@kmgarson

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

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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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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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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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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

ALT 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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Vehia Wheeler@_vehia_29 Mar 2023
Please indigenous people, go into research and get paid for it b/c someone said this to me yesterday - “I’ve never done research in the Pacific before, but I just applied for a grant to study traditional food systems there”
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The first fresh dyestuffs of the year are appearing. Over in Denmark, G-uld are dyeing with Butterbur. Not such a common wildflower in Northern Scotland but what a lovely gentle yarn colour. g-uld.dk
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Being close to nature has multiple benefits for our mental health. In this blog, Dr @YasmineShamma explains how gardening can help refugees develop a sense of belonging in a new place of residence. Find out more: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog…

Planting gardens to create a home away from home

The refugee experience is often thought of as temporary but Dr Yasmine Shamma discusses when refugees begin to put down roots in the pursuit of a place to call home.

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