António Ferraz de Oliveira
@antoniofdo.bsky.social
Lecturer in Geopolitics @King's College London; interested in the history of geopolitical thought, territory and environmental politics. Erstwhile @Univesity of Groningen
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“Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956 | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
“Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956
www.cambridge.org
Happy to share my latest article on “Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956, with Modern Intellectual History.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
Happy to share this term-card for History and Theory of IR colloquium (org by G. Marques Pedro and A. Nohr, @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social).
Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!
Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!
September 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Happy to share this term-card for History and Theory of IR colloquium (org by G. Marques Pedro and A. Nohr, @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social).
Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!
Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!
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Happy to share the news that Catastrophic Diplomacy won the 2025 Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award (for the best monograph in the history of U.S. foreign relations, immigration history, or military history) from the PCB-AHA.
September 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Happy to share the news that Catastrophic Diplomacy won the 2025 Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award (for the best monograph in the history of U.S. foreign relations, immigration history, or military history) from the PCB-AHA.
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The LSU History Department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History (excluding Britain). Please spread the word! More details at the link below: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0224...
Assistant Professor - Modern European History
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September 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The LSU History Department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History (excluding Britain). Please spread the word! More details at the link below: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0224...
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Dear friends, INDIGNITY is coming out tomorrow and I will be discussing it with the brilliant Hannah Dawson. If you know anyone who wants to celebrate with us, hear the discussion & maybe a bit of reading, feel free to spread the word - still some tickets left!
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September 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Dear friends, INDIGNITY is coming out tomorrow and I will be discussing it with the brilliant Hannah Dawson. If you know anyone who wants to celebrate with us, hear the discussion & maybe a bit of reading, feel free to spread the word - still some tickets left!
www.waterstones.com/events/lea-y...
www.waterstones.com/events/lea-y...
Happy to share today I started my new position as a Lecturer in Geopolitics @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.
I am thankful to colleagues for their very warm welcome and looking forward to learning the ropes and trying new challenges!
I am thankful to colleagues for their very warm welcome and looking forward to learning the ropes and trying new challenges!
September 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Happy to share today I started my new position as a Lecturer in Geopolitics @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.
I am thankful to colleagues for their very warm welcome and looking forward to learning the ropes and trying new challenges!
I am thankful to colleagues for their very warm welcome and looking forward to learning the ropes and trying new challenges!
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‘The resistance story about ourselves is really a fear story about ourselves; it suggests that self-protection is our paramount consideration, and that vulnerability is our primary preoccupation.’
Adam Phillips on why we resist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Phillips on why we resist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Phillips · On Resistance
Resistance is at once recognition and a fantasy of catastrophe; indeed, in resisting one has always leaped forward to...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
‘The resistance story about ourselves is really a fear story about ourselves; it suggests that self-protection is our paramount consideration, and that vulnerability is our primary preoccupation.’
Adam Phillips on why we resist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Phillips on why we resist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Happy to see my early work on Kropotkin featured in the 10th anniversary of Global Intellectual History.
GIH is a fantastic journal, with truly international reflections on so many traveling ideas across our shared history. I always read it with pleasure and recommend it to colleagues!
GIH is a fantastic journal, with truly international reflections on so many traveling ideas across our shared history. I always read it with pleasure and recommend it to colleagues!
1/6 For our latest highlight for our upcoming 10th anniversary, we return to the work of @antoniofdo.bsky.social (@rug.nl), author of "Kropotkin's commune and the politics of history", published @global-ih.bsky.social in 2018. We asked him about this research today. Here is what he had to say:
August 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Happy to see my early work on Kropotkin featured in the 10th anniversary of Global Intellectual History.
GIH is a fantastic journal, with truly international reflections on so many traveling ideas across our shared history. I always read it with pleasure and recommend it to colleagues!
GIH is a fantastic journal, with truly international reflections on so many traveling ideas across our shared history. I always read it with pleasure and recommend it to colleagues!
