Kärg Kama

Peatscapes will be at #INTECOL2025 this coming week in Tartu, Estonia 🇪🇪! Our Roosa Rytkönen opens the socio-economic panels with KEYNOTE "Seeing the bog from the trees: Social science agenda for the study of forestry drained #peatlands". Monday 11:15, please drop by! intecolwetlands2025.ee #geo #STS

Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology Specific subject description The Human Ecology Division applies an inter-disciplinary definition of its research field. Research and education at the division deals with human-environmental relations

The Human Ecology division (part of the department of Human Geography) at Lund University is hiring a Senior Lecturer. This is a tenured position in a workplace with a strong tradition of critical research.

Please forward to anyone who might be interested!

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So happy to see our first Peatscapes paper out! Thanks to our amazing team @peatscapes.bsky.social, to our research collaborators, and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding. Open access! #geography #STS #politicalecology #peatland #restoration

Great to see our first paper emerging from the @peatscapes.bsky.social project. Now available open access, in @progenvgeog.bsky.social.

Huge thanks to everyone in the Peatscapes team – @kargkama.bsky.social, Roosa Rytkönen and Nye Merrill-Glover – and of course to @leverhulme.ac.uk!

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Really excited to see our first 'Peatscapes' journal article out today in @progenvgeog.bsky.social!

Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking

Open Access link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#geography #sts #peat #restoration

Job alert 📣 Here in Bristol we are advertising for a 13-month fixed-term Lecturer in Environmental Policy, starting this September. Application deadline is May 14th, full details in link. Please get in touch if you're interested!

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Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in September w/
@brisunipress.bsky.social

Started with data centres and energy and turned into a story about monopoly tech, empire and Ireland's (under)development in the capitalist world system.

Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Social Science or Humanities approaches to Ecosystem Restoration We are now looking for a Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Social Science or Humanities approaches to Ecosystem Restoration to join us in the research program SAFIRE: Safeguarding Biod

JOB ALERT! Deadline 19.05 Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Prof position, environmental social scientist or humanities scholar, Oulu University, in our superb project SAFIRE. Great joining package, relocation support, fantastic team. Contact me with questions oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...

As I'm grading dozens of essays almost certainly at least heavily co-authored by #ChatGPT, here's what I'm thinking: part of what I study is how communities survive world-threatening events. Across the board, the communities who do survive take care of their knowledge systems 1/

CfP Carbon Creations RGS-IBG 2025 FINAL Call for papers RGS-IBG 2025, Birmingham, UK, 26–29th August Carbon creations and creative carbons: the politics of carbon in land management and restoration Conveners: Kärg Kama (University of Birmin...

Final CfP RGS-IBG 2025: deadline on Friday!
🌍 Carbon Creations and Creative Carbons 🌎

We seek papers on carbon farming, afforestation, peatland restoration & related work in #STS #geography
📩 @annakspeaking.bsky.social @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social
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Call for Applications @ESCStAntonys in #Baltic Studies. The Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2025-2026, European Studies Centre, St Anthony's College, Oxford University. Deadline February 26, 2025: www.sant.ox.ac.uk/.../Estonia-....

Baltic states begin historic switch away from Russian power grid More than 30 years after leaving the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania will join the EU's grid.

The Baltics currently stay in #energyisland before joining the European grid. I wrote about this issue and how it's been operationalized in EU carbon market politics in my 2014 Geoforum article, doi.org/10.1016/j.ge.... #STS #geosky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A historic moment as the 3 Baltic states have just desynchronized their electricity grids from Russia (incl Kaliningrad). It's been two decades in the making! #technologicalzones #STS news.err.ee/1609599566/e...

This week we're joined by Dr Kärg Kama & Dr James Palmer who will be presenting their new project 'Peatscapes in transition: knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration'

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📍@oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome! @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social

Brett Christophers · So much for Paris: Climate Overshoot All fossil fuel projects are politically constituted. Either they are state projects, controlled and administered by...

