Anthony Ince

I am a geographer whose interests cut across political and social geography. My work considers the politics of everyday life, and how people's negotiations of wider-scale processes (especially migration and globalisation) can inform agendas for social justice. Ultimately, I am interested in agency, and the geographical factors that enhance or inhibit people's abilities to collectively self-organise and self-manage their lives and communities. I draw from research and approaches beyond geography, especially radical political theory, and I have been central in developing the field of anarchist geographies. These threads run through both my research and much of my teaching activities.

This broad set of interlocking interests around agency and self-management has led me to conduct research on a range of empirical subjects, including far-right political movements, backpacking, labour migration, and the afterlives of urban riots. My current work, funded by fellowships from the British Academy and Independent Social Research Foundation, focuses on how working-class neighbourhoods navigate divisive, especially migration-related, political topics.