Since February this year, the War in Ukraine It has already caused irreparable damage to thousands of civilians and is moving the tectonic plates of the global board. But, in addition to the war between Russians and Ukrainians, about other 30 armed conflicts around the world occur today, with the majority in Asia and in Africa, according to data from the United States Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Location Data Project (ACLED).
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Reading the world through networks
Dipped in the digital revolution, some digital content creators, students and teachers Brazilians invest in social networks to teach and / or disseminate information about geopolitika. Many of these channels are built collaboratively and voluntarily, as is the case with @deolhonofront.
Whether translating complex issues or just illustrating news, these influencers bring issues of global relevance to the surface on the networks, and which can be difficult to access, such as origin of conflicts in Myanmar and os Clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which only in the last week resulted in more than 100 deaths of Armenians (G1).
- What is Geopolitics? (Politicize)
Nobody has to know everything, right? So, if you are not an expert in geopolitika, history geography or another related science, it is probably not possible to follow the entire international scenario from start to finish. But the Curto helps you stay up to date! 📲
Follow on the networks: 13 informative/educational channels
- Geopolitics Today @geopoliticahoje: Instagram and Youtube (see interview below)
- Verbal Chess @xadrezverbal: Podcast, Youtube, Twitter and website
- Pedro Daher @oipedrodaher: TikTok, Instagram, Youtube, Twitch and Discord (see + below)
- Geopizza @geopizza: Twitter, Instagram and Podcast
- Black History @historiapreta: Podcast, Twitch and Instagram
- Asia News @asianewsbrasil: Instagram
- Ady News @ady_news: Newsletter, Twitter and Instagram
- Danuzio Neto @danuzioneto: Instagram, Youtube, Telegram and Twitter
- Monitor Oriente @monitordooriente: Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and website
- Prof Antonio Geography @profantoniogeografia: TikTok
- Geographically Curious @geograficidadecurioso: Instagram
- Rogério Anitablian @rogerioanitablian: Youtube
- General Geography @geografiageral: Instagram
Geopolitics Today
Em direct and objective language, the latest news about the political and economy International. Analyzes, graphics, videos, informative maps, summaries, lives with journalists who cover international issues and other formats fill the feed created by these 'admins' geopolitical experts. 🔽
How did it come about and who makes the page?
In 2018, he was born in Instagram o Geopolitics Today as a Minas Gerais’ “unpretentious” project Lucas Mendes Costa (32), professor of Geography and master's student at the State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT). “I created it as a hobby”, says Lucas, who saw social networks an opportunity to “externalize” his readings and research on geopolitics.
We spoke to the creator of @geopoliticahoje, Lucas Mendes Costa. Listen to a snippet. 🔽
Furthermore, he says that he “missed” channels created by specialists. According to him, most were limited to following the news on international issues. “It’s a criticism I still make today. I noticed that, often, the channel had cool production, but there wasn’t someone specialized in the topic behind it.”
In 2021, Lucas, who lives in Uberlândia (MG), started to share profile administration with Daniel Ferreira (24), from Cascavel (PR). Daniel is also a geopolitics researcher and is pursuing a master's degree in Federal University of Paraná, and the pair virtually shared the task of “carrying out their study research”.
How is the project financed?
Lucas says that these new digital products emerged from the growing demand for work around the page, in mid-2020. “The thing grew naturally over the years, we never paid to boost it”, says Lucas.
We spoke to the creator of @geopoliticahoje, Lucas Mendes Costa. Listen to a snippet. 🔽
Still in 2020 and right there, via Instagram, Lucas met and became friends with Daniel, a History teacher in Paraná and his future partner. At the beginning of 2021, the duo began to “professionalize [the project] more and sell some digital products involving the [Instagram] page”, says Lucas.
Today, professors Lucas and Daniel also coordinate a virtual school 'Acropolis', where around 200 students access classes on the history of the USA, China, Brazil, India, among other topics. The duo also began offering the public a subscription to 'Persépolis', a tool that delivers customized content via Telegram and WhatsApp.
Pedro Daher from @oipedrodaher
With 3.5M followers on TikTok, 430K on YouTube and about to hit 200K on Instagram, the 25-year-old actor and comedian, who simulates countries talking to each other, went viral in the early hours of February 24, 2022, the day on which Russian troops invaded territories in Ukraine.
The reason? He had explained the tensions in the territory in a video curto published a day earlier on TikTok. Pedro then invested in the “My Neighbor is Putin” and continued to address it in a very visual and humorous historical questions about other countries.
If you think you can't keep up to date with complex subjects – and delicate – in a light way, @oipedrodahrer's content will probably surprise you, because the artist's narratives seem to relive the feeling of watching a cartoon.
@oipedrodaher 1st World War 💣💥 #fyp #xyzbca #story ♬ original sound – Pedro Daher
@oipedrodaher 🥶 COLD WAR 🥶 || #story #cold War #fyp ♬ original sound – Pedro Daher
Curto Curatorship
- Geopolitics and Brazil in the world (Opinion/Folha de S.Paulo)
- Xi and Putin want new world order and invasion of Ukraine could ruin plans ((CNN)
- Pope warns of 'domino effect' of conflicts (Swissinfo)
- The war in Ukraine is not the only serious conflict taking place on the planet (Adventures in History)
- WHO chief associates indifference to the crisis in Tigray with racism (UOL)
- Hunger is used as a war tactic, says UN humanitarian chief (UN News)
- War in Ukraine: 6 graphs show devastating impact of 6 months of conflict (BBC)
- Taiwan: latest news on tension on the island
Photos: Ana romerok/WikiCommons
