Ben Anderson

A really thoughtful, generous review of The Politics of Feeling! Huge thanks to Sharon

Farewell to William E. Connolly We are very sad to learn of the death of William E. Connolly earlier this week at the age of 88. Connolly was the author of six books with Duke University Press, the subject on an edited collection…

Very sad news. A truly inspirational intellectual, always thinking with rigour, creativity, and urgency. But also a wonderfully generous and engaged person - his visits to Durham are remembered years later

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New paper on ‘detachment’ as (non)relation, which is partly an intervention into debates around relations/relationality, and partly the latest in a series on attachment-detachment. In Progress in Human Geography

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New paper on ‘detachment’ as (non)relation, which is partly an intervention into debates around relations/relationality, and partly the latest in a series on attachment-detachment. In Progress in Human Geography

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Excellent piece on why geography matters

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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

important commentary!!!

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The politics of student loans becoming a public issue now is interesting - obviously the interest levels are ridiculous in context of crises affecting young people, but also about waning faith in University attendance as a form of security, plus a longer term q of the purpose of universities

Thanks for the kind words on the collection. I think your response, and all kinds of other responses, is exactly what we hoped for, and fits the ‘not a handbook’ aim

U.K. universities are completely unprepared for the significant policy shocks (and I suspect huge loss of funding) we will face if there is a Reform government … the discourse is entirely hostile, and is now ramping up e.g. this nonsense

Session on The Geographies of Intensity at RGS-IBG 2026, with @amyrobson.bsky.social & @dannymcnally.bsky.social Themes include theorising intensity, cultures and economies of intensity, and the politics of intensity. Abstracts due to me for 20th feb

I wrote a blog on images and cultural geography, prompted by an essay in an excellent collection convened by @benandersongeog.bsky.social @vickiezhang.bsky.social available here: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/473927627/DIGITAL-Promises_revised_5Sep25.pdf

Part of a series of papers on attachment and detachment; this is a piece in a different style that means a lot to me. The north east, a brass bell, and me … in cultural geographies

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@benandersongeog.bsky.social @amyrobson.bsky.social and I are running a session on intensity and geography at the RGS-IBG this year - cfp details below

Session on The Geographies of Intensity at RGS-IBG 2026, with @amyrobson.bsky.social & @dannymcnally.bsky.social Themes include theorising intensity, cultures and economies of intensity, and the politics of intensity. Abstracts due to me for 20th feb

There was weak/no attachment to labour/Starmerisn, but if Reform do get in the starting point will be considerable hostility amongst large parts of the electorate (in particular to Farage)

Great work! Congrats : )

Quite literally the logic

The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism Join us for this public event, co-hosted by HCRI and UoM Geography.

Fun to talk at Sheffield this week on the Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social Talk in Manchester in a couple of weeks - sign up below. We love the questions and discussion about the book, so get in touch if you’d like us to speak on it.

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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

‘Academic work’. Contemptible

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Absolutely this! Modules with the same prescribed form, team taught, substitutable and therefore replacable staff (often done in the name of ‘workload’)

Amid the cruelty of the present, it’s hard not to be struck sometimes by its utter absurdity eg the head of FIFA, governing body for football, pledging its support for Trump’s ‘board of peace’ 🤯

New papers - on events, with some wonderful collaborators!

No better feeling as a journal editor than getting the ‘reviewer agreed’ notification!

Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

Thanks! Hopefully get to talk at some point about the resonances and differences with your fascist passions work

The Politics of Feeling by Ben Anderson, Anna J. 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...

Lots of rich ideas about the affective structures that animate Anglo-American politics here. Deserves to be widely read.

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Screenshot of the front page of an article published in the journal Social and Cultural Geography called Remapping the body: an autoethnography of pain, paraesthesia, and the co-production of functional neurological symptoms

New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Final issue of the year - and so much great work! More next year : )

Fantastic that a long interview with @ajsecor.bsky.social and I is the cover story for the January issue of Byline Times - was a pleasure to talk to Hardeep and Peter about the ideas in the The Politics of Feeling! @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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