Autochthony, affect and education: reimagining belonging after Brexit

This provocation examines how Brexit has revived autochthony—claims to native belonging—reshaping emotional attachments to space, identity, and nation. Drawing on geographic and affect theory, it explores how far-right narratives mobilise affect in education, a key site of tension around belonging and exclusion. Using Nancy Fraser’s progressive populism and affective pedagogy, it calls for educational responses that resist exclusionary imaginaries and build solidarity across difference.