Newcastle University

Research Interests

My research falls into four mains areas:
1. The idea of the West;
2. The politics and geography of nostalgia and memory;
3. The international history of anti-racism and 'whiteness';
4. The geographical theories of the European avant-garde.

A wide selection of Professor Bonnett's publications can be downloaded from Newcastle University's 'e-prints service'.

Postgraduate Supervision

I am happy to supervise PhD students across a broad range of social science and historical topics, including: social theory; social and cultural geography; occidentalism; whiteness; racialisation; anti-racism; ethnicity; nostalgia; psychogeography; the avant-garde; activism.

Current PhD Students:

Gillian Denny (2012-) 'Perpetrators of Racist Violence' (with Anoop Nayak) 

Alex Macleod (2011-)  'Occidentalism in 'Post-Western' South-East Asia'  ESRC DTC 3+1.5 (with Simon Philpott)

Robin Finlay (2011-) ‘Living with the Other’: Race, Religion and the Performance of Immigrant Identities in Grenada, Spain (ESRC 1+3) (with Anoop Nayak) 

Jennifer Lloyd (2011-) 'Embodied experiences of female transnationals' (ESRC 1+3 studentship) (with Peer Hopkins) 

Kevin Brice (2011-) 'White British Muslims' (with Peter Hopkins and Anoop Nayak) 

Samatha Coe (2009-) "Rules are not enough when goods conflict" (with Jane Pollard)

Francesca Fois (2013-) 'Utopian Communities' (with Helen Jarvis)

Some past PhD students:

Hazel Sheeky (2008-2012) AHRC Collaborative Studentship 'Children's Literature and the Culture of Exploration: from R.M. Ballantyne to Arthur Ransome' (with Matthew Grenby) 

Kate Botterill (2008-2011) Transnational networks and social mobility among migrant workers from the post-socialist world

Chris Kiernan (2004-2007)Sense of Places: Subjectivism, Reflexivity and Phenomenology (MPhil)

Simon Tate (2002-2007) The Idea of the West in British Politics

Jenny Pickerill (1999-2003)Environmental Activism and the Internet Funding

Andrew Law (1999-2003) Heritage Landscapes and the English Conservation Movement

Anoop Nayak (1996-1999) 'Ivory Lives': Race, Ethnicity and the Practice of Whiteness Amongst Young People

Projects: 

Urban Memory, Nostalgia and Use of the City Amongst Ex-residents of Tyneside. ESRC Research Grant (RES-000-22-3833) Jan. 2010-Jan. 2011
project website:
http://tynesidememories.mfbiz.com

Projects

• Urban Memory, Nostalgia and Use of the City Amongst Ex-Residents of Tyneside
  Project Leader(s): Professor Alastair Bonnett

Undergraduate Teaching

GEO2103 Globalization, Culture and Development
GEO3108 International and Historical Perspectives on Race

Postgraduate Teaching

Degree Programme Director for the MA in Human Geography Research
Courses led:
GEO8017 Human Geography: Concepts in Action
GEO8089 Research Dissertation
GEO8015 Doing Geographical Research

