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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 5d

@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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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · 13d

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!

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 14d

📣 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

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

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 15d

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...

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Eestimaa Looduse Fond @elfond.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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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.

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James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · Aug 27

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!

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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · Jun 29

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!

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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · Jun 29

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/...

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

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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

Progress in Environmental Geography @progenvgeog.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 - 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...

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James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · May 14

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!

Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · May 13

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

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · May 13

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

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · Apr 28

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...

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · Apr 25

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.

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Apr 8

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

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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · Mar 25

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/

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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · Feb 17

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
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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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BASEES Study Group on the Baltic States @balticbasees.bsky.social · Feb 10

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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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · Feb 8

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...

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.

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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · Feb 8

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...

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Technological Life - SoGE Oxford @technatures.bsky.social · Feb 3

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
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📍@oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome! @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · Jan 30

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!

Brett Christophers · So much for Paris: Climate Overshoot

All fossil fuel projects are politically constituted. Either they are state projects, controlled and administered by...

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Jan 29

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

Open Calls - Defend Our Juries

”We will fight for that right to free protest. We will fight for democracy in the UK.” – Chris Packham. • Defend Our Juries and the Free Political Prisoners campaign are calling on concerned groups an...

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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · Jan 22

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

James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 22

Calling environmental geographers, political ecologists and STS scholars working on carbon farming, afforestation, peat restoration & related topics!

Please consider our 2025 RGS-IBG session:
"Carbon Creations and Creative Carbons: The Politics of Carbon in Land Management and Restoration"

🌿🌳🚜🪵🌍⬇️

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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theostanley.bsky.social @theostanley.bsky.social · Jan 16

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'

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@naturerecovery.bsky.social

Just nature recovery: A framework for centring multispecies and multi-dimensional justice in land management

A rising interest in nature recovery has expanded the focus of conservation beyond protected areas to encompass a range of terrestrial and marine area…

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