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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology
Episode: Tom Ăzden-Schilling, "The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science After the War in the Woods" (Duke UP, 2023)
Description: In The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods (Duke University Press, 2023) by Dr. Tom Ăzden-Schilling explores the afterlives of several research initiatives that emerged in the wake of the âWar in the Woods,â 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, Dr. Ăzden-Schilling examines these researchersâ lasting investments and the ways they struggle to continue their work long after the loss of government funding. He charts their use of pla...