Dr Michael Simpson
Lecturer
Research areas
Michael Simpson joined the School in 2020. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of British Columbia. His research lies in the subfields of political ecology and urban geography, with a focus on the geographies of settler colonialism and racial capitalism.
His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Transactions, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Progress in Human Geography, Environment and Planning D, Environment and Planning E, Geoforum, Political Geography, Urban Geography, and Dialogues in Human Geography, among others. He is also co-author with Rueben George of It Stops Here: Standing up for our lands, our waters, and our people (Penguin Random House Canada).
His publications have won several awards, including the Early Career Researcher Award from the journal Political Geography, the Early Career Researcher Award from the journal Urban Geography, and the Professional Geographer Award from the American Association of Geographers' Energy & Environment Specialty Group. He is also the recipient of a Royal Society of Edinburgh Early Career Researcher Personal Research Fellowship.
He is currently completing a monograph on the political ecology of settler colonial and racial capitalist infrastructure in Vancouver, B.C.
PhD supervision
- Andreas Makris
- Jessica Hogan
- Richard Marenbach
- Joshua Hazelbower
- Alejandra Pizarro Choy
Selected publications
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Building decolonial climate justice movements: four tensions
Simpson, M. & Pizarro Choy, A., 8 May 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Dialogues in Human Geography. OnlineFirst, 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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On structures and events
Hugill, D. & Simpson, M., 1 Feb 2023, In: Urban Geography. 44, 2, p. 278-280 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Smart oceans governance: reconfiguring capitalist, colonial, and environmental relations
Ritts, M. & Simpson, M., 1 Jun 2023, In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 48, 2, p. 365-379 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
The settler colonial city in three movements
Simpson, M. & Hugill, D. W., 1 Dec 2022, In: Progress in Human Geography. 46, 6, p. 1311-1330 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
The vulnerability of tropical peatlands to oil and gas exploration and extraction
Lawson, I. T., Honorio Coronado, E. N., Andueza, L., Cole, L. E. S., Dargie, G., Davies, A., Laurie, N., Okafor-Yarwood, I., Roucoux, K. & Simpson, M., 1 Dec 2022, In: Progress in Environmental Geography. 1, 1-4, p. 84-114 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
What makes local energy projects acceptable? Probing the connection between ownership structures and community acceptance
Hogan, J., Warren, C. R., Simpson, M. & McCauley, D., 1 Dec 2022, In: Energy Policy. 171, 13 p., 113257.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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For a prefigurative pandemic politics: disrupting the racial colonial quarantine
Simpson, M., 2021, In: Political Geography. 84, 3 p., 102274.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Reconciling violence: policing the politics of recognition
Simpson, M., Feb 2021, In: Geoforum. 119, p. 111-121 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fossil urbanism: fossil fuel flows, settler colonial circulations, and the production of carbon cities
Simpson, M., 13 Nov 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Urban Geography. Latest ArticlesResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Resource desiring machines: the production of settler colonial space, violence, and the making of a resource in the Athabasca tar sands
Simpson, M. P., Oct 2019, In: Political Geography. 74, 102044.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review