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Michael Ekers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography at the University of Toronto. His work bridges environmental and economic geography through the lens of political ecology, focusing on the social production of nature, property regimes, and colonial legacies in land management.
- Education: D.Phil from Oxford University
His research interrogates the politics of forest lands and agrarian landscapes, particularly in British Columbia, Canada. Key themes include:
- Colonial and neoliberal enclosures of land
- Indigenous sovereignty and jurisdiction
- Capital flows in environmental management
- Property law and Indigenous title
This work is highlighted in his Great Land Grab project, analyzing the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Land Grants’ transformation of Coast Salish and Nuu-Chah-Nulth territories. His publications explore the metabolism of spatial fixes, settler colonial capitalisms, and the legal contestations of private forest ownership.
Collaborators include Sarah Morales (University of Victoria), Estair Van Wagner (Osgoode Hall Law School), and Indigenous communities in British Columbia.
