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Professor Eva recommends the documentary "The Possibility of Hope" by movie director Alfonso Cuaròn, a bonus to DVD version of his 'fanta-geopolitical' movie The Children of Men. He considers this a very good movie which reprensents a possible (but not desiderable) development of the current 'securitization' of the space.
Fabrizio Eva (Carrara, 1949) is professor in Political and Economic Geography at the University of Cà Foscari Venice, Treviso Campus. He is specialised in East Asia, dynamic geopolitics and geopolitical crisis.
Professor Eva holds a degree in Italian Modern Literature, specialization Geography and History.
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The "Geopolitical Passport" series aims to humanise geopolitics by offering geopolitical specialists an opportunity to give their views on this discipline. The interviews address issues such as the rational behind their decision to conduct geopolitical research, their favourite books and their expectations regarding the geopolitical future.
I discovered politics when I was 17 and attended university. During the first half of the 1970s, geopolitical topics were an everyday arguments for my generation.
China and East Asia in general; I started from the esthetical appreciation for the Japanese and Chinese art, then I studied history and culture.
Second topic: geopolitical dynamics and crisis areas; I was and still am unsatisfied by the "narratives" and the "discourse" about it and I’d like to be a sort of countervoice against the so-called clash of civilizations theory and against the mental attitude of I.R. experts (unfortunately so similar to the one of the decision makers).
None.
Geopolitics: how human groups (or single ones) act politically in a defined territory.
John Agnew (for the concept of “territorial trap”), Gerald Toal (for his critical geopolitical analysis) and David Newman (for his reasonings about shared/divided spaces).
The ones of the above mentioned geopoliticians.
I haven’t one. I pick up information from websites of geostrategic study centres and others such as:
I also visit many newspapers on the web. I use mainly "ordinary news" of the mainstream press and TV for my research because this is the main source for ordinary people, giving it a significant influence on ideas and mental attitudes of the population.
Finally, I consider the imagines of Google Earth a very useful "geopolitical" aid.
It’s my wish: to be able to give good suggestions in order to solve conflicts and geopolitical crisis.
How the human psychology affect the use and the "production" of space. There are too many theories and philosophy; these could hide the simple necessities and social relations of human beings.
To stop the shift toward hierarchic/pyramidal societies in the name of "security".