Angharad Closs Stephens
Biographic Data
| ID | 122333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angharad Closs Stephens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angharad Closs |
| FAMILY NAME | Stephens |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHENS A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7765-7276 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 353 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Fast slow: Imagining climate futures beyond the end of the world
This article addresses the call to ‘act now’ in response to climate change, in a context where ‘end-thinking’ appears dominant in popular culture and climate activism. Building on literature from Geography and International Relations, I develop an argument against the linear, globalised accounts of a homogenous future present in some of these calls, and argue for a focus on the affective and everyday register, and how people go about making their…
What Does Lauren Berlant Teach Us about Affect, Mediation, and Global Nationalism
In this article, I show how Berlant offers important resources for thinking about the relationship between affect, mediation and global nationalism, and for considering how to build alternative forms of belonging. These resources include: how they address people’s sense of belonging to an affective space, and how they map the affective states that form part of living in the present under late capitalism. In these ways, Berlant offers material for…
Towards scholar-activism: Transversal Relations, Dissent, and Creative Acts
What does it mean to be a scholar-activist or to pursue scholar-activism in the neoliberal university? Acknowledging how this concept of a ‘scholar-activist’ is often approached either cynically or idealistically, we ask how we might engage this figure otherwise: as one characterised by in-betweenness. We pursue the question of what it means to be a scholar-activist theoretically drawing on the work of Engin Isin, and empirically situated in the …
National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political
Identity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made central to understanding the global politics of nationalism. This book asks what difference it makes when we address national identity as principally an affective force? National Affects traces how ideas about ‘us and them’ take form in ordinary spaces, in ways that are both deeply felt and hardly noticeable, in studies…
Affect and the Response to Terror: Commemoration and Communities of Sense
This article examines affective responses to terror and the emergence of communities of sense in the commemoration of such attacks. We challenge the predominant framing of responses to terror which emphasize security and identity. We focus on the singular response by the city of Manchester in the aftermath of the 2017 Arena bombing, drawing on fieldwork conducted at the 1-year anniversary commemorative events. Our discussion focuses on the ways i…
Afterword: Language, Affect and Everyday Citizenship
In 2014, Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a party that was pivotal in campaigning for Britain leaving the European Union, told a story about feeling 'awkward' when he heard foreign languages spoken on a train.This was an anecdote delivered as part of a conference speech, made in anticipation of the 2014 European Elections.In it, he described the UK as feeling like 'a foreign land' because of immigration (Sparro…
Geopolitics and the Event: Rethinking Britain's Iraq War Through Art
Alan Ingram. Oxford, UK: Wiley, RGS Book Series, 2019. $39.95 paper (ISBN 9781119426059), $94.95 cloth (ISBN 9781119426004).Sixteen ye
The spaces and politics of affective nationalism
Over the last decade, affect has emerged as one of the most prominent concepts within human geography. More recently, scholars engaging with the nation have also drawn on insights from studies of affect to interrogate the ways in which relations between people and materially heterogeneous assemblages underpin national forms of identification, organisation and expression. This symposium aims to interrogate affective nationalism both as an analytic…
A hot afternoon
Togetherness after terror: The more or less digital commemorative public atmospheres of the Manchester Arena bombing's first anniversary
This article examines the forms and feelings of togetherness evident in both Manchester city centre and on social media during the first anniversary of the 22 May 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. To do this, we introduce a conceptual framework that conceives commemorative public atmospheres as composed of a combination of 'more or less digital' elements. We also present a methodological approach that combines the computational collection and analys…
Feeling “Brexit”: Nationalism and the Affective Politics of Movement
“Brexit” reveals the necessity of understanding the role of affect in political life, in particular in constituting ideas about nationality and in animating the politics of populism. This article discusses what “Brexit” felt like in the year following the UK vote—held on 23 June 2016—to leave the European Union through a performance called “The Populars” created and performed in 2017 by Volcano Theatre, in Swansea (Abertawe). In this paper, I dis…
