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Professor Ben Anderson
Over the past ten years, Professor Ben Anderson's research has focused on how affects such as emergency, hope and fear are part of contemporary political and cultural life. His monograph on theories of affect – Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions (Routledge, 2014) – was published in 2014. Supported by a 2013 Phillip Leverhulme Prize, he is currently conducting a genealogy of the government of emergencies in the UK that focuses on the birth of the emergency state and the invention and formalisation of ordinary techniques for governing emergencies.
