His work mobilizes social and political theory and political economic approaches to understand the making of different environments and the cultures of labour in environmental spaces. Michael’s previous research focused on the cultural history of tree planting in Canada and accounted for the politics of everyday life and work in contemporary reforestation camps in British Columbia. Finally, Michael has a sustained interest in the social and political theory of Antonio Gramsci and is a co-editor (with Gillian Hart, Stefan Kipfer and Alex Loftus) of Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics. http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/geography/michael-ekers