P R Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 57091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P R Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | P R |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8865-8883 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Walrus Skins and Weet-o-Weet: Uncomfortable Encounters in the Yupik Yaranga
This article analyzes a series of Arctic colonial encounters that took place between British naval officers and members of the Indigenous Yupik community in the mid-nineteenth century. Using a critical exploration studies approach and combining this with recent research investigating the geographies of dis/comfort, this article develops the concept of “uncomfortable encounters” to analyze written descriptions of the Yupik yarangi produced by thes…
Mapping Indigeneity in the RGS‐IBG map collections
This article summarises and reflects on the ‘Mapping Indigeneity’ Map Room Conversation that formed part of the RGS‐IBG Annual International Conference 2024. As debates continue to gather pace regarding the colonial legacies of geography and how researchers can work with/work against these legacies, the theme of this Conversation was timely and inspired an engaging and thought‐provoking discussion. The paper is organised into three sections. Firs…
From hunters to herders: Race, reindeer and imperial expansion in Alaska c.1890–1906
‘Kalli in the ship’: Inughuit abduction and the shaping of Arctic knowledge
This article examines the contributions made to Arctic knowledge by Kallihirua, a member of the Inughuit community of Northern Greenland who was abducted by the crew of the Assistance during the 1850–51 expedition in search of the missing ships Erebus and Terror. Unpacking this important moment of cultural encounter, the article explores the ways in which Kallihirua’s presence on board the ship became embroiled in wider scholarly debates pertaini…
The Song of the Innuit: Circulating Arctic ethnographic knowledge through verse
This article seeks to advance recent literatures exploring the important role of poetry in the production and circulation of geographical knowledge. It does this by critically analysing a poem that was written by the traveller and scholar Wiliam Healey Dall during the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition. This leisurely excursion travelled along the coastlines of Alaska and the Siberian peninsula, and involved a series of encounters with the indigenou…
Acoustic analysis and neuroimaging correlates of diadochokinetic rates in mild-moderate primary progressive apraxia of speech
The ‘deer‐men’ and the ‘bowhead‐men’: The colonial co‐optation of Arctic Indigenous knowledge within the ‘origins of the Inuit’ debates
Drawing on recent literatures that explore the complicated role of ‘Indigenous intermediaries’ within histories of geographical exploration, and bringing these into dialogue with research exposing the colonial nature of geographical knowledge, this article studies the ways in which information extracted from an Indigenous Arctic informant named Nocum was crucial in the formation of troubling geographical understandings regarding Inuit ‘origins’ a…
The Cartography of Kallihirua: Reassessing Indigenous Mapmaking and Arctic Encounters
This article examines a cartographic encounter that took place in 1850 between Kallihirua, a member of Inughuit community of Northern Greenland, and members of the British Admiralty. Drawing on recent literatures that critically assess histories of indigenous mapping, the article explores the troubling circumstances that surrounded this encounter and analyses two maps which were produced as a result. Informed by ongoing debates pertaining to the …
Reproductive-Age Women's Experience of Accessing Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: “We Don't Do That Here”
Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies
Since the 1980s, studying histories of exploration has become an increasingly prominent area of scholarship and has attracted critical attention from a range of different academic perspectives. Whether framed as a process of imperial expansion, as a quest for the production of new knowledge, or as a means for certain individuals to establish or advance their reputations, the complex motivations that lay behind European travellers' desire to ventu…
Indigenous tales of the Beaufort Sea: Arctic exploration and the circulation of geographical knowledge
Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration, Huw Lewis-Jones. I.B. Tauris, London (2017). 433 pages, £75 hardcover
Lines in the Ice: Exploring the Roof of the World
Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies
Since the 1980s, studying histories of exploration has become an increasingly prominent area of scholarship and has attracted critical attention from a range of different academic perspectives. Whether framed as a process of imperial expansion, as a quest for the production of new knowledge, or as a means for certain individuals to establish or advance their reputations, the complex motivations that lay behind European travellers' desire to ventu…
Indigenous tales of the Beaufort Sea: Arctic exploration and the circulation of geographical knowledge
The ‘deer‐men’ and the ‘bowhead‐men’: The colonial co‐optation of Arctic Indigenous knowledge within the ‘origins of the Inuit’ debates
Drawing on recent literatures that explore the complicated role of ‘Indigenous intermediaries’ within histories of geographical exploration, and bringing these into dialogue with research exposing the colonial nature of geographical knowledge, this article studies the ways in which information extracted from an Indigenous Arctic informant named Nocum was crucial in the formation of troubling geographical understandings regarding Inuit ‘origins’ a…
