Peter R. Martin
@peterrmartin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Cultural and Historical Geography at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Interested in critical histories of Arctic exploration and knowledge production.
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Peter R. Martin
@peterrmartin.bsky.social
· Jul 21
New article!
'From hunters to herders: Race, reindeer and imperial expansion in Alaska c.1890–1906', by @peterrmartin.bsky.social.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.008
'From hunters to herders: Race, reindeer and imperial expansion in Alaska c.1890–1906', by @peterrmartin.bsky.social.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.008
New article from yours truly! My attempt to engage with decolonial animal geographies by critiquing the problematic reindeer herding scheme initiated by Sheldon Jackson in late nineteenth century Alaska.
Any and all feedback welcome!
Any and all feedback welcome!
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JOB: Assistant Professor in Environmental History, University of Warwick, Coventry campus (UK) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
#envhist
#envhist
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
Apply now for the Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
JOB: Assistant Professor in Environmental History, University of Warwick, Coventry campus (UK) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
#envhist
#envhist
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📯 The Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG - RGS) warmly invite you to take part in the Practising Historical Geography Conference in person at Newcastle University and online, on the 12th December 2025.
Register:
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives
🗓️12th December 2025
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
Register:
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives
🗓️12th December 2025
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
Porous Archives
blogs.ncl.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
📯 The Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG - RGS) warmly invite you to take part in the Practising Historical Geography Conference in person at Newcastle University and online, on the 12th December 2025.
Register:
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives
🗓️12th December 2025
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
Register:
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives
🗓️12th December 2025
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
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job
Geography - Assistant Professor (Indigenous Geographies)
University of Victoria
Closing Date: December 12, 2025
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
Geography - Assistant Professor (Indigenous Geographies)
University of Victoria
Closing Date: December 12, 2025
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
job
Geography - Assistant Professor (Indigenous Geographies)
University of Victoria
Closing Date: December 12, 2025
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
Geography - Assistant Professor (Indigenous Geographies)
University of Victoria
Closing Date: December 12, 2025
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
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"Arctic Pasts and Presents (Presence)" by Tess McCoy is the fifth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/a...
#envhist #envhum #arthistory #indigenous #arctic
niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/a...
#envhist #envhum #arthistory #indigenous #arctic
Arctic Pasts and Presents (Presence)
Contemporary Circumpolar Indigenous artists express visual sovereignty through traditional and innovative materials, reclaiming identity, resisting colonialism, and connecting generations across time.
niche-canada.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Arctic Pasts and Presents (Presence)" by Tess McCoy is the fifth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/a...
#envhist #envhum #arthistory #indigenous #arctic
niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/a...
#envhist #envhum #arthistory #indigenous #arctic
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Save Geography at the University of Leicester.
The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole!
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The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole!
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Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
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November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Save Geography at the University of Leicester.
The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole!
c.org/sbYBqcwrhC
The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole!
c.org/sbYBqcwrhC
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These courses have not been ‘suspended’ at all; such language only minimises what is actually happening at Nottingham: a systemic gutting out of the arts and humanities with no clear business case. These cuts affect us all; please, join UCU in fighting for our future
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
These courses have not been ‘suspended’ at all; such language only minimises what is actually happening at Nottingham: a systemic gutting out of the arts and humanities with no clear business case. These cuts affect us all; please, join UCU in fighting for our future
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Arctic in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein reveals more about empire than about monsters share.google/Ular7xIbX9TZ...
The Arctic in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein reveals more about empire than about monsters
Del Toro’s film presents the Arctic of the 1800s as a barren wasteland, which overlooks the existence of Indigenous peoples who have lived there for millennia.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The Arctic in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein reveals more about empire than about monsters share.google/Ular7xIbX9TZ...
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The FIFTH part of our popular Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series, led by @issygapp.bsky.social, launched last week with series co-editor @sarahmpicks.bsky.social's reflections on this year's theme, "New Research in Arctic Pasts."
niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
#envhist #envhum
niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
#envhist #envhum
New Research in Arctic Pasts - Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part V
Arctic visual studies have rapidly expanded through interdisciplinary collaboration, climate urgency, Indigenous engagement, and community-building among artists, historians, and scholars across disci...
niche-canada.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The FIFTH part of our popular Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series, led by @issygapp.bsky.social, launched last week with series co-editor @sarahmpicks.bsky.social's reflections on this year's theme, "New Research in Arctic Pasts."
niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
#envhist #envhum
niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
#envhist #envhum
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The Jesuit Archives are offering a new $2500 grant focused on Indigenous researchers investigating Indigenous topics. This is a very rich archive with much Indigenous language material. archivesjesuites.ca/en/indigenou...
NEW: Indigenous Research Grant, 2025-2026 | The Archive of the Jesuits in Canada
The latest news from the Archive of the Jesuits in Canada. Get updates on the latest exhibitions, blogs, press releases, and videos today.
archivesjesuites.ca
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The Jesuit Archives are offering a new $2500 grant focused on Indigenous researchers investigating Indigenous topics. This is a very rich archive with much Indigenous language material. archivesjesuites.ca/en/indigenou...
