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Unsettling relatonality: Attachment after the ‘relational turn’ (2023)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2023). Unsettling relatonality: Attachment after the ‘relational turn’. Dialogues in Human Geography, 13(3), 428-432. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231195672

In this response, I place the concept of attachment in the context of debates about the ontological commitments and political-ethical value of relational thinking today. Reading the four commentaries in this forum as emerging from and enacting a fray... Read More about Unsettling relatonality: Attachment after the ‘relational turn’.

Boredom and the politics of climate change (2023)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2023). Boredom and the politics of climate change. Scottish Geographical Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2197869

In this position paper, I speculate on what we might learn about the politics of climate change if we stay with the possibility that boredom might be part of how subjects encounter and make sense of climate change. I argue that boredom enacts an ethi... Read More about Boredom and the politics of climate change.

Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise (2022)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Aitken, S., Bacevic, J., Callard, F., Chung, K. D. (., Coleman, K. S., …Wilkinson, E. (2023). Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise. The Geographical Journal, 189(1), 117-142. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12494

In Part 1 of ‘Encountering Berlant’, we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter... Read More about Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise.

Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms (2022)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Awal, A., Cockayne, D., Greenhough, B., Linz, J., Mazumdar, A., …Williams, A. (2023). Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms. The Geographical Journal, 189(1), 143-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12493

Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential concept of ‘cruel optimism’. Cruel optimism names a double-bind in which attachment to an ‘object’ holds out the promise of sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneo... Read More about Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms.

Forms and Scenes of Attachment: A Cultural Geography of Promises (2022)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2022). Forms and Scenes of Attachment: A Cultural Geography of Promises. Dialogues in Human Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206221129205

Attachment is everywhere and nowhere in contemporary cultural geography. Cultural geography is full of relations which look like attachments. But attachment as a concept is mostly absent, used interchangeably with association, connection or simply re... Read More about Forms and Scenes of Attachment: A Cultural Geography of Promises.

Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic (2022)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., & Secor, A. (2022). Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic. Political Geography, 96, Article 102608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102608

Every discourse on right-wing populism is, more or less explicitly, a discourse on affect. From claims that right-wing populism emerges from a background of racialized resentment or the anger of the ‘left behind’, through to analyses of how populist... Read More about Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic.

The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Grove, K., Rickards, L., Anderson, B., & Kearnes, M. (2022). The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19. Geographical Research, 60(1), 6-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12501

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic strains conventional temporal imaginaries through which emergencies are typically understood and governed. Rather than a transparent and linear temporality, which envisions a smooth transition across the series event/dis... Read More about The uneven distribution of futurity: Slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19.

Affect and Critique: A Politics of Boredom (2021)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2021). Affect and Critique: A Politics of Boredom. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 39(2), 197-217

What are the politics of boredom? And how should we relate to boredom? In this paper, I explore these questions through cases where the disaffection and restlessness of boredom have become a matter of concern in the UK and USA at the junctures betwee... Read More about Affect and Critique: A Politics of Boredom.

Scenes of Emergency: Dis/Re-Assembling the Promise of the UK Emergency State (2020)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2021). Scenes of Emergency: Dis/Re-Assembling the Promise of the UK Emergency State. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(7), 1356-1374. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420954214

The paper traces the development of UK ‘state of emergency’ legislation through three ‘scenes of emergency’: the introduction of the Emergency Powers Act in 1920, a revision to the Act in 1964, and discussion within government departments about possi... Read More about Scenes of Emergency: Dis/Re-Assembling the Promise of the UK Emergency State.