
Alastair Bonnett
alastair.bonnett@ncl.ac.uk
Books, Articles, Press Coverage
Books From 2020
Bonnett, A. (2020. Paperback 2021) The Age of Islands: In Search of New and Disappearing Islands (Atlantic, UK; Beck, Germany; Face, Taiwan; Fontaine, Netherlands; Blackie Books, Spain, expanded edition). Also published as Elsewhere: A Journey into Our Age of Islands (2020, University of Chicago Press). Audio book: Orion Audiobooks, read by Damian Lynch, 2021
Bonnett, A. (2022) Multiracism: Rethinking Racism in Global Context (Polity, Cambridge). Japanese edition; forthcoming (Akashi Shoten, Tokyo); German edition (2024, Unrast Verlag, MĂŒnster)
Bonnett, A. (2023) How to Be Original: Transform Your Assignments and Achieve Better Grades (London, Sage)
Bonnett, A. (2023) How to Argue: Fourth Edition (London, Sage)
Bonnett, A. (2023) What is Geography? Second Edition (Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield)
Bonnett, A. (2024) 40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World (London, Ivy Press); (2026) paperback (London, Ivy Press)
Bonnett, A. (2025) Extraordinary Islands: An Atlas of Unlikely Places (London, Ivy Press)
Bonnett, A. (2026) New Ruins: The Story of the World in 21 Abandoned and Collapsing Places (London, Ivy Press/Quarto)
Bonnett, A. (Jan., 2027) Natureâs Return: How Environmental Nostalgia is Shaping the World (Polity, Cambridge)
Recent Articles
Bonnett, A. âRuins in orbitâ, Geographical, July, 2026.
Bonnett, A. âA million more teachers: Building human-centric skills in small-group teachingâ, Times Higher Education, 25 June 2026, https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/million-more-teachers-building-humancentric-skills-smallgroup-teaching
Bonnett, A (2026) âHow âecoâdystopianâ novels from Asia and Africa are pushing boundariesâ, 2 April, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/how-eco-dystopian-novels-from-asia-and-africa-are-pushing-boundaries-275264
Bonnett, A. (2026) âUn homenaje a la naturaleza y un monumento al capitalâ, Revista Santiago, 16 March, revistasantiago.cl/fragmentos/un-homenaje-a-la-naturaleza-y-un-monumento-al-capital
Bonnett, A. (2025) âWhat geography lessons will look like in 2075â, Teaching Geography, 50, 3, 97-99.
Bonnett, A. âForewordâ (2025), Mapping the Mountains by Andrew Davies (DMFF, Klimmen)
Hopkins, P. and Bonnett, A. (2025) âUnderstanding the 2024 UK riotsâ, Geographical Journal, e70047, DOI: 10.1111/geoj.70047
Bonnett, A. âForewordâ , in ‘The Power of Geography’, [Korean edition of What is Geography?], 2025, Haenam Edu, Seoul
âBonnett, A. Anti-environmentalism is on the rise but itâs full of contradictionsâ, The Conversation, May 22, 2025, https://theconversation.com/anti-environmentalism-is-on-the-rise-but-its-full-of-contradictions-256911
Bonnett, A. âThe curious geography of timeâ, The Geographical, April, 2025, https://geographical.co.uk/news/the-curious-geography-of-time
Bonnett, A. (2025) âThe mapping revolutionâ, Geography, 110, 1, 45-48, https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2024.2437951
Bonnett, A. âThe worldâs most unruly places: Sealandâ, Gonomad, 18 December 2024, https://www.gonomad.com/5627-sealand-unruly-places-alastair-bonnett
Bonnett, A. âThe strange life and peculiar death of a âlow traffic neighbourhoodââ, The QT, May 2024, https://theqt.online/author/alastairbonnett2/ Download:
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Bonnett, A. âNine Books about Island Adventuresâ, April, 2024, https://booklisti.com/alastairbonnett
Bonnett, A. âWe need a functioning, lively mediaâ, The QT: The New Voice for the North East, 28 March 2024, https://theqt.online/have-i-got-news-for-you/
Bonnett, A. âNew islands are being built at sea â but they wonât help millions made homeless by sea-level riseâ, The Conversation, 20 March, 2024, https://theconversation.com/new-islands-are-being-built-at-sea-but-they-wont-help-millions-made-homeless-by-sea-level-rise-225727
Bonnett, A. âThe Future of Geography: Key Trends for the Next 50 yearsâ, Geographical Association Magazine, 56, Spring 2024.
Bonnett, A. âHow to Make a Cogent Argumentâ, Methodspace, December 2023, https://www.methodspace.com/blog/how-to-make-a-cogent-argument
Bonnett, A. ‘The problem with equity, diversity and inclusion in a multiracist world’. Times Higher Education. 19 October, 2023, https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/problem-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-multiracist-world
Bonnett, A. âWriting for general audiencesâ, Guides for Researchers: Communicating Beyond the Academy, Royal Geographical Society, 2023, https://www.rgs.org/research/journals,-books-and-guides/guides-for-researchers/writing-for-general-audiences/
Bonnett, A. âLearning to be original: in the age of AI, students need to be taught the skills of innovationâ, University Affairs, 4 August, 2023, https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/learning-to-be-original-in-the-age-of-ai-students-need-to-be-taught-the-skills-of-innovation/ revised version published in Methodspace, November 2023, https://www.methodspace.com/blog/learning-to-be-original-in-the-age-of-ai-students-need-to-be-taught-the-skills-of-innovationnbsp
Bonnett, A. âRe-imagining explorationâ, Geographical, August, 2023, published online as âCan there be ethical travel in a plane-hopping age?’ age?âhttps://geographical.co.uk/culture/platform-ethical-travel-plane-hopping-age
Bonnett, A. âTeaching originality: An essential skill in the age of ChatGPTâ, 6 July, 2023, Times Higher Education, https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/teaching-originality-essential-skill-age-chatgpt
Bonnett, A. âThe changing world of geographyâ, 3 July, 2023, Geographical, https://geographical.co.uk/news/the-changing-world-of-geography
