Dr George Burdon

Lecturer

PhD Geography (University of New South Wales, 2022)

MSc Human Geography: Society and Space (University of Bristol, 2017)

BSc (Hons) Geography with Study in Continental Europe (University of Bristol, 2015)

UNSW Canberra
School of Science

George Burdon joined the School of Science at UNSW Canberra in February 2022. George has a BSc in Geography from the University of Bristol; an MSc in Human Geography: Society & Space, also from the University of Bristol; and a PhD in Human Geography from UNSW. George has also studied at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and has previously held a post of Research Assistant at the Australian National University.

George is a human geographer whose work is informed by a sustained engagement with continental philosophy and social theory as well as an empirical interest in sound art, music and broader questions of sonic experience. As an early career researcher, George's emerging research record has made contributions to debates around concepts of affect, desire, atmosphere, media and subjectivity through drawing upon the philosophies of Baruch Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and others. These contributions have been articulated through analyses of ambient music, sound art projects and experimental composition. George's research has appeared in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, cultural geographies, and Social & Cultural Geography. 

Location
Room 334, Science North (Building 22), School of Science, UNSW Canberra, Campbell ACT 2600, Australia.
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    Burdon G, 2022, 'Against the Cynicism of Common Sense: Guattari and the Micropolitics of Expression', in Speculative Geographies, Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 205 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0691-6_13
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Burdon G, 2023, 'Immunological atmospheres: Ambient music and the design of self-experience', Cultural Geographies, 30, pp. 555 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14744740231167604
    Journal articles | 2022
    Burdon G, 2022, 'On being affected: Desire, passion, and the question of conatus after Spinoza and Deleuze', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47, pp. 682 - 694, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12526
    Journal articles | 2022
    Williams N; Burdon G, 2022, 'Writing subjectivity without subjecthood: the machinic unconscious of Nathalie Sarraute’s Tropisms', Social and Cultural Geography, 24, pp. 1403 - 1421, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2065694

My Teaching

George currently teaches on the following courses:

ZPEM3202 Cultural Geography (Unit convenor)

ZPEM2207 Social Geography (Unit convenor)

ZPEM1202 Geography 1B