Ben Anderson
@benandersongeog.bsky.social
Theories of affect, and this conjunctural crisis. New book co-written with Anna Secor: The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915983299/the-politics-of-feeling/
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915983299/the-politics-of-feeling/
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'We need to get on with this' – Alison McGovern, Minister of State for Local Government and Homelessness.
In advance of the Homeless Strategy, it was an honour to be invited by the Minister to a Summit on its direction: "prevention", "harm reduction" & "recovery".
🧵 What did I say? Read on...
In advance of the Homeless Strategy, it was an honour to be invited by the Minister to a Summit on its direction: "prevention", "harm reduction" & "recovery".
🧵 What did I say? Read on...
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
'We need to get on with this' – Alison McGovern, Minister of State for Local Government and Homelessness.
In advance of the Homeless Strategy, it was an honour to be invited by the Minister to a Summit on its direction: "prevention", "harm reduction" & "recovery".
🧵 What did I say? Read on...
In advance of the Homeless Strategy, it was an honour to be invited by the Minister to a Summit on its direction: "prevention", "harm reduction" & "recovery".
🧵 What did I say? Read on...
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New in TIBG:
'Asylum as artifice: Race, law and capital as regimes of abstractions in the United Kingdom's asylum accommodation system' by Anna Pearce
This paper charts the history of the category of 'asylum seeker' from 1993 to 2023.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
'Asylum as artifice: Race, law and capital as regimes of abstractions in the United Kingdom's asylum accommodation system' by Anna Pearce
This paper charts the history of the category of 'asylum seeker' from 1993 to 2023.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
New in TIBG:
'Asylum as artifice: Race, law and capital as regimes of abstractions in the United Kingdom's asylum accommodation system' by Anna Pearce
This paper charts the history of the category of 'asylum seeker' from 1993 to 2023.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
'Asylum as artifice: Race, law and capital as regimes of abstractions in the United Kingdom's asylum accommodation system' by Anna Pearce
This paper charts the history of the category of 'asylum seeker' from 1993 to 2023.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
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Commentary on govt proposals to further restrict refugee protection, expand removals, and limit support. Talking tough will not fix govt failures on asylum, but it will hinder integration, cause harm, and further drive resentment towards those seeking protection theconversation.com/uk-to-overha...
UK to overhaul asylum policy – will the new measures work?
People who have been recognised as needing humanitarian protection will be under constant review.
theconversation.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Commentary on govt proposals to further restrict refugee protection, expand removals, and limit support. Talking tough will not fix govt failures on asylum, but it will hinder integration, cause harm, and further drive resentment towards those seeking protection theconversation.com/uk-to-overha...
Book launch for The Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social on 25.11 at 15.00 in London. Details here, last time I checked there were a couple of tickets left
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Book launch for The Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social on 25.11 at 15.00 in London. Details here, last time I checked there were a couple of tickets left
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
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Our colleague Gavin Bridge has recently co-created a short animation called the ‘Future of UK Oil and Gas’. The film draws on insights from the Fraying Ties project on Networks, Territory and Transformation in the UK oil sector, and was produced by Seed Creativity: youtu.be/8MPHZAhzzLY
The future of UK oil and gas
YouTube video by DurhamUniversity
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Our colleague Gavin Bridge has recently co-created a short animation called the ‘Future of UK Oil and Gas’. The film draws on insights from the Fraying Ties project on Networks, Territory and Transformation in the UK oil sector, and was produced by Seed Creativity: youtu.be/8MPHZAhzzLY
Really important petition here against the terrible situation Leicester human geographers (and others) are facing. Sign, write emails to senior people, protest etc!
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Really important petition here against the terrible situation Leicester human geographers (and others) are facing. Sign, write emails to senior people, protest etc!
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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A special issue here of the journal Agoriad entitled 'Thinking with fragments: The allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space'.
Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban.
agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org
Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban.
agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org
Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory
agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A special issue here of the journal Agoriad entitled 'Thinking with fragments: The allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space'.
Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban.
agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org
Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban.
agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org
Absolutely shocking news, awful for everyone affected.
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Absolutely shocking news, awful for everyone affected.
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Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
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Ooh! Current issue of History of the Present has a forum (currently freely accessible) on
Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies - in his time and ours read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies - in his time and ours read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
Volume 15 Issue 2 | History of the Present | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Ooh! Current issue of History of the Present has a forum (currently freely accessible) on
Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies - in his time and ours read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies - in his time and ours read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
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As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
docs.google.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Fantastic book launch in Frankfurt for The Politics of Feeling last night! Great responses/questions - periodisation and how to tell a story of change, relation between affect and ideology, importance of disintermediation, spatial thinking in the book, sexual fantasies in right wing populism, etc
October 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Fantastic book launch in Frankfurt for The Politics of Feeling last night! Great responses/questions - periodisation and how to tell a story of change, relation between affect and ideology, importance of disintermediation, spatial thinking in the book, sexual fantasies in right wing populism, etc
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Looking forward to commenting on "The Politics of Feeling" tonight, co-authored by @benandersongeog.bsky.social and @ajsecor.bsky.social.
Do swing by if you're in Frankfurt!
Do swing by if you're in Frankfurt!
We are happy to have @benandersongeog.bsky.social discuss “The Politics of Feeling”, a new book he wrote together with @ajsecor.bsky.social, in Frankfurt.
Tuesday, Oct 21 at 6:15pm on Campus Westend (SH1.101).
