La rivista Geopolitica (1939-1942) e la prima guerra mondiale: un tentativo (fallito) di integrazione e organicità al potere
The review «Geopolitica» has been founded during the 1930s into the sparkling environment of Trieste, thanks to the supportive activity of Ernesto Massi and Giorgio Roletto. It was the most advanced effort to institutionalize the geopolitics as autonomous scientific discipline. Its short-term life - caused by the political involvement in Fascism that allowed its creation - brought new features in the field of Italian geographical research, enriched by different style, methodology and conceptual stage far from the traditional view. «Geopolitica» has been an real attempt to overcome the “academic positivismˮ, which «... divides knowledge from life» as said Carlo Michelstaedter. Final purpose of this analysis is a reconstruction of the IWW interpretation on «Geopolitica», in order to enlighten how this sensitive issue generated new production of knowledge and practice of power