Bonnett, A. âExploring New Islandsâ, June 2023, On Landscape, 281, https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2023/06/exploring-new-islands
Bonnett, A. âA kind of permanent indulgenceâ, in Jeppe Sengupta Carstensen and Anna Aslaug Lund (Eds) Critical Coast, The Danish Architectural Press, Copenhagen, 486-489, 2023
Bonnett, A. âHow to be Original: A Key Skill in the Age of the A.I. Essayâ, May 25 2023, Sage Perspectives, https://perspectivesblog.sagepub.com/blog/books/how-to-be-original-a-key-skill-in-the-age-of-the-ai-essay?s=03
Bonnett, A. âWhy weâre still building islands: Risky but desirable artificial islands remain popular urban solutions’, 10th February 2023, City Monitor, https://citymonitor.ai/infrastructure/architecture-design/why-were-still-building-island-cities
âBuchtipp: Die seltsamsten Orte der Weltâ, undated [Jan 2023], Wikommunity https://www.wikinger-reisen.de/blog/buchtipp-die-seltsamsten-orte-der-welt-bonnet/
Bonnett, A. ăć°ćäčć€: äžçäžæć€§çæ»ćéżæ Œéć§ïŒć ć ćčŸććčŽćæŸæŻç±éʧçć°ćéŠćș [“Beyond the Map”: Agdam, the world’s largest dead city, was a lively regional capital just a few decades ago], 3 September 2022, The News Lens, https://www.thenewslens.com/article/163257
Bonnett, A. æéć°æŻ|ć°ćäžçŸćčŽćççŽçŽ, [Time Landscape | New York preserved three hundred years ago] 9 September 2022, çŒćșćäș/ Eyes on Place, https://eyesonplace.net/2022/09/09/21551/
Bonnett, A. âAsia Has Its Own Strands of Racism. Itâs Time to Take Them Seriouslyâ, 9 June 2022, The Diplomat, https://thediplomat.com/2022/06/asia-has-its-own-strands-of-racism-its-time-to-take-them-seriously/
Bonnett, A. âRussiaâs colonial legacy and the war in Ukraineâ, 16 March 2022, Geographical, https://geographical.co.uk/news/russias-colonial-legacy-and-the-war-in-ukraine
Bonnett, A. ‘Building new lands’ Geographical, March 2022, pp.52-3
Bonnett, A. 枎æäžćăæŽçŽçČčăæŽèŠȘćăçäżçŸ æŻââè±é„æïŒæŁźæèŁĄççæéŠ [Desire for a “pure, kinder” Russia – a village of abundance, a utopia in the forest] 11 March 2022, Crossing, https://crossing.cw.com.tw/article/15948
Bonnett, A.ăć°ćäčć€ïŒäžçäžæć€§çæ»ćéżæ Œéć§ïŒć ć ćčŸććčŽćæŸæŻç±éʧçć°ćéŠćș [“Beyond the Map”: Agdam, the world’s largest dead city, was a lively regional capital just a few decades ago], 9 March 2022, The News Lens, https://www.thenewslens.com/article/163257
Bonnett, A. ćŻéșć ççäžćéŹŒćéçŸć€æŻăæżćșæŽćŻćŸèȘèŠçćžććœ°éĄŻæŹćèćŒ± [Ordos, a palatial Chinese ghost town, sees itself as the emperor after the government’s sudden wealth shows that its power is weak], 6 March 2022, up media, https://www.upmedia.mg/news_info.php?Type=3&SerialNo=139008
Bonnett, A. èą«äșșéĄéșæŁççć èććžæźéçźäșçčăè»è«ŸæŻæ žçœćŸćŸèèŻæšĄçŻćé·ć „æ»ćŻă[Abandoned Ukrainian city of Pripyat turned from Soviet model city after nuclear disaster], 5th March, 2022, up media, https://www.upmedia.mg/news_info.php?Type=3&SerialNo=138998
Bonnett, A. çć èæ±éšçŽççè”·é»ăæè”·ć€ćčŽć §æ°çćè»æŹČç”ăæ°äżçŸ æŻèŻéŠ, [Beginning of strife in eastern Ukraine: Rebels who have sparked years of civil war want to form a ‘new Russian Federation’], 5 March 2022, up media, https://www.upmedia.mg/news_info.php?Type=3&SerialNo=139003
Bonnett, A. ‘Multiracism: why we need to pay attention to the worldâs many racisms’, The Conversation, 6th January 2022, https://theconversation.com/multiracism-why-we-need-to-pay-attention-to-the-worlds-many-racisms-173001
Bonnett, A. âGarbage Island: One day, may we live on an island of plastic waste?â’, [æććŻèœäœćšćĄè 滹æŁç©çćł¶ć¶ŒäžćïŒ] CommonWealth Magazine, 13 September, 2021, https://opinion.cw.com.tw/blog/profile/390/article/11383
Bonnett, A. âHow to Build an Islandâ, Atlas Obscura, 17 August 2021, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-build-island
Bonnett, A. â”Island Times”: Phoenix Island is Known as “Oriental Dubai”, attracting many rich Chineseâ, The News Lens, [Taiwan], 5th August 2021, https://www.thenewslens.com/article/154317
Bonnett, A. âBest Books about Islandsâ, Discover the Best Books, July 2021, https://shepherd.com/best-books/islands
Bonnett, A. âThe Age of Islandsâ, Natural History Magazine, February, 2021, pp.28-31
Bonnett, A. âDesert islandsâ, High Life, December, 2020, https://bahighlife.com/luxury/2020/dec/the-world-s-ultimate-desert-islands/
âAlastair Bonnett on the Age of Islandsâ, 30th April 2020, Waterstones Blog, https://bit.ly/2T8wLNX
Interviews and Features (2020-2026)
Interview, âAn Interview with Professor Bonnett: Artificial Islands: Innovation and Inspirationâ, inkgeist, June 2026, https://www.inkgeist.com/blog/an-interview-with-professor-bonnett
âBeyond the Map: What a âPhantom Islandâ Teaches Us About Judgement in the Age of AIâ, Medium, June, 2026, https://medium.com/@wordsmeetword/beyond-the-map-b512da25f1a0
‘Princeton Thinker: Gao Fengfeng: The ‘West’ in Western Eyes’, æźææŻéĄżææłćźąïœé«ćł°æ«ïŒè„żæčçŒäžçâè„żæčâ, https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33171712
âMan-Made Islands: Excessive or Essential?â, Architecture and Design, by Priyanka Mehra, May 4, 2026 https://www.admiddleeast.com/story/man-made-islands-excessive-or-essential
âLlevar la geografĂa a reflexiones cotidianas para todosâ, Anekumene, November 2025, Llevar la geografĂa a reflexiones cotidianas para todos | Anekumene
âAtlas van de verrassende kaartenâ, Geografie, 2025, 5 by Ronald Kranenburg, https://geografie.nl/artikel/atlas-van-de-verrassende-kaarten,
Asia New Zealand Foundation, âGeography of Nostalgia: Rozana Leeâs artist residency in Yogyakarta, Indonesiaâ, 2025, https://www.asianz.org.nz/geography-of-nostalgia-rozana-lee-s-artist-residency-in-yogyakarta-indonesia
The Phantom Islands: fantasies that were put on the mapâ Sveriges Radio, July 1, 2025, https://share.google/6XGGwq7MtJsGvt6vh