@fskelton.bsky.social and @soviele.bsky.social will share comments.
Come join us!
Tuesday, Oct 21 at 6:15pm on Campus Westend (SH1.101).
@fskelton.bsky.social and @soviele.bsky.social will share comments.
Come join us!
October 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Looking forward to commenting on "The Politics of Feeling" tonight, co-authored by @benandersongeog.bsky.social and @ajsecor.bsky.social.
Do swing by if you're in Frankfurt!
Do swing by if you're in Frankfurt!
In Frankfurt next week for a visit to Thomas Lemke’s Fixing Futures group. Various activities, including a public lecture on the politics of intensity, and this book launch : )
October 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In Frankfurt next week for a visit to Thomas Lemke’s Fixing Futures group. Various activities, including a public lecture on the politics of intensity, and this book launch : )
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We are happy to have @benandersongeog.bsky.social discuss “The Politics of Feeling”, a new book he wrote together with @ajsecor.bsky.social, in Frankfurt.
Tuesday, Oct 21 at 6:15pm on Campus Westend (SH1.101).
@fskelton.bsky.social and @soviele.bsky.social will share comments.
Come join us!
Tuesday, Oct 21 at 6:15pm on Campus Westend (SH1.101).
@fskelton.bsky.social and @soviele.bsky.social will share comments.
Come join us!
October 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
We are happy to have @benandersongeog.bsky.social discuss “The Politics of Feeling”, a new book he wrote together with @ajsecor.bsky.social, in Frankfurt.
Tuesday, Oct 21 at 6:15pm on Campus Westend (SH1.101).
@fskelton.bsky.social and @soviele.bsky.social will share comments.
Come join us!
Tuesday, Oct 21 at 6:15pm on Campus Westend (SH1.101).
@fskelton.bsky.social and @soviele.bsky.social will share comments.
Come join us!
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Winter Well is on air BBC Radio 4 this week.
An audio guide to thriving in winter, with advice from medics, artists, poets and future-gazers on simple but effective ways to bring light into your life during the darkest part of the year.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@hesterparr.bsky.social
An audio guide to thriving in winter, with advice from medics, artists, poets and future-gazers on simple but effective ways to bring light into your life during the darkest part of the year.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@hesterparr.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Winter Well is on air BBC Radio 4 this week.
An audio guide to thriving in winter, with advice from medics, artists, poets and future-gazers on simple but effective ways to bring light into your life during the darkest part of the year.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@hesterparr.bsky.social
An audio guide to thriving in winter, with advice from medics, artists, poets and future-gazers on simple but effective ways to bring light into your life during the darkest part of the year.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@hesterparr.bsky.social
A great issue!
📢New issue of TIBG📢
Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine.
22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine.
22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
October 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A great issue!
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Just received my copy of the open access Promise of Cultural Geography edited by @vickiezhang.bsky.social & @benandersongeog.bsky.social. Happy to have contributed!! Honestly, I'm surprised it survived the post, though: they saved me the trouble of opening anything 😄!
October 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Just received my copy of the open access Promise of Cultural Geography edited by @vickiezhang.bsky.social & @benandersongeog.bsky.social. Happy to have contributed!! Honestly, I'm surprised it survived the post, though: they saved me the trouble of opening anything 😄!
This is good. But, not good for some disciplines … it’s clearly part of a broader direction of travel in HE policy - to concentrate funding to subjects that align with ‘missions’/industrial strategy (it’ll be interesting how they manage fluctuations in international fee income re the levy)
UK government to reintroduce maintenance grants (rather than loans) for students from the lowest income families
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Targeted maintenance grants for students to be reintroduced
Disadvantaged students studying priority courses will benefit from extra financial support to access and excel in higher education.
www.gov.uk
September 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This is good. But, not good for some disciplines … it’s clearly part of a broader direction of travel in HE policy - to concentrate funding to subjects that align with ‘missions’/industrial strategy (it’ll be interesting how they manage fluctuations in international fee income re the levy)
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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...
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
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...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
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London launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social We’ll be thinking from the book about the politics of feeling in the post General Election/US Presidential election period. Eventbrite link below
September 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
London launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social We’ll be thinking from the book about the politics of feeling in the post General Election/US Presidential election period. Eventbrite link below
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Looking forward to discussing @benandersongeog.bsky.social & Anna Secor's brilliant new @goldsmithspress.bsky.social book, The Politics of Feeling, with the authors and @jemgilbert.bsky.social on 25th Nov - all welcome, register here 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 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Looking forward to discussing @benandersongeog.bsky.social & Anna Secor's brilliant new @goldsmithspress.bsky.social book, The Politics of Feeling, with the authors and @jemgilbert.bsky.social on 25th Nov - all welcome, register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
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Book launch workshop event with our colleagues @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @ajsecor.bsky.social entitled 'The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis'. The event in London, also involving Will Davies & Jeremy Gilbert, is on Tuesday November 25th:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
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 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Book launch workshop event with our colleagues @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @ajsecor.bsky.social entitled 'The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis'. The event in London, also involving Will Davies & Jeremy Gilbert, is on Tuesday November 25th:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
London launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social We’ll be thinking from the book about the politics of feeling in the post General Election/US Presidential election period. Eventbrite link below
September 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
London launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social We’ll be thinking from the book about the politics of feeling in the post General Election/US Presidential election period. Eventbrite link below