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🚨New Article🚨
“‘Aggression in Felt Slippers:’ Bahr, Kissinger, and the Geopolitics of Ostpolitik, 1962–2022” By Ian Klinke
Read OPEN ACCESS here:
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“‘Aggression in Felt Slippers:’ Bahr, Kissinger, and the Geopolitics of Ostpolitik, 1962–2022” By Ian Klinke
Read OPEN ACCESS here:
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“Aggression in Felt Slippers:” Bahr, Kissinger, and the Geopolitics of Ostpolitik, 1962–2022
Abstract. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine plunged Germany's Ostpolitik (Eastern Policy) into crisis. Whereas Ostpolitik had commonly been seen to have
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May 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🚨New Article🚨
“‘Aggression in Felt Slippers:’ Bahr, Kissinger, and the Geopolitics of Ostpolitik, 1962–2022” By Ian Klinke
Read OPEN ACCESS here:
academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
“‘Aggression in Felt Slippers:’ Bahr, Kissinger, and the Geopolitics of Ostpolitik, 1962–2022” By Ian Klinke
Read OPEN ACCESS here:
academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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Vol. 88, Special Issue: ‘Archives as Worldmaking’
‘Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States’, by @jakehodder.bsky.social
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.003
12/31
‘Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States’, by @jakehodder.bsky.social
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.003
12/31
June 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Vol. 88, Special Issue: ‘Archives as Worldmaking’
‘Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States’, by @jakehodder.bsky.social
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.003
12/31
‘Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States’, by @jakehodder.bsky.social
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.003
12/31
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🌡️ Parts of Earth could soon be too hot to live.
A recent study warned that if we hit 2°C warming, the uninhabitable zone could triple in size.
🎧 Listen to the latest WORLD: we got this podcast:
pod.fo/e/2c0bc6
#ClimateCrisis #Heatwaves #GlobalWarming #TooHotToLive #Sustainability #ClimateAction
A recent study warned that if we hit 2°C warming, the uninhabitable zone could triple in size.
🎧 Listen to the latest WORLD: we got this podcast:
pod.fo/e/2c0bc6
#ClimateCrisis #Heatwaves #GlobalWarming #TooHotToLive #Sustainability #ClimateAction
June 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🌡️ Parts of Earth could soon be too hot to live.
A recent study warned that if we hit 2°C warming, the uninhabitable zone could triple in size.
🎧 Listen to the latest WORLD: we got this podcast:
pod.fo/e/2c0bc6
#ClimateCrisis #Heatwaves #GlobalWarming #TooHotToLive #Sustainability #ClimateAction
A recent study warned that if we hit 2°C warming, the uninhabitable zone could triple in size.
🎧 Listen to the latest WORLD: we got this podcast:
pod.fo/e/2c0bc6
#ClimateCrisis #Heatwaves #GlobalWarming #TooHotToLive #Sustainability #ClimateAction
Happy to share my latest article on “Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956, with Modern Intellectual History.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
“Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956 | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
“Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956
www.cambridge.org
June 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Happy to share my latest article on “Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956, with Modern Intellectual History.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
Reposted by António Ferraz de Oliveira
Vol. 88 is out!
It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C
Take a look at the contents below 🧵
1/31
It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C
Take a look at the contents below 🧵
1/31
June 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Vol. 88 is out!
It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C
Take a look at the contents below 🧵
1/31
It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C
Take a look at the contents below 🧵
1/31
I'm happy to share that from September, I am joining @kings-sga.bsky.social as a permanent Lecturer in Geopolitics.
I am also grateful to colleagues @facultyofartsug.bsky.social for three fantastic years in beautiful Groningen. Hoping to stay in touch and hopping over the Channel! Tot ziens!
I am also grateful to colleagues @facultyofartsug.bsky.social for three fantastic years in beautiful Groningen. Hoping to stay in touch and hopping over the Channel! Tot ziens!
June 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I'm happy to share that from September, I am joining @kings-sga.bsky.social as a permanent Lecturer in Geopolitics.
I am also grateful to colleagues @facultyofartsug.bsky.social for three fantastic years in beautiful Groningen. Hoping to stay in touch and hopping over the Channel! Tot ziens!
I am also grateful to colleagues @facultyofartsug.bsky.social for three fantastic years in beautiful Groningen. Hoping to stay in touch and hopping over the Channel! Tot ziens!
next read!
This article didn't make it into my self-determination book manuscript but brilliantly describes the mobilization by international business associations to counter efforts by postcolonial states to enshrine permanent sovereignty in intl law. academic.oup.com/ejil/article...
Foreign Investors of the World, Unite! The International Association for the Promotion and Protection of Private Foreign Investments (APPI) 1958–1968
Abstract. This article studies lobbying efforts by the actors that investment treaties protect – namely, foreign investors. It uses a legal-historical appr
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June 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
next read!
Looking forward to welcome @siculovevo.bsky.social tomorrow at the HTIR Colloquium in Groningen.
Come and learn about the fascinating history of oceanic pollution and environmentalism!
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social
Come and learn about the fascinating history of oceanic pollution and environmentalism!