âThe Americans secretly hatching a relocation Plan Bâ, Financial Times, 20 June 2025, https://www.ft.com/content/01b61c1b-0f2e-4102-95bf-d3132a77416a
âÎ ÏΔÏÎčÎČÎ±Î»Î»ÎżÎœÏÎčÏÎŒÏÏ ÎłÎŻÎœÎ”ÏαÎč ΌΔÏÎ±ÎŽÏ ÏÎčÎșÏÏâ, [Environmentalism becomes post-Western] Agro-News, June 2025, https://www.agronews.gr/apopseis/gnomes/222617/o-perivallodismos-ginetai-metadutikos
âLes mensonges derriĂšre la guerre contre l’environnementalisme modernâ, Futuro Prossimo, 23 May 2025, https://fr.futuroprossimo.it/2025/05/le-bugie-nascoste-dietro-la-guerra-all-ambientalismo-moderno
âMapas que vao mudra sua forma de ver o mundoâ, geolugrafia, 14th April, 2025, https://www.instagram.com/p/DIa5G_ePi-J/?igsh=MW9oamd6b21vNHltdA%3D%3D
âAtlas van de verrassende kaartenâ, Geografie, 2025, 5 by Ronald Kranenburg, https://geografie.nl/artikel/atlas-van-de-verrassende-kaarten
Asia New Zealand Foundation, âGeography of Nostalgia: Rozana Leeâs artist residency in Yogyakarta, Indonesiaâ, 2025, https://www.asianz.org.nz/geography-of-nostalgia-rozana-lee-s-artist-residency-in-yogyakarta-indonesia â
The Phantom Islands: fantasies that were put on the mapâ, Sveriges Radio, July 1, 2025, https://share.google/6XGGwq7MtJsGvt6vh
âThe Americans secretly hatching a relocation Plan Bâ, Financial Times, 20 June 2025, https://www.ft.com/content/01b61c1b-0f2e-4102-95bf-d3132a77416a
âÎ ÏΔÏÎčÎČÎ±Î»Î»ÎżÎœÏÎčÏÎŒÏÏ ÎłÎŻÎœÎ”ÏαÎč ΌΔÏÎ±ÎŽÏ ÏÎčÎșÏÏâ, [Environmentalism becomes post-Western] Agro-News, June 2025, https://www.agronews.gr/apopseis/gnomes/222617/o-perivallodismos-ginetai-metadutikos
âLes mensonges derriĂšre la guerre contre l’environnementalisme modernâ, Futuro Prossimo, 23 May 2025, https://fr.futuroprossimo.it/2025/05/le-bugie-nascoste-dietro-la-guerra-all-ambientalismo-moderno
âMapas que vao mudra sua forma de ver o mundoâ, geolugrafia, 14th April, 2025, https://www.instagram.com/p/DIa5G_ePi-J/?igsh=MW9oamd6b21vNHltdA%3D%3D
Interview, âNotre avenir est-il sur l’eau?â/âIs Our Future on Waterâ, Directed by Xavier Marquis, June 2025, ARTE, broadcast on public television in France and Germany, https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/114576-000-A/notre-avenir-est-il-sur-l-eau
âAlastair Bonnett İle DĂŒnyayı DeÄiĆtiren Haritalarâ, Haber Aktuel, March 2025, https://www.haberaktuel.com/alastair-bonnett-ile-dunyayi-degistiren-haritalar-3031025
‘Alastair Bonnett’in Sarsıcı Haritalarıâ, SonDakika.Com, 11th March 2025, https://www.sondakika.com/teknoloji/haber-alastair-bonnett-in-sarsici-haritalari-18441735/#google_vignette
Interview, â6 mapas que “cambiarĂĄn tu forma de ver el mundoâ, BBC News Mundo, 7 March 2025, https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/cn0j8zv2jrjo
Interview, âGeographicalâs best interviews of 2024: The importance of maps with Alastair Bonnettâ, Geographical, 30 December, 2024, https://geographical.co.uk/news/geographicals-best-interviews-of-2024
âArtificial Islands, The Mushrooming Paradox In A World Of Rising Seasâ, WorldCrunch, December 23, 2024, https://worldcrunch.com/green/artificial-islands-sea-environment
âÂżQuiĂ©n y por quĂ© estĂĄ construyendo islas artificiales?â, Climatica, 6th December 2024, https://climatica.coop/entrevista-alaistar-bonnett-islas-artificiales
âThe importance of mapsâ Geographical, November, 2024, https://geographical.co.uk/news/the-importance-of-maps-with-alastair-bonnett
Public Question and Answer, Reddit, âAsk me Anythingâ, sponsored by Geographical, 17th October 2024, https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1g5lsob/im_alastair_bonnett_author_and_professor_of
âThe stunning evolution of maps and what they can revealâ, 5 October 2024, Medium, https://medium.com/the-straight-dope/the-stunning-evolution-of-maps-and-what-they-can-reveal-6ef174ac576d
Interview, â40 Mapsâ, The New Books Network, 16th October 2024, https://newbooksnetwork.com/40-maps-that-will-change-how-you-see-the-world
âThese maps will change how you see the worldâ, 18 September 2024, New Scientist, https://www.newscientist.com/article/2446762-these-maps-will-change-how-you-see-the-world/
âLas islas del Surâ, 20 August 2024, Letra Global, https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/letraglobal/letras/20240820/hoteles-del-las-sur-defoe-verne-stevenson/864663678_0.html
âLas 300 islas que costaron US$12.000 millones y que fueron abandonadas por los millonarios en DubĂĄiâ, 2 June, 2024, BBC News Mundo, https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/cv22pvl1kmzo
âSolar-powered floating islands could help to regrow coral reefsâ, 21 May, 2024, New Scientist, https://www.newscientist.com/article/2432027-solar-powered-floating-islands-could-help-to-regrow-coral-reefs/
Interview, The Real 3 Idiots Podcast, 109, 20 February 2024, https://www.spreaker.com/episode/show-109-ted-island-is-officially-declared-a-trash-vortex–58746004
âEl sĂndrome del mal turistaâ, 24 Jaunary, 2024, Conde Nast Traveller, https://www.traveler.es/articulos/el-sindrome-del-mal-turista
âSe lâonline amplifica il razzismoâ, 3 January 2024, Italia Caritas, https://www.italiacaritas.it/blog/2024/01/03/se-lonline-amplifica-il-razzismo/
Interview, âAgainst the Grain: A Project by Ruth Ewanâ, audio essay exploring the friendship between Thomas Bewick and Thomas Spence, The National Trust, January 2024, https://www.ruthewan.com/against-the-grain/
Interview, âWhat is Geography?â Faculti, 17 November 2023, https://faculti.net/what-is-geography/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6XKIt1nfhA
âHow to Argue and be Originalâ, 15 November 2023, Sage/JS Group public lecture, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct0VCrXzpcU
