Antonio Ferraz De Oliveira
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonio Ferraz De Oliveira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonio Ferraz |
| FAMILY NAME | De Oliveira |
| SIGNATURE | DE OLIVEIRA A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2712-3687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Geopolitical Imaginations and Global Histories of International Thought: Adventures in Time and Space
Much is said today of geopolitics, but little is understood about its global intellectual history. Introducing this special issue, we map out an agenda for addressing this impasse, building on recent work by historians of geopolitical thought. We suggest that new histories of geopolitical thought have been obstructed by five persistent interpretative problems. These five problems have foreclosed new histories by framing geopolitics through powerf…
Hydroponics and geopolitics: Soilless farming and visions of state power, c.1936–1972
From the late 1930s to today, the technological lure of hydroponics has inspired many geopolitical imaginations of planetary transformation. Hydroponics, or soilless farming, refers to a bundle of technologies to raise crops outside of arable land, using nutrient solutions in water, sand or gravel media. Envisioned as a technology with the potential to overcome food scarcity, soil exhaustion and climate limitations, hydroponics featured in many 2…
Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c. 1898–1956
In 1955, André Siegfried wondered whether the planet was entering a new geological age, wrought by industrialism and evident in major geopolitical changes. In this article, I trace his intellectual journey towards this claim and his singular focus on the international politics of agriculture and environmental change. First, I trace Siegfried’s early ideal of French rural democracy and its prudential virtues amid inter-imperial competition and int…
Futures past and futures present: Geopolitical thought and intellectual history
Renewed efforts to write geography's intellectual histories hold promise for re-imagining our hereafter. True for the discipline as a whole, this holds particularly true for geopolitics. Beyond restating the infamy of some figures in this tradition, present-day opportunities lie in three growing orientations: (1) pluralizing our canon through the recovery of non-Western and radical progressive thinkers, (2) deepening our study through digital met…
Territory and theory in political geography, c. 1970s–90s: Jean Gottmann’s The Significance of Territory
Jean Gottmann’s The Significance of Territory (1973) has been one of the most quoted books on the concept of territory. Yet, despite this position as a ‘classic’, Gottmann’s theory of territory has eluded the scrutiny of intellectual history. This paper engages in this task and examines the lineages of Gottmann’s theorizations of territory, particularly through the influence of two imperialist early 20th-century geographers: André Siegfried and É…
Anarchy and Geography: Reclus and Kropotkin in the UK
Federico Ferretti. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. ix and 258 pp., illustrations, notes, appendix, references, index. $140.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1138488120); $54.95 electronic (ISBN 978-1351041744).In
Kropotkin’s commune and the politics of history
Peter Kropotkin’s (1842–1921) thought has often been read through the problematic tension between science and politics in his work. This paper offers a new approach to the author by assessing the influence of historians on his work. Focusing on Kropotkin’s efforts to re-imagine the ‘commune’ as an alternative to territorial states, the paper analyses his subversive usages of the Romantic historiography of Augustin Thierry and the Victorian stadia…
Introduction: Nation Branding and Competitive Identity in World Politics
To date, (critical) geopolitics has had little to say about contemporary competitive identity practices of nation branding in global politics, while existing analyses of nation branding in other disciplines have tended to overlook its geopolitical dimensions. This expanded Introduction (and the special section as a whole) therefore seeks to explore some of the implications of nation branding for geopolitics, while simultaneously utilising the ins…
Reading Brand Africa Geopolitically: Nation Branding, Subaltern Geopolitics and the Persistence of Politics
In 2010, the ‘Brand Africa’ initiative was launched with the mission to transform perceptions of Africa from a continent of calamities into one of promising economic prospects and entrepreneurial populations. This transformation, ‘Brand Africa’ claims, is one where Africans take their representation from the hands of foreigners and make, through a new image, their own (hi)story. In this respect Brand Africa can be interpreted as a form of subalte…
Introduction: Nation Branding and Competitive Identity in World Politics
To date, (critical) geopolitics has had little to say about contemporary competitive identity practices of nation branding in global politics, while existing analyses of nation branding in other disciplines have tended to overlook its geopolitical dimensions. This expanded Introduction (and the special section as a whole) therefore seeks to explore some of the implications of nation branding for geopolitics, while simultaneously utilising the ins…
Reading Brand Africa Geopolitically: Nation Branding, Subaltern Geopolitics and the Persistence of Politics
In 2010, the ‘Brand Africa’ initiative was launched with the mission to transform perceptions of Africa from a continent of calamities into one of promising economic prospects and entrepreneurial populations. This transformation, ‘Brand Africa’ claims, is one where Africans take their representation from the hands of foreigners and make, through a new image, their own (hi)story. In this respect Brand Africa can be interpreted as a form of subalte…
Futures past and futures present: Geopolitical thought and intellectual history
Renewed efforts to write geography's intellectual histories hold promise for re-imagining our hereafter. True for the discipline as a whole, this holds particularly true for geopolitics. Beyond restating the infamy of some figures in this tradition, present-day opportunities lie in three growing orientations: (1) pluralizing our canon through the recovery of non-Western and radical progressive thinkers, (2) deepening our study through digital met…
Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c. 1898–1956
In 1955, André Siegfried wondered whether the planet was entering a new geological age, wrought by industrialism and evident in major geopolitical changes. In this article, I trace his intellectual journey towards this claim and his singular focus on the international politics of agriculture and environmental change. First, I trace Siegfried’s early ideal of French rural democracy and its prudential virtues amid inter-imperial competition and int…
Territory and theory in political geography, c. 1970s–90s: Jean Gottmann’s The Significance of Territory
Jean Gottmann’s The Significance of Territory (1973) has been one of the most quoted books on the concept of territory. Yet, despite this position as a ‘classic’, Gottmann’s theory of territory has eluded the scrutiny of intellectual history. This paper engages in this task and examines the lineages of Gottmann’s theorizations of territory, particularly through the influence of two imperialist early 20th-century geographers: André Siegfried and É…
Kropotkin’s commune and the politics of history
Peter Kropotkin’s (1842–1921) thought has often been read through the problematic tension between science and politics in his work. This paper offers a new approach to the author by assessing the influence of historians on his work. Focusing on Kropotkin’s efforts to re-imagine the ‘commune’ as an alternative to territorial states, the paper analyses his subversive usages of the Romantic historiography of Augustin Thierry and the Victorian stadia…
Introduction: Nation Branding and Competitive Identity in World Politics
To date, (critical) geopolitics has had little to say about contemporary competitive identity practices of nation branding in global politics, while existing analyses of nation branding in other disciplines have tended to overlook its geopolitical dimensions. This expanded Introduction (and the special section as a whole) therefore seeks to explore some of the implications of nation branding for geopolitics, while simultaneously utilising the ins…
Reading Brand Africa Geopolitically: Nation Branding, Subaltern Geopolitics and the Persistence of Politics
In 2010, the ‘Brand Africa’ initiative was launched with the mission to transform perceptions of Africa from a continent of calamities into one of promising economic prospects and entrepreneurial populations. This transformation, ‘Brand Africa’ claims, is one where Africans take their representation from the hands of foreigners and make, through a new image, their own (hi)story. In this respect Brand Africa can be interpreted as a form of subalte…
Kropotkin’s commune and the politics of history
Peter Kropotkin’s (1842–1921) thought has often been read through the problematic tension between science and politics in his work. This paper offers a new approach to the author by assessing the influence of historians on his work. Focusing on Kropotkin’s efforts to re-imagine the ‘commune’ as an alternative to territorial states, the paper analyses his subversive usages of the Romantic historiography of Augustin Thierry and the Victorian stadia…
Anarchy and Geography: Reclus and Kropotkin in the UK
Federico Ferretti. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. ix and 258 pp., illustrations, notes, appendix, references, index. $140.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1138488120); $54.95 electronic (ISBN 978-1351041744).In
Territory and theory in political geography, c. 1970s–90s: Jean Gottmann’s The Significance of Territory
Jean Gottmann’s The Significance of Territory (1973) has been one of the most quoted books on the concept of territory. Yet, despite this position as a ‘classic’, Gottmann’s theory of territory has eluded the scrutiny of intellectual history. This paper engages in this task and examines the lineages of Gottmann’s theorizations of territory, particularly through the influence of two imperialist early 20th-century geographers: André Siegfried and É…
Futures past and futures present: Geopolitical thought and intellectual history
Renewed efforts to write geography's intellectual histories hold promise for re-imagining our hereafter. True for the discipline as a whole, this holds particularly true for geopolitics. Beyond restating the infamy of some figures in this tradition, present-day opportunities lie in three growing orientations: (1) pluralizing our canon through the recovery of non-Western and radical progressive thinkers, (2) deepening our study through digital met…
Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c. 1898–1956
In 1955, André Siegfried wondered whether the planet was entering a new geological age, wrought by industrialism and evident in major geopolitical changes. In this article, I trace his intellectual journey towards this claim and his singular focus on the international politics of agriculture and environmental change. First, I trace Siegfried’s early ideal of French rural democracy and its prudential virtues amid inter-imperial competition and int…
Geopolitical Imaginations and Global Histories of International Thought: Adventures in Time and Space
Much is said today of geopolitics, but little is understood about its global intellectual history. Introducing this special issue, we map out an agenda for addressing this impasse, building on recent work by historians of geopolitical thought. We suggest that new histories of geopolitical thought have been obstructed by five persistent interpretative problems. These five problems have foreclosed new histories by framing geopolitics through powerf…
Hydroponics and geopolitics: Soilless farming and visions of state power, c.1936–1972
From the late 1930s to today, the technological lure of hydroponics has inspired many geopolitical imaginations of planetary transformation. Hydroponics, or soilless farming, refers to a bundle of technologies to raise crops outside of arable land, using nutrient solutions in water, sand or gravel media. Envisioned as a technology with the potential to overcome food scarcity, soil exhaustion and climate limitations, hydroponics featured in many 2…
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