Atmospheric memories: Affect and minor politics at the ten-year anniversary of the London bombings
The affective atmospheres of nationalism
What would it mean to understand nationalism as an atmosphere? This article makes a theoretical contribution to cultural geographical works on 'affective atmospheres' as well as to critical approaches to the study of nationalism by addressing this question. It examines how nationalism operates affectively and atmospherically through a discussion of the event of the London 2012 Olympic Games and the 'happy atmospheres' of being together that circu…
Urban Atmospheres: Feeling Like a City
Journal Article Urban Atmospheres: Feeling Like a City? Get access Angharad Closs Stephens Angharad Closs Stephens Durham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2015, Pages 99–101, https://doi.org/10.1111/ips.12082 Published: 11 March 2015
Reading Angharad Closs Stephens's The Persistence of Nationalism. From imagined communities to urban encounters
The Persistence of Nationalism
This is a book about the difficulties of thinking and acting politically in ways that refuse the politics of nationalism. The book offers a detailed study of how contemporary attempts by theorists of cosmopolitanism, citizenship, globalism and multiculturalism to go beyond nationalism often reproduce key aspects of a nationalist imaginary. It argues that the challenge of resisting nationalism will require more than a shift in the scale of politic…
The Persistence of Nationalism: From Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters
This is a book about the difficulties of thinking and acting politically in ways that refuse the politics of nationalism. The book offers a detailed study of how contemporary attempts by theorists of cosmopolitanism, citizenship, globalism and multiculturalism to go beyond nationalism often reproduce key aspects of a nationalist imaginary. It argues that the challenge of resisting nationalism will require more than a shift in the scale of politic…
Citizenship without Community
Politics through a Web: Citizenship and Community Unbound
What happens to citizenship when the nation and the state are no longer assumed to be the inevitable starting points from which politics is defined? This paper considers how a refusal of the nation as political community and a questioning of the state as guarantor of rights and responsibilities reconfigure our understandings of citizenship. We do this by taking as a metaphor and analytical entry point an art installation developed by artist Tomás…
Beyond Imaginative Geographies? Critique, Co-Optation, and Imagination in the Aftermath of the War on Terror
This paper considers the question of what it might mean to resist the 'imaginative geographies' of the War on Terror through a reading of the bestselling novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Reading this novel against the claim that we are now at the 'end' of the War on Terror, the paper engages with how we might move beyond what Derek Gregory described as the split geographies of 'us' and 'them', 'civilization' and 'barbarism' tha…
Time & Society Review of Books http: Tsrb.wordpress.com: Time and World Politics: Reimagining the Political
Citizenship without community: Time, design and the city1
This article engages with the concept of design as a way of re-working the standard understanding of citizenship as what takes place within a political community. In doing so, the paper draws on recent attempts to rethink citizenship as ‘acts’ rather than status and seeks to bring that work together with attempts at re-imagining community as ‘encounters’ and ‘confrontations’ rather than that which is contained within a bounded space. Specifically…
Weighing heavily in-between
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Terrorism and the Politics of Response: London in a time of terror
At 10.05 on 22 July 2005 UK anti-terrorist officers killed Jean Charles de Menezes on board a stationary underground train at Stockwell Station in South London by firing 11 rounds at close range (seven bullets entered his head, one bullet entered his shoulder and three bullets missed) (Daily Telegraph 2005). Five-and-a-half hours after the shooting, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair issued a statement in which he claimed that the ope…
Seven Million Londoners, One London”: National and Urban Ideas of Community in the Aftermath of the 7 July 2005 Bombings in London
This article explores the different ideas of community circulating in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London. Specifically, it compares the idea of a community in unity with a more cosmopolitan, urban idea of community. While these two ideas seem to present sharply different responses, the article questions the extent to which the cosmopolitan model offers an alternative to the nationalist idea of community. Drawing on various discus…
The affective atmospheres of nationalism
What would it mean to understand nationalism as an atmosphere? This article makes a theoretical contribution to cultural geographical works on 'affective atmospheres' as well as to critical approaches to the study of nationalism by addressing this question. It examines how nationalism operates affectively and atmospherically through a discussion of the event of the London 2012 Olympic Games and the 'happy atmospheres' of being together that circu…
