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

Asking international organisations to “just follow the science” sounds great – not least in response to “anti-expert” pushback. But that defence fundamentally misrepresents how expertise and IOs relate. My new book asks: where does expert-centred international governance actually come from? 🧵1/7

Cover of "The Technocratic International" (OUP) - tinyurl.com/yk94b8rv

My new article on Barbara Ward's global thought is out open access. It's part of a fascinating special issue on geographical imaginaries edited by Antonio Ferraz and Luke Ashworth @gsqjournal.bsky.social Global Divisions: The Spatial Imagination of Barbara Ward academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Global Divisions: The Spatial Imagination of Barbara Ward

Abstract. The article examines the international thought of the British economist Barbara Ward (1914–1981) through her spatial imagination. It argues that

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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.

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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! www.waterstones.com/events/lea-y...

Lea Ypi: In conversation with Hannah Dawson at Hoxton Hall | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Lea Ypi: In conversation with Hannah Dawson at Hoxton Hall today.

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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!

Global Intellectual History@global-ih.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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:

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