• Bonnett A. The Geography of Nostalgia: Global and Local Perspectives on Modernity and Loss. London: Routledge, 2014. In Preparation.
• Bonnett A, Alexander C. Mobile nostalgias: connecting visions of the urban past, present and future amongst ex-residents. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2013, 38(3), 391-402.
• Jarvis H, Bonnett A. Progressive Nostalgia in Novel Living Arrangements: A Counterpoint to Neo-traditional New Urbanism?. Urban Studies 2013, 50(11), 2349-2370.
• Bonnett A. The agnostic Saladin. History Today 2013, 63(2), 48-51.
• Bonnett A. Geography: one of humanity's big ideas. Teaching Geography 2012, 37(3), 120-121.
• Bonnett A. Geography: what's the big idea?. Geography 2012, 97(1), 39-41.
• Bonnett A. The Critical Traditionalism of Ashis Nandy: Occidentalism and the Dilemmas of Innocence. Theory, Culture & Society 2012, 29(1), 138-157.
• Bonnett A. How to argue (third edition). Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2011.
• Bonnett A. ΓΕΩΓΡΑΦΙΑ: ΜΙΑ ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ [Geography: An Introduction]. Athens: Kritiki, 2010.
• Bonnett A. Left in the Past: Radicalism and the Politics of Nostalgia. New York: Continuum, 2010.
• Bonnett A. Radicalism, antiracism and nostalgia: the burden of loss in the search for convivial culture. Environment and Planning A 2010, 42(10), 2351-2369.
• Bonnett A. Asian Occidentalism and Rediscovered Modenities. In: Browning C, Lehti M, ed. The Struggle for the West: A Divided and Contested Legacy. London: Routledge, 2009.
• Bonnett A. Constructions of 'race', place and discipline: geographies of 'racial' identity and racism. In: M. Bulmer and J. Solomos, ed. Ethnic and Racial Studies Today. London: Routledge, 2009.
• Bonnett A. East/West. In: Kitchin R, Thrift N, ed. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 3. Oxford: Elsevier, 2009, pp.280-284.
• Bonnett A. Radicalism is nostalgia. In: Pugh, J, ed. What is Radical Politics Today?. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp.179-187.
• Bonnett A. The dilemmas of radical nostalgia in British pyschogeography'. Theory, Culture and Society 2009, 26(1), 45-70.
• Bonnett A. Thomas Spence, Property in Land Every One’s Right (1775). Labour History Review 2009, 74, 1, 134-136.
• Bonnett A. How to Argue: Essential Skills for Writing and Speaking Convincingly. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2008.
• Bonnett A. Shades of difference: African Native Americans. History Today 2008, 58(12), 40-42.
• Bonnett A. What does history teach us about eco-towns?. BBC History Magazine 2008, 9, 11, 18-19.
• Bonnett A. What is Geography?. London: Sage, 2008.
• Bonnett A. White studies revisited. Ethnic and Racial Studies 2008, 31(1), 185-196.
• Bonnett A. Whiteness and the west. In: Dwyer C; Bressey C, ed. New Geographies of Race and Racism. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, pp.17-28.
• Bonnett A. Radical nostalgia. History Today 2007, 57, 2, 41-2.
• Bonnett A. The other Rights of Man. History Today 2007, 57, 9, 42-48.
• Bonnett A. 'Re-thinking Asia: Multiplying Modernity'. In: Delanty G, ed. Europe and Asia Beyond East and West: towards a new cosmopolitanism. London: Routledge, 2006, pp.269-283.
• Bonnett A. Pale face, red mask: racial ambiguity and the imitation of 'American Indian' facial expressions. Cultural Politics 2006, 2(3), 319-338.
• Bonnett A. The Americanisation of anti-racism? Global power and hegemony in ethnic equity. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2006, 32(7), 1083-1103.
• Bonnett A. The Nostalgias of Situationist Subversion. Theory, Culture and Society 2006, 23(5), 23-48.
• Bonnett A. From the crises of whiteness to Western supremacism. Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Journal 2005, 1(1), 8-20.
• Bonnett A. Occidentalism and plural modernities: or how Fukuzawa and Tagore invented the West. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2005, 23(4), 505-525.
• Bonnett A. The international politics of race. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2005, 31(2), 417-418.
• Bonnett A. Whiteness. In: Atkinson D; Jackson P; Sibley D; Washbourne N, ed. Cultural Geography: A Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts. London: I.B.Tauris, 2005, pp.109-114.
• Bonnett A. 'Anti-racism' and 'Whiteness'. In: Cashmore, E, ed. Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies. London: Routledge, 2004, pp.32-35 and 451-454.
• Bonnett A. Occidentalism. History Today 2004, 54(10), 40-41.
• Bonnett A. The Idea of the West: Culture, Politics and History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• Bonnett A. Earth to academia: on the need to reconnect university and school geography - Response to Stannard. Area 2003, 35(3), 323-324.
• Bonnett A. From white to western: 'racial decline' and the idea of the West in Britain, 1890-1930. Journal of Historical Sociology 2003, 16(3), 320-348.
• Bonnett A, Nayak A. Geographies of race and racialization: The territory of race. In: Anderson K; Domosh M; Pile S; Thrift N, ed. The Handbook of Cultural Geography. London: Sage, 2003, pp.300-312.
• Bonnett A. Geography as the world discipline: connecting popular and academic geographical imaginations. Area 2003, 35(1), 55-63.
• Laurie ND, Bonnett A. Adjusting to equity: The contradictions of neoliberalism and the search for racial equality in Peru. Antipode 2002, 34(1), 28-53.
• Bonnett A. Communists like us: ethnicized modernity and the idea of 'the West' in the Soviet Union. Ethnicities 2002, 2(4), 435-467.
