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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The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
www.cam.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
📜
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Great to see this article with the fantastic Katie Parker (@rgsibg.bsky.social) now out in @areajournal.bsky.social!
Here we reflect on the 'Mapping Indigeneity' Map Room conversation and think about different ways of working with colonial map collections 🗺️
Here we reflect on the 'Mapping Indigeneity' Map Room conversation and think about different ways of working with colonial map collections 🗺️
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article summarises and reflects on the ‘Mapping Indigeneity’ Map Room Conversation that formed part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024. Firstly, the maps from the RGS-IBG collec...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Great to see this article with the fantastic Katie Parker (@rgsibg.bsky.social) now out in @areajournal.bsky.social!
Here we reflect on the 'Mapping Indigeneity' Map Room conversation and think about different ways of working with colonial map collections 🗺️
Here we reflect on the 'Mapping Indigeneity' Map Room conversation and think about different ways of working with colonial map collections 🗺️
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You've only got a month left to see 'Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous futures for colonial collections'!
Visitors are describing it as "Very moving", "touching, insightful" and a "powerful message"!
Exhibition closes: 21 December 2025
Visitors are describing it as "Very moving", "touching, insightful" and a "powerful message"!
Exhibition closes: 21 December 2025
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
You've only got a month left to see 'Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous futures for colonial collections'!
Visitors are describing it as "Very moving", "touching, insightful" and a "powerful message"!
Exhibition closes: 21 December 2025
Visitors are describing it as "Very moving", "touching, insightful" and a "powerful message"!
Exhibition closes: 21 December 2025
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Important new report out on precarious working conditions in Geography in UK HE. Sadly the nature and scale of the findings are grim but unsurprising. www.rgs.org/research/hig...
States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography
Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.
www.rgs.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Important new report out on precarious working conditions in Geography in UK HE. Sadly the nature and scale of the findings are grim but unsurprising. www.rgs.org/research/hig...
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🚨 New @rgsibg.bsky.social report & action plans from the @statesofprecarity.bsky.social team. Shares findings from our research on the long & short term effects of precarity in UK HEI Geography & includes action plans designed to support more equitable working cultures
➡️ www.rgs.org/research/hig...
➡️ www.rgs.org/research/hig...
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🚨 New @rgsibg.bsky.social report & action plans from the @statesofprecarity.bsky.social team. Shares findings from our research on the long & short term effects of precarity in UK HEI Geography & includes action plans designed to support more equitable working cultures
➡️ www.rgs.org/research/hig...
➡️ www.rgs.org/research/hig...
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Join the Society's Historical Geography Research Group for their upcoming conference: 'Practising Historical Geography: Porous Archives 2'.
📍 In person (Newcastle University) and online
📅 Friday 12 December
Find out more and register for free 👉 blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives
📍 In person (Newcastle University) and online
📅 Friday 12 December
Find out more and register for free 👉 blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Join the Society's Historical Geography Research Group for their upcoming conference: 'Practising Historical Geography: Porous Archives 2'.
📍 In person (Newcastle University) and online
📅 Friday 12 December
Find out more and register for free 👉 blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives
📍 In person (Newcastle University) and online
📅 Friday 12 December
Find out more and register for free 👉 blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives
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The Indigenous Mapping Collective is a global network of Indigenous mappers that provides Indigenous Peoples, Nations, and organizations with the tools and training to map their lands, share their stories, and decolonize place and space. buff.ly/8laGNaZ
#GISDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
#GISDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Indigenous Maps - Indigenous Mapping Collective
We are now known as the Indigenous Mapping Collective. The Indigenous Mapping Workshop is only one part of our global Indigenous Mapping Collective. Our goal has always been to give Indigenous…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The Indigenous Mapping Collective is a global network of Indigenous mappers that provides Indigenous Peoples, Nations, and organizations with the tools and training to map their lands, share their stories, and decolonize place and space. buff.ly/8laGNaZ
#GISDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
#GISDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
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Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
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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!
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
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!
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🗺️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!
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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!
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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.