Dr Anthony Ince
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, School Community Co-ordinator
School of Geography and Planning
- InceA@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29208 76014
- Glamorgan Building, Room Room 1.53, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA
- Media commentator
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am a geographer whose interests sit in the intersections of political and social geographies. 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.
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 mobility, and urban riots. I also draw from research and approaches beyond geography, especially political theory. My theoretical framework is driven principally by anarchist thought and practice, and I have been central in developing the field of anarchist geographies.
As Community Co-ordinator for the School of Geography and Planning, I lead on initiatives, events, and projects to enhance and strengthen community and collegiality among staff and students across the school.
Publication
2023
- Ince, A. 2023. 'Fishhook populism'? From the liberal centre to the far right and back again. Space and Polity (10.1080/13562576.2023.2196614)
- Ince, A., Boren, T. and Lindell, I. 2023. After riots: towards a research agenda on the long-term effects of urban unrest. Journal of Urban Affairs 45, pp. 84-101. (10.1080/07352166.2021.1898284)
2022
- Ince, A. 2022. Prefiguration: maginaries beyond revolution and the state.. In: Ballard, R. and Barnett, C. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Social Change.. Abingdon: Routledge
- Ince, A. 2022. Anti-Fascist Action and the transversal territorialities of militant anti-fascism in 1990s Britain. Antipode 54(2), pp. 482-502. (10.1111/anti.12768)
- Owen, J., Walker, A. and Ince, A. 2022. Editorial: uncomfortable geographies. Emotion, Space and Society 42, article number: 100871. (10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100871)
2021
- Barerra, G. and Ince, A. 2021. Society despite the state: an experiment in ‘Counterfactual Statism’. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 20(2), pp. 214-221.
2020
- Ferretti, F., Ince, A. and White, R. 2020. Malatesta in Brexitland: toward post-statist geographies of democracy. Theory in Action 13(1), pp. -., article number: 137. (10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2006)
2019
- Ince, A. 2019. Black flag mapping: emerging themes in anarchist geography. In: Levy, C. and Newman, S. eds. The Anarchist Imagination: Anarchism Encounters the Humanities and Social Sciences. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 146-162., (10.4324/9781315693163-9)
- Ince, A. and Bryant, H. 2019. Reading hospitality mutually. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37(2), pp. 216-235. (10.1177/0263775818774048)
- Ince, A. 2019. Fragments of an anti-fascist geography: interrogating racism, nationalism, and state power.. Geography Compass 13(3), article number: e12420. (10.1111/gec3.12420)
2017
- Ince, A. and Barrera de la Torre, G. 2017. Future (pre)histories of the state: on anarchy, archaeology, and the decolonial. In: Ferretti, F. et al. eds. Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges. Routledge Research in Historical Geography London: Routledge
- Ferretti, F., Barrera de la Torre, G., Ince, A. and Toro, F. 2017. Introduction. In: Ferretti, F. et al. eds. Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges. Routledge Research in Historical Geography London: Routledge, pp. 1.
- Araujo, E. et al. 2017. Beyond electoralism: reflections on anarchy, populism and the crisis of electoral politics. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 16(4), pp. 607-642.
2016
- Ince, A. and Barrera de la Torre, G. 2016. For post-statist geographies. Political Geography 55, pp. 10-19. (10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.04.001)
- Ince, A. and Hall, S. M. eds. 2016. Sharing economies in times of crisis: practices, politics and possibilites. Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy. London and New York: Routledge.