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Are you using #maps in research?
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place
Discovery Course 1
www.sas.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Are you using #maps in research?
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
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Some great historical geography papers on @areajournal.bsky.social's early view pages - Ben Newman's paper 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' for one... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... (1/2)
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines how the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS's) Library and Map Committee disciplined the exchange of the first English-language geographical journal in the nineteenth century. The p...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Some great historical geography papers on @areajournal.bsky.social's early view pages - Ben Newman's paper 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' for one... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... (1/2)
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Delighted to share some initial research that Stephanie Pratt (Crow Creek Dakota) & I have started at Knole @researchnt.bsky.social. How can its transatlantic connections also centre Indigenous presence? What new interpretation might such frameworks allow?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...
Indigenous Plant Stories in an English Treasure House
Delve into the links between Knole and Indigenous American histories as we investigate its colonial connections.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Delighted to share some initial research that Stephanie Pratt (Crow Creek Dakota) & I have started at Knole @researchnt.bsky.social. How can its transatlantic connections also centre Indigenous presence? What new interpretation might such frameworks allow?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...
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Delighted to share our AREA special issue on Participatory Historical Geographies 🎉 Co-edited with the brilliant @ruthslatter.bsky.social - exploring the rewards & challenges of collaborative historical research.
Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#Geography #AREAjournal
Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#Geography #AREAjournal
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly embraced participatory methods to challenge dominant narratives and engage communities in the production of historical knowledge. T...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Delighted to share our AREA special issue on Participatory Historical Geographies 🎉 Co-edited with the brilliant @ruthslatter.bsky.social - exploring the rewards & challenges of collaborative historical research.
Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#Geography #AREAjournal
Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#Geography #AREAjournal
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📯Very excited to see the new HGRG Newsletter! There is a special section to the ICHG in China.
Events, publications, grants and reports all in this wonderful edition. Enjoy!!
📖 Read it here: hgrg.org.uk/wp-content/u...
@rgsibg.bsky.social @treeseeker.bsky.social @lghgseminar.bsky.social
Events, publications, grants and reports all in this wonderful edition. Enjoy!!
📖 Read it here: hgrg.org.uk/wp-content/u...
@rgsibg.bsky.social @treeseeker.bsky.social @lghgseminar.bsky.social
hgrg.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
📯Very excited to see the new HGRG Newsletter! There is a special section to the ICHG in China.
Events, publications, grants and reports all in this wonderful edition. Enjoy!!
📖 Read it here: hgrg.org.uk/wp-content/u...
@rgsibg.bsky.social @treeseeker.bsky.social @lghgseminar.bsky.social
Events, publications, grants and reports all in this wonderful edition. Enjoy!!
📖 Read it here: hgrg.org.uk/wp-content/u...
@rgsibg.bsky.social @treeseeker.bsky.social @lghgseminar.bsky.social
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We are so pleased to announce the official launch of the new BAS Map Catalogue 🎉🗺
The catalogue contains open access topographic, thematic and geological maps, as well as full details on where to purchase our professionally printed published maps.
Have a look for yourselves at bas.ac.uk/maps!
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The catalogue contains open access topographic, thematic and geological maps, as well as full details on where to purchase our professionally printed published maps.
Have a look for yourselves at bas.ac.uk/maps!
1/2
🗺️NEW: BAS Map Catalogue is live!
Explore Antarctica and the Arctic through our collection of professional maps. Perfect for educators, adventurers, and polar enthusiasts. Many available on open licence for free download. #PolarMaps #Antarctica
Explore Antarctica and the Arctic through our collection of professional maps. Perfect for educators, adventurers, and polar enthusiasts. Many available on open licence for free download. #PolarMaps #Antarctica
September 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We are so pleased to announce the official launch of the new BAS Map Catalogue 🎉🗺
The catalogue contains open access topographic, thematic and geological maps, as well as full details on where to purchase our professionally printed published maps.
Have a look for yourselves at bas.ac.uk/maps!
1/2
The catalogue contains open access topographic, thematic and geological maps, as well as full details on where to purchase our professionally printed published maps.
Have a look for yourselves at bas.ac.uk/maps!
1/2
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Exciting early-career fellowships with UK cultural institutions, funded by #AHRC, www.ukri.org/opportunity/... (look for the spreadsheet with the list of institutions!) Deadline for EoI: 10 December.
Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025
Apply for funding to conduct research at participating cultural and heritage institutions.
www.ukri.org
September 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Exciting early-career fellowships with UK cultural institutions, funded by #AHRC, www.ukri.org/opportunity/... (look for the spreadsheet with the list of institutions!) Deadline for EoI: 10 December.
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New pub alert! Check out our reflections on how to reach the history of geography in more critical and inclusive ways! An all-star cast of commentators! Conceptual reorientations and practical strategies! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/C7HMD...
