Michael Ekers

Michael Ekers is a faculty member in the Department of Human Geography at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. He worked in the forestry industry as a tree planter for nine years and largely on the north coast and in interior of British Columbia. Michael has been conducting research on different historical and contemporary aspects of the forestry industry for over fifteen years and has worked on this E&N land project for the past five years.  His teaching in Toronto focuses on environmental geography and politics, drawing on the tradition of political ecology, agrarian change, Indigenous scholarship and critics of settler-colonialism. Michael has published widely in these areas and writes for academic, policy and community audiences.