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Anna Secor

@ajsecor.bsky.social
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Geographer and more - The Politics of Feeling (Goldsmiths Press, 2025) — Love & Catastrophe (Edinburgh U Press 2026) — spacetimeunconscious - Durham University

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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What happens when cultural geographers talk about love? They talk about rocks, mushrooms, glaciers, revolution, landscape, film, literature, deindustrialisation and more! New book open access from @edinburghup.bsky.social !
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stilllife @stilllife0.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Today is official publication day for Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe, edited by @ajsecor.bsky.social @mikkojorge.bsky.social and myself, and published by @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE TEXT FOR FREE via the EUP web page edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cultura...
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Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe
Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Feel like reality itself is under attack? Wondering how fantasy-geopolitics has taken hold and how to fight it? You might find some ideas in my recent article!
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Erin Torkelson, Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers - @dukepress.bsky.social, May 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/predatory-we...
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Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
On the horror of our times and what it means to feel like you’re on the darkest timeline: my 2025 Political Geography Plenary, at last out from embargo with three brilliant commentaries and my response: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @squirerachael.bsky.social @politicalgeography.bsky.social
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2025 Political Geography Plenary: On the bad timeline: Dissociative geo-politics in the time of Trump
Distortion, unreality, a confusion of perspective: it is hard to shake the feeling of “time out of joint” in the period since Trump's re-election to t…
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
www.redmayseattle.org/2026-schedule
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2026 SCHEDULE — Red May
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
We are hiring an Assistsnt Professor of Human Geography with a focus on Health. I’m happy to answer any questions. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Assistant Professor in Human Geography
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Yes to a radical bookshop in Newcastle! Help make it happen by contributing to this crowdfunder
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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
in case anyone missed it, my first article is out now in Progress in Human Geography: The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... FFO: posthumanism, postfoundational politics, Anthropocene Please share!
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I'll be taking part in this online event w/ @benandersongeog.bsky.social @ajsecor.bsky.social @jemgilbert.bsky.social to discuss the brilliant The Politics of Feeling - 11th April - register here www.eventbrite.com/e/the-politi...
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The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism
A launch event to mark the publication of The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism  by Ben Anderson and Anna J. Seccor
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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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 @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A scene from our The Politics of Feeling book launch in London - great discussion on fascist optimisms and nihilism, left structures of feelings, AI and Stranger Things with @ajsecor.bsky.social @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social
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Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Looking forward to this tomorrow!
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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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...
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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...
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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.
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
How exciting!
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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!
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
So excited to see our book in the wild! Thank you Jonny - the coffee pairing looks perfect!
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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...
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Associate Professor (Research %26 Education)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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/...
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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
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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
Book cover Goldsmiths Press The Politics of Feeling by Ben Anderson and Anna J Secor
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David Bissell @davidjbissell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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...
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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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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 09/04/2025
@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.
White writing against a black background with gold swirls: ‘Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life’. Circle cropped headshot of Professor Louise Amoore, Leverhulme Trust logo and URL leverhulme.ac.uk/news
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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...
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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
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Assistant or Associate Professor in Anthropology - Sociocultural
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Last call for Fantasies of Escape at the RGS-IBG 2025 conference! Deadline for abstracts is Friday.
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Noam Leshem @noamleshem.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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
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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, ...
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Lucas Pohl @lucaspohl.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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.
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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/...
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Dr Aslı Zengin - Durham University
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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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)
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Two Assistant Prof positions in Geography at Durham, deadline for applications next week!
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Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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...
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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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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We’re hiring two human geographers in the areas of environment, climate, and sustainability! Contact me with any questions.
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stilllife @stilllife0.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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.
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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 ...
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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...
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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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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We’re hiring two human geographers in the areas of environment, climate, and sustainability! Contact me with any questions.
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Rebecca Bramall @rfbramall.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
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...
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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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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
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.
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Assistant Professor (GEOG_01)
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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Poet and Novelist Heba Abu Nada, 32, Reported Dead in Israeli Bombardment arablit.org/2023/10/20/p... via @arablit.bsky.social
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Poet and Novelist Heba Abu Nada, 32, Reported Dead in Israeli Bombardment
Poet and novelist Heba Abu Nada, author of the novel Oxygen is Not for the Dead (2017), died under bombardment in Khan Yunis on Friday, the Palestinian Ministry of Culture announced. Born in Mecca ��...
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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
In fact, they were to do only the work which attracted them and were to live for beauty and love and were to follow whatever obsessions were theirs. #HarpSongForARadical #MYoung23 Sounds good to me!👍
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
I wrote a teaching tile for I-PEEL on cement. It is based on a lecture I developed for a “geographies of development” module a couple of years ago. i-peel.org/homepage/cement
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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
I think I’m a little in love with the Future Library, nested in Oslo’s gorgeous public library. I was surprised by how moved we can be by something we cannot fully access, by how affirming books written for another lifetime are. www.futurelibrary.no
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Future Library, 2014 - 2114
One thousand trees have been planted in Nordmarka, a forest just outside Oslo, which will supply paper for a special anthology of books to be printed in one hundred years t...
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
This is perverse. I’m supposed to ENJOY this?
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
This is what we needed! Thank you @farhana.bsky.social - feels like a new beginning!
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
“If the world is to be remade utterly, then a person must be willing to be remade also” - Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Okay I’m here, and I signed up for the Moby Dick bot - now what?
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