Books by Ben Anderson

In Encountering Affect, Ben Anderson explores why understanding affect matters and offers one account of affective life that hones in the different ways in which affects are ordered. Intervening in debates around non-representational theories, he argues that affective life is always-already 'mediated' - the never finished product of apparatuses.

Instead of an escape from or rejection of modernity, it finds that upland trampers and climbers contested what it meant to be modern, used those modern identities to make political claims on rural space and rural people, and sought to define what a more modern future society should be like.

Presenting an overview of non-representational theories and human geography, this book addresses the core concerns and themes of what appears as a disparate field of research, and demonstrates the widespread impact, both actual and potential, for various aspects of human geographic thought and practice.