I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social.

Please give it a read!

Open Calls - Defend Our Juries ”We will fight for that right to free protest. We will fight for democracy in the UK.” – Chris Packham. • Defend Our Juries and the Free Political Prisoners campaign are calling on concerned groups an...

Supporting the right for peaceful environmental protest - Dr Larch Maxey, a British geographer, is currently in jail for peaceful climate activism. He has asked that we support his latest appeal being heard at the Court of Appeal TODAY January 2025 defendourjuries.org/free-politic... #16for16

Please join us in Birmingham! Deadline for abstracts 21st Feb. #geosky #geography #STS @rgsibg.bsky.social

Just nature recovery: A framework for centring multispecies and multi-dimensional justice in land management A rising interest in nature recovery has expanded the focus of conservation beyond protected areas to encompass a range of terrestrial and marine area…

Delighted to see our new paper out in Environmental Science and Policy: ‘Just nature recovery: A framework for centring multispecies and multi-dimensional justice in land management'

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@naturerecovery.bsky.social

JOB ALERT Please spread the word! 4-year post-doc with me @ SAFIRE on transforming ecosystem restoration research. The job unites stakeholder management and and research on theoretical/conceptual and methodological approaches to transdisciplinary research on ecosystem restoration. lnkd.in/dj-Zd3Q6

CFP Nordic #STS meeting in Stockholm this June. Please join us in our panel "The data, the science, and the politics of representing the food system". Conference info www.nordicsts.se, deadline 1st March. Full panel abstract attached. Hope to see you there!

Resources for change: raising awareness of the challenges of fixed term contracts in geography departments By the States of Precarity Team:, Johanne Bruun, Rachel Colls, James Esson, Peter Forman, Anna Jackman,  Rachael Squire (corresponding author) “Because geography is about attention to difference an…

an important report on precarity in UK geography departments: “Whilst we cannot take full responsibility for the endemic structural problems within UK Higher Education, nor can we cede responsibility for caring about our colleagues.” blog.geographydirections.com/2025/01/13/r... @rgsibg.bsky.social

2 fully-funded PhD studentships are available here at Bristol as part of Naomi Millner's European Research Council project PEATSENSE: Diverse Knowledges and Sensing Practices in Peatlands for Inclusive Climate Futures

Closing date for applications: 1st April 2025

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Climate Education and Collective Action Could Spare Higher Education from the Fossil Fuel Industry A research study reveals the influence of the fossil fuel industry in higher education.

The first major study on the relationship between the fossil fuel industry and higher education. Work from CSSN scholars S. Hiltner, E. Eaton, @andyjsc.bsky.social, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social, @drnoelhealy.bsky.social, and @geoffreysupran.bsky.social featured: universitytimes.ie/2024/12/clim...

I've written a piece on biofuels and the potential for plants to help us rethink relationships between energy, growth and productivity – just out in Environmental Humanities 🌿🌳🌾

Thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social & Franklin Ginn for making space for this!

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Two permanent human geography posts at Durham University ( a focus on nature, climate change and just futures)

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Marion Ernwein and I have a new paper out in EPE: Nature & Space:

"Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the ‘rendering investable’ of urban moss"

Hopefully of interest to vegetal geographers and critical NBS scholars 🌿🌱🌳🌍

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Check out this recent Peatscapes blogpost on restoration in the Somerset Levels, written by our Research Associate Nye Merrill-Glover.

Part of the fabulous 'Seeing the Woods' blog, hosted by @carsoncenter.bsky.social

The Peatscapes project logo

Peatscapes is a 3-year project investigating knowledge controversies around European peatland restoration, funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social

Find out more about the project and our brilliant research team - including Roosa Rytkönen and Nye Merrill-Glover - at peatscapes.com

Humbled to be included in this list, but I'm an environmental geographer not a restoration ecologist. Lots of other important folks to follow here:

New piece by our amazing research fellow Nye introducing peatscapes.com fieldwork in Somerset Levels!