@kmgarson

Forests+bogs/climate justice/more-than-human. Research, activism, art. 🌿 Some roots: @CLARA_Alliance @Fern_NGO @lunduniversity @oxfordgeography @GeogDurham

Joined September 2016
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'Forest peace...is an inner peace' - Bachelard Reflections on #Saimaa, Finland, 4.30am, July 10th '16 #ForestsDay #forestsmatter #metsä
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⛏️ Coltan mining in the DRC, and extractivism in general, is a driving force in mass oppression, human rights abuses, and environmental damage. 🇨🇩 🪨 Here are some of the key points from a paper we published recently on extractivism in the #DRC 🔗 globalforestcoalition.org/th… 🧵
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Job alert: full-time Doctoral Researcher (three years) with a background in anthropology, geography, environmental humanities or similar studies, to work in ICEBERG: a project with indigenous communities, working on Arctic Ocean pollution governance oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/…

Doctoral Researcher in Cultural Anthropology within the Horizon Europe ICEBERG project

We are now looking for Doctoral Researcher to join us in the University of Oulu’s Faculty of Humanities, Unit of History, Culture and Communications. The full-time three-year Doctoral Researcher pos

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We love to speak about #soil #care; but can we actually use 'care' to shape soil research? Yes! I discuss how in a recent chapter in 'Cultural Understandings of Soil', published with @IUSS_ORG link.springer.com/chapter/10…, accessible pre-print here researchgate.net/publication… @arcticants
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"illicit practices are often not so different from state-like practices; both are concerned with maintaining privileged access to, and power over, the management and circulation of resources and the spaces they derive from" -@jaredmargulies et al in fascinating @Pol_Geog_Jl issue
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I wrote about Bengali plant thinkers who imagined a forest state - what might India have been had we chosen to model ourselves on a forest state &not a nation state? In the Fall issue of @ArnoldiaMag a magazine on plant life published by Harvard University arboretum.harvard.edu/arnold…
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Very excited to be attending the #RGSIBG23 @RGS_IBG conference in London! I will be speaking in two sessions - 'Digging into data: learning together from analysis experiences', and 'Speculative time: Temporal durations beyond the human condition'. Don't hesitate to say hi! 🌿🌿🌿
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Geographies of Justice is now.... ✊⚡️🌏RADICAL GEOGRAPHY RESEARCH 🌍GROUP⚡️✊ To find out more and get involved, join our AGM at #RGSIBG23 in #London this week: 📅Weds 30th ⏰6.15pm 📍Drayson Room All welcome, see you there! 🔗live.fourwaves.com/rgs-ibgac…
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Allan Brown has been working some woolly magic. Hand spun, naturally dyed yarn from fleeces local to him. These are warp loom threads he’ll weave into cloth. No doubt it’ll be as lovely as the flax and nettle he grew, wove and stitched into a shirt. Slow textiles at its finest.
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Late, but... reflecting on the incredible #Mushroom Methods workshop in Oulu earlier in August. Mycelium, fungal art, ruins, multispecies interactions & #biodiversity... Perfectly inspiring, friendly & critical. How research & comings-together should be.
Rain-covers were required in the forest.

ALT Rain-covers were required in the forest.

Art by Mari Koppanen - waistcoat made from amadou, a soft material obtained from the timber mushroom.

ALT Art by Mari Koppanen - waistcoat made from amadou, a soft material obtained from the timber mushroom.

Foraging in the forest.

ALT Foraging in the forest.

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Here’s the dry silk from yesterday’s indigo leaf dye sesh. It’s pretty much my dream colour. From seeds planted at the end of June.
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Mushroom Methods starting with @a_venovcevs setting out an agenda for multispecies mushroom research, and reflecting on mushroom un-making of dark heritage @arcticants
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Mike Hudema
@MikeHudema5 Aug 2023
2 photos of the arctic both taken in the summer more than 70 years apart show the dramatic change in the continent ice cover. There is no time to waste. No planet B. #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #renewables #GreenNewDeal pic via @ChristianAslund
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Jason Hickel
@jasonhickel6 Aug 2023
This image breaks me. At 2.7 degrees of warming, which is our present policy trajectory, two billion people will be exposed to extreme heat. 99.7% of those people live in the global South. People who have done nothing to cause this crisis. The injustice is staggering.
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If only I could knit. These bundles of beauty by Annie Cadden are naturally dyed with walnut leaves, barberry/indigo, indigo, mushroom/indigo, indigo, sumac, lichen, walnut & yarrow. fishercatfiberco.com/
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Who’s enjoying the Gorse right now? These make a brilliant subject to illustrate, with or without colour 💛 #botanicalillustration #ArtistOnTwitter #gorse
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Dan Ryan@danryan_nature25 Apr 2023
A pair of pansies stage a cheerful rebellion against the concreting of the world.
Two Pansy flowers growing from a pavement crack

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Fern@Fern_NGO27 Mar 2023
EU decision makers are about to decide what to do about the Renewable Energy Directive (#RED) which has led Europe to sacrifice “its ancient forests for energy”. But the #BiomassIndustry is lobbying hard against better rules. Here is an overview #thread
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🧵4/n It’s only now that I’ve left that I can really begin to process my Antarctic experience. And only now that I’ve left can I let myself acknowledge the canary in the coal mine… This wonderful place is dying.
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🧵 2/n Antarctica is awe, wonder and wildlife abundance at a scale I assumed was confined to the history books; all set within a landscape so spectacular it’s nigh on impossible to take it in. #Antarctica
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