What are 'affects' and emotional 'atmospheres'?

Why are Geographers so enraptured by them?

How do they help us understand neoliberalism?

Might affects and emotions be mobilised to erode neoliberalism?

This interview relates to Professor Anderson's paper in Progress in Human Geography. You can read it here: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132515613167

Read more about him here: https://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?id=985

And follow him on Twitter: @BenAndersonGeog

[illustrative painting by Paolo Troilo https://www.troilo54.com/]