Staff profile

My research explores the affective presence of climate change. I am particularly interested in how climate futures - whether apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic or resilient - are imagined, anticipated, governed and experimented with. My PhD examined how climate futures are imagined by contemporary social movement, Extinction Rebellion UK. Throughout this project, I used speculative methodologies to explore how futures are (re)made amidst the breakdown of our climate.

As a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Leverhulme Trust funded project 'Unfeeling climate change: Disaffection and the climate crisis', I explore how individuals remain unmoved by the accelerating intensity of climate change. Focused on emotions such as boredom, numbness and resignation, this research concerns 'disaffected feelings' and how they surface in climate (in)action. 

• Climate Futures
• Climate Change
• Climate Governance
• Future Geographies
• Queer Theory

Journal Article

• How do you critique activists? Some reflections on doing environmentalism badly
  
  Robson, A. (2026). How do you critique activists? Some reflections on doing environmentalism badly. Social & Cultural Geography. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2026.2650167
• Troubling times: Climate crisis, future geographies and queer theory
  
  Robson, A. (2025). Troubling times: Climate crisis, future geographies and queer theory. Progress in Environmental Geography, 4(3), 298-319. https://doi.org/10.1177/27539687251355273
• Before it's too late: The extinction script, multi‐species reproductive futurism and Extinction Rebellion
  
  Robson, A. (2025). Before it’s too late: The extinction script, multi‐species reproductive futurism and Extinction Rebellion. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.70018
• Reckoning with landscape tensions, reflecting on creative methodologies
  
  Robson, A. (2025). Reckoning with landscape tensions, reflecting on creative methodologies. Cultural Geographies, 32(1), 37-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241274281