- Ince, A. and Hall, S. M. 2016. Introduction : sharing economies in times of crisis. In: Ince, A. and Hall, S. M. eds. Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis : Practices, Politics and Possibilities. Routeledge
- Barrera de la Torre, G. and Ince, A. 2016. Post-statist geographies and the future of geographical knowledge production. In: Springer, S., White, R. J. and Lopes de Souza, M. eds. The Radicalisation of Pedagogy: Anarchism, Geography and the Spirit of Revolt. Rowman and Littlefield
- Ince, A. 2016. Autonomy, territory, mobility: everyday (geo)politics in voluntary exchange networks. L'Espace Politique 1(28) (10.4000/espacepolitique.3779)
- Cumbers, A., Featherstone, D., MacKinnon, D., Ince, A. and Strauss, K. 2016. Intervening in globalization: the spatial possibilities and institutional barriers to labour’s collective agency. Journal of Economic Geography 16(1), pp. 93-108. (10.1093/jeg/lbu039)
2015
- Ince, A. 2015. From middle ground to common ground: self-management and spaces of encounter in organic farming networks. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105(4), pp. 824-840. (10.1080/00045608.2015.1039110)
- Ince, A., Featherstone, D., Cumbers, A., MacKinnon, D. and Strauss, K. 2015. British jobs for British workers? Negotiating work, nation, and globalisation through the Lindsey Oil Refinery disputes. Antipode 47(1), pp. 139-157. (10.1111/anti.12099)
2014
- Ince, A. 2014. The shape of geography to come. Dialogues in Human Geography 4(3), pp. 276-282. (10.1177/2043820614540852)
2012
- Ince, A. 2012. In the shell of the old: anarchist geographies of territorialisation. Antipode 44(5), pp. 1645-1666. (10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01029.x)
- Simon, S., Ince, A., Gavin, B., Jenny, P. and Adam, B. 2012. Anarchist geographies: a new burst of colour. Antipode 44(5), pp. 1591-1604.
- Featherstone, D., Ince, A., Mackinnon, D., Strauss, K. and Cumbers, A. 2012. Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 37(2), pp. 177-182. (10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00493.x)
2011
- Ince, A. 2011. Contesting the 'authentic' community: far-right spatial strategy and everyday responses in an era of crisis. Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization 11(1), pp. 6-26.
- MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A., Featherstone, D., Ince, A. and Strauss, K. 2011. Globalisation, labour markets and communities in contemporary Britain. Project Report. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Articles
- Ince, A. 2023. 'Fishhook populism'? From the liberal centre to the far right and back again. Space and Polity (10.1080/13562576.2023.2196614)
- Ince, A., Boren, T. and Lindell, I. 2023. After riots: towards a research agenda on the long-term effects of urban unrest. Journal of Urban Affairs 45, pp. 84-101. (10.1080/07352166.2021.1898284)
- Ince, A. 2022. Anti-Fascist Action and the transversal territorialities of militant anti-fascism in 1990s Britain. Antipode 54(2), pp. 482-502. (10.1111/anti.12768)
- Owen, J., Walker, A. and Ince, A. 2022. Editorial: uncomfortable geographies. Emotion, Space and Society 42, article number: 100871. (10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100871)
- Barerra, G. and Ince, A. 2021. Society despite the state: an experiment in ‘Counterfactual Statism’. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 20(2), pp. 214-221.
- Ferretti, F., Ince, A. and White, R. 2020. Malatesta in Brexitland: toward post-statist geographies of democracy. Theory in Action 13(1), pp. -., article number: 137. (10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2006)
- Ince, A. and Bryant, H. 2019. Reading hospitality mutually. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37(2), pp. 216-235. (10.1177/0263775818774048)
- Ince, A. 2019. Fragments of an anti-fascist geography: interrogating racism, nationalism, and state power.. Geography Compass 13(3), article number: e12420. (10.1111/gec3.12420)
- Araujo, E. et al. 2017. Beyond electoralism: reflections on anarchy, populism and the crisis of electoral politics. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 16(4), pp. 607-642.