• Bonnett A. Makers of the West: National identity and occidentalism in the work of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Ziya Gokalp. Scottish Geographical Journal 2002, 118(3), 165-182.
• Bonnett A. The metropolis and white modernity. Ethnicities 2002, 2(3), 349-366.
• Bonnett A. A white world? White identities in Latin America and Japan. In: Levine-Rasky C, ed. Working Through Whiteness: International Perspectives. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001, pp.69-106.
• Carrington B, Bonnett A, Demaine J, Hall IR, Nayak A, Short G, Skelton CS, Smith F, Tomlin RI. Ethnicity and the professional socialisation of teachers. Teacher Training Agency, 2001. 0701701145 (ISBN).
• Bonnett A. How to Argue: A Students' Guide. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2001.
• Carrington B, Bonnett A, Nayak A, Short G, Skelton CS, Smith F, Tomlin RI, Demaine J. Teacher education and the question of ethnicity. In: Demaine J, ed. Sociology of Education Today. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, pp.100-118.
• Bonnett A. Alternative film or other film: in and against the West with Trin Minh-ha. In: Crang M; Thrift N, ed. Thinking Space. London: Routledge, 2000, pp.349-359.
• Bonnett A. Anti-racism. London: Routledge, 2000.
• Bonnett A. Definitions of: 'Dust', 'Supermarkets', 'Graveyards', 'Buses'. In: Pile S; Thrift N, ed. City A/Z: Urban Fragments. London: Routledge, 2000.
• Bonnett A, Carrington B. Fitting into categories or falling between them? Rethinking ethnic classification. British Journal of Sociology of Education 2000, 21(4), 487-500.
• Tomlin RI, Carrington B, Bonnett A, Nayak A. The recruitment of new teachers from minority ethnic groups. International Studies in Sociology of Education 2000, 10(1), 3-22.
• Bonnett A. White Identities: Historical and International Perspectives. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2000.
• Bonnett A. Whiteness in crisis. History Today 2000, 50, 12, 39-40.
• Bonnett A. Constructions of 'race', place and discipline: geographies of 'racial' identity and racism. In: in M. Bulmer and J. Solomos, ed. Ethnic and Racial Studies Today. London: Routledge, 1999.
• Bonnett A. Constructions of whiteness in anti-racism. In: Torres R; Miron L; Inda J, ed. Race, Identity and Citizenship: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999, pp.200-218.
• Bonnett A. Definitions of: 'Male' 'masculinities' 'mythopetic men's movement', 'myth/mythology', 'laddism', 'new age'. In: Mc Dowell; Sharp J, ed. The Feminist Glossary of Human Geography. London: Arnold, 1999.
• Bonnett A. Situationist strategies and mutant technologies. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities 1999, 4(2), 25-32.
• Bonnett A. How the British working class became white: the symbolic (re)formation of racialized capitalism. Journal of Historical Sociology 1998, 11(3), 316-340.
• Bonnett A. Who was white? The disappearance of non-European white identities and the formation of European racial whiteness. Ethnic and Racial Studies 1998, 21(6), 1029-1055.
• Bonnett A. Constructions of whiteness in British and North American anti-racism. In: Werbner P; Modood T, ed. Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multi-Cultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism. London: Zed Press, 1997, pp.178-189.
• Bonnett A. Geography, 'race' and whiteness: invisible traditions and current challenges. Area 1997, 29(3), 193-199.
• Carrington B, Bonnett A. The Other Canadian 'Mosaic' - 'race' equity education in Ontario and British Columbia. Comparative Education 1997, 33(3), 411-431.
• Bonnett A. Anti-racism and the critique of 'white' identities. New Community 1996, 22, 1, 97-110.
• Bonnett A. Constructions of 'race', place and discipline: Geographies of 'racial' identity and racism. Ethnic and Racial Studies 1996, 19(4), 864-883.
• Bonnett A, Carrington B. Constructions of anti-racist education in Britain and Canada. Comparative Education 1996, 32(3), 271-288.
• Scutt R, Bonnett A. In Search of England: Popular Representations of Englishness and the English Countryside. Newcastle: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1996. CRE Working Paper 22.
• Bonnett A. The new primitives: identity, landscape and cultural appropriation in the mythopoetic men's movement. Antipode 1996, 28, 3, 273-291.
• Bonnett A. The situationist legacy. In: S. Home, ed. What is Situationism? A Reader. Edinburgh: AK Press, 1996.
• Bonnett A. The transgressive geographies of daily life: socialist pathways in everyday urban spatial creativity. Transgressions 1996, 2/3, 20-37.
• Bonnett A. White studies: the problems and opportunities of a new research agenda. Theory, Culture and Society 1996, 13, 2, 145-155.
• Bonnett A. Contours of crisis: antiracism and reflexivity. In: P. Jackson and J. Penrose, ed. Constructions of Race, Place and Nation. London: UCL Press, 1993.
• Bonnett A. Forever white? challenges and alternatives to a racial monolith. New Community 1993, 20, 173-180.
• Bonnett A. Radicalism, Anti-racism and Representation. London: Routledge, 1993.
• Bonnett A. The formation of public professional radical consciousness: the example of anti-racism. Sociology 1993, 27, 281-297.
• Bonnett A. America' multicultural panic. Forum 1992, 34, 3, 71-72.
• Bonnett A. Art, ideology and everyday space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 1992, 10, 69-86.
• Bonnett A. Anti-racism as a radical educational ideology in London and Tyneside. Oxford Review of Education 1990, 16, 255-267.
• Bonnett A. Situationism, geography and poststructuralism. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 1989, 7, 131-146.