Culture, Politics and Place

Research Interests

• Political geography, especially history of Western geopolitical thought
• Globalization, territory, and identity in Western Europe
• Fascist imperialism and colonization, especially in Ethiopia and in the Mediterranean Sea

Biography

Marco Antonsich gained his first PhD in Geography at the University of Trieste, Italy in 1997 (“The Territorial Imprint of Power: Urban Iconographies in Ethiopia, 1936-41”). He served as a Research Fellow at the same University from 1999-2003. He then moved to the United States where he completed a second PhD in Geography in 2007 (“Territory and Identity in the Age of Globalization: The Case of Western Europe”). His research has been supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Italian National Council for Research (CNR), NATO, and the Finnish Foreign Affairs Ministry (CIMO). He has collaborated with different scholarly and policy institutes (Centro Militare per gli Studi Strategici; Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale; Institut de Stratégie Comparée; The Finnish Institute of International Affairs). He sits in the editorial board of the Italian geopolitical journal Limes. Marco joined the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences in May 2007 as a Research Fellow.

Current / Recent Research

"Territory and Identity in the Age of Globalization: The Case of Western Europe" (U.S. National Science Foundation, 2005)

Key Publications since 2001

Akçalı, E. and Antonsich, M. (2009) ‘Nature knows no boundaries’: a critical reading of UNDP environmental peace-making in Cyprus. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Special fifth issue (forthcoming)

Antonsich, M. (2009) On territory, the nation-state and the crisis of the hyphen, Progress in Human Geography, 33(6) (forthcoming), doi: 10.1177/0309132508104996

Antonsich, M. (2009) Meanings of place and aspects of the Self: An interdisciplinary and empirical account. GeoJournal, (forthcoming) doi: 10.1007/s10708-009-9290-9

Antonsich, M. (2009) Guest editorial: The ‘revenge’ of political geographers. Political Geography, 28 (4), pp. 211-212.

Antonsich, M. (2009) Geopolitica: the geographical and imperial ‘consciousness’ of Fascist Italy, Geopolitics, 14 (2), 256-277

Antonsich, M. (2009) National identities in the age of globalisation. The case of Western Europe, National Identities, 11 (3), 281-299

Antonsich, M. (2008) The narration of Europe in ‘National’ and ‘Post-national’ terms. Gauging the gap between normative discourses and people’s view, European Journal of Social Theory, 11(4), 483-500.

Antonsich, M. (2008) EUropean attachment and meanings of EUrope. A qualitative study in the EU-15, Political Geography, 27(6), 691-710.

Antonsich,  M. (2008)  Linguistic  commonality  between  universalism  and  particularism:  A  reply  to Ipperciel (2007), Nations and Nationalism, 14(3), 600-605.

Antonsich, M. (2006) Prove di regionalizzazione nel Mar Nero. Il caso della Black Sea Economic Cooperation (Regionalism in the Black Sea area. The Black Sea Economic Cooperation), Quaderni di Relazioni Internazionali (1) 6-20.

Antonsich, M. (2005) Cardinal Markers of Finland’s Identity Politics and National Identity, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 46, 289-304.

Antonsich, M. (2003) ‘Albanesi, più delinquenti che profughi’. La lettura politico-istituzionale e mass-mediatica in Italia della crisi albanese del 1997 come esempio di ‘discorso’ geopolitico (‘Albanians, delinquents rather than refugees’: Italy’s political, institutional and mass-media reaction to the        1997 Albanian crisis as an example of geopoltiical discourse), Atti del XXVIII Congresso Geografico Italiano (Proceedings of the 28th Italian Geographical Congress), Roma, Edigeo, vol. I, 826-36.

Antonsich, M.  et alii (2002) Geopolitica della crisi. Balcani, Caucaso e Asia Centrale nel nuovo scenario internazionale (Geopolitics of the crisis: Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia and the new international scenario), Milano, ISPI-Egea.

Antonsich, M. (2001) ‘Critical Geopolitics’. La geopolitica nel pensiero postmoderno (Critical Geopolitics. Geopolitics and postmodern thought), in Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 4, 735-752.

Antonsich, M., Kolossov, V. and Pagnini M.P., eds. (2001), Europe between Political Geography and Geopolitics. On the Centenary of Ratzel's ‘Politische Geographie’, Roma, Memorie della Società Geografica Italiana, 2 tomes.

Antonsich, M. (2000) Signs of Power: Fascist Urban Iconographies in Ethiopia (1930s-1940s), GeoJournal, 4, 325-338.