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kargkama.bsky.social
Environmental & resource geographer. Associate Professor at Birmingham, UK. Current research @peatscapes.bsky.social, https://peatscapes.com/. Single mum, carer & grower.
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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...

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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-....

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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...

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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

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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!

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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

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

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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' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @naturerecovery.bsky.social

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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

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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!

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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

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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 www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...

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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...

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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! read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

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Two permanent human geography posts at Durham University ( a focus on nature, climate change and just futures) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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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 🌿🌱🌳🌍 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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

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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

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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:

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

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The "Peatscapes" project has a shiny new website! Check it out for our research aims, team profiles, fieldwork photos, conference papers & publications - more to come soon! The first social science project on peat restoration controversies, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2023-2026). peatscapes.com

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