Kärg Kama
@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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Kärg Kama
@kargkama.bsky.social
· Jun 5
🌎 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌎
'Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking' by James Palmer, Kärg Kama, Roosa Rytkönen & Aneurin Merrill-Glover
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @peatscapes.bsky.social
'Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking' by James Palmer, Kärg Kama, Roosa Rytkönen & Aneurin Merrill-Glover
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @peatscapes.bsky.social
Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking - James Palmer, Kärg Kama, Roosa Rytkönen, Aneurin Merrill-Glover, 2025
In Europe, vast swathes of peatland have historically been drained for agriculture, forestry, or mining, generating significant greenhouse gas emissions. Scient...
journals.sagepub.com
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
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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...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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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!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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!
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Really important petition here against the terrible situation Leicester human geographers (and others) are facing. Sign, write emails to senior people, protest etc!
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Really important petition here against the terrible situation Leicester human geographers (and others) are facing. Sign, write emails to senior people, protest etc!
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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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
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
October 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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
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
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...
www.sant.ox.ac.uk/european-stu...
ESC Vacancies - St Antony's
www.sant.ox.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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...
www.sant.ox.ac.uk/european-stu...
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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....
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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....
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@triofrancos.bsky.social on the astonishing biodiversity in the Atacama Salt Flat and the environmental cost of green capitalism.
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…
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October 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
@triofrancos.bsky.social on the astonishing biodiversity in the Atacama Salt Flat and the environmental cost of green capitalism.
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📣 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
#envhist #energysky
September 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
📣 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
#envhist #energysky
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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...
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...
September 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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...
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...
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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!
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!
August 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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!
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!
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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
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
August 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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
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
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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
12th INTECOL Wetlands Conference
Welcome to the homepage of the 12th INTECOL Wetlands conference taking place together with the 20th Annual Meeting of SWS Europe!
intecolwetlands2025.ee
June 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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
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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/...
Please forward to anyone who might be interested!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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
lu.varbi.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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/...
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
🌎 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌎
'Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking' by James Palmer, Kärg Kama, Roosa Rytkönen & Aneurin Merrill-Glover
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @peatscapes.bsky.social
'Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking' by James Palmer, Kärg Kama, Roosa Rytkönen & Aneurin Merrill-Glover
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @peatscapes.bsky.social
Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking - James Palmer, Kärg Kama, Roosa Rytkönen, Aneurin Merrill-Glover, 2025
In Europe, vast swathes of peatland have historically been drained for agriculture, forestry, or mining, generating significant greenhouse gas emissions. Scient...
journals.sagepub.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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
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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!
Huge thanks to everyone in the Peatscapes team – @kargkama.bsky.social, Roosa Rytkönen and Nye Merrill-Glover – and of course to @leverhulme.ac.uk!
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
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
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May 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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!
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
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
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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
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
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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...
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
April 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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...
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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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.
@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.
April 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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.
@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.
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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...
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
oulunyliopisto.varbi.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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...
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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/
March 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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/
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...
🌍 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...
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...
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February 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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...
🌍 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-....
www.sant.ox.ac.uk
February 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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-....
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...
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania disconnected from Russian power grid
By 9:09 a.m. on Saturday, the electricity systems of all three Baltic states had successfully disconnected from the Russian-controlled IPS/UPS system, and are now operating independently in island mod...
news.err.ee
February 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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
🗓️ 06/02
⏰ 4pm
📍@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
All welcome! @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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
🗓️ 06/02
⏰ 4pm
📍@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
All welcome! @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social