Inconvenience, ambivalence, and abolition: A politics of attachment and detachment in geography

In this commentary, we explore the idea of detachment that see as central to Anderson's notion attachment but nevertheless does not take centre stage in paper. We situate attachment's antithesis, opposite, or negative, its structural condition and irretrievably interwoven with attachment. Through Berlant's recent writing, foreground ambivalence a way think about complexity attachment–detachment politics differences these processes. Then, draw on abolitionist writers like Gilmore Lewis highlight complicated intersection affective consider possible intellectual political stakes pursuing geography