Una proposta per descobrir llocs fora del mapaâ, November 2023, 3Cat, https://www.ccma.cat/3cat/el-tast-de-la-gran-anaconda-una-proposta-per-descobrir-llocs-fora-del-mapa/audio/1045395/
Interview, âWhy is racism on the rise?â The Why? Curve, 73, October, 2023, https://shows.acast.com/the-why-curve/episodes/what-is-racism-and-is-it-on-the-rise
âCĂłmo es la vida en la Perla de Qatar, la lujosa ‘burbuja artificial’ construida para alojar a los extranjerosâ, 1 August 2023, El Espanol, https://www.elespanol.com/enclave-ods/historias/20230801/vida-perla-qatar-lujosa-burbuja-artificial-construida-alojar-extranjeros/783421723_0.html
Interview, âPeople, Planet, Prosperity, 9: The IPSOS Equalities Indexâ, IPSOS, IPSOS Views, 20th July 2023, Spotify Apple
âEscapismo, ligoteo y magia: el embrujo de las islasâ, 26 June 2023, Elle, https://www.elle.com/es/living/ocio-cultura/a44295090/vacaciones-verano-islas/
â10 + 1 libros distĂłpicos para regalar: el listado definitiveâ, Novels Distopica, undated, https://noveladistopica.com/10-libros-distopicos-para-regalar
Interview, âLes Ăźles artificielles ont-elles un avenir?â, ATLAS, 28 April 2023 (in French)
Giocare col fuoco di domenica, Radio Popolare, 16 April 2023, https://www.radiopopolare.it/podcast/giocare-col-fuoco-di-domenica-16-04-2023/
èȘȘć„œăææ„Dieéăæ äș [Telling the story of marine death] 29 March 2023, Epoch Times, https://hk.epochtimes.com/news/2023-03-29/22330141
‘Psychogeography and Thomas Spence, with Alastair Bonnett’, Biographicon, podcast, January 2023, https://biographicon.net/podcast/2-thomas-spence
âFantomöarna: fantasier som sattes pĂ„ kartanâ, 14 November, 2022, OBS, Sveriges Radio, https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/fantomoarna-fantasier-som-sattes-pa-kartan
âĐлОŃŃĐ”Ń ĐĐŸĐœĐœĐ”Ń: ĐĐ”ŃŃа ĐżĐŸ ŃŃ ŃŃĐŸŃĐŸĐœŃ ĐșаŃŃŃâ, [Alastair Bonnett: Places on the other side of the map] 12 November 2022, ĐĐĐ ĐĐĐąĐĐĐ, https://www.paranteza.info/post/bonnett-beyond-the-map
Illes artificials, un mon que inclou lâabsurdâ, 27 October 2022, Diario de Mallorca, https://www.diariodemallorca.es/bellver/2022/10/27/illes-artificials-mon-inclou-l-77761200.html
âMany people with foreign roots stopped by police in Japan: surveyâ, Nikkei Asia, 15 September, 2022, https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Society/Many-people-with-foreign-roots-stopped-by-police-in-Japan-survey
‘Gruinard, la isla arrasada con ĂĄntrax por los britĂĄnicos y oculta durante medio siglo’, 18 July 2022, Cultura Inquieta, https://culturainquieta.com/es/lifestyle/item/19519-gruinard-la-isla-arrasada-con-antrax-por-los-britanicos-y-oculta-durante-medio-siglo.html
‘ĐлОŃŃĐ”Ń ĐĐŸĐœĐœĐ”Ń: ĐĐ”ŃŃа, ĐșĐŸŃĐŸŃŃŃ ĐœĐ”Ń ĐœĐ° ĐșаŃŃĐ”’, [‘Alastair Bonnett: Off the Map Places’] 2 July, 2022, syg.ma, https://syg.ma/@paranteza/alistier-bonniet-miesta-kotorykh-niet-na-kartie
La 2, âPĂĄgina 2âČ [â’PĂĄgina Dos’ viaja gracias a los libros ⊠dibujarĂĄ un mapa de islas misteriosas gracias a Alastair Bonnettâ]; 28th June 2022, https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20220627/pagina-doscierra-temporada-seleccion-lecturas-verano/2385558.shtml
âIslands in the Sun: SegĂșn un geĂłgrafo inglĂ©s, âse estĂĄn construyendo islas a una escala nunca vista”â, Montevideo Portal, 14th June 2022, https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Ciencia-y-Tecnologia/Segun-un-geografo-ingles–se-estan-construyendo-islas-a-una-escala-nunca-vista–uc824670
‘ÂżViajar estĂĄ sobrevalorado?,’ Elle, 3rd June 2022, https://www.elle.com/es/living/viajes/a40148811/turismo-masificado-viajes-diferentes/
âAlastair Bonnett traza el mapa de las nuevas y las viejas islasâ, LOFT.IT, 25 May 2022, https://loff.it/oops/read-and-blues/alastair-bonnett-traza-el-mapa-de-las-nuevas-y-las-viejas-islas-382328/
âEsto no es una guĂa de viaje: 100 islas para entender nuestro futureâ, Diario de Jerez, 23 May 2022, https://www.diariodejerez.es/ocio/guia-viaje-islas-entender-futuro_0_1686133278.html
Interview, One Direction: West, Radio 4, 17 May 2022, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017cls
âDie SeesterntĂ€uschungâ, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 13 May 2022, https://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/starfish-weltkrieg-bomben-frankreich-england-1.5583983
‘Fakes und WiederÂverzauberung’, Taz, 3 May 2022, https://taz.de/Orte-der-Taeuschung/!5844586/
âSe estĂĄn construyendo mĂĄs islas artificiales que nuncaâ, Ethic, 20 April 2022, https://ethic.es/2022/04/se-estan-construyendo-mas-islas-artificiales-que-nunca/
Interview, La era de las islas, Efecto NaĂm, 28 March 2022, https://youtu.be/ihAb8S8XQbg
Interview, Alastair Bonnett (discusses his new book âMultiracismâ) Endeavours, 339, February 2022, https://anchor.fm/dan-mcpeake/episodes/339—Alistair-Bonnett-e1eo3p2
‘Por quĂ© estamos en âla era de las islas artificialesâ”, Prensa Mercosur, 6 Feb 2022, https://prensamercosur.net/06/02/2022/por-que-estamos-en-la-era-de-las-islas-artificiales/
Interview, âLe nuove isole della Finlandia, i fiumi sotto lâArtico Ă il mondo alla fine del mondoâ, Corriere Della Sera, Pianete 2030, 26 Jan 2022, p.37.
A VerySpatial Podcast: 683: This week we talk to Dr. Alastair Bonnett about islands, diversity, and his recent books, 23 January 2022, https://veryspatial.com/2022/01/a-veryspatial-podcast-episode-683/
‘Nel mondo ci sono sempre piĂč isole artificiali’, 29 January 2022, Wired, https://www.wired.it/article/isole-artificiali-clima-mare-ambiente/
âMitologia de Tonga jĂĄ previa devastação causada por tsunamiâ, 23 January 2022, nossa, https://www.uol.com.br/nossa/colunas/terra-a-vista/2022/01/23/mitologia-de-tonga-ja-previa-devastacao-causada-por-tsunami.htm
[CORRECTION: the article above – reproduced in English on other sites – says I visited Hunga Tonga. I certainly tried but bad weather forced me to turn back].
