthropology Book Forum "The Ends of Research offers a compelling analysis of the interplay among Indigenous knowledge systems, settler scientific practices, and environmental management. Özden-Schilling's innovative approach to understanding research as a form of resistance and reimagination, coupled with rigorous historical and ethnographic detail, significantly contributes to our understanding of Indigenous research in postcolonial contexts."--Joel Nicholas Persaud, American Indian Culture and Research Journal "A thought-provoking book that will make important contributions to discussions among scholars and students concerned with what it means to link knowledge with political commitments in times of perpetual change and uncertainty."--Maximilian Viatori, Journal of Anthropological Research "The Ends of Research is a well-written ethnography, rich in empirical material, theoretical discussions, and interesting methodological commentary. It will appeal to readers interested in Canada, institutional politics, the afterlife of scientific artifacts, Indigenous capacity building, science and technology studies, political ecology, and much more."--Lena Gross, Journal of the American Ethnological Society