Towards an affective post-foundational political geography

Abstract

This paper develops an affective post-foundational political geography to better attend to how affects might shape, and be shaped by, political processes. It foregrounds (extra)ordinary affects, sensory experiences, and atmospheres as central to how politics is felt, encountered, and experienced in nonlinear ways that exceed discourse. Attuning to affects, this paper enables human geographers to better engage with ordinary events as they unfold, traverse political registers, and potentially surface in extraordinary moments. This framework offers epistemological insight into how difference can be affectively registered and negotiated within political processes, while building points of connection between critical geography and activist praxis.