Fahrenheit, Rai Radio 3, 12 January 2022, https://www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2022/01/Fahrenheit-del-12012022-bc34181a-142c-476f-8380-c537abbfa9a9.html
‘La construcciĂłn de islas artificiales estĂĄ de moda’, 12 January, 2022, Nosabesnada, https://www.nosabesnada.com/tendencias/islas-artificiales/
‘Il piĂč pazzo dei grandtour: VIAGGIO IN LUOGHI INSOLITI – Il geografo Bonnett va âOltre le mappeâ,’ 12 January 2022, il fatto quotidiano, https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2022/01/12/il-piu-pazzo-dei-grandtour/6452900/
âLas islas artificiales, los peores enemigos de la sostenibilidadâ, 9 January 2022, Escudodigital, https://www.escudodigital.com/tecnologia/sostenibilidad/islas-artificiales-examen_50601_102.html
‘Why we are in ‘the age of artificial islands’,’ 7 January 2022, BBC.com, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220105-why-were-in-the-age-of-artificial-islands
âDas Zeitalter der Inselnâ: GefĂ€hrdetes Paradies, 21 December 2021, Der Standard, https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000131461738/das-zeitalter-der-inseln-gefaehrdetes-paradies
âMehr Land in Sichtâ, anBord, 9 December, 2021, https://anbord.de/mehr-land-in-sicht/
‘White Mischief: Dream for a moment’, 18 October, 2021, BBC Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0010ndy
Interview: ‘Nightlife: featuring islands and why we like to build them’ , 17 September, 2021, ABC Radio, Australian Broadcasting Corporation https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/nightlife/nightlife/13537096
âFrom Lantau Tomorrow to Dubaiâ [ćŸææ„ć€§ć¶Œć°ææïŒéžæČæä»Łçé ćł¶äžçŽ], 4 October 2021, CUP, https://www.cup.com.hk/2021/10/04/the-age-of-islands/
âĂberall und grenzenlosâ WDR 3 Radio 18 September 2021, https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/programm/sendungen/wdr3-gutenbergs-welt/ueberall-und-grenzenlos-100.html

Interview, Arte TV, âSehnsucht, Freiheit, Isolationâ, Twist, 25 June 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8kzWjnDICw
Kontext, oe1.ORF.at, 6 August 2021, https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20210806/647938/Der-lange-Atem-der-Baeume
âDa cittĂ dei servizi a cittĂ dormitorio: il sogno tradito di Giarre e la Sicilia che non cambiaâ, Sicilian Post, 31 July 2021, https://www.sicilianpost.it/da-citta-dei-servizi-a-citta-dormitorio-il-sogno-tradito-di-giarre-e-la-sicilia-che-non-cambia/
Dominic Bliss, âNew islands can be natural or artificial. Both can be problematicâ, National Geographic [online], 14 July 2021, https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-technology/2021/07/new-islands-can-be-natural-or-human-made-they-can-also-be-problematic
âDe magie van eilandenâ, Leesvoer, Robert Visscher and Martine Zeijlstra, June 7 2021, [podcast], shorturl.at/lCRW7
âCreadoras de ‘FĂłra de mapa’: “Sabemos de escoceses ou galeses, mais pouco de arromaneses ou rutenos”, 24 April 2021, NĂłs Diario, https://www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/cultura/sabemos-escoceses-galeses-mais-pouco-arromaneses-rutenos/20210423155419120148.html
âDie Möglichkeit einer Inselâ, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 20 April 2021 , https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/brexit-insel-sachbuch-alastair-bonnett-gavin-francis-1.5270554
âLand in Sichtâ, Sonntagszeitung, 18 April 2021, https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/land-in-sicht-373439672505
âMehr Landâ, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 1 April, 2021, https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/kuenstliche-inseln-alastair-bonnett-dubai-hainan-the-palm-suedchinesisches-meer-1.5252372!amp?reduced=true
âKuidas See Uus Raamat Kaardistab Maailma Andmetegaâ, newsmarttraveller.com, [Estonia], April 2021, https://est.newsmarttraveller.com/how-this-new-book-maps-world-with-data-720392
âLes Ășltimes fronteresâ, Lletraferit, Valencia Plaza 28 March 2021,https://valenciaplaza.com/les-ultimes-fronteres
âEin planetarisches Spektakelâ, Der Speigel, 18 March 2021, https://www.spiegel.de/reise/fernweh/insel-buch-von-alastair-bonnett-ein-planetarisches-spektakel-a-7ff121db-6b0b-4720-b115-2f62b3cb0302
âDeppendorf, Einsamkeit, Pups: Kuriose Ortsnamen, die schmunzeln lassenâ, Badische Zeitung, February 20, 2021, https://www.badische-zeitung.de/reise-1/von-nach-broemsenknoell-und-brasilien-liegt-an-der-ostsee–200152604.html
âDe magie van eilanden: wegdromen naar verre plekkenâ, New Scientist, 22 January 2021, https://www.newscientist.nl/opinie/de-magie-van-eilanden-wegdromen-naar-verre-plekken/
âCittĂ invisibili e cimiteri viventi: ecco i 48 luoghi ancora inesploratiâ, il Giornale.it, 29 November 2020, https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cultura/citt-invisibili-e-cimiteri-viventi-ecco-i-48-luoghi-ancora-1906301.html
âSmelten ijs Groenland en Antarctica kan leiden tot stijging zeespiegel met 65 meterâ, dpg media, 29 November 2020, https://tinyurl.com/y2nwssw7
âEnge, nieuwe en zielloze eilandenâ, nrc.nl, 27 November, 2020, https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/11/27/enge-nieuwe-en-zielloze-eilanden-a4021688
âColumnist joins a âmicronationââ, The Ledger-Transcript, 20 November 2020,
https://www.ledgertranscript.com/arHolden-ml-111920_-37360737
âAlla ricerca dellâinsolito fra rifiuti, labirinti, desertiâ, 16 November, La Stampa, https://www.lastampa.it/viaggi/2020/10/18/news/alla-ricerca-dell-insolito-fra-rifiuti-labirinti-deserti-1.39427986
âSealand, el insĂłlito microestado con moneda y bandera propias sobre una plataforma marina: “Al llegar me regalaron un tĂtulo de lord”â El Mundo, 16 November 2020, https://www.elmundo.es/viajes/europa/2020/11/16/5fabfe58fc6c831c6c8b4593.htm
Passport Podcast: The World Islands in Dubai, 29 September 2020, https://pod.fo/e/9eb6e
â38 destinos a los que no irĂĄs este veranoâ, Lavozdelsur.es 11 August 2020 https://www.lavozdelsur.es/38-destinos-a-los-que-no-iras-este-verano/
çșä»éșŒć€§ćź¶éœæłèȘćć°ćł¶ïŒć°èšȘăć°ćäčć€ăäœè Alastair Bonnettæè§Łćł¶ć¶Œç„ç§ćžćŒć [Why does everyone want to head to an island? Interview with “Beyond the Map” author Alastair Bonnett dismantling the island’s mysterious attraction]La Vie [Taiwan] 5 August 2020, https://www.wowlavie.com/Article/AE2001127
âCzy na Ziemi jest jeszcze coĆ do odkrycia? Tak! WciÄ ĆŒ istniejÄ biaĆe plamy. Na szczÄĆcieâ âNational Geographic Polskaâ, 2020, https://www.national-geographic.pl/galeria/czy-na-ziemi-jest-jeszcze-cos-do-odkrycia-tak-wciaz-istnieja-bia/poza-mapa
âHow a Newcastle author accidentally wrote the perfect lockdown travel bookâ, The Chronicle, 20 June 2020, https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/how-newcastle-author-accidentally-wrote-18431985
âSeltsam, seltsamer⊠â Die seltsamsten Orte der Welt von Alastair Bonnettâ, 19 June 2020, windrose.rocks, https://stefan-taege.de/kasia/
âLâimportance dâune Ăźleâ, Books, June 2020, https://www.books.fr/importance-ile/
âBuild your own island getaway! Author explores the globe’s blissful utopiasâ The Daily Mail 7 May 2020, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-8297935/Build-island-getaway.html
âLugares sin mapaâ en la era de Google Maps, una nueva aventura de Alastair Bonnettâ, 2 March 2020 Valencia Plaza,, https://valenciaplaza.com/lugares-sin-mapa-en-la-era-de-google-maps-una-nueva-aventura-de-alastair-bonnett
âThe Capital of Amnesiaâ, 1st March 2020, Bella Caledonia, https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2020/03/01/the-capital-of-amnesia/
Older Books
Bonnett, A. (1993) Radicalism, Anti-racism and Representation (London, Routledge) Reissued late 2022 as part of Routledge Revivals series.
