{"id":14614,"date":"2015-01-26T08:45:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/geography\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=14614"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:17:24","slug":"dges-founders-seminar-presents-dr-michael-ekers","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/event\/dges-founders-seminar-presents-dr-michael-ekers\/","title":{"rendered":"DGES Founders Seminar Presents Dr. Michael Ekers"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies presents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"dr-michael-ekers-assistant-professor-university-of-toronto-scarborough\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dr. Michael Ekers,&nbsp;Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Scarborough<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>On<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"producing-farms-producing-farmers-interns-and-agro-ecological-questions\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Producing Farms, Producing Farmers; Interns and Agro-Ecological Questions<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<br>\n<\/strong>This talk examines the explosion of unpaid and unregulated internships on agro-ecological farms in Ontario.&nbsp; Drawing on primary analysis of farm internships, and referencing classical and contemporary debates in agrarian political economy, I argue that intern labour renders farm production sustainable by replacing off-farm inputs.&nbsp; Farm internships are a form of quasi-commodified labour that allow unprofitable farms to reproduce themselves despite the competitive pressures of industrialized agriculture.&nbsp; Similarly, internships are a form of non-monetized and non\u2013institutionalized education through which ecological knowledge is acquired by aspiring farmers, yet is restricted to privileged subjects who can afford to work without a wage.&nbsp; I highlight some pressing challenges relating to the conjoined social and ecological sustainability of the agro-ecological farm movement and leverage the discussion to offer a novel intervention in classic accounts of the agrarian question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-14614","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2015-01-28T15:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2015-01-28T16:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"LA","cu_event_meeting_room":"A410","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"null","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Natalia Fierro","cu_event_email":"natalia.fierromarquez@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=14614"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=14614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}