Antonio Ferraz de Oliveira is a Lecturer in Geopolitics in the Department of Geography at King's.

Antonio is a political and historical geographer, with expertise on the history of international thought (1800s-onwards) with special interest on ideas of geopolitics, territory, political spatiality, and global environment governance.

His present work explores the connections between the geopolitical and environmental concerns in the writings of early twentieth-century political geographers and international relations thinkers. Rooted in global intellectual history, this research aims to contribute to critical dialogue on Anthropocene geopolitics today, shedding light on its unsettling continuities.

He co-convenes the research group "Technopolitics, Earthly Limits and Speculative Geopolitics 1800s-on" with Maarten Meijer, at the Center for Global Knowledge Studies (GLOKNOS).

Research

• The History of Geopolitical Ideas (especially beyond the Anglosphere)
• Geographies of socialist, anti-colonial and pacifist imaginations
• Geopolitical imaginations and the Anthropocene

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Geographical Foundations: The Making of the Modern World
• Geographies of Lisbon (Fieldtrip)

Postgraduate

• Geopolitics, Resources and Territory
• Critical Geopolitics
• Territory, State and Nation
• Practising Social Research

PhD supervision

Antonio welcomes PhD project proposals in areas relating to:

• The History of Geopolitical Ideas (especially beyond the Anglosphere)
• Geographies of anticolonial worldmaking and decolonization
• Geographies of socialist, anticolonial and pacifist imaginations
• Geopolitical imaginations and the Anthropocene
• Geopolitical imaginations of technological change

Current PhD students:

• Rex Langenberg (University of Groningen), “Unbounding the Arab World: Anti-Colonial Geopolitics, Transnational Territorial Imaginations and Post-Imperial Worldmaking, c. 1908-1977.”

Current research interns:

• Johann von Alvensleben (University of Groningen), on the British Left and anti-imperialist geopolitics.
• Roujia Lea (University of Groningen), on interwar China and geopolitical thought.

Past research interns:

• Julia Cezana-Portugal (University of Groningen), on Mexican geopolitical thought.
• Karolina Kucerova, Ellen Fyhr and Alice Malvezzi (University of Groningen), on interwar China and geopolitical thought.
• Carlos Lopez-Martinez, (University of Groningen), on Latin American geopolitical imaginations of hydroponics.