Kärg Kama

Kärg Kama is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her research explores unconventional fossil fuels development through interdisciplinary lenses of political geography, science and technology studies, and economic sociology. She currently holds an ESRC Future Research Leaders award for studying European shale gas controversies and serves as Honorary Research Associate at the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment.

• DPhil in Geography (2013, University of Oxford)
• MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy (2007, University of Oxford)
• BA in Philosophy (2001, University of Tartu)

Her scholarly work focuses on resource-making processes that transform material worlds into extractable commodities, examining shale gas development, political geology, and alternative economic theories. Key themes include:

• Anticipatory governance in fossil fuel economies
• Material temporalities in resource development
• New materialist approaches to geopolitics
• Controversies in scientific knowledge production
• Public engagement with extractive industries
• Circular economy and degrowth movements

Scientific awards and memberships:

• ESRC Future Research Leaders fellowship
• Fellow of Royal Geographical Society
• Fellow of American Association of Geographers
• Fellow of European STS Association

Kama has supervised PhD research at Oxford and teaches modules including Environmental Assessment and Management (GGM225) at Birmingham. She co-supervised Cyrus Nayeri's ESRC-funded research on volcano hazard management in Iceland and welcomes proposals on resource controversies, political geology, and extractive economy resistance movements.