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Everyday Brexits (2017)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., & Wilson, H. (2018). Everyday Brexits. Area, 50(2), 291-295. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12385

In this commentary we explore how geographers might respond to the event of ‘Brexit’ – the decision and process of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union after the referendum of 23 June 2016. Although it is necessary to understand the ways in... Read More about Everyday Brexits.

Unit, Vibration, Tone: A Post-Phenomenological Method for Researching Digital Interfaces (2017)
Journal Article
Ash, J., Anderson, B., Gordon, R., & Langley, P. (2018). Unit, Vibration, Tone: A Post-Phenomenological Method for Researching Digital Interfaces. cultural geographies, 25(1), 165-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474017726556

Digital interfaces, in the form of websites, mobile apps and other platforms, now mediate user experiences with a variety of economic, cultural and political services and products. To study these digital mediations, researchers have to date followed... Read More about Unit, Vibration, Tone: A Post-Phenomenological Method for Researching Digital Interfaces.

Emergency Futures: Exception, Urgency, Interval, Hope (2017)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2017). Emergency Futures: Exception, Urgency, Interval, Hope. Sociological Review, 65(3), 463-477. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.12447

Emergency as a descriptor, technique and legal-political device has become a taken-for-granted way of apprehending and governing events and situations. In this paper, I explore the temporality of emergency, through reflections on the use of declarati... Read More about Emergency Futures: Exception, Urgency, Interval, Hope.

Cultural Geography 1: Intensities and Forms of Power (2016)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2017). Cultural Geography 1: Intensities and Forms of Power. Progress in Human Geography, 41(4), 501-511. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516649491

In the first of three reviews I focus on how cultural geography is exploring modes and forms of power in relation to various contemporary conditions, including research on precaritization, dispossession, the state, and anti-black violence. A common c... Read More about Cultural Geography 1: Intensities and Forms of Power.

Government and (Non)Event: The Promise of Control (2016)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., & Gordon, R. (2017). Government and (Non)Event: The Promise of Control. Social and Cultural Geography, 18(7), 158-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1163727

Control rooms routinely deal with happenings that might become events. They attempt to hide events and their possibility from the users of infrastructure by undertaking various forms of action to stop events coming to pass. Based on ethnographic rese... Read More about Government and (Non)Event: The Promise of Control.

Critique and Ontological Politics (2016)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2016). Critique and Ontological Politics. Dialogues in Human Geography, 6(1), 19-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820615623703

In this commentary, I explore three questions in response to Simon and Randalls’ emphasis on the ‘resilience multiple’: how to understand the endurance of the general, as it folds with and into the singular; how might an ontological politics concerne... Read More about Critique and Ontological Politics.

Boredom, excitement and other security affects (2015)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2015). Boredom, excitement and other security affects. Dialogues in Human Geography, 5(3), 271-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820615607759

Expanding from Barnett’s critique of the emphasis in critical security work on ‘subjectivity through subjectification’, this response explores some of the ways in which geographers and others might attend to the diversity of security affects. Fear an... Read More about Boredom, excitement and other security affects.