Whose Geography, Whose History? Reimagining How We Teach the History of Geography
In this roundtable, we share our reflections on how to teach more critical histories of geography in Anglo-American institutions. Ashutosh offers a contrapuntal reading of the history of geography,...
www.tandfonline.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
New pub alert! Check out our reflections on how to reach the history of geography in more critical and inclusive ways! An all-star cast of commentators! Conceptual reorientations and practical strategies! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/C7HMD...
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New! Piece by PI @danitaburke.bsky.social & SI Erik Kielsen on the EU public consultation on fitness of its trade ban on seal products. Prelim results suggest no Greenlandic public input. Calling for @ec.europa.eu to pause report & engage first @coastalpeoplerpg.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com
The European Union excluded Greenland from public consultations on the EU seal product ban. Why?
The European Union excluded Greenland from public consultations on the EU seal product ban. Why?
The EU has failed to engage Greenlandic people in public consultations that are part of its review of its seal trade regulations.
theconversation.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
New! Piece by PI @danitaburke.bsky.social & SI Erik Kielsen on the EU public consultation on fitness of its trade ban on seal products. Prelim results suggest no Greenlandic public input. Calling for @ec.europa.eu to pause report & engage first @coastalpeoplerpg.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com
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Super proud of this research group! HGRG at the International Conference of Historical Geographers in China!
Next stop of the ICHG will be Rio de Janeiro in 2028, save the date 🗓️🌎
Next stop of the ICHG will be Rio de Janeiro in 2028, save the date 🗓️🌎
August 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Super proud of this research group! HGRG at the International Conference of Historical Geographers in China!
Next stop of the ICHG will be Rio de Janeiro in 2028, save the date 🗓️🌎
Next stop of the ICHG will be Rio de Janeiro in 2028, save the date 🗓️🌎
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How do we decolonise archives?
In this collaborative piece, researchers Christina Williamson, Beth Greenhorn, and Carol Payne and Inuit Elder Ann Meekitjuk Hanson reflect on the role of names in the colonial archive.
In this collaborative piece, researchers Christina Williamson, Beth Greenhorn, and Carol Payne and Inuit Elder Ann Meekitjuk Hanson reflect on the role of names in the colonial archive.
Project Naming
Explore the significance of Project Naming to decolonize archives and connect Inuit communities with their ancestral photographs.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
How do we decolonise archives?
In this collaborative piece, researchers Christina Williamson, Beth Greenhorn, and Carol Payne and Inuit Elder Ann Meekitjuk Hanson reflect on the role of names in the colonial archive.
In this collaborative piece, researchers Christina Williamson, Beth Greenhorn, and Carol Payne and Inuit Elder Ann Meekitjuk Hanson reflect on the role of names in the colonial archive.
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"Russia’s Arctic Indigenous peoples are disproportionately impacted by the war in Ukraine. They suffer the highest per capita death toll and are drafted or recruited more frequently than other groups"
@lseblogs.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/08/...
@lseblogs.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/08/...
The Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Russia’s War in Ukraine - Conflict and Civicness Research Blog
Austin,SJ Russia’s ethnic minorities are notoriously overrepresented in the death toll of Russia’s war in Ukraine. However, the fact that Arctic Indigenous peoples of Russia’s North are among the hard...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
August 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
"Russia’s Arctic Indigenous peoples are disproportionately impacted by the war in Ukraine. They suffer the highest per capita death toll and are drafted or recruited more frequently than other groups"
@lseblogs.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/08/...
@lseblogs.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/08/...
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this Transactions piece had been in the slow cooker for many years I'm so glad that it's out!
This looks fascinating - excited to check out more of Smith's work! Her recent paper from Transactions also looks excellent: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
July 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this Transactions piece had been in the slow cooker for many years I'm so glad that it's out!
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Really enjoyed this beautiful book, 'Circumpolar Connections: Creative #Indigenous Geographies of the #Arctic' (eds. Finbog, Kane, Riquet) - thanks to cultural geographies for the chance to review it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Book review: Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and Johannes Riquet, Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic - Ingrid A. Medby, 2025
journals.sagepub.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Really enjoyed this beautiful book, 'Circumpolar Connections: Creative #Indigenous Geographies of the #Arctic' (eds. Finbog, Kane, Riquet) - thanks to cultural geographies for the chance to review it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New article from yours truly! My attempt to engage with decolonial animal geographies by critiquing the problematic reindeer herding scheme initiated by Sheldon Jackson in late nineteenth century Alaska.
Any and all feedback welcome!
Any and all feedback welcome!
New article!
'From hunters to herders: Race, reindeer and imperial expansion in Alaska c.1890–1906', by @peterrmartin.bsky.social.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.008
'From hunters to herders: Race, reindeer and imperial expansion in Alaska c.1890–1906', by @peterrmartin.bsky.social.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.008
July 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
New article from yours truly! My attempt to engage with decolonial animal geographies by critiquing the problematic reindeer herding scheme initiated by Sheldon Jackson in late nineteenth century Alaska.
Any and all feedback welcome!
Any and all feedback welcome!