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Looking forward to welcome @siculovevo.bsky.social tomorrow at the HTIR Colloquium in Groningen.
Come and learn about the fascinating history of oceanic pollution and environmentalism!
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social
Come and learn about the fascinating history of oceanic pollution and environmentalism!
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social
Looking forward to tomorrow's HTIR colloquium at Groningen, with Jamie Draper telling us about his book on Climate Displacement and political theory.
If in Groningen or nearby, come join us for a fascinating talk!
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social
If in Groningen or nearby, come join us for a fascinating talk!
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Looking forward to tomorrow's HTIR colloquium at Groningen, with Jamie Draper telling us about his book on Climate Displacement and political theory.
If in Groningen or nearby, come join us for a fascinating talk!
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social
If in Groningen or nearby, come join us for a fascinating talk!
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social
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Heartily recommend holding your next academic workshop in Bologna. Wonderful two days discussing prediction and the environment for our @britishacademy.bsky.social ‘Place of Prediction’ workshop, with special thanks to host @orrosenboim.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Heartily recommend holding your next academic workshop in Bologna. Wonderful two days discussing prediction and the environment for our @britishacademy.bsky.social ‘Place of Prediction’ workshop, with special thanks to host @orrosenboim.bsky.social
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Albert Einstein was honorary president of the League Against Imperialism, founded 1927 in Brussels.
'In your congress, the solidly united endeavour of the oppressed to achieve independence takes bodily shape'.
From his opening speech to 174 delegates from 34 countries.
'In your congress, the solidly united endeavour of the oppressed to achieve independence takes bodily shape'.
From his opening speech to 174 delegates from 34 countries.
April 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Albert Einstein was honorary president of the League Against Imperialism, founded 1927 in Brussels.
'In your congress, the solidly united endeavour of the oppressed to achieve independence takes bodily shape'.
From his opening speech to 174 delegates from 34 countries.
'In your congress, the solidly united endeavour of the oppressed to achieve independence takes bodily shape'.
From his opening speech to 174 delegates from 34 countries.
And here is our final term of History and Theory of International History colloquia @facultyofartsug.bsky.social
With the early summer arriving in Groningen, we have plenty of talks to think together and let the sunshine in...
All welcome - See you there!
With the early summer arriving in Groningen, we have plenty of talks to think together and let the sunshine in...
All welcome - See you there!
April 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
And here is our final term of History and Theory of International History colloquia @facultyofartsug.bsky.social
With the early summer arriving in Groningen, we have plenty of talks to think together and let the sunshine in...
All welcome - See you there!
With the early summer arriving in Groningen, we have plenty of talks to think together and let the sunshine in...
All welcome - See you there!
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Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
March 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
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Of all the heartbreaking crap that is happening in the world, this is currently topping my list. We might optimistically think of disasters as windows of opportunity, but they can also be downward spirals of poverty, like in Myanmar. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
'Nothing is left' - Myanmar resident reels from earthquake
The BBC is in Myanmar's capital Nay Pyi Taw to see the destruction caused by the devastating earthquake.
www.bbc.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Of all the heartbreaking crap that is happening in the world, this is currently topping my list. We might optimistically think of disasters as windows of opportunity, but they can also be downward spirals of poverty, like in Myanmar. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Fully funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, working on anticolonial geopolitics and post-imperial worldmaking in the Arab World, c. 1908-77.
Application portal now open:
myuniversity.rug.nl/infonet/mede...
Submissions deadline is April 30th.
Application portal now open:
myuniversity.rug.nl/infonet/mede...
Submissions deadline is April 30th.
March 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fully funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, working on anticolonial geopolitics and post-imperial worldmaking in the Arab World, c. 1908-77.
Application portal now open:
myuniversity.rug.nl/infonet/mede...
Submissions deadline is April 30th.
Application portal now open:
myuniversity.rug.nl/infonet/mede...
Submissions deadline is April 30th.
Book Launch talk today - come one and all, to hear fascinating histories from below on everyday socialism in Eastern Europe.
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social
Today in Groningen! Don't miss Jill Massino's talk at the HTIR Chair Group's Colloquium if you're around 👇 @antoniofdo.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Book Launch talk today - come one and all, to hear fascinating histories from below on everyday socialism in Eastern Europe.
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social
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One-year IR postdoc vacancy on a project on sanctions at GIGA in beautiful Hamburg 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK608/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (M/F/D) at German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (M/F/D) on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
March 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
One-year IR postdoc vacancy on a project on sanctions at GIGA in beautiful Hamburg 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK608/p...
Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
March 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...