- Ince, A. and Barrera de la Torre, G. 2016. For post-statist geographies. Political Geography 55, pp. 10-19. (10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.04.001)
- Ince, A. 2016. Autonomy, territory, mobility: everyday (geo)politics in voluntary exchange networks. L'Espace Politique 1(28) (10.4000/espacepolitique.3779)
- Cumbers, A., Featherstone, D., MacKinnon, D., Ince, A. and Strauss, K. 2016. Intervening in globalization: the spatial possibilities and institutional barriers to labour’s collective agency. Journal of Economic Geography 16(1), pp. 93-108. (10.1093/jeg/lbu039)
- Ince, A. 2015. From middle ground to common ground: self-management and spaces of encounter in organic farming networks. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105(4), pp. 824-840. (10.1080/00045608.2015.1039110)
- Ince, A., Featherstone, D., Cumbers, A., MacKinnon, D. and Strauss, K. 2015. British jobs for British workers? Negotiating work, nation, and globalisation through the Lindsey Oil Refinery disputes. Antipode 47(1), pp. 139-157. (10.1111/anti.12099)
- Ince, A. 2014. The shape of geography to come. Dialogues in Human Geography 4(3), pp. 276-282. (10.1177/2043820614540852)
- Ince, A. 2012. In the shell of the old: anarchist geographies of territorialisation. Antipode 44(5), pp. 1645-1666. (10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01029.x)
- Simon, S., Ince, A., Gavin, B., Jenny, P. and Adam, B. 2012. Anarchist geographies: a new burst of colour. Antipode 44(5), pp. 1591-1604.
- Featherstone, D., Ince, A., Mackinnon, D., Strauss, K. and Cumbers, A. 2012. Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 37(2), pp. 177-182. (10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00493.x)
- Ince, A. 2011. Contesting the 'authentic' community: far-right spatial strategy and everyday responses in an era of crisis. Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization 11(1), pp. 6-26.
Book sections
- Ince, A. 2022. Prefiguration: maginaries beyond revolution and the state.. In: Ballard, R. and Barnett, C. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Social Change.. Abingdon: Routledge
- Ince, A. 2019. Black flag mapping: emerging themes in anarchist geography. In: Levy, C. and Newman, S. eds. The Anarchist Imagination: Anarchism Encounters the Humanities and Social Sciences. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 146-162., (10.4324/9781315693163-9)
- Ince, A. and Barrera de la Torre, G. 2017. Future (pre)histories of the state: on anarchy, archaeology, and the decolonial. In: Ferretti, F. et al. eds. Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges. Routledge Research in Historical Geography London: Routledge
- Ferretti, F., Barrera de la Torre, G., Ince, A. and Toro, F. 2017. Introduction. In: Ferretti, F. et al. eds. Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges. Routledge Research in Historical Geography London: Routledge, pp. 1.
- Ince, A. and Hall, S. M. 2016. Introduction : sharing economies in times of crisis. In: Ince, A. and Hall, S. M. eds. Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis : Practices, Politics and Possibilities. Routeledge
- Barrera de la Torre, G. and Ince, A. 2016. Post-statist geographies and the future of geographical knowledge production. In: Springer, S., White, R. J. and Lopes de Souza, M. eds. The Radicalisation of Pedagogy: Anarchism, Geography and the Spirit of Revolt. Rowman and Littlefield
Books
- Ince, A. and Hall, S. M. eds. 2016. Sharing economies in times of crisis: practices, politics and possibilites. Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy. London and New York: Routledge.
Monographs
- MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A., Featherstone, D., Ince, A. and Strauss, K. 2011. Globalisation, labour markets and communities in contemporary Britain. Project Report. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Research
My research to date has engaged with a range of topics, largely in the Global North, across a number of interweaving empirical themes:
- Multiculturalism, migration, and living with diversity: this has included work on fascism and anti-fascism, encounters of difference, hospitality, and labour market change.
- Agency and grassroots mobilisation: exploring issues such as labour agency and social movements.
- Territory and the state in a shifting world: this has involved critical engagements with theories of the state and 'statism', and activist territorialities.
- Anarchist theory: exploring concepts such as autonomy, self-management and mutual aid as both analytical tools and normative agendas.
I welcome enquiries regarding PhD supervision on any area of my expertise.
Current and recent projects
The far right, antifascism and the production of political space - 2019-present
Partly funded by a British Academy / Leverhulme Trust small grant, this work orbits the overlaps, linkages and tensions between antifascist and far right spatial strategies. I have been exploring the spatial and strategic interactions between the far right and their opponents in order to explore forms of antifascism that engage critically but meaningfully with often-problematic popular imaginaries (e.g. nationhood) and 'mainstream' political-cultural values. In particular, I engage critically with notions of citizenship, 'civility' and the political centre, using antifascism as a lens for considering radical and alternative formations of civic virtue, especially at the local and neighbourhood scale.
