Outputs (80)

Boredom and the politics of climate change (2023)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (online). 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. (online). 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.

'Brexit Betrayal' and other Post Crisis Affects (2020)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B. (2020). 'Brexit Betrayal' and other Post Crisis Affects. In M. Kesting, & S. Witzgall (Eds.), Politics of Emotion/Power of Affects. The University of Chicago Press

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.

The Affects of the Disaster (2020)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2020). The Affects of the Disaster. Political Geography, 78, Article 102172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102172

Failures of Interest (2020)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2020). Failures of Interest. Emotion, Space and Society, 35, Article 100670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100670

What kind of failure is it to lose interest and detach from a project, empirical scene, or cause? Should we always stay interested in our work and attempt to interest others? Through discussion of two ongoing but perhaps failed projects alongside ref... Read More about Failures of Interest.

Affective Life and Cultural Economy: Payday Loans and the Everyday Space-Times of Credit-Debt in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Langley, P., Ash, J., & Gordon, R. (2020). Affective Life and Cultural Economy: Payday Loans and the Everyday Space-Times of Credit-Debt in the UK. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(2), 420-433. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12355

Analysing the affective geographies of digitally mediated payday loans in the UK, this paper advocates and exemplifies an approach to cultural economy that focuses on how economic worlds are affectively animated and lived. Supplementing the two versi... Read More about Affective Life and Cultural Economy: Payday Loans and the Everyday Space-Times of Credit-Debt in the UK.

Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse (2019)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Wilson, H., Foreman, P., Heslop, J., Ormerod, E., & Maestri, G. (2020). Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(2), 256-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12348

Alongside the emergence of various populisms, Brexit and other contemporary geopolitical events have been presented as symptomatic of a generalizing and intensifying sense of uncertainty in the midst of a crisis of (neo)liberalism. In this paper we d... Read More about Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse.

Cultural Geography III: The concept of 'culture' (2019)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2020). Cultural Geography III: The concept of 'culture'. Progress in Human Geography, 44(3), 608-617. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519856264

In my third report I argue that three versions of the concept of culture coexist in cultural geography in the wake of an interest in life and living: culture as assembled effect, culture as mediated experience, and culture as forms-of-life. All three... Read More about Cultural Geography III: The concept of 'culture'.

Indebted life and money culture: Payday lending in the United Kingdom (2019)
Journal Article
Langley, P., Anderson, B., Ash, J., & Gordon, R. (2019). Indebted life and money culture: Payday lending in the United Kingdom. Economy and Society, 48(1), 30-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2018.1554371

Critical social scientific research holds that credit–debt is a principal economic and governing relation in contemporary economy and society, but largely neglects money’s role in indebted life. Drawing on qualitative research in the payday loan mark... Read More about Indebted life and money culture: Payday lending in the United Kingdom.

Slow emergencies: temporality and the racialized biopolitics of emergency governance (2019)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Grove, K., Kearnes, M., & Rickards, L. (2019). Slow emergencies: temporality and the racialized biopolitics of emergency governance. Progress in Human Geography, 44(4), 621-639. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519849263

How lives are governed through emergency is a critical issue for our time. In this paper, we build on scholarship on this issue by developing the concept of ‘slow emergencies’. We do so to attune to situations of harm that call into question what for... Read More about Slow emergencies: temporality and the racialized biopolitics of emergency governance.

On right-wing movements, spheres, and resonances: an interview with Ben Anderson and Rainer Mühlhoff (2018)
Journal Article
Kemmer, L., Peters, C. H., Weber, V., Anderson, B., & Mühlhoff, R. (2019). On right-wing movements, spheres, and resonances: an interview with Ben Anderson and Rainer Mühlhoff. Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 20(1), 25-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910x.2018.1544577

This interview began in Hamburg and Berlin and continued virtually, as an active email exchange, between November 2017 and April 2018. Our conversation was sparked by the recent and ongoing turn to the right in global politics. It departs from explor... Read More about On right-wing movements, spheres, and resonances: an interview with Ben Anderson and Rainer Mühlhoff.

Affectve materialism (2018)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2018). Affectve materialism. Dialogues in Human Geography, 8(2), 229-231

Digital Interface Design and Power: Friction, Threshold, Transition (2018)
Journal Article
Ash, J., Anderson, B., Gordon, R., & Langley, P. (2018). Digital Interface Design and Power: Friction, Threshold, Transition. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(3), 1136-1153. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818767426

This paper draws upon the example of High-Cost Short-Term Credit products accessed via digital interfaces and devices to examine practices of interface design and the operation of digitally mediated power. Utilising interviews with High-Cost Short-Te... Read More about Digital Interface Design and Power: Friction, Threshold, Transition.

Cultural Geography II: The Force of Representations (2018)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2019). Cultural Geography II: The Force of Representations. Progress in Human Geography, 43(6), 1120-1132. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518761431

Cultural geography is once again concerned with representations. In this report I focus on how, in the wake of various non-representational theories, recent work stays with what texts, images, words, and other representations do. I argue that this wo... Read More about Cultural Geography II: The Force of Representations.