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Ben Anderson publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ben Anderson sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 122 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Ben Anderson D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ben Anderson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 50 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ben Anderson is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their academic work covers a range of topics within social sciences and psychology, with specific emphasis on geography, planning, and development, as well as clinical psychology and political science. The research spans various subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, and information systems.

Their scholarly contributions focus principally on geographies of human-animal interactions, misinformation and its impacts, digital education and society, spatial and cultural studies, urban planning and governance, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and environmental justice and health disparities.

Recent publications by Ben Anderson include:

  • "Affect and critique: A politics of boredom*" (2021) in Environment and Planning D Society and Space
  • "Forms and scenes of attachment: A cultural geography of promises" (2022) in Dialogues in Human Geography
  • "Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic" (2022) in Political Geography
  • "Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms" (2022) in Geographical Journal

Ben Anderson frequently publishes in venues such as Dialogues in Human Geography, Geographical Journal, Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, Environment and Planning D Society and Space, and Geographical Research.

Collaborations form a notable part of their work. Regular co-authors include Anna J. Secor, Beth Greenhough, Duncan Gillard, Kevin Grove, and Lauren Rickards, each contributing to shared scholarly endeavors with varying frequencies.

Best Publications

  • Affective atmospheres

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  • Preemption, precaution, preparedness: Anticipatory action and future geographies

    Ben Anderson

  • Assemblage and geography

    Ben Anderson;Colin McFarlane

  • Becoming and Being Hopeful: Towards a Theory of Affect

    Ben Anderson

  • Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions

    Ben Anderson

  • On assemblages and geography

    Ben Anderson;Matthew Kearnes;Colin McFarlane;Dan Swanton

  • Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography

    Ben Anderson;Paul Harrison

  • On Geography and Materiality

    Ben Anderson;John Wylie

  • The promise of non-representational theories.

    Ben Anderson;Paul Harrison

  • Affect and biopower: towards a politics of life

    Ben Anderson

  • Time-stilled space-slowed: how boredom matters

    Ben Anderson

  • Anticipating emergencies: Technologies of preparedness and the matter of security

    Peter Adey;Ben Anderson

  • Questioning affect and emotion

    Ben Anderson;Paul Harrison

  • Thinking with assemblage

    Colin McFarlane;Ben Anderson

  • Transcending without transcendence : utopianism and an ethos of hope.

    Ben Anderson

  • Slow emergencies: Temporality and the racialized biopolitics of emergency governance:

    Ben Anderson;Kevin Grove;Lauren Rickards;Matthew Kearnes

  • Recorded music and practices of remembering

    Ben Anderson

  • Matter(s) in social and cultural geography

    Ben Anderson;Divya Tolia-Kelly

  • Affect and Security: Exercising Emergency in ‘UK Civil Contingencies’

    Ben Anderson;Peter Adey

  • What Kind of Thing is Resilience

    Ben Anderson

  • Affect and Emotion

    Ben Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Langley
Paul Langley Durham University
John P. R. David
John P. R. David University of Sheffield
Mimi Sheller
Mimi Sheller Drexel University
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham Newcastle University
Tim Cresswell
Tim Cresswell University of Edinburgh
Michael F. Brown
Michael F. Brown University of Arizona
Marco Antonsich
Marco Antonsich Loughborough University

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