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‘The Song of the Innuit’: Circulating Arctic ethnographic knowledge through verse (2024)
Journal Article
Martin, P. R. (2024). ‘The Song of the Innuit’: Circulating Arctic ethnographic knowledge through verse. cultural geographies, https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241269142

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 Heal... Read More about ‘The Song of the Innuit’: Circulating Arctic ethnographic knowledge through verse.

‘Kalli in the ship’: Inughuit abduction and the shaping of Arctic knowledge (2023)
Journal Article
Martin, P. R. (2023). ‘Kalli in the ship’: Inughuit abduction and the shaping of Arctic knowledge. History and Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2023.2235383

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 Erebu... Read More about ‘Kalli in the ship’: Inughuit abduction and the shaping of Arctic knowledge.

The ‘deer‐men’ and the ‘bowhead‐men’: The colonial co‐optation of Arctic Indigenous knowledge within the ‘origins of the Inuit’ debates (2023)
Journal Article
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), Article e12615. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12615

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 a... Read More about The ‘deer‐men’ and the ‘bowhead‐men’: The colonial co‐optation of Arctic Indigenous knowledge within the ‘origins of the Inuit’ debates.

The Cartography of Kallihirua?: Reassessing Indigenous Mapmaking and Arctic Encounters (2022)
Journal Article
Martin, P. R. (2022). The Cartography of Kallihirua?: Reassessing Indigenous Mapmaking and Arctic Encounters. Cartographica, 57(3), 239-255. https://doi.org/10.3138/cart-2021-0012

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 i... Read More about The Cartography of Kallihirua?: Reassessing Indigenous Mapmaking and Arctic Encounters.