Bonnett, A. (2000) White Identities: Historical and International Perspectives (Harlow, Pearson Education)
Bonnett, A. (2000) Anti-racism (London, Routledge)
Bonnett, A. (2001) How to Argue: A Studentsâ Guide (Harlow, Pearson Education); (2008) How to Argue: Second Edition. (2011) How to Argue: Third Edition Translations: 2011 Chinese (Taiwan), 2010 Danish, 2011 Swedish, 2014 Spanish, 2018 Chinese (simplified); How to Argue: Fourth Edition (2023, London, Sage)
Bonnett, A. (2004) The Idea of the West: Culture, Politics and History (London, Palgrave) (Arabic translation, Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies, Beirut, 2017)
Bonnett, A. (2008) What is Geography? (London, Sage) (Greek translation, Ekdoseis Kritiki, 2010) (Farsi translation, Tehran University Press, 2015)
Bonnett, A. Bonnett, A. (2010) Left in the Past: Radicalism and the Politics of Nostalgia (New York, Continuum)
Bonnett, A. (2014) Off the Map: Lost Spaces, Invisible Cities, Forgotten Islands, Feral Places and What They Tell Us About the World (London, Aurum). Also published as Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies (Toronto, Penguin Canada/New York, Houghton Mifflin). Unabridged audio book: Tantor Audio, 2014.Translations: Korea: KPI. Japan: East Press. China: Xinhua Publishing House. Poland: PWN. Turkey: Maya Books. Germany: Beck. Taiwan: Face Publishers. Czech Republic: Jota. Netherlands: Terra Lannoo. Spain: Blackie Books (with additional chapter). Galicia: Rinocerote Editora. Italy: Blackie Edizioni (2020). Winner: ITB BuchAwards 2016 (Germany)
Bonnett, A. (2015) The Geography of Nostalgia: Global and Local Perspectives on Modernity and Loss (London, Routledge). Paperback 2017.
Bonnett, A. (2017) New Views (first published by Aurum, UK; also published by Sweden: Lind & Co; France: Robert Laffont; Germany: DuMont Buchverlag; Finland: Minerva; Mexico: Larousse Mega Ediciones: Canada: Editions de lâHomme; Italy: White Star/National Geographic; Japan: Sogensha; Spain: Blume; Netherlands: Fontaine Uitgevers; Taiwan: Cube Press; Czech Republic: Omega Publishing). Also published as An Uncommon Atlas (2019, White Lion Books, UK)
Bonnett, A. (2017) Beyond the Map (first published by Aurum, UK; also published by Beck, Germany; Face Publishers, Taiwan; Blackie Books, Spain; Korea, Jihaksa
Publishing; USA, University of Chicago Press; Italy: Blackie Edizioni; German audio book, Beck)
Edited Books
Bonnett, A. and Armstrong, K. (Eds) (2014) Thomas Spence: The Poor Manâs Revolutionary (London, Breviary Stuff Publications)
Academic Papers and Chapters
Bonnett, A. (2025) âThe mapping revolutionâ, Geography, 110, 1, 45-48, https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2024.2437951
Pande, R. and Bonnett A. âTranslating India to India: Travelling Translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the Visual Language of Spiritual Consumerismâ, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2024, e12730.
Mason, O, Sarma, J., Sidaway, J, Bonnett, A., Hubbard, P., Jamil, G., Middleton, J., O’Neill, M., Riding, J., and Rose, M. âInterventions in walking methods in political geographyâ, Political Geography, 2023, 102937, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102937. Open access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629823001154
Bonnett, A. âThe new popular geography and pursuit of the curiousâ, Scottish Geographical Journal, 2023, DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2192704
Bonnett, A, âSocial changeâ in Introducing Social Geographies, Social Geographies Collective (Eds), Rowman and Littlefield, London, 70-78, 2021
Bonnett, A âThe dilemmas of radical nostalgia: Acknowledging the power of the past in the politics of the Leftâ in Nostalgia Now: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on the Past in the Present, Jacobsen, M. (Ed.) Routledge, Abingdon, 116-128, 2020
Bonnett, A. âMultiple racialisations in a multiply modern worldâ, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41, 7, 1199-1216, 2018 [also published in Hungarian as âTöbbszörös rasszializĂĄciĂłk egy többszörösen modern vilĂĄgbanâ, KisebbsĂ©gkutatĂĄs, 2-3, 162-166, 2018]
Bonnett A. âNostalgia and Anti-nostalgia in English Radical History: The Case of Thomas Spence (1750-1814)â Groniek: Historisch Tijdschrift, 214, 45-57, 2017
Bonnett, A. âThe enchanted path: Magic and modernism in psychogeographical walkingâ, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 42, 3, 472-484. doi: 10.1111/tran.12177, 2017
Bonnett, A. âWhat is geography?â, in Jones, M. (Ed.) The Handbook of Secondary Geography (Geographical Association, Sheffield),12-19, 2017.
Bonnett, A. âWhitenessâ and âSituationists/Situationist Geographyâ in The International Encyclopedia of Geography, Richardson, D. et al.(Eds), Wiley, New York,
Shaw, W. and Bonnett, A. âEnvironmental crisis, narcissism and the work of griefâ, Cultural Geographies , 23, 4, 565-579, 2016
Bonnett, A. âOccidentalismo e modernitĂ plualiâ, in Falcioni, D. (Ed.)Genealogie dell’Occidente, Bollati Boringhieri Publisher, Turin, 111-146, 2015
Bonnett, A âWalking through memory: critical nostalgia and the cityâ, in Walking Inside Out: British Psychogeography in the 21st Century, Tina Richardson (Ed.), Roman and Littlefield, London, 75-88, 2015.
