Carl Bonner‐thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Bonner‐thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonner‐thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1589-6116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Masculine and Violent Temporalities: Examining the Legacies of Men’s Unwanted Sexual Experiences
This article argues that sexual violence ruptures masculine temporalities, revealing the limits of gendered constructions of time and the ways they sustain violence and inequality. We draw upon research that explored the lives of 40 men living in England after incidents of sexual violence. Exploring the relationship between masculinized temporalities and the rupture created by sexual violence, we argue that gendered temporalities enable violence …
Queer social reproduction in the precarious city: Replenishing LGBTQ households in London
This paper explores the practices and labours undertaken by queer people to reproduce shared households in London, and the uneven power relations, histories and economic conditions mediating this replenishment.Through bringing feminist geographical engagements with social reproduction into conversation with queer geographies of urban space, the article argues for greater attention to the hard work of social reproduction undertaken by queer shared…
Queer Precarities - Introduction for themed issue
In this introduction to the themed section, we begin to explore how queer and precarity might be used to analyse how vulnerabilities are constituted across diverse spaces. We situate the contents of the themed section in relation to the context in which it was worked on, defined by the Covid-19 pandemic and the increased precarisation of Higher Education workers in the United Kingdom, as well as current literature on queerness and precarity. The …
Discharging Affect: Creating Feminist Spaces of Potential for Masculinities and Boyhood
Queering digital temporalities? Visceral geographies of Grindr
Neoliberal discourses present digital technologies as life-enhancing, promising a collapse of space and time as time becomes neatly organised in ways where lives become increasingly convenient and ‘productive’. Grindr offers such an experience, promising users instant and numerous sexual encounters in the places they live, doing so, however, against sets of heteronormative ideas of time, sex and sexuality. In this article, I explore the ways that…
Sexualities and Social Justice: Young People and the Doing of Gender and Sexual Equalities in a Former Ship‐Building Community
This participatory youth ethnography—utilising interviews, focus‐groups, observational diaries, and artwork—explores young people’s differing attitudes to current sexual equalities in a former ship‐building community in Northern England. Adapting Raymond Williams’ cultural Marxist framework on class, it identifies three intersecting repertoires of transition: a dominant liberal disposition of “inclusive sexualities”, based on the universal rights…
Crafting masculinities: Embodying, Recuperating and Redistributing Care in Young Lives
Research on geographies of care identifies care work as a low-paid, menial and ultimately feminized activity. Much of the work in the field, unsurprisingly, has focused upon the plight of women and how the division of labour produces and sustains gender inequalities. We are interested in how new generations understand gender, work and care and the possibilities for generating heterogeneous, caring masculinities. Using creative methods, we engage …
On the margins: Young men's mundane experiences of austerity in English coastal towns
This paper explores the everyday experiences of young white working-class men living in coastal towns badly affected by austerity programmes implemented in the UK since 2010. The lives and aspirations of marginal young men seldom feature in studies of the effects of economic crisis and austerity. These men are positioned at the intersection of several rhetorical constructions with contradictory and ambivalent affects. They are expected, and still…
Digital geographies of austerity: Young men’s material, affective and everyday relationships with the digital
Transgender negotiations of precarity: Contested spaces of higher education
We use feminist and queer theorisations of precarity as emotional and embodied to explore how trans people experience and negotiate university campus spaces in North East England. Through analysis of 15 interviews conducted with university students and staff, we highlight how precarity is lived and felt through an exploration of the ways in which different spaces of the campus become contexts of hope, comfort, and belonging, as well as anxiety, f…
Embodying precarious masculinities
Trans experiences of a university campus in northern England
The spatial experiences of transgender and gender non‐conforming (“trans”) people continue to occupy the margins of geography, especially compared to the amount of work centred on lesbian and gay lives. Though research on trans geographies in educational and health settings is expanding, most literatures stem from the USA. This paper shares findings from a study about the experiences of trans people who study and/or work on a specific university …
Anticipating touch: Haptic geographies of Grindr encounters in Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne, UK
This paper explores the haptic geographies of embodied, material, and spatial anticipations of offline erotic encounters that Grindr users have in their homes. I explore how touch and place are co‐constituted, arguing that men who use Grindr are learning how to negotiate their erotic Grindr practices through anticipations, identities, and the places that encounters are situated
The other side of coastal towns: Young men's precarious lives on the margins of England
English coastal resorts are among the most deprived towns in the country, with levels of economic and social deprivation often exceeding those of the inner areas of large cities and former industrial settlements. Their dominant image in the media and other forms of representation, however, is of places of innocent fun and leisure, often associated with their history as holiday destinations for working-class families, although the darker side of t…
The meat market’: Production and regulation of masculinities on the Grindr grid in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
This article explores the regulatory practices that shape the production of embodied masculinities in profile pictures in the online dating app, Grindr. Mobile dating applications are becoming increasingly enmeshed in everyday socio-sexual lives, providing ‘new’ spaces for construction, embodiment and performance of gender and sexuality. I draw on 31 semi-structured interviews and four participant research diaries with men who use Grindr in Newca…
The meat market’: Production and regulation of masculinities on the Grindr grid in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
This article explores the regulatory practices that shape the production of embodied masculinities in profile pictures in the online dating app, Grindr. Mobile dating applications are becoming increasingly enmeshed in everyday socio-sexual lives, providing ‘new’ spaces for construction, embodiment and performance of gender and sexuality. I draw on 31 semi-structured interviews and four participant research diaries with men who use Grindr in Newca…
On the margins: Young men's mundane experiences of austerity in English coastal towns
This paper explores the everyday experiences of young white working-class men living in coastal towns badly affected by austerity programmes implemented in the UK since 2010. The lives and aspirations of marginal young men seldom feature in studies of the effects of economic crisis and austerity. These men are positioned at the intersection of several rhetorical constructions with contradictory and ambivalent affects. They are expected, and still…
Anticipating touch: Haptic geographies of Grindr encounters in Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne, UK
This paper explores the haptic geographies of embodied, material, and spatial anticipations of offline erotic encounters that Grindr users have in their homes. I explore how touch and place are co‐constituted, arguing that men who use Grindr are learning how to negotiate their erotic Grindr practices through anticipations, identities, and the places that encounters are situated
Crafting masculinities: Embodying, Recuperating and Redistributing Care in Young Lives
Research on geographies of care identifies care work as a low-paid, menial and ultimately feminized activity. Much of the work in the field, unsurprisingly, has focused upon the plight of women and how the division of labour produces and sustains gender inequalities. We are interested in how new generations understand gender, work and care and the possibilities for generating heterogeneous, caring masculinities. Using creative methods, we engage …
Digital geographies of austerity: Young men’s material, affective and everyday relationships with the digital
Transgender negotiations of precarity: Contested spaces of higher education
We use feminist and queer theorisations of precarity as emotional and embodied to explore how trans people experience and negotiate university campus spaces in North East England. Through analysis of 15 interviews conducted with university students and staff, we highlight how precarity is lived and felt through an exploration of the ways in which different spaces of the campus become contexts of hope, comfort, and belonging, as well as anxiety, f…
Trans experiences of a university campus in northern England
The spatial experiences of transgender and gender non‐conforming (“trans