Outputs (4)

Emergency/Everyday (2016)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B. (2016). Emergency/Everyday. In A. Elias, & J. Burges (Eds.), Time: A Vocabulary of the Present. NYU Press

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.