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Anna Secor
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Geographer and more - The Politics of Feeling (Goldsmiths Press, 2025) — spacetimeunconscious - Durham University
London people come discuss and celebrate with us! A launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social. Eventbrite link below! 🥂
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis
A workshop on the politics of feeling in this conjunctural crisis, with Anna Secor, Ben Anderson, Will Davies, Jeremy Gilbert.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
How exciting!
Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.
August 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
First glimpse of the cover of The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Geographies - and I think it is beautiful! The image is Franz Marc, "The Bewitched Mill"(1905) - human and nonhuman, science and magic, dark and light, wondrous!
July 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
So excited to see our book in the wild! Thank you Jonny - the coffee pairing looks perfect!
Perfectly timed for summer reading, new book from two of my wonderful @geogdurham.bsky.social colleagues: @ajsecor.bsky.social and @benandersongeog.bsky.social. Also perfectly timed for navigating the turbulent cultural politics of the present (coffee strictly optional) @goldsmithspress.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We’re hiring again in Geography at Durham - an Associate Prof, Grade 9. This is part of the university’s strategic ‘Heritage 360’ initiative. Follow this link for more details and to apply! durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Associate Professor (Research %26 Education)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
June 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Good to see Durham Geography's Helen F Wilson on urban kittiwakes and coexistence in today's Guardian! @geogdurham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The seagulls have landed: why gulls are encroaching on Britain’s towns
Avian invaders have coastal communities in Britain and beyond in a flap – but people are learning how to live with them
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The Politics of Feeling with
@benandersongeog.bsky.social
comes out the 1st of July! So excited for readers and grateful for the lovely blurbs from Will Davies, @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @carolynpedwell.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏

⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025

📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au

📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p
May 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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We’ve got a 3 year lecturership in human geog and gender now advertised.

Deadline 6th May 2025

Please spread the word!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS710/l...
Lecturer in Human Geography and Gender (Education) at King's College London
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Human Geography and Gender (Education). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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April 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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@amoorelouise.bsky.social will lead the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @geogdurham.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social, which aims to change the way we understand and study the interaction between people, machine learning and AI algorithms.
April 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Three-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Geography at Mount Holyoke College. They are looking for a human or physical geographer, and candidates with expertise in critical geography, urban studies, and/or planning are encouraged to apply!

mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
February 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Job in Palestine Studies! UC Davis seeks to hire an Anthropologist of Palestine at assistant/associate professor rank, Seeking a scholar with a cutting-edge, ethnographically grounded research agenda and interest in collaboration. Review begins March 5.

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06996
Assistant or Associate Professor in Anthropology - Sociocultural
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
February 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Last call for Fantasies of Escape at the RGS-IBG 2025 conference! Deadline for abstracts is Friday.
Excited to share that Anna Secor (@ajsecor.bsky.social) and I are organizing a session at the upcoming RGS-IBG conference (@rgsibg.bsky.social) on "Fantasies of escape." Join us in exploring the imaginative landscapes and socio-political dimensions of escape! The deadline is 14 February.
February 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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At long last, my new book, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land, is now out!

Based on a decade of research, it documents the realities of sovereign abandonment and the many forms of political liveliness that persist in abandonment’s wake.

Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Edges of Care
A firsthand look at the lives of those who reside in no man’s land—the violence they endure and their immense resilience.   “No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, ...
press.uchicago.edu
January 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Excited to share that Anna Secor (@ajsecor.bsky.social) and I are organizing a session at the upcoming RGS-IBG conference (@rgsibg.bsky.social) on "Fantasies of escape." Join us in exploring the imaginative landscapes and socio-political dimensions of escape! The deadline is 14 February.
January 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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We ( @geogdurham.bsky.social ) are very honoured to be hosting Aslı Zengin for an event about her latest book "Violent Intimacies" this Thursday (16 January). Details of the event via the link below.

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Dr Aslı Zengin - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
January 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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After a day in meetings yesterday, doing page proofs for The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism, with @ajsecor.bsky.social Here’s part of the argument about the impasse progressivism finds itself in (the loss of faith in progress)
January 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Two Assistant Prof positions in Geography at Durham, deadline for applications next week!
We’re hiring two human geographers in the areas of environment, climate, and sustainability! Contact me with any questions.
Job Alert - @GeogDurham is seeking applications for two permanent Human Geography Assistant Professorships - durham.taleo.net/careersectio... closing date 11:59pm on 12th January 2025
January 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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I can’t wait for this to be out - a book of propositions on the politics of feeling in populism, liberalism and progressivism with @ajsecor.bsky.social Probably the work I’m most proud of so far - as I think it says something novel about this conjuncture

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777472...
The Politics of Feeling by Ben Anderson, Anna Secor: 9781915983299 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
How today’s dominant political forms—right-wing populism, progressivism, and liberalism—offer differentiated responses to shared conditions of uncertainty. The Politics of Feeling argues...
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December 18, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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We’re hiring two human geographers in the areas of environment, climate, and sustainability! Contact me with any questions.
Job Alert - @GeogDurham is seeking applications for two permanent Human Geography Assistant Professorships - durham.taleo.net/careersectio... closing date 11:59pm on 12th January 2025
Assistant Professor in Human Geography (GEOG_01 %26 02)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
November 29, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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NEW GEOGRAPHY JOURNAL!

Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory.

Issue 1, special issue on Indigenous Ontologies, out now, open access. It looks excellent.

Congratulations to the managing and issue editors on making this happen.
Indigenous Ontologies | Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory
Agoriad (meaning Openings in Welsh) is a diamond open access journal exploring theoretical and philosophical ideas in Human Geography and associated fields, published annually. Each volume explores a ...
agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org
December 11, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Open access! In which we critique the romance of work and how it props up our world - as part of a special issue on Affect and Ideology @dcockayne.bsky.social @derek-ruez.bsky.social
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
Love and Work: Affect and Ideology Beyond ‘The Great Resignation’ - Lawrence Wishart
Taking the scene of �The Great Resignation� in the USA and UK (2021-2023) as its starting point, this paper explores how love �
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December 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM
We’re hiring two human geographers in the areas of environment, climate, and sustainability! Contact me with any questions.
Job Alert - @GeogDurham is seeking applications for two permanent Human Geography Assistant Professorships - durham.taleo.net/careersectio... closing date 11:59pm on 12th January 2025
Assistant Professor in Human Geography (GEOG_01 %26 02)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
November 29, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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Brilliant new issue of New Formations out now, guest edited by @ajsecor.bsky.social and Ben Anderson, exploring the theoretical potential for engaging 'affect and ideology'.

Lots of free to download content: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
New Formations: Volume 2024 Issue 112 (2024) - Lawrence Wishart
New Formations: A Journal of Culture / Theory / Politics - Issue contents for Volume 2024 Issue 112 (2024)
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November 4, 2024 at 2:17 PM
We are hiring in Human Geography at Durham! We are seeking to fill two positions at the assistant professor (grade 8) level. The closing date for applications is 14/01/2024. Areas of specific interest are environment, urban, and critical development studies.
Assistant Professor (GEOG_01)
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December 8, 2023 at 8:27 AM