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António Ferraz de Oliveira

@antoniofdo.bsky.social
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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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Giuseppe Grieco @giuseppegrieco.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The History and International Affairs Workshop will take place on 12 June @cityhistory.bsky.social Join us for a fascinating discussion on "The Politics of Planetary" @orrosenboim.bsky.social @antoniofdo.bsky.social @edjonesc.bsky.social @alinau27.bsky.social www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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The Politics of Planetary - History and International Affairs Workshop | City St George's, University of London
The aim of this workshop is to provide an inter-disciplinary discussion to challenge simplistic accounts of the planetary and add historical perspective to contemporary policy debates.
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Job alert: 3-year lectureship in Geopolitics at KCL Geography! Details here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/148205-... Please help us get the work out by sharing this your networks and early career researchers.
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Lecturer in Geopolitics | King's College London
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 05/05/2026
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
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Given the discussion about Taiwan in the run up to the US-China Summit, it's worth revisiting this recent article by Nitasha Kaul and Mariah Thornton on cartographic imaginaries. buff.ly/p0mml0v
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
OUT NOW! The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells is now available online academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 47 chapters on Wells and his worlds Hardcopy to follow in June
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The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells
Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells offers a wide-ranging overview of the life and work of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth ce
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 11/05/2026
Just published! My book, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, is now available online for institutional users with subscription to Oxford Scholarship Online! academic.oup.com/book/62722 The print version will come out next month.
a poster says: online access available now. QR code for the link in post.
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Thrilled to share our open-access 'Geopolitical Imaginations and the History of International Thought', co-authored with @lucianashworth.bsky.social, and introducing our special forum with @gsqjournal.bsky.social Geopolitics is dead. Long live geopolitics. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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Geopolitical Imaginations and Global Histories of International Thought: Adventures in Time and Space1
Abstract. Much is said today of geopolitics, but little is understood about its global intellectual history. Introducing this special issue, we map out an
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Frank Gerits @frankgerits.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
!New publication Alert! How African Decolonization Challenged the Notion of Cold War Polarity: The End of Empire, Modernization, and International Relations Theory in the 1950s and 1960s IN Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2026 doi.org/10.1093/isag...
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Or Rosenboim @orrosenboim.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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...
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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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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Spatial Conversion? The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and Japanese Imperial Geopolitics by Atsuko Watanabe. Part of a very interesting looking special forum by @antoniofdo.bsky.social and Luke Ashworth. url: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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A Spatial Conversion? The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and Japanese Imperial Geopolitics
Abstract. In contemporary contexts, geopolitics is generally understood as great-power rivalry. Historically, however, a crucial aspect of geopolitics, und
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Thrilled to share our open-access 'Geopolitical Imaginations and the History of International Thought', co-authored with @lucianashworth.bsky.social, and introducing our special forum with @gsqjournal.bsky.social Geopolitics is dead. Long live geopolitics. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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Geopolitical Imaginations and Global Histories of International Thought: Adventures in Time and Space1
Abstract. Much is said today of geopolitics, but little is understood about its global intellectual history. Introducing this special issue, we map out an
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Great to see this out - and congrats Or! (more on this special forum soon)
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Chamada de artigos - Dossiê: Desobediência civil e ilegalidades politicamente motivadas: casos e experiências do sul global. (Mediações, vol. 31 - 2026/3) | Mediações - Revista de Ciências S...
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EJIR @ejir.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Did agronomists dream of soilless geopolitics? In their new EJIR article, @antoniofdo.bsky.social and Maarten Meijer excavate the international history of hydroponic geopolitics in the mid-twentieth century. You can read it here: t1p.de/kpt02
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Delighted to share this EJIR paper, co-authored with my brilliant friend Maarten Meijer. We track the story of how hydroponics triggered connected geopolitical fantasies before and after 1945, from the Pacific to Israel and Bengal. Hope it's a good read! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Delighted to share this EJIR paper, co-authored with my brilliant friend Maarten Meijer. We track the story of how hydroponics triggered connected geopolitical fantasies before and after 1945, from the Pacific to Israel and Bengal. Hope it's a good read! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Happy to share our term card for the KCL Geopolitics series (@KCLGeography). Lots to look forward to as we think through the geopolitics of Venezuela, Greenland, 'Donroe' and more, with fantastic guest speakers!
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Happy to share our term card for the KCL Geopolitics series (@KCLGeography). Lots to look forward to as we think through the geopolitics of Venezuela, Greenland, 'Donroe' and more, with fantastic guest speakers!
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LSE International Relations @lseir.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
“Fawaz Gerges's latest book might be his lifetime masterpiece,” writes Dr Silvia Colombo. Read the full review of Professor Fawaz Gerges' new book, The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the #MiddleEast. 🔗 bit.ly/3NqkmEb @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PoliSky
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The great betrayal: the struggle for freedom and democracy in the Middle East
Fawaz Gerges's latest book might be his lifetime masterpiece. It has all the ingredients to become the reference point for the study of the Arab world and
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Steven Seegel @stevenseegel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Anytime, map fiends. Anytime.
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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!
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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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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Assistant Professor - Modern European History
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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...
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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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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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!
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/08/2025
‘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...
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Adam Phillips · On Resistance
Resistance is at once recognition and a fantasy of catastrophe; indeed, in resisting one has always leaped forward to...
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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!
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Global Studies Quarterly @gsqjournal.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🚨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...
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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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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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
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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🌡️ 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
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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.
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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
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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!
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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
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Lise Butler @lisebutler.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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.
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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!
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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...
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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/...
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'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.
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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.
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Book Launch talk today - come one and all, to hear fascinating histories from below on everyday socialism in Eastern Europe. @facultyofartsug.bsky.social
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 24/03/2025
One-year IR postdoc vacancy on a project on sanctions at GIGA in beautiful Hamburg 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK608/p...
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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!
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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...
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Katharina Wezel @kawezel.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Excited to announce the first Graduate Symposium on Doing International Political Sociology at Uni Groningen this summer. Join us to collaborate, workshop, share your work and engage with the Doing IPS network. Deadline 1 April. Questions? Federico Petris and I are here to help. CfP below.
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Looking forward to welcoming Jan for our History and Theory of IR colloquium this Thursday! As usual, if in Groningen or NL, all welcome. @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @gloknos.bsky.social @agricolaschool.bsky.social
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Benjamin de Carvalho @bdecarvalho.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The Call for Abstracts for the first ever NUPI (@nupinytt.bsky.social) Theory Conference in Oslo 22-24 September: "Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics: Social Construction in Turbulent Times". With a keynote by the excellent Stefano Guzzini, and a roundtable tba. We hope to see you there!
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Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics: Social Construction in Turbulent Times
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Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Conference: challenges of conflict transformation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Thursday 12 June 2025 : www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
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Conference: Challenges of Conflict Transformation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Thursday 12th June 2025.
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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‘The forests are going up in flames – so is the rule of law’: Argentina’s climate of fear
Wildfires are devastating Patagonia. In response, Argentinian authorities are removing environmental protections and raiding Indigenous communities
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