Bonnett, A. âAz antirasszizmus amerikanizĂĄciĂłja? A vilĂĄghatalmi pozĂciĂł Ă©s hegemĂłnia kĂ©rdĂ©se az etnikai egyenlĆsĂ©g politikĂĄjĂĄbanâ (in Hungarian); published with translation: âThe Americanisation of anti-racism: Global power and hegemony in anti-racismâ RomolĂłgia folyĂłirat, 4-5, Spring/Summer, 36-80, 2014
Bonnett, A. âSpence and the politics of nostalgiaâ, in Bonnett, A. and Armstrong, K. Thomas Spence: The Poor Manâs Revolutionary, London, Breviary Stuff Publications, 55-88, 2014
Bonnett, A. âIntroductionâ, in Bonnett, A. and Armstrong, K. Thomas Spence: The Poor Manâs Revolutionary, London, Breviary Stuff Publications, 1-6, 2014
Bonnett, A. âCritiqueâ in Lee, R. et al (Eds) The Sage Handbook of Human Geography, London, Sage, 185-205, 2014
Bonnett, A. âWhite Studies revisitedâ, Multicultural Education: Major Themes in Education David Gillborn (Ed.) Routledge, London, 185-96, 2014
Bonnett, A. âThe transgressive geographies of daily lifeâ, in MartĂnez, F. and Slabina, K. (Eds) Playgrounds and Battlefields Tallinn University Press, Tallinn: 271-293, 2014
Jarvis, H. and Bonnett, A. âProgressive nostalgia in novel living arrangements: a counterpoint to neotraditional new urbanism?â, Urban Studies, 50 (11): 2349â2370, 2013
Bonnett, A and Alexander, C. âMobile nostalgias: connecting visions of the urban past, present and future amongst ex-residentsâ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 38 (3): 391â402, 2013
Bonnett, A. âThe agnostic Saladinâ, History Today, 63, 2, 2013, pp.48-51
Bonnett, A. âPsychogeographyâ, Oxford Bibliographies Online: Geography. 1-Nov-2013. <http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199874002/obo-9780199874002-0020.xml>.
Bonnett, A âForewordâ, in The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East, Nair-Venugopal, S (Ed), London, Palgrave, xiv-xv, 2012
Bonnett, A. âJust driftingâ, in Phillips, R. and Johns, J. (Eds) Fieldwork for Human Geography, London, Sage: 201-202, 2012
Bonnett, A. âGeography: humanityâs great projectâ Teaching Geography 37, 3: 120-122, 2012
Bonnett, A. âGeography: Whatâs the big idea?â Geography, 97, 1: 39-41, 2012
Bonnett, A. âThe critical traditionalism of Ashis Nandy: Occidentalism and the dilemmas of innocenceâ Theory, Culture and Society, 29, 1: 138-157, 2012
Bonnett, A. âResponse: Review symposium, Left in the Pastâ, Global Discourse 2: 2, 1-3, 2011.
Bonnett, A. âRadicalism, Anti-racism and nostalgia: the burden of loss in the search for convivial cultureâ Environment and Planning A, 42, 10: 2351-2369, 2010
Bonnett A. âAsian Occidentalism and rediscovered modenitiesâ. in Browning C, Lehti M, (Eds) The Struggle for the West: A Divided and Contested Legacy, London, Routledge, 2009
Bonnett, A. âThe dilemmas of radical nostalgia in British pyschogeography’, Theory, Culture and Society 2009, 26, 1: 47-72.
Bonnett, A. âRadicalism is nostalgiaâ in J. Pugh (Ed.) What is Radical Politics Today? Palgrave, London, 2009
Bonnett A. âEast/Westâ In Kitchin R, Thrift N (Eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 3, Oxford, Elsevier, 2009, 280-284
Bonnett, A. âThe Discovery of Thomas Spenceâs 1775 Lecture: Property in Land Every Oneâs RightâLabour History Review,74, 1, 2009, 134-136
Bonnett, A. âWhiteness and the westâ in Dwyer, C and Bressey, C, (Eds) New Geographies of Race and Racism. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008, 17-28
Bonnett, A. âWhite Studies revisitedâ, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies 2008, 31(1), 185-196 [reprinted in Multicultural Education: Major Themes in Education, Ed. David Gillborn, London, Routledge, 2014]
Bonnett, A. âShades of difference: African Native Americansâ History Today, 58, 12, 2008, pp.40-42
Bonnett, A. âRadical nostalgiaâ History Today, 2007, 57, 2, pp.41-2
Bonnett, A. âThe other Rights of Manâ, History Today 57, 9, 2007, pp. 42-48
Bonnett, A. ‘Re-thinking Asia: Multiplying Modernity’. in: Delanty, G, (Ed.) Europe and Asia: Beyond East and West, London, Routledge, 2006, 269-283
Bonnett, A. âPale face, red mask: racial ambiguity and the imitation of ‘American Indian’ facial expressionsâ. Cultural Politics 2006, 2(3), 319-338
Bonnett, A. âThe need for sustainable conferencesâ, Area 38, 3, 2006, pp.229-230
Bonnett, A. âThe Americanisation of anti-racism? Global power and hegenomy in ethnic equityâ, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2006, 32(7), 1083-1103
Bonnett, A. âThe nostalgias of situationist subversionâ, 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. ‘Whiteness’, In Atkinson, D, Jackson, P, Sibley, D. and Washbourne, N, (Eds) Cultural Geography: A Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts. London, I.B.Tauris, 2005, 109-114
Bonnett, A. âOccidentalism and plural modernities: or how Fukuzawa and Tagore invented the Westâ, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2005, 23(4), 505-525
Bonnett, A. âOccidentalismâ, History Today, 54, 10, 2004, pp.40-41
Bonnett, A. (2003) âGeography as the world discipline: Connecting popular and academic geographical imaginationsâ Area, 35,1 pp.55-63. Translated into Spanish, Title tbc, AdriĂĄn Iulita (Ed.), Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero Press.
