Environmental & resource geographer. Associate Professor at Birmingham, UK. Current research @peatscapes.bsky.social, https://peatscapes.com/. Single mum, carer & grower.
Kärg Kama
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Exciting to see another Peatscapes paper out in the world, led by our brilliant Nye Merrill-Glover!
UK universities are currently facing a significant financial crisis. Recently, we undertook a snapshot survey across all UK higher education institutions offering geography.
Read our new report by Professor Jenny Pickerill, the Society’s Vice President for Research and Higher Education.
We are looking for a Lecturer in Geopolitics - a 3 year post for scholars who embrace critical approaches to territorial issues, security, political geography, conflict, energy and resource questions, international governance, urban geopolitics, and/or social justice
my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
A timely and critical collective essay on 'the state of the state', written by five members of our Editorial Board @will-davies.bsky.social @andrew-barry.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social Linsey McGoey and Samantha Ashenden
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Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come
Kärg Kama
📢 The Department of Geography and Environmental Science @uniofreading.bsky.social are looking to hire two Lecturers in Human Geography. Info on each post in thread below. Please share widely!
⭐ You can read more about our Human Geography Research Cluster here: www.reading.ac.uk/ges/research...
This week, we were excited to present our research to social scientists in #Estonia, led by Roosa Rytkönen at Tallinn University. It was a great opportunity to share knowledge amidst intense expert and public disputes on the large-scale #rewetting of Estonia's forested #peatlands. @leverhulme.ac.uk
Next week the Peatscapes Team will join up with social scientists from 10 European countries for the two-day interdisciplinary 'Mapping Peatscapes' workshop at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social, co-organised by @kargkama.bsky.social & @thomasfranssen.bsky.social!
Agenda: peatscapes.com/mappingpeats...
Very happy to see our latest Peatscapes article out in Environment and Planning E, led by Nye Merrill-Glover!
Do give it a read if you're interested in peatland governance, carbon credit markets, or both!
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Thanks as ever to @leverhulme.ac.uk! 🙏
Last week, members of the Peatscapes team staged a public forum on the future of peatland restoration in the Somerset village of Burtle. The event brought together representatives of environmental charities, rewilding groups, local residents, parish councillors, farmers and former peat extractors.
Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...
OnlineFirst - "Reduce, remove, avoid? Making a market for peatland carbon credits in the UK" by Aneurin Merrill-Glover, James Palmer, Roosa Rytkönen, and Kärg Kama:
@peatscapes.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
peatscapes.com
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