Dr Peter R. Martin

Cultural and Historical Geographer at the University of Nottingham. Interested in critical histories of Arctic exploration and knowledge production.

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Academic Publications

Mapping Indigeneity in the RGS-IBG map collections
‘The Song of the Innuit’: Circulating Arctic ethnographic knowledge through verse
From hunters to herders: Race, reindeer and imperial expansion in Alaska c.1890–1906
The “Deer-Men” and the “Bowhead-Men”: The Colonial Co-optation of Arctic Indigenous Knowledge within the “Origins of the Inuit” Debates
‘Kalli in the ship’: Inughuit abduction and the shaping of Arctic knowledge
Indigenous Tales of the Beaufort Sea: Arctic Exploration and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge

Blog Posts

Objects of Arctic Encounter: Studying Indigenous/Non-Indigenous Contact at the Smithsonian Institution
Objects of Arctic Encounter: Studying Indigenous/Non-Indigenous Contact at the Smithsonian Institution
From Hunters to Herders?: Analysing Visual Materials in Sheldon Jackson’s "Reindeer Reports" 1890-1906
From Hunters to Herders?: Analysing Visual Materials in Sheldon Jackson’s "Reindeer Reports" 1890-1906
‘Whence come these Arctic Highlanders?’: The Problematic Search for Inuit ‘Origins’
‘Whence come these Arctic Highlanders?’: The Problematic Search for Inuit ‘Origins’
Lauge Koch and the Colonial Mapping of Northern Greenland
Lauge Koch and the Colonial Mapping of Northern Greenland
Northern Light in Darkened Times: Attending Arctic Congress 2024
Northern Light in Darkened Times: Attending Arctic Congress 2024

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