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Lockdown time, time loops, and the crisis of the future (2023)
Journal Article
Secor, A. J., & Blum, V. (2023). Lockdown time, time loops, and the crisis of the future. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 28, 250–267. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-023-00379-4

Amidst the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 in the United States and United Kingdom, a fantasy took hold that life under lockdown was like living in a time loop. The time loop quickly became the genre of the moment. And yet, however “timely” they... Read More about Lockdown time, time loops, and the crisis of the future.

Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge (2023)
Journal Article
Loyd, J. M., Secor, A. J., & Ehrkamp, P. (online). Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge. Geopolitics, https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2185139

Although it has rarely been addressed as such, the regulation of disability within migration governance is a geopolitical issue. This article examines how refugee resettlement intersects with ablenationalism, an ideology that treats disability as exc... Read More about Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge.

Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms (2022)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Awal, A., Cockayne, D., Greenhough, B., Linz, J., Mazumdar, A., Nassar, A., Pettit, H., Roe, E. J., Ruez, D., Salas Landa, M., Secor, 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.

The space of encounter and the making of difference: The entangled lives of Alevi and Sunni neighbours in Turkey (2022)
Journal Article
Gökarıksel, B., & Secor, A. J. (2023). The space of encounter and the making of difference: The entangled lives of Alevi and Sunni neighbours in Turkey. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(2), 380-394. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12584

The concept of encounter has long been central to a cosmopolitan ethos in which coming together in urban public space is expected to yield tolerance and pluralism. More recently scholars have reworked this concept to account for not only what is pote... Read More about The space of encounter and the making of difference: The entangled lives of Alevi and Sunni neighbours in Turkey.

Uneasy Neighbors: The Making of Sectarian Difference and Alevi Precarity in Urban Turkey (2022)
Journal Article
Gökarıksel, B., & Secor, A. J. (2022). Uneasy Neighbors: The Making of Sectarian Difference and Alevi Precarity in Urban Turkey. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 54(2), 243-259. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743822000162

This study takes a critical perspective on the making of sectarian difference and Alevi precarity in contemporary Turkey. Drawing on our research from 2013 to 2016, we present an analysis of stories and conversations that took place amongst Alevi and... Read More about Uneasy Neighbors: The Making of Sectarian Difference and Alevi Precarity in Urban Turkey.

The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S (2022)
Journal Article
Secor, A. J., Ehrkamp, P., & Loyd, J. M. (2022). The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 40(3), 508-527. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758221088865

How do the lost futures of forced displacement converge with the impasse of being resettled to a “post-future” society such as the U.S.? Based on interviews conducted between 2016 and 2019 with resettlement agents, service providers and Iraqis resett... Read More about The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S.

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.

Negativity: space, politics and affects (2021)
Journal Article
Dekeyser, T., Secor, A., Rose, M., Bissell, D., Zhang, V., & Romanillos, J. L. (2022). Negativity: space, politics and affects. Cultural Geographies, 29(1), 5 - 21. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740211058080

This paper reflects on the status of ‘negativity’ in contemporary social and geographical thought. Based on a panel discussion held at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2021, each contributor discusses what negativity means to th... Read More about Negativity: space, politics and affects.

Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement (2021)
Journal Article
Ehrkamp, P., Loyd, J. M., & Secor, A. J. (2022). Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(3), 715-722. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2021.1956296

Trauma does not have a single definition. Within Western paradigms, across humanities and social sciences, it has largely been characterized through temporal and spatial dislocation. Critical studies of trauma, however, suggest that such framings of... Read More about Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement.

Undoing mastery: With ambivalence? (2021)
Journal Article
Linz, J., & Secor, A. J. (2021). Undoing mastery: With ambivalence?. Dialogues in Human Geography, 11(1), 108-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820621995626

In this commentary, we respond to Derek Ruez and Daniel Cockayne’s article ‘Feeling Otherwise: Ambivalent Affects and the Politics of Critique in Geography’. We do so by picking up ambivalence—or more precisely, ambivalence about ambivalence—as a too... Read More about Undoing mastery: With ambivalence?.

A Place More Void (2021)
Book
Kingsbury, P., & Secor, A. J. (Eds.). (2021). A Place More Void. University of Nebraska Press

Embodiment and Memory in the Geopolitics of Trauma (2019)
Book Chapter
Ehrkamp, P., Loyd, J., & Secor, A. (2019). Embodiment and Memory in the Geopolitics of Trauma. In J. Fluri, K. Mitchell, & R. Jones (Eds.), Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration (117-129). Edward Elgar Press