The ends of research : indigenous and settler science after the War in the Woods / Tom Özden-Schilling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Özden-Schilling, Tom, 1983- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Experimental futures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Canada.

Anthropology.

Science--Canada.

Science.

Technology--Canada.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"In The Ends of Research 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, Tom 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 to not only survive institutional restructuring but to hold onto 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, Özden-Schilling illustrates the complex relationships between researchers and rural histories of conservation, environmental conflict, resource extraction, and the long-term legacies of scientific research"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Nostalgia: Placing Histories in a Shrinking State

Calling: The Returns of Gitxsan Research

Inheritance: Replacement and Leave-Taking in an Experimental Forest

Consignment: Trails, Transects, and Territory without Guarantees

Resilience: Systems and Survival after Forestry's Ends.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Özden-Schilling, Tom, 1983- Ends of research.

ISBN:

9781478027669

1478027665

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.