Atmospheric memories: Affect and minor politics at the ten-year anniversary of the London bombings
Togetherness after terror: The more or less digital commemorative public atmospheres of the Manchester Arena bombing's first anniversary
This article examines the forms and feelings of togetherness evident in both Manchester city centre and on social media during the first anniversary of the 22 May 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. To do this, we introduce a conceptual framework that conceives commemorative public atmospheres as composed of a combination of 'more or less digital' elements. We also present a methodological approach that combines the computational collection and analys…
National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political
Identity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made central to understanding the global politics of nationalism. This book asks what difference it makes when we address national identity as principally an affective force? National Affects traces how ideas about ‘us and them’ take form in ordinary spaces, in ways that are both deeply felt and hardly noticeable, in studies…
Politics through a Web: Citizenship and Community Unbound
What happens to citizenship when the nation and the state are no longer assumed to be the inevitable starting points from which politics is defined? This paper considers how a refusal of the nation as political community and a questioning of the state as guarantor of rights and responsibilities reconfigure our understandings of citizenship. We do this by taking as a metaphor and analytical entry point an art installation developed by artist Tomás…
Seven Million Londoners, One London”: National and Urban Ideas of Community in the Aftermath of the 7 July 2005 Bombings in London
This article explores the different ideas of community circulating in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London. Specifically, it compares the idea of a community in unity with a more cosmopolitan, urban idea of community. While these two ideas seem to present sharply different responses, the article questions the extent to which the cosmopolitan model offers an alternative to the nationalist idea of community. Drawing on various discus…
Affect and the Response to Terror: Commemoration and Communities of Sense
This article examines affective responses to terror and the emergence of communities of sense in the commemoration of such attacks. We challenge the predominant framing of responses to terror which emphasize security and identity. We focus on the singular response by the city of Manchester in the aftermath of the 2017 Arena bombing, drawing on fieldwork conducted at the 1-year anniversary commemorative events. Our discussion focuses on the ways i…
Urban Atmospheres: Feeling Like a City
Journal Article Urban Atmospheres: Feeling Like a City? Get access Angharad Closs Stephens Angharad Closs Stephens Durham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2015, Pages 99–101, https://doi.org/10.1111/ips.12082 Published: 11 March 2015
Feeling “Brexit”: Nationalism and the Affective Politics of Movement
“Brexit” reveals the necessity of understanding the role of affect in political life, in particular in constituting ideas about nationality and in animating the politics of populism. This article discusses what “Brexit” felt like in the year following the UK vote—held on 23 June 2016—to leave the European Union through a performance called “The Populars” created and performed in 2017 by Volcano Theatre, in Swansea (Abertawe). In this paper, I dis…
Citizenship without community: Time, design and the city1
This article engages with the concept of design as a way of re-working the standard understanding of citizenship as what takes place within a political community. In doing so, the paper draws on recent attempts to rethink citizenship as ‘acts’ rather than status and seeks to bring that work together with attempts at re-imagining community as ‘encounters’ and ‘confrontations’ rather than that which is contained within a bounded space. Specifically…
The spaces and politics of affective nationalism
Over the last decade, affect has emerged as one of the most prominent concepts within human geography. More recently, scholars engaging with the nation have also drawn on insights from studies of affect to interrogate the ways in which relations between people and materially heterogeneous assemblages underpin national forms of identification, organisation and expression. This symposium aims to interrogate affective nationalism both as an analytic…
Citizenship without Community
Beyond Imaginative Geographies? Critique, Co-Optation, and Imagination in the Aftermath of the War on Terror
This paper considers the question of what it might mean to resist the 'imaginative geographies' of the War on Terror through a reading of the bestselling novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Reading this novel against the claim that we are now at the 'end' of the War on Terror, the paper engages with how we might move beyond what Derek Gregory described as the split geographies of 'us' and 'them', 'civilization' and 'barbarism' tha…
