Our Writings

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As a group of researchers, we have produced pieces of writing about the Great Land Grab. Below we provide a brief description of each piece and either a link or PDF for each item.  Should you be interested in something listed on any of our personal websites and not listed below, please reach out to the author.

 
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From ‘Private’ Managed Forest Lands to Sts’lunuts’amat Forest Relations: Indigenous jurisdiction, ecological integrity, and fee simple title on Vancouver Island (Morales, Van Wagner and Ekers)
Knotty Questions: Reflections on the Booms and Busts Forestry Research in British Columbia (Ekers 2022)
“Logging on Private Forest Lands in Two Graphs, 1979-2021” (Ekers 2023)
“Land grabbing on the edge of empire: the longue durée of fee-simple forest lands and indigenous resistance in British Columbia” (Ekers 2023)
“Pivoting to the colonial relation: On crisis, finance and Indigenous resistance in British Columbia’s forests” (Ekers 2021)
“The legal relations of ‘private’ forests: Making and unmaking private forest lands on Vancouver Island” (Van Wagner 2021)
“Extracting Indigenous jurisdiction on private land: the duty to consult and Indigenous relations with place in Canadian law” (Van Wagner 2021)
“Notes from the periphery: finding more than (non)ownership in property law?” (Van Wagner 2021)
“The coloniality of private forest lands: Harvesting levels, land grants, and neoliberalism on Vancouver Island” (Ekers et al. 2020)
“The principle of sharing and the shadow of Canadian property law” (Morales and Thom 2020)
“Financiers in the forests of Vancouver Island: On fixes and colonial enclosures” (Ekers 2019)
“Snuw’uyulh: Fostering an understanding of the Hul’qumi’num legal tradition” (Morales 2015)