
Peter R. Martin
@peter_r_martin
Assistant Professor in Cultural and Historical Geography at @UofNGeography. Interested in critical histories of Arctic exploration and knowledge production.
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Vol. 85 – our new special issue – is out! ‘Reflections on histories and philosophies of geography’, edited by Heike Jöns, Julian Brigstocke, @DrPaulineCouper & Federico Ferretti: sciencedirect.com/journal/journa… Take a look at the contents below 🧵 1/20


My paper "All Aboard the Nascopie", on image-making aboard the icebreaker, has been published advance access in the Journal of Canadian Studies ⚓ This labour of love brought me to archives Art Gallery of Ontario, to Winnipeg (thanks ICHO (also @ histocean.bsky.social)) & to Kinngait. utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.313…


Giving a FREE talk about agency and attribution in some of the explorers’s maps in Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) collections at 2:30pm, 28 October. Come along in-person or virtually! #freetalk #RGSExplorefestival #maps rgs.org/events/upcomin…

Delighted to share my new Transactions Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) intervention "Skeletons, Dragons and the Climate War" out TODAY I consider how climate geographers can engage with the discipline's legacy - and turn it to reflexive use... Free and open access here 👇 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…





Interested in the history of exploration? Want to learn about the often-overlooked people who made explorers' journeys possible? My book 'On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration' is now available for pre-order. combinedacademic.co.uk/9781496230973/…


Applications open! Arts and Humanities Research Council Midlands4Cities collaborative doctoral studentship, working with myself, Jake Hodder and RGS-IBG Higher Ed on "Conferencing British Geography: Disciplinary History told through Annual Conferences (1949-2029) and their Archives" nottingham.ac.uk/pgstudy/fundin…



Today on our site we have "Land of White Alice, America’s Arctic Imaginary, and the Visual Logics of Extraction" by Justin Owen Rawlins The second post in Part IV of Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North edited by Dr Isabelle Gapp and Jonathan Peyton niche-canada.org/2024/10/17/lan… #envhist

Apply now for a fully-funded Midlands4Cities PhD studentship on the history of the Hakluyt Society hosted at WarwickHistory and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): "Editing Empire: The Hakluyt Society in (Post) imperial Britain, 1846 to the present". deadline 13 January 2025 jobs.ac.uk/job/DKD338/phd…


Dr Peter R. Martin has written a new post on the Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE) blog as part of the 'Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North' series. He focuses on importation of reindeer to Northern Alaska in the 1890s. Read it here➡️ niche-canada.org/2024/10/31/fro…



If you're considering applying for this PhD scholarship do book on to this workshop on Saturday 9th November (forms.office.com/pages/response…) and/or contact me with any queries ([email protected]) RGS-IBG Higher Ed Nottingham Geography Arts and Humanities Research Council

Thankyou so much for bringing this incredible event to Nottingham Geography, such a stimulating day 👌🤓



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