Mapping Indigeneity in the RGS‐IBG map collections
This article summarises and reflects on the ‘Mapping Indigeneity’ Map Room Conversation that formed part of the RGS‐IBG Annual International Conference 2024. As debates continue to gather pace regarding the colonial legacies of geography and how researchers can work with/work against these legacies, the theme of this Conversation was timely and inspired an engaging and thought‐provoking discussion. The paper is organised into three sections. Firs…
The Song of the Innuit: Circulating Arctic ethnographic knowledge through verse
This article seeks to advance recent literatures exploring the important role of poetry in the production and circulation of geographical knowledge. It does this by critically analysing a poem that was written by the traveller and scholar Wiliam Healey Dall during the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition. This leisurely excursion travelled along the coastlines of Alaska and the Siberian peninsula, and involved a series of encounters with the indigenou…
Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration, Huw Lewis-Jones. I.B. Tauris, London (2017). 433 pages, £75 hardcover
Lines in the Ice: Exploring the Roof of the World
Indigenous tales of the Beaufort Sea: Arctic exploration and the circulation of geographical knowledge
Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies
Since the 1980s, studying histories of exploration has become an increasingly prominent area of scholarship and has attracted critical attention from a range of different academic perspectives. Whether framed as a process of imperial expansion, as a quest for the production of new knowledge, or as a means for certain individuals to establish or advance their reputations, the complex motivations that lay behind European travellers' desire to ventu…
Reproductive-Age Women's Experience of Accessing Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: “We Don't Do That Here”
The Cartography of Kallihirua: Reassessing Indigenous Mapmaking and Arctic Encounters
This article examines a cartographic encounter that took place in 1850 between Kallihirua, a member of Inughuit community of Northern Greenland, and members of the British Admiralty. Drawing on recent literatures that critically assess histories of indigenous mapping, the article explores the troubling circumstances that surrounded this encounter and analyses two maps which were produced as a result. Informed by ongoing debates pertaining to the …
Acoustic analysis and neuroimaging correlates of diadochokinetic rates in mild-moderate primary progressive apraxia of speech
The ‘deer‐men’ and the ‘bowhead‐men’: The colonial co‐optation of Arctic Indigenous knowledge within the ‘origins of the Inuit’ debates
Drawing on recent literatures that explore the complicated role of ‘Indigenous intermediaries’ within histories of geographical exploration, and bringing these into dialogue with research exposing the colonial nature of geographical knowledge, this article studies the ways in which information extracted from an Indigenous Arctic informant named Nocum was crucial in the formation of troubling geographical understandings regarding Inuit ‘origins’ a…
‘Kalli in the ship’: Inughuit abduction and the shaping of Arctic knowledge
This article examines the contributions made to Arctic knowledge by Kallihirua, a member of the Inughuit community of Northern Greenland who was abducted by the crew of the Assistance during the 1850–51 expedition in search of the missing ships Erebus and Terror. Unpacking this important moment of cultural encounter, the article explores the ways in which Kallihirua’s presence on board the ship became embroiled in wider scholarly debates pertaini…
The Song of the Innuit: Circulating Arctic ethnographic knowledge through verse
This article seeks to advance recent literatures exploring the important role of poetry in the production and circulation of geographical knowledge. It does this by critically analysing a poem that was written by the traveller and scholar Wiliam Healey Dall during the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition. This leisurely excursion travelled along the coastlines of Alaska and the Siberian peninsula, and involved a series of encounters with the indigenou…
Mapping Indigeneity in the RGS‐IBG map collections
This article summarises and reflects on the ‘Mapping Indigeneity’ Map Room Conversation that formed part of the RGS‐IBG Annual International Conference 2024. As debates continue to gather pace regarding the colonial legacies of geography and how researchers can work with/work against these legacies, the theme of this Conversation was timely and inspired an engaging and thought‐provoking discussion. The paper is organised into three sections. Firs…
From hunters to herders: Race, reindeer and imperial expansion in Alaska c.1890–1906
Walrus Skins and Weet-o-Weet: Uncomfortable Encounters in the Yupik Yaranga
This article analyzes a series of Arctic colonial encounters that took place between British naval officers and members of the Indigenous Yupik community in the mid-nineteenth century. Using a critical exploration studies approach and combining this with recent research investigating the geographies of dis/comfort, this article develops the concept of “uncomfortable encounters” to analyze written descriptions of the Yupik yarangi produced by thes…
History (7 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (7 works) · Arctic (6 works) · History (6 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Polar Research and Ecology (5 works)