Bonnett, A. (2003) âFrom white to western: âRacial declineâ and the idea of the West in Britain, 1890-1930â Journal of Historical Sociology 16, 3, pp.320-348
Bonnett, A. (2003) âMakers of the West: National identity and occidentalism in the work of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Ziya Gökalpâ Scottish Geographical Journal 118, 3, pp.165-182
Bonnett, A. and Nayak, A. 2003) âCultural geographies of racialization: The territory of raceâ, in K. Anderson, M. Domash, S. Pile and N. Thrift (Eds) (Eds)Handbook of Cultural Geography (Sage, London)
Bonnett, A. (2003) âWhitenessâ in Cashmore, E. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies (Routledge, London) [essay length entry]
Bonnett, A. (2003) âAnti-racismâ in Cashmore, E. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies (Routledge, London) [essay length entry]
Bonnett, A. (2002) ‘A white world? White identities in Latin America and Japan’, in Levine-Rasky , C. (Ed.) Working Through Whiteness (State University of New York Press, New York)
Bonnett, A. (2002) âCommunists like us: Ethnicised modernity and the idea of âthe westâ in the Soviet Unionâ Ethnicities 2, 4, pp.435-467
Bonnett, A. (2002) âThe metropolis and white modernityâ Ethnicities, 2, 3, pp.351-368
Bonnett, A. and Laurie, N. (2002) âAdjusting to equity: the contradictions of neo-liberalism and the search for racial equality in Peruâ Antipode, 34, 1, pp.28-53
Bonnett, A. and Carrington, B. (2000) âFitting into categories or falling between them? Re-thinking ethnic classificationâ British Journal of Sociology of Education 21, 4, pp. 234-276
Bonnett, A. ‘Whiteness in Crisis’, History Today, 50, 12, 2000, pp.39-40
Carrington, B., Bonnett, A., Nayak, A., Skelton, C., Smith, F., Tomlin, R., Short, G., and Demaine, J. 2000 âThe recruitment of new teachers from minority ethnic groupsâ International Studies in Sociology of Education 10, 1, pp. 3-22
Carrington, C, Bonnett, A. Demaine, J. Hall, I, Nayak, A, Tomlin, A, Short, G and Skelton C. (2001) Ethnicity and the Professional Socialisation of Teachers (London, Teacher Training Agency) ISBN 0 7017 0114 5
Carrington, B., Bonnett, A., Demain, J., Skelton, C., Nayak, A., Tomlin, R., Short, G (2000) âNew teachers, their qualifications and ethnicityâ, in Demain, J. (ed.) Sociology of Education Today (Macmillan, Basingstoke)
Bonnett, A. (2000) ‘Dust’, ‘Supermarkets’, ‘Graveyards’, ‘Buses’ in S. Pile and N. Thrift (Eds) City A/Z (Routledge, London)
Bonnett, A. (1999) âConstructions of whiteness in anti-racismâ in R. Torres, L. Miron and J. Inda (Eds) Race, Identity and Citizenship: A Reader (Blackwell, Oxford)
Bonnett, A. (1999) âmaleâ âmasculinitiesâ âmythopetic menâs movementâ, âmyth/mythologyâ, âladdismâ, ânew ageâ, in L. McDowell and J. Sharp (Eds) The Feminist Glossary of Human Geography (Arnold, London)
Bonnett, A. (1999) ‘Alternative film or other film: in and against the West with Trin Minh-ha, in M. Crang and N. Thrift (Eds) Thinking Space (Routledge, London)
Bonnett, A. (1999) ‘Constructions of ‘race’, place and discipline: geographies of ‘racial’ identity and racism’ in M. Bulmer and J. Solomos (Ed.) Ethnic and Racial Studies Today (Routledge, London)
Bonnett, A. (1999) ‘Situationist strategies and mutant technologies’ Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities 4, 2, pp. 23-38
Bonnett, A. (1998) ‘Who was white? The formation of non-European white identities and reformation of European whiteness’ Ethnic and Racial Studies 21, 6, pp1029-1065
Bonnett , A. (1998) ‘How the British working class became white: the (re)formation of racialized capitalism’ Journal of Historical Sociology 3, pp.316-340
Bonnett, A. (1997) ‘Geography, race and whiteness: invisible traditions and current challenges’ Area 29, 3, pp. 193-199
Carrington, B. and Bonnett, A. (1997) ‘The other Canadian mosaic: race equity education in Ontario and British Columbia’ Comparative Education 33, 3, pp.412-431
Bonnett, A. (1997; reprinted 2015) ‘Constructions of whiteness in British and North American anti-racism’, in P. Werbner and Modood, T. (Eds) Debating Cultural Hybridity (Zed Press, London). Reprinted in Race, Identity, and Citizenship: A Reader Torres, R., MirĂłn, L. and Inda, J. (Eds) (Blackwell, Oxford, 1999).
Bonnett. A. (1996) âThe situationist legacyâ, in S. Home, (ed) What is Situationism? A Reader (AK Press, Edinburgh)
Bonnett, A. and Carrington, B. (1996) ‘Constructions of anti-racist education in Britain and Canada’ Comparative Education 32, 3, pp. 271-288
Bonnett, A. (1996) ‘Anti-racism and the critique of ‘white’ identities’ New Community 22, 1, pp. 97-110
Bonnett, A. (1996) ‘White studies: the problems and opportunities of a new research agenda’ Theory, Culture and Society 13, 2, pp.145-155
Bonnett, A. (1996) ‘The transgressive geographies of daily life: socialist pathways in everyday urban spatial creativity’ Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration 2/3, pp. 20-37
Bonnett, A. (1996) ‘Constructions of ‘race’, place and discipline: geographies of ‘racial’ identity and racism’ Ethnic and Racial Studies 19, 4, pp. 864-883
Bonnett, A. (1996) ‘The new primitives: identity, landscape and cultural appropriation in the mythopoetic men’s movement’ Antipode 28, 3, pp. 273-291
Bonnett, A. (1993) The formation of public professional radical consciousness: the example of anti-racism Sociology 27: 281-297
Bonnett, A. (1993) Forever white? challenges and alternatives to a racial monolith New Community 20: 173-180
Bonnett, A. (1993) Contours of crisis: antiracism and reflexivity (1993) in P. Jackson and J. Penrose (Eds) Constructions of Race, Place and Nation (UCL Press, London)
Bonnett, A. (1992) Art, ideology and everyday space Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 10: 69-86
Bonnett, A. (1990) Anti-racism as a radical educational ideology in London and Tyneside Oxford Review of Education 16: 255-267
Bonnett, A. (1989) Situationism, geography and poststructuralism Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 7: 131-146
Recent Talks
âRacism and Antiracism: Summer 2024â, â(Anti)-Racist Mobilisationsâ, University of St Andrews, 30 April 2025
The Age of Islandsâ, La Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote, UNED, Arrecife, Lanzarote, 29 October 2024, https://lanzarote3.com/en/Lecture-on-the-age-of-the-islands-by-Alastair-Bonnett
Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, ‘Maps that will Change How you See the World, Geography key note lecture, London, 29 August 2024
âThe Futures of Geographyâ, PTI Geography Enrichment Residential, York, 13 July 2024
âHow to Argue and be Originalâ, 15 November 2023, Sage/JS Group public lecture, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct0VCrXzpcU
‘The Blueprint for Resilience in Island Tourismâ, panel discussion, World Travel Market, ExCeL London, 7 November 2023
âRethinking Racism in Global Contextâ, Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, 5th October 2023.
Interview, Spiegamelo! Festival della Divulgazione 1st September 2022, Salsomaggiore Terme https://spiegamelo.it/2022/09/12/alastair-bonnet/
Seminar, Centre for the Study of Ethnicity, University of Bristol, 28 April 2022. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGpY30eQN3g
‘A Multi-racist World: The Global Roots and Entanglements of Racial and Ethnic Discriminationâ, Research on Racism and Discrimnmination: Where are we and Where are we Heading? Conference organised by Swedish Research Council, Stockholm, 15 October 2020
âBeyond the Mapâ, Munich Book Fair, Munich, 16th November, 2019.
âThe Future of Geographyâ, Prince’s Teaching Institute Enrichment Residential at Downing College, Cambridge, 29 June 2019. Released in PTIâs âLectures from Esteemed Speakersâ series: https://www.ptieducation.org/what-we-do/videos
Postal address: Professor Alastair Bonnett, Geography, Henry Daysh Building, Newcastle University Newcastle, NE17RU, UK
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