Outputs (80)

Morale and the Affective Geographies of the 'War on Terror' (2010)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2010). Morale and the Affective Geographies of the 'War on Terror'. cultural geographies, 17(2), 219-236. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474010363849

This paper focuses on the relations between affect and military and security geographies. It argues that recent work on spaces of affect and emotion should be supplemented by research on how affects are known, rendered actionable and intervened on. T... Read More about Morale and the Affective Geographies of the 'War on Terror'.

Security and the Future: Anticipating the Event of Terror (2010)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2010). Security and the Future: Anticipating the Event of Terror. Geoforum, 41(2), 227-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.11.002

This paper explores the relation between processes of security and futurity in the context of efforts to govern the complexity and contingency of events of terror. It argues that processes of securing function by generating a dangerous or promissory... Read More about Security and the Future: Anticipating the Event of Terror.

Entries for: Affect, Emotional Geographies, Non-representational Theory. (2009)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B. (2009). Entries for: Affect, Emotional Geographies, Non-representational Theory. In D. Gregory (Ed.), The Dictionary of Human Geography. (5th ed.)

Affective Atmospheres (2009)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2009). Affective Atmospheres. Emotion, Space and Society, 2(2), 77-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2009.08.005

In this paper I reflect on the concept of affective atmospheres in the context of the distinction between affect and emotion that has emerged in recent work on emotion, space and society. The concept of atmosphere is interesting because it holds a se... Read More about Affective Atmospheres.

On Geography and Materiality (2009)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., & Wylie, J. (2009). On Geography and Materiality. Environment and Planning A, 41(2), 318-335. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3940

In the context of human geography’s encounter with the problematics that surround matter and materiality, this paper offers a principle that works towards a distinctive material imagination. This principle states that our image of matter should be mu... Read More about On Geography and Materiality.

Spaces of Hope. (2008)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., & Fenton, J. (2008). Spaces of Hope. Space and Culture, 11(2),

Doreen Massey 'For Space' (2005). (2008)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B. (2008). Doreen Massey 'For Space' (2005). In P. Hubbard, G. Valentine, & R. Kitchin (Eds.), Key Texts in Human Geography. SAGE Publications

Domestic Geographies of Affect. (2008)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B. (2008). Domestic Geographies of Affect. In M. Greco, & P. Stenner (Eds.), Emotions. A Social Science Reader (201-205). Routledge

Affective urbanism and the event of hope (2008)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., & Holden, A. (2008). Affective urbanism and the event of hope. Space and Culture, 11(2), 142-159. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331208315934

The article discusses how hope and hopefulness become part of the life of cities, drawing on a case study of cultural regeneration: the event of Liverpool receiving EU Capital of Culture status in June 2003. Through attention to the "eventness" of th... Read More about Affective urbanism and the event of hope.

Hope for nanotechnology: Anticipatory knowledge and governance of affect. (2007)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2007). Hope for nanotechnology: Anticipatory knowledge and governance of affect. Area, 19(2), 156-165. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00743.x

Geographies of nano-technoscience (2007)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Kearnes, M., & Doubleday, R. (2007). Geographies of nano-technoscience. Area, 39(2), 139-142. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00748.x

Becoming and being hopeful: towards a theory of affect (2006)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2006). Becoming and being hopeful: towards a theory of affect. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 24(5), 733-752. https://doi.org/10.1068/d393t

In this paper I describe how hope takes place, in order to outline an explicit theory of the more-than-rational or less-than rational in the context of the recent attunement to issues of the affectual and emotional in social and cultural geography. I... Read More about Becoming and being hopeful: towards a theory of affect.

'Transcending Without Transcendence': Utopianism and an Ethos of Hope (2006)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2006). 'Transcending Without Transcendence': Utopianism and an Ethos of Hope. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 38(4), 691-710. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00472.x

Human geography has recently witnessed an emergent interest in the intertwined problematics of how to be utopian and how to remain hopeful or optimistic. This paper aims to introduce a type of immanent utopianism that follows from a dynamic, open, co... Read More about 'Transcending Without Transcendence': Utopianism and an Ethos of Hope.

Questioning Affect and Emotion (2006)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., & Harrison, P. (2006). Questioning Affect and Emotion. Area, 38(3), 333-335. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00699.x

Practices of Judgement and Domestic Geographies of Affect. (2005)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2005). Practices of Judgement and Domestic Geographies of Affect. Social and Cultural Geography, 6(5), 645-660

Practices of Music and Sound. (2005)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Morton, F., & Revill, G. (2005). Practices of Music and Sound. Social and Cultural Geography, 6(5), 639-644

Time-stilled space-slowed: how boredom matters (2004)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2004). Time-stilled space-slowed: how boredom matters. Geoforum, 35(6), 739-754. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.02.005

This paper aims to fold the increased attention to issues of materiality in social and cultural geography into the more recent attunement to questions of affect. The vehicle for this aim is a discussion of the complex ways in which boredom, and bodie... Read More about Time-stilled space-slowed: how boredom matters.

Matter(s) in social and cultural geography. (2004)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., & Tolia-Kelly, D. (2004). Matter(s) in social and cultural geography. Geoforum, 35(6), 669-674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.04.001

Recorded music and practices of remembering (2004)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2004). Recorded music and practices of remembering. Social and Cultural Geography, 5(1), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1464936042000181281

Despite a resurgence of work that has begun to examine critically the artefactual mediation of memory, very few accounts have focused upon the interconnections between recorded music and daily acts of remembering. Drawing upon in-depth case study-bas... Read More about Recorded music and practices of remembering.

A Principle of Hope: Recorded Music, Listening Practices and the Immanence of Utopia. (2002)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2002). A Principle of Hope: Recorded Music, Listening Practices and the Immanence of Utopia. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 84(3-4), 211-227. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0435-3684.2002.00125.x