Peter Martin

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  Nottingham
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Biography

My academic career began at the University of Glasgow, where I completed my undergraduate degree in Geography in 2014 and my Masters degree in Human Geography in 2015. I then moved to the University of Oxford to carry out my PhD research which involved collaborating with the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) to study the historical geographies of Arctic exploration at the end of the nineteenth century. I then joined the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, before taking up a lectureship at the University of Glasgow.

I am now delighted to be teaching and researching in Nottingham and contributing to various modules within the School of Geography.

Teaching Summary

I contribute to the following modules in the School:

GEOG1008: Exploring Human Geography

GEOG2017: Cultural & Historical Geography

GEOG2030: Research Tutorials

GEOG2031: Dissertation Preparation

GEOG3017: Geographies of Violence

GEOG3004: Dissertation Supervision

Research Summary

My research studies the historical geographies of exploration in the Arctic regions at the turn of the twentieth century. Specifically, I study the ways in which geographical knowledge about the… read more

Selected Publications

• MARTIN, P.R., 2024. The ‘deer-men’ and the ‘bowhead-men’: The colonial co-optation of Arctic Indigenous knowledge within the ‘origins of the Inuit’ debates Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 49(1), e12615
• MARTIN, P.R., 2023. ‘Kalli in the ship’: Inughuit abduction and the shaping of Arctic knowledge History and Anthropology.
• MARTIN, P.R., 2022. The Cartography of Kallihirua?: Reassessing Indigenous Mapmaking and Arctic Encounters Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. 57(3), 239-255
• MARTIN, P.R., 2020. Supposed-to-be-Land: Indigenous Tales of the Beaufort Sea Journal of Historical Geography. 67, 24-35

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Current Research

My research studies the historical geographies of exploration in the Arctic regions at the turn of the twentieth century. Specifically, I study the ways in which geographical knowledge about the Arctic has historically been produced, mediated and disseminated through these expeditionary processes. My work is situated at the point of intersection between a range of literatures, primarily within the Historical Geography sub-discipline, but I also maintain strong connections to Histories of Science, Science and Technology Studies and Postcolonial Studies and am also influenced by the interdisciplinary subject of Arctic Studies. My work seeks to reveal important insights into how the Arctic has been constructed historically within the Western geographical imagination but also highlights the ways in which the indigenous peoples of the Arctic have played an integral yet overlooked role in the construction of these powerful Arctic imaginaries.

Past Research

• 2019-2021: 'The Search for the Origins of the Inuit', ERC Arctic Cultures Project, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.
• 2015-2018: 'Arctic Science in Circulation at the Royal Geographical Society c.1880-1914', AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, University of Oxford and RGS-IBG.

• MARTIN, P.R., 2024. The ‘deer-men’ and the ‘bowhead-men’: The colonial co-optation of Arctic Indigenous knowledge within the ‘origins of the Inuit’ debates Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 49(1), e12615
• MARTIN, P.R., 2024. ‘The Song of the Innuit’: Circulating Arctic ethnographic knowledge through verse cultural geographies.
• MARTIN, P.R., 2023. ‘Kalli in the ship’: Inughuit abduction and the shaping of Arctic knowledge History and Anthropology.
• MARTIN, P.R., 2022. The Cartography of Kallihirua?: Reassessing Indigenous Mapmaking and Arctic Encounters Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. 57(3), 239-255
• NEWMAN, B., MARTIN, P.R. and CRAWFORD, L., eds., 2022. Environments, Spaces, Knowledges: New and Emerging Research in Historical Geography Historical Geography Research Group, RGS-IBG.
• MARTIN, P.R., 2020. Supposed-to-be-Land: Indigenous Tales of the Beaufort Sea Journal of Historical Geography. 67, 24-35
• MARTIN, P.R. and ARMSTON-SHERET, E., 2020. Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies Geography Compass. 14(1), e12476
• MARTIN, P.R., 2020. The Evolution of Historical Geography. In: KOBAYASHI, A., ed., International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Second Edition. Elsevier. 15-19