“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, <i>The Ends of Research</i> 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, <i>The Ends of Research</i> 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) "<i>The Ends of Research</i> is a stimulating ethnography that productively lingers on the ambiguities of environmental research." - Gabriel Urlich Lennon (Anthropology Book Forum)