'Post-statist' geographies - 2013-present
Working with Geronimo Barrera de la Torre (University of Texas - Austin), this theoretical project develops a new frame of reference for state theory in geography and beyond. Drawing from a constructively critical reading of anarchist and decolonial critiques of the modern state, this project seeks to decentre the state from our underlying assumptions about the world and our place in it. Our book, Society Despite the State: Reimagining Geographies of Order is due to be published in February 2024 by Pluto Press.
Urban riots: a comparative study of London (2011) and Stockholm (2013) - 2016-2020
This project (funded by FORMAS, the Swedish Research Council) is a collaboration with colleagues at Stockholm University, investigating the long-term legacies and impacts of urban riots on local communities. Using a comparative urban lens, the project is the first of its kind to investigate the diverse continuities and changes instigated by riots, incorporating the intersecting dimensions of policy, materiality, memory and agency.
Anti-Fascist Action and the spatial strategies of militant antifascism - 2018-2020
This is a small archival and oral history project (funded by Cardiff University), investigating the controversial but highly effective militant anti-fascism of Anti-Fascist Action in 1990s Britain. Critically assessing their ideology and carefully calculated spatial strategies can help to inform our understanding of progresive forms of working class whiteness in the contemporary period of heightened racial tension.
Global voluntary exchange networks: backpacking and mutual aid among strangers - 2013-2017
This project combined long-term ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews to investigate the production of global networks of informal mutual aid and hospitality among travellers and their hosts. Using case studies including couch-surfing, labour exchange networks, and hitchhiking, the project used the organisation of, and relations within, these moneyless economies to illuminate debates on encounter, hospitality, and mutuality in a global and mobile world.
Teaching
Modules taught include:
- Border Spaces (first year undergraduate option)
- Political Geography (second year undergraduate option)
- Spaces of Production: Economic Geography (second year undergraduate option)
- Human Geographies in Practice (module leader, core final year Human Geography module)
- Geographies of Race and Power (final year undergraduate option)
- Urban Theory Provocations (Postgraduate option)
- Various undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations
PhD Students
- Primary PhD supervisor for Owain Hanmer (with Prof Gary Bridge): Owain's work cuts across food geographies, political theory and political economy to investigate the contested politics of food through the lens of anarchism, pragmatism and the foundational economy. Owain successfully defended his thesis in December 2021.
- Second supervisor for Juan Usubillaga Narvaez (with Prof Aseem Inam): Using a comparative study of Bogota and Berlin, Juan's thesis studies the ways in which autonomous forms of urban activism constitute a form of urban design practice.
Biography
After completing an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Politics at the University of Liverpool, I won an Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 award to undertake a Masters and PhD at the School of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. My MA thesis investigated DIY forms of architecture and community planning among the 1970s squatting movement in London, and my doctoral research considered the spatial strategies of anarchist-inspired forms of horizontal community and workplace organisation.
At the completion of my PhD in 2010, I was employed on a Joseph Rowntree Foundation project at the University of Glasgow, working with Andrew Cumbers, David Featherstone, Danny MacKinnon and Kendra Strauss. This project used three case studies to explore the lived negotiations of, and responses to, migration and labour market change in the UK.
Following this, I took two years outside formal academic employment, travelling, working and volunteering across Europe and Asia. On my return to the UK, I secured a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University.
I came to Cardiff to join the School of Geography and Planning as a Lecturer in Human Geography in September 2015.
Professional memberships
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (awarded 2018)
Supervisions
I welcome expressions of interest for PhD supervision across the broad remit of my research specialisms. In particular, I am keen to hear from prospective PhD students interested in the following areas:
- Politics of migration and living in diversity
- Fascist and anti-fascist movements
- Anarchist politics and practice
Prospective students are also welcome to contact me about studies linked to other areas of my research expertise (please see 'research' and 'overview' tabs for more information).
Current supervision
Past projects
Owain Hanmer (2018-2021) Retirement and the everyday politics of commoning in urban gardens. Principal supervisor.