Kärg Kama

The State of Geography in UK Higher Education https://www.rgs.org/media/qhpipvi3/the-state-of-geography-in-uk-higher-education.pdf:

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.

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

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

Dr Roosa Rytkönen delivers her lecture on contestations around repair in the restoration of forestry-drained peatlands at the University of Freiburg, as part of a series on 'Healing, Repair, and Ecological Restoration: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Planetary Health’ at the Centre of Planetary Health.

Last week, our very own Roosa Rytkönen was guest speaker at the University of Freiburg's lecture series on ‘Healing, Repair and Ecological Restoration: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Planetary Health’! Roosa spoke to contestations around forestry-drained peatland restoration in Estonia and Finland.

A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share

www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Proud to share our first project output in Estonian! 🇪🇪

Our Roosa Rytkönen presents this poster today at the "Habitat restoration and conservation" conference in Saaremaa, Estonia, organized by key national experts and the State Forest Management Centre, RMK. Excited for feedback! @leverhulme.ac.uk

ESC Vacancies - St Antony's

The Estonia-Oxford postdoctoral visiting fellowship in Baltic Studies at St Anthony's College is now open for 2026/27 applications:
www.sant.ox.ac.uk/european-stu...

PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

What Mining for Water in the Andean Desert Reveals About “Green” Capitalism A high-­altitude desert plateau traverses Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. I am on the Chilean side, in the passenger seat of a Jeep, along with two other researchers. The afternoon air is thin and b…

@triofrancos.bsky.social on the astonishing biodiversity in the Atacama Salt Flat and the environmental cost of green capitalism.

Congratulations, Katja! The second photo reminds me vividly how my great-grandmother was forced to labour by the Soviets during WWII in Lavassaare peat mines in Estonia... Really looking forward to reading it!

Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5

#envhist #energysky

Today is publication day!

EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Bog walking: Exploring Estonia's otherworldly wild landscapes Once feared as homes to spirits, Estonia's bogs cover a fifth of the country and are vital to its culture and ecology. Today, travellers can explore them on guided bog-shoe treks.

"To understand Estonia, you must understand its bogs."🙏

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

We have a great line-up for these two @rgsibg.bsky.social sessions this afternoon, on the politics of carbon in land management and restoration!

Please join @kargkama.bsky.social, @annakspeaking.bsky.social and me over in the Alan Walters Building, Room 111, from 14.40 until the end of the day!

Excited for today's sessions on 'Carbon Creations & Creative Carbons' at the @rgsibg.bsky.social, Birmingham!

Our very own Roosa Rytkönen will present on: "Seeing the Mire from the Trees: The Calculative Politics of Forestry-Drained Peatlands in Finland" 🌲🌳

4.50pm, Alan Walters Building, Room 111

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!

lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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!

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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'

🗓️ 06/02
⏰ 4pm
📍@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!