Reading Angharad Closs Stephens's The Persistence of Nationalism. From imagined communities to urban encounters
Towards scholar-activism: Transversal Relations, Dissent, and Creative Acts
What does it mean to be a scholar-activist or to pursue scholar-activism in the neoliberal university? Acknowledging how this concept of a ‘scholar-activist’ is often approached either cynically or idealistically, we ask how we might engage this figure otherwise: as one characterised by in-betweenness. We pursue the question of what it means to be a scholar-activist theoretically drawing on the work of Engin Isin, and empirically situated in the …
A hot afternoon
Seven Million Londoners, One London”: National and Urban Ideas of Community in the Aftermath of the 7 July 2005 Bombings in London
This article explores the different ideas of community circulating in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London. Specifically, it compares the idea of a community in unity with a more cosmopolitan, urban idea of community. While these two ideas seem to present sharply different responses, the article questions the extent to which the cosmopolitan model offers an alternative to the nationalist idea of community. Drawing on various discus…
Terrorism and the Politics of Response: London in a time of terror
At 10.05 on 22 July 2005 UK anti-terrorist officers killed Jean Charles de Menezes on board a stationary underground train at Stockwell Station in South London by firing 11 rounds at close range (seven bullets entered his head, one bullet entered his shoulder and three bullets missed) (Daily Telegraph 2005). Five-and-a-half hours after the shooting, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair issued a statement in which he claimed that the ope…
Weighing heavily in-between
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Time & Society Review of Books http: Tsrb.wordpress.com: Time and World Politics: Reimagining the Political
Citizenship without community: Time, design and the city1
This article engages with the concept of design as a way of re-working the standard understanding of citizenship as what takes place within a political community. In doing so, the paper draws on recent attempts to rethink citizenship as ‘acts’ rather than status and seeks to bring that work together with attempts at re-imagining community as ‘encounters’ and ‘confrontations’ rather than that which is contained within a bounded space. Specifically…
Beyond Imaginative Geographies? Critique, Co-Optation, and Imagination in the Aftermath of the War on Terror
This paper considers the question of what it might mean to resist the 'imaginative geographies' of the War on Terror through a reading of the bestselling novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Reading this novel against the claim that we are now at the 'end' of the War on Terror, the paper engages with how we might move beyond what Derek Gregory described as the split geographies of 'us' and 'them', 'civilization' and 'barbarism' tha…
Citizenship without Community
Politics through a Web: Citizenship and Community Unbound
What happens to citizenship when the nation and the state are no longer assumed to be the inevitable starting points from which politics is defined? This paper considers how a refusal of the nation as political community and a questioning of the state as guarantor of rights and responsibilities reconfigure our understandings of citizenship. We do this by taking as a metaphor and analytical entry point an art installation developed by artist Tomás…
The Persistence of Nationalism
This is a book about the difficulties of thinking and acting politically in ways that refuse the politics of nationalism. The book offers a detailed study of how contemporary attempts by theorists of cosmopolitanism, citizenship, globalism and multiculturalism to go beyond nationalism often reproduce key aspects of a nationalist imaginary. It argues that the challenge of resisting nationalism will require more than a shift in the scale of politic…
The Persistence of Nationalism: From Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters
This is a book about the difficulties of thinking and acting politically in ways that refuse the politics of nationalism. The book offers a detailed study of how contemporary attempts by theorists of cosmopolitanism, citizenship, globalism and multiculturalism to go beyond nationalism often reproduce key aspects of a nationalist imaginary. It argues that the challenge of resisting nationalism will require more than a shift in the scale of politic…
Reading Angharad Closs Stephens's The Persistence of Nationalism. From imagined communities to urban encounters
Urban Atmospheres: Feeling Like a City
Journal Article Urban Atmospheres: Feeling Like a City? Get access Angharad Closs Stephens Angharad Closs Stephens Durham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2015, Pages 99–101, https://doi.org/10.1111/ips.12082 Published: 11 March 2015
The affective atmospheres of nationalism
What would it mean to understand nationalism as an atmosphere? This article makes a theoretical contribution to cultural geographical works on 'affective atmospheres' as well as to critical approaches to the study of nationalism by addressing this question. It examines how nationalism operates affectively and atmospherically through a discussion of the event of the London 2012 Olympic Games and the 'happy atmospheres' of being together that circu…
Atmospheric memories: Affect and minor politics at the ten-year anniversary of the London bombings
Feeling “Brexit”: Nationalism and the Affective Politics of Movement
“Brexit” reveals the necessity of understanding the role of affect in political life, in particular in constituting ideas about nationality and in animating the politics of populism. This article discusses what “Brexit” felt like in the year following the UK vote—held on 23 June 2016—to leave the European Union through a performance called “The Populars” created and performed in 2017 by Volcano Theatre, in Swansea (Abertawe). In this paper, I dis…
Geopolitics and the Event: Rethinking Britain's Iraq War Through Art
Alan Ingram. Oxford, UK: Wiley, RGS Book Series, 2019. $39.95 paper (ISBN 9781119426059), $94.95 cloth (ISBN 9781119426004).Sixteen ye
The spaces and politics of affective nationalism
Over the last decade, affect has emerged as one of the most prominent concepts within human geography. More recently, scholars engaging with the nation have also drawn on insights from studies of affect to interrogate the ways in which relations between people and materially heterogeneous assemblages underpin national forms of identification, organisation and expression. This symposium aims to interrogate affective nationalism both as an analytic…
A hot afternoon
Togetherness after terror: The more or less digital commemorative public atmospheres of the Manchester Arena bombing's first anniversary
This article examines the forms and feelings of togetherness evident in both Manchester city centre and on social media during the first anniversary of the 22 May 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. To do this, we introduce a conceptual framework that conceives commemorative public atmospheres as composed of a combination of 'more or less digital' elements. We also present a methodological approach that combines the computational collection and analys…
Affect and the Response to Terror: Commemoration and Communities of Sense
This article examines affective responses to terror and the emergence of communities of sense in the commemoration of such attacks. We challenge the predominant framing of responses to terror which emphasize security and identity. We focus on the singular response by the city of Manchester in the aftermath of the 2017 Arena bombing, drawing on fieldwork conducted at the 1-year anniversary commemorative events. Our discussion focuses on the ways i…
Afterword: Language, Affect and Everyday Citizenship
In 2014, Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a party that was pivotal in campaigning for Britain leaving the European Union, told a story about feeling 'awkward' when he heard foreign languages spoken on a train.This was an anecdote delivered as part of a conference speech, made in anticipation of the 2014 European Elections.In it, he described the UK as feeling like 'a foreign land' because of immigration (Sparro…
National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political
Identity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made central to understanding the global politics of nationalism. This book asks what difference it makes when we address national identity as principally an affective force? National Affects traces how ideas about ‘us and them’ take form in ordinary spaces, in ways that are both deeply felt and hardly noticeable, in studies…
What Does Lauren Berlant Teach Us about Affect, Mediation, and Global Nationalism
In this article, I show how Berlant offers important resources for thinking about the relationship between affect, mediation and global nationalism, and for considering how to build alternative forms of belonging. These resources include: how they address people’s sense of belonging to an affective space, and how they map the affective states that form part of living in the present under late capitalism. In these ways, Berlant offers material for…
Towards scholar-activism: Transversal Relations, Dissent, and Creative Acts
What does it mean to be a scholar-activist or to pursue scholar-activism in the neoliberal university? Acknowledging how this concept of a ‘scholar-activist’ is often approached either cynically or idealistically, we ask how we might engage this figure otherwise: as one characterised by in-betweenness. We pursue the question of what it means to be a scholar-activist theoretically drawing on the work of Engin Isin, and empirically situated in the …
Fast slow: Imagining climate futures beyond the end of the world
This article addresses the call to ‘act now’ in response to climate change, in a context where ‘end-thinking’ appears dominant in popular culture and climate activism. Building on literature from Geography and International Relations, I develop an argument against the linear, globalised accounts of a homogenous future present in some of these calls, and argue for a focus on the affective and everyday register, and how people go about making their…
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