alastair.bonnett@ncl.ac.uk

Books, Articles, Press Coverage

New Books

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)

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)

PRESS COVERAGE (2020-2023)

Recent Articles

Bonnett, A. ‘Why we’re 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

‘Buchtipp: Die seltsamsten Orte der Welt’, undated [Jan 2023], Wikommunity https://www.wikinger-reisen.de/blog/buchtipp-die-seltsamsten-orte-der-welt-bonnet/

Bonnett, A. 《地圖之外: 世界上最大的死城阿格達姆，僅僅幾十年前曾是熱鬧的地區首府 [“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. 時間地景|封存三百年前的紐約, [Time Landscape | New York preserved three hundred years ago] 9 September 2022, 眼底城事/ Eyes on Place, https://eyesonplace.net/2022/09/09/21551/

Bonnett, A. ‘Asia Has Its Own Strands of Racism. It’s Time to Take Them Seriously’, 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. ‘Russia’s colonial legacy and the war in Ukraine’, 16 March 2022, Geographical, https://geographical.co.uk/geopolitics/geopolitics/item/4299-ukraine-invasion-russia-s-colonial-war

Bonnett, A. ‘Building new lands’ Geographical, March 2022, pp.52-3

Bonnett, A. 渴望一個「更純粹、更親切」的俄羅斯──豐饒村，森林裡的烏托邦 [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.《地圖之外：世界上最大的死城阿格達姆，僅僅幾十年前曾是熱鬧的地區首府 [“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. 富麗堂皇的中國鬼城鄂爾多斯　政府暴富後自視皇帝反彰顯權力脆弱 [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. 被人類遺棄的烏克蘭城市普里皮亞特　車諾比核災後從蘇聯模範城陷入死寂　[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. 烏克蘭東部紛爭的起點　掀起多年內戰的叛軍欲組「新俄羅斯聯邦, [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 world’s 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. ’Garbage Island: One day, may we live on an island of plastic waste?’’, [我們可能住在塑膠廢棄物的島嶼上嗎？] CommonWealth Magazine, 13 September, 2021, https://opinion.cw.com.tw/blog/profile/390/article/11383

Bonnett, A. ‘How to Build an Island’, Atlas Obscura, 17 August 2021, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-build-island

Bonnett, A. ‘”Island Times”: Phoenix Island is Known as “Oriental Dubai”, attracting many rich Chinese’, The News Lens, [Taiwan], 5th August 2021, https://www.thenewslens.com/article/154317

Bonnett, A. ‘Best Books about Islands’, Discover the Best Books, July 2021, https://shepherd.com/best-books/islands

Bonnett, A. ‘The Age of Islands’, Natural History Magazine, February, 2021, pp.28-31

Bonnett, A. ‘Desert islands’, High Life, December, 2020, https://bahighlife.com/luxury/2020/dec/the-world-s-ultimate-desert-islands/

‘Alastair Bonnett on the Age of Islands’, 30th April 2020, Waterstones Blog, https://bit.ly/2T8wLNX

Bonnett, A. ‘The World’s Most Unruly Places: Sealand’, GoNomad, 25^th January 2020, https://www.gonomad.com/5627-sealand-unruly-places-alastair-bonnett

Interviews and Features (2020-2022)

Interview, ‘Les îles artificielles ont-elles un avenir?’, 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/

說好「明日Die魚」故事 [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

‘Fantomöarna: fantasier som sattes på kartan’, 14 November, 2022, OBS, Sveriges Radio, https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/fantomoarna-fantasier-som-sattes-pa-kartan

’Алистер Боннет: Места по ту сторону карты’, [Alastair Bonnett: Places on the other side of the map] 12 November 2022, ПАРАНТЕЗА, https://www.paranteza.info/post/bonnett-beyond-the-map

Illes artificials, un mon que inclou l’absurd’, 27 October 2022, Diario de Mallorca, https://www.diariodemallorca.es/bellver/2022/10/27/illes-artificials-mon-inclou-l-77761200.html

‘Many people with foreign roots stopped by police in Japan: survey’, 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 ántrax por los británicos 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

‘Алистер Боннет: Места, которых нет на карте’, [‘Alastair Bonnett: Off the Map Places’] 2 July, 2022, syg.ma, https://syg.ma/@paranteza/alistier-bonniet-miesta-kotorykh-niet-na-kartie

La 2, ‘Página 2′ [‘’Página Dos’ viaja gracias a los libros … dibujará un mapa de islas misteriosas gracias a Alastair Bonnett’]; 28th June 2022, https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20220627/pagina-doscierra-temporada-seleccion-lecturas-verano/2385558.shtml

‘Islands in the Sun: Según un geógrafo inglés, “se están construyendo islas a una escala nunca vista”’, 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

‘¿Viajar está sobrevalorado?,’ Elle, 3rd June 2022, https://www.elle.com/es/living/viajes/a40148811/turismo-masificado-viajes-diferentes/

‘Alastair Bonnett traza el mapa de las nuevas y las viejas islas’, 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/

‘Esto no es una guía de viaje: 100 islas para entender nuestro future’, 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

‘Die Seesterntäuschung’, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 13 May 2022, https://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/starfish-weltkrieg-bomben-frankreich-england-1.5583983

‘Fakes und Wieder­verzauberung’, Taz, 3 May 2022, https://taz.de/Orte-der-Taeuschung/!5844586/

Interview, La era de las islas, Efecto Naím, 28 March 2022, https://youtu.be/ihAb8S8XQbg

Interview, Alastair Bonnett (discusses his new book ‘Multiracism’) Endeavours, 339, February 2022, https://anchor.fm/dan-mcpeake/episodes/339—Alistair-Bonnett-e1eo3p2

‘Por qué estamos en “la era de las islas artificiales’”, Prensa Mercosur, 6 Feb 2022, https://prensamercosur.net/06/02/2022/por-que-estamos-en-la-era-de-las-islas-artificiales/

Interview, ‘Le nuove isole della Finlandia, i fiumi sotto l’Artico È il mondo alla fine del mondo’, 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 più isole artificiali’, 29 January 2022, Wired, https://www.wired.it/article/isole-artificiali-clima-mare-ambiente/

‘Mitologia de Tonga já previa devastação causada por tsunami’, 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 construcción de islas artificiales está de moda’, 12 January, 2022, Nosabesnada, https://www.nosabesnada.com/tendencias/islas-artificiales/

‘Il più pazzo dei grandtour: VIAGGIO IN LUOGHI INSOLITI – Il geografo Bonnett va “Oltre le mappe”,’ 12 January 2022, il fatto quotidiano, https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2022/01/12/il-piu-pazzo-dei-grandtour/6452900/

‘Las islas artificiales, los peores enemigos de la sostenibilidad’, 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

‘Das Zeitalter der Inseln’: Gefährdetes Paradies, 21 December 2021, Der Standard, https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000131461738/das-zeitalter-der-inseln-gefaehrdetes-paradies

‘Mehr Land in Sicht’, 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

’From Lantau Tomorrow to Dubai’ [從明日大嶼到杜拜：陸沉時代的造島世紀], 4 October 2021, CUP, https://www.cup.com.hk/2021/10/04/the-age-of-islands/

‘Überall und grenzenlos’ 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, ‘Sehnsucht, Freiheit, Isolation’, 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

‘Da città dei servizi a città dormitorio: il sogno tradito di Giarre e la Sicilia che non cambia’, 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, ‘New islands can be natural or artificial. Both can be problematic’, 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

‘De magie van eilanden’, Leesvoer, Robert Visscher and Martine Zeijlstra, June 7 2021, [podcast], shorturl.at/lCRW7

‘Creadoras de ‘Fóra de mapa’: “Sabemos de escoceses ou galeses, mais pouco de arromaneses ou rutenos”, 24 April 2021, Nós Diario,  https://www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/cultura/sabemos-escoceses-galeses-mais-pouco-arromaneses-rutenos/20210423155419120148.html

‘Die Möglichkeit einer Insel’, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 20 April 2021 , https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/brexit-insel-sachbuch-alastair-bonnett-gavin-francis-1.5270554

‘Land in Sicht’, Sonntagszeitung, 18 April 2021, https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/land-in-sicht-373439672505

‘Mehr Land’, 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

‘Kuidas See Uus Raamat Kaardistab Maailma Andmetega’, newsmarttraveller.com, [Estonia], April 2021, https://est.newsmarttraveller.com/how-this-new-book-maps-world-with-data-720392

‘Les últimes fronteres’, Lletraferit, Valencia Plaza 28 March 2021,https://valenciaplaza.com/les-ultimes-fronteres

‘Ein planetarisches Spektakel’, 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

  ‘Deppendorf, Einsamkeit, Pups: Kuriose Ortsnamen, die schmunzeln lassen’, Badische Zeitung, February 20, 2021, https://www.badische-zeitung.de/reise-1/von-nach-broemsenknoell-und-brasilien-liegt-an-der-ostsee–200152604.html

‘De magie van eilanden: wegdromen naar verre plekken’, New Scientist, 22 January 2021, https://www.newscientist.nl/opinie/de-magie-van-eilanden-wegdromen-naar-verre-plekken/

‘Città invisibili e cimiteri viventi: ecco i 48 luoghi ancora inesplorati’, il Giornale.it, 29 November 2020, https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cultura/citt-invisibili-e-cimiteri-viventi-ecco-i-48-luoghi-ancora-1906301.html

‘Smelten ijs Groenland en Antarctica kan leiden tot stijging zeespiegel met 65 meter’, dpg media, 29 November 2020, https://tinyurl.com/y2nwssw7

 ‘Enge, nieuwe en zielloze eilanden’, nrc.nl, 27 November, 2020, https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/11/27/enge-nieuwe-en-zielloze-eilanden-a4021688

‘Columnist joins a “micronation”’, The Ledger-Transcript, 20 November 2020,
https://www.ledgertranscript.com/arHolden-ml-111920_-37360737

‘Alla ricerca dell’insolito fra rifiuti, labirinti, deserti’, 16 November, La Stampa, https://www.lastampa.it/viaggi/2020/10/18/news/alla-ricerca-dell-insolito-fra-rifiuti-labirinti-deserti-1.39427986

‘Sealand, el insólito microestado con moneda y bandera propias sobre una plataforma marina: “Al llegar me regalaron un título de lord”’ 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

‘38 destinos a los que no irás este verano’, Lavozdelsur.es 11 August 2020 https://www.lavozdelsur.es/38-destinos-a-los-que-no-iras-este-verano/

為什麼大家都想航向小島？專訪《地圖之外》作者Alastair Bonnett拆解島嶼神秘吸引力 [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

‘Czy na Ziemi jest jeszcze coś do odkrycia? Tak! Wciąż istnieją białe plamy. Na szczęście’ ‘National Geographic Polska’, 2020, https://www.national-geographic.pl/galeria/czy-na-ziemi-jest-jeszcze-cos-do-odkrycia-tak-wciaz-istnieja-bia/poza-mapa

 ‘How a Newcastle author accidentally wrote the perfect lockdown travel book’, The Chronicle, 20 June 2020, https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/how-newcastle-author-accidentally-wrote-18431985

‘Seltsam, seltsamer… – Die seltsamsten Orte der Welt von Alastair Bonnett’, 19 June 2020, windrose.rocks, https://stefan-taege.de/kasia/

‘L’importance d’une île’, Books, June 2020, https://www.books.fr/importance-ile/

‘Build your own island getaway! Author explores the globe’s blissful utopias’ The Daily Mail 7 May 2020, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-8297935/Build-island-getaway.html

‘Lugares sin mapa’ en la era de Google Maps, una nueva aventura de Alastair Bonnett’, 2 March 2020 Valencia Plaza,, https://valenciaplaza.com/lugares-sin-mapa-en-la-era-de-google-maps-una-nueva-aventura-de-alastair-bonnett

‘The Capital of Amnesia’, 1^st 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 Students’ 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).

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 l’Homme; 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)

Bonnett, A. (forthcoming) What is Geography? Revised and Expanded Edition (Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield)

Edited Books

Bonnett, A. and Armstrong, K. (Eds) (2014) Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary (London, Breviary Stuff Publications)

Academic Papers and Chapters

Bonnett, A. ‘The new popular geography and pursuit of the curious’, Scottish Geographical Journal, 2023, DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2192704

Bonnett, A, ‘Social change’ in Introducing Social Geographies, Social Geographies Collective (Eds), Rowman and Littlefield, London, 70-78, 2021

Bonnett, A ‘The dilemmas of radical nostalgia: Acknowledging the power of the past in the politics of the Left’ in Nostalgia Now: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on the Past in the Present, Jacobsen, M. (Ed.) Routledge, Abingdon, 116-128, 2020

Bonnett, A. ‘Multiple racialisations in a multiply modern world’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41, 7, 1199-1216, 2018 [also published in Hungarian as ‘Többszörös rasszializációk egy többszörösen modern világban’, Kisebbségkutatás, 2-3, 162-166, 2018]

Bonnett A. ‘Nostalgia and Anti-nostalgia in English Radical History: The Case of Thomas Spence (1750-1814)’ Groniek: Historisch Tijdschrift, 214, 45-57, 2017

Bonnett, A. ‘The enchanted path: Magic and modernism in psychogeographical walking’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 42, 3, 472-484. doi: 10.1111/tran.12177, 2017

Bonnett, A. ‘What is geography?’, in Jones, M.  (Ed.) The Handbook of Secondary Geography (Geographical Association, Sheffield),12-19, 2017.

Bonnett, A. ‘Whiteness’ and ‘Situationists/Situationist Geography’ in The International Encyclopedia of Geography, Richardson, D. et al.(Eds), Wiley, New York,

Shaw, W. and Bonnett, A. ‘Environmental crisis, narcissism and the work of grief’, Cultural Geographies , 23, 4, 565-579, 2016

Bonnett, A. ‘Occidentalismo e modernità pluali’, in Falcioni, D. (Ed.)Genealogie dell’Occidente, Bollati Boringhieri Publisher, Turin, 111-146, 2015

Bonnett, A ‘Walking through memory: critical nostalgia and the city’, in Walking Inside Out: British Psychogeography in the 21st Century, Tina Richardson (Ed.), Roman and Littlefield, London, 75-88, 2015.

Bonnett, A. ‘Az antirasszizmus amerikanizációja? A világhatalmi pozíció és hegemónia kérdése az etnikai egyenlőség politikájában’ (in Hungarian); published with translation: ‘The Americanisation of anti-racism: Global power and hegemony in anti-racism’ Romológia folyóirat, 4-5, Spring/Summer, 36-80, 2014

Bonnett, A. ‘Spence and the politics of nostalgia’, in Bonnett, A. and Armstrong, K. Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary, London, Breviary Stuff Publications, 55-88, 2014

Bonnett, A. ‘Introduction’, in Bonnett, A. and Armstrong, K. Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary, London, Breviary Stuff Publications, 1-6,  2014

Bonnett, A. ‘Critique’ in Lee, R. et al (Eds)  The Sage Handbook of Human Geography, London, Sage, 185-205, 2014

Bonnett, A. ‘White Studies revisited’, Multicultural Education: Major Themes in Education David Gillborn (Ed.)  Routledge, London, 185-96, 2014

Bonnett, A. ‘The transgressive geographies of daily life’, in Martínez, F. and Slabina, K.  (Eds) Playgrounds and Battlefields Tallinn University Press, Tallinn: 271-293, 2014

Jarvis, H. and Bonnett, A. ‘Progressive nostalgia in novel living arrangements: a counterpoint to neotraditional new urbanism?’, Urban Studies, 50 (11): 2349–2370, 2013

Bonnett, A and Alexander, C. ‘Mobile nostalgias: connecting visions of the urban past, present and future amongst ex-residents’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 38 (3): 391–402, 2013

Bonnett, A. ‘The agnostic Saladin’, History Today, 63, 2, 2013, pp.48-51

Bonnett, A. ‘Psychogeography’, Oxford Bibliographies Online: Geography. 1-Nov-2013. <http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199874002/obo-9780199874002-0020.xml&gt;.

Bonnett, A ‘Foreword’, in The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East, Nair-Venugopal, S (Ed), London, Palgrave, xiv-xv, 2012

Bonnett, A. ‘Just drifting’, in Phillips, R. and Johns, J. (Eds) Fieldwork for Human Geography, London, Sage: 201-202, 2012

Bonnett, A. ‘Geography: humanity’s great project’ Teaching Geography 37, 3: 120-122, 2012

Bonnett, A. ‘Geography: What’s the big idea?’ Geography, 97, 1: 39-41, 2012

Bonnett, A. ‘The critical traditionalism of Ashis Nandy: Occidentalism and the dilemmas of innocence’ Theory, Culture and Society, 29, 1: 138-157, 2012

Bonnett, A. ‘Response: Review symposium, Left in the Past’, Global Discourse 2: 2,  1-3, 2011.

Bonnett, A. ‘Radicalism, Anti-racism and nostalgia: the burden of loss in the search for convivial culture’ Environment and Planning A,  42, 10: 2351-2369, 2010

Bonnett A. ‘Asian Occidentalism and rediscovered modenities’. in Browning C, Lehti M, (Eds) The Struggle for the West: A Divided and Contested Legacy, London, Routledge, 2009

Bonnett, A. ‘The dilemmas of radical nostalgia in British pyschogeography’, Theory, Culture and Society 2009, 26, 1: 47-72.

Bonnett, A. ‘Radicalism is nostalgia’ in J. Pugh (Ed.) What is Radical Politics Today? Palgrave, London, 2009

Bonnett A. ‘East/West’ In Kitchin R, Thrift N (Eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 3, Oxford, Elsevier, 2009, 280-284

Bonnett, A. ‘The Discovery of Thomas Spence’s 1775 Lecture: Property in Land Every One’s Right’Labour History Review,74, 1, 2009, 134-136

Bonnett, A. ‘Whiteness and the west’ in Dwyer, C and Bressey, C, (Eds) New Geographies of Race and Racism. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008, 17-28

Bonnett, A. ‘White Studies revisited’, 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. ‘Shades of difference: African Native Americans’ History Today, 58, 12, 2008, pp.40-42

Bonnett, A. ‘Radical nostalgia’ History Today, 2007, 57, 2, pp.41-2

Bonnett, A. ‘The other Rights of Man’, 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. ‘Pale face, red mask: racial ambiguity and the imitation of ‘American Indian’ facial expressions’. Cultural Politics 2006, 2(3), 319-338

Bonnett, A. ‘The need for sustainable conferences’, Area 38, 3, 2006, pp.229-230

Bonnett, A. ‘The Americanisation of anti-racism? Global power and hegenomy 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. ‘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. ‘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. ‘Occidentalism’, History Today, 54, 10, 2004, pp.40-41

Bonnett, A. (2003) ‘Geography as the world discipline: Connecting popular and academic geographical imaginations’ Area, 35,1 pp.55-63. Translated into Spanish, Title tbc, Adrián Iulita (Ed.), Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero Press.

Bonnett, A. (2003) ‘From white to western: ‘Racial decline’ and the idea of the West in Britain, 1890-1930’ Journal of Historical Sociology 16, 3, pp.320-348

Bonnett, A. (2003)  ‘Makers of the West: National identity and occidentalism in the work of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Ziya Gökalp’ Scottish Geographical Journal 118, 3, pp.165-182

Bonnett, A. and Nayak, A. 2003) ‘Cultural geographies of racialization: The territory of race’, in K. Anderson, M. Domash, S. Pile and N. Thrift (Eds) (Eds)Handbook of Cultural Geography (Sage, London)

Bonnett, A. (2003) ‘Whiteness’  in Cashmore, E. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies (Routledge, London) [essay length entry]

Bonnett, A. (2003) ‘Anti-racism’  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) ‘Communists like us: Ethnicised modernity and the idea of ‘the west’ in the Soviet Union’ Ethnicities 2, 4, pp.435-467

Bonnett, A. (2002) ‘The metropolis and white modernity’ Ethnicities, 2, 3, pp.351-368

Bonnett, A. and Laurie, N. (2002) ‘Adjusting to equity: the contradictions of neo-liberalism and the search for racial equality in Peru’ Antipode, 34, 1, pp.28-53

Bonnett, A. and Carrington, B. (2000) ‘Fitting into categories or falling between them? Re-thinking ethnic classification’ 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 ‘The recruitment of new teachers from minority ethnic groups’ 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) ‘New teachers, their qualifications and ethnicity’, 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) ‘Constructions of whiteness in anti-racism’ in R. Torres, L. Miron  and J. Inda (Eds) Race, Identity and Citizenship: A Reader (Blackwell, Oxford)

Bonnett, A. (1999) ‘male’ ‘masculinities’ ‘mythopetic men’s movement’, ‘myth/mythology’, ‘laddism’, ‘new age’, 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., Mirón, L. and Inda, J.  (Eds) (Blackwell, Oxford, 1999).

Bonnett. A. (1996) ‘The situationist legacy’, 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

Interview, Spiegamelo! Festival della Divulgazione 1st September 2022, Salsomaggiore Terme

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 Discrimination’, Research on Racism and Discrimnmination: Where are we and Where are we Heading? Conference organised by Swedish Research Council, Stockholm, 15 October 2020

 ‘Beyond the Map’, Munich Book Fair, Munich, 16th November, 2019.

‘The Future of Geography’, Prince’s Teaching Institute Enrichment Residential at Downing College, Cambridge, 29 June 2019. Released in PTI’s ‘Lectures from Esteemed Speakers’ series: https://www.ptieducation.org/what-we-do/videos

Postal address: Professor Alastair Bonnett, Geography, Henry Daysh Building, Newcastle University Newcastle, NE17RU, UK