Michael Ekers

1.4k total citations
27 papers, 972 citations indexed

About

Michael Ekers is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Ekers has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 972 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Michael Ekers's work include Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (8 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 papers). Michael Ekers is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (8 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 papers). Michael Ekers collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and Slovakia. Michael Ekers's co-authors include Alex Loftus, Scott Prudham, Pierre Hamel, Roger Keil, Charles Z. Levkoe, Geoff Mann, Samuel Walker, Erin Nelson, S. Ryan Isakson and Colleen Hammelman and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Sustainability and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Michael Ekers

27 papers receiving 915 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Ekers Canada 13 395 339 221 169 168 27 972
Hillary Angelo United States 13 340 0.9× 301 0.9× 51 0.2× 284 1.7× 377 2.2× 26 1.1k
Gert Jan Veldwisch Netherlands 18 351 0.9× 457 1.3× 367 1.7× 125 0.7× 55 0.3× 56 1.2k
Nikolas C. Heynen United States 5 368 0.9× 335 1.0× 50 0.2× 392 2.3× 193 1.1× 5 1.1k
Jeff Popke United States 11 414 1.0× 78 0.2× 88 0.4× 134 0.8× 90 0.5× 22 880
Julien‐François Gerber Netherlands 19 409 1.0× 176 0.5× 339 1.5× 372 2.2× 39 0.2× 41 1.2k
Susan Paulson United States 12 294 0.7× 120 0.4× 138 0.6× 199 1.2× 35 0.2× 38 875
Derek Hall Canada 15 454 1.1× 326 1.0× 688 3.1× 357 2.1× 52 0.3× 30 1.4k
Kathleen McAfee United States 11 273 0.7× 215 0.6× 317 1.4× 790 4.7× 25 0.1× 13 1.4k
Gustavo García-López United States 21 289 0.7× 146 0.4× 160 0.7× 442 2.6× 39 0.2× 38 1.1k
Kei Otsuki Netherlands 15 221 0.6× 125 0.4× 180 0.8× 228 1.3× 143 0.9× 49 794

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Ekers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Ekers

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ekers, Michael. (2025). A Reserve Army of Timber: The Racialised Regime of Private Forest Lands in British Columbia. Antipode. 58(1). 1 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael. (2023). Land grabbing on the edge of empire: the longue durée of fee-simple forest lands and indigenous resistance in British Columbia. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 50(7). 2799–2828. 4 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael, et al.. (2020). The coloniality of private forest lands: Harvesting levels, land grants, and neoliberalism on Vancouver Island. Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes. 65(2). 166–183. 5 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael & Alex Loftus. (2019). On “the Concrete”: Labour, Difference and Method. Antipode. 52(1). 78–100. 7 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael. (2018). Financiers in the forests on Vancouver Island, British Columbia: On fixes and colonial enclosures. Journal of Agrarian Change. 19(2). 270–294. 12 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael. (2018). The curious case of ecological farm interns: on the populism and political economy of agro-ecological farm work. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 46(1). 21–43. 12 indexed citations
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Isaac, Marney E., S. Ryan Isakson, Charles Z. Levkoe, et al.. (2018). Agroecology in Canada: Towards an Integration of Agroecological Practice, Movement, and Science. Sustainability. 10(9). 3299–3299. 40 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael & Scott Prudham. (2017). The Socioecological Fix: Fixed Capital, Metabolism, and Hegemony. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 108(1). 17–34. 74 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael. (2017). Food utopias: reimagining citizenship, ethics and community. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 44(1). 325–328. 2 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael & Scott Prudham. (2017). The Metabolism of Socioecological Fixes: Capital Switching, Spatial Fixes, and the Production of Nature. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 107(6). 1370–1388. 117 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael, et al.. (2015). Will work for food: agricultural interns, apprentices, volunteers, and the agrarian question. Agriculture and Human Values. 33(3). 705–720. 39 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael. (2015). On the Concreteness of Labor and Class in Political Ecology. 2 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael. (2014). Labouring against the grain of progress: Women's reforestation work in British Columbia, 1960–1975. Journal of Rural Studies. 34. 345–355. 4 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael, Pierre Hamel, & Roger Keil. (2012). Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance. Regional Studies. 46(3). 405–422. 104 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael. (2012). “The Dirty Scruff”: Relief and the Production of the Unemployed in Depression‐era British Columbia. Antipode. 44(4). 1119–1142. 5 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael. (2012). The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism by Peter D. Thomas. Antipode. 44(3). 1034–1038. 2 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael, et al.. (2010). Planting the Nation: Tree Planting Art and the Endurance of Canadian Nationalism. Space and Culture. 13(1). 95–120. 11 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael, Alex Loftus, & Geoff Mann. (2009). Gramsci Lives!. Geoforum. 40(3). 287–291. 53 indexed citations
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Ekers, Michael, et al.. (2009). (Dis)Organizing Tree Planters: Labour and Environment Politics in the British Columbia Silviculture Industry. Open Collections. 1 indexed citations
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