Dr Johan Andersson
Reader in Urban Cultural Geography
Research interests
- Geography
Biography
Dr Johan Andersson has an interdisciplinary background in the humanities and social sciences, with a BA in Comparative Literature and Art History from Stockholm University (2000) and a PhD in Urban Studies from University College London (2008).
After completing his PhD, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds and Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University New York. In 2013, he joined the Department of Geography at King’s.
Research
- Queer nightlife
- Cinema and the city
Johan's research interests span urban and cultural geography and currently focus on two main topics: 1) queer nightlife from the 1970s to the present; and 2) cinema and the city with a specific focus on Hollywood cinema in the postindustrial period
Teaching
Undergraduate
- 5SSG2056 Urban and Cultural Geography: Society, Space and Culture
- 5SSG2047 Field Research in Human & Development Geography – field trip to San Francisco
- 6SSG3074 Hollywood and the Postindustrial City
PhD supervision
Johan welcomes PhD applications on topics spanning across urban, cultural and social geography.
Further details
Research
Urban Futures research group
Examining urban futures through a conceptual, analytical and methodological lens that questions what cities are and how they work.
Queer@King's
Centre for research and teaching in gender and sexuality studies and a hub for collaborative work with queer activists, artists, and communities.
LGBTQ+ policymaking in the UK
Establishing an interdisciplinary network of academic, policymaking, and civil society stakeholders to address the policy needs of the UK’s LGBTQ+ population.
Project status: Ongoing
Geopolitics and Contested Development research group
Exploring geopolitics and contested development as locally contingent and globally interconnected processes shaped by the politics of colonialism.
Events
Berghain: landscape, affect, and sexual disorientation
Join Johan Andersson for this discussion on Berghain and its impact on sexual orientations and identity.
Please note: this event has passed.
Research
Urban Futures research group
Examining urban futures through a conceptual, analytical and methodological lens that questions what cities are and how they work.
Queer@King's
Centre for research and teaching in gender and sexuality studies and a hub for collaborative work with queer activists, artists, and communities.
LGBTQ+ policymaking in the UK
Establishing an interdisciplinary network of academic, policymaking, and civil society stakeholders to address the policy needs of the UK’s LGBTQ+ population.
Project status: Ongoing
Geopolitics and Contested Development research group
Exploring geopolitics and contested development as locally contingent and globally interconnected processes shaped by the politics of colonialism.
Events
Berghain: landscape, affect, and sexual disorientation
Join Johan Andersson for this discussion on Berghain and its impact on sexual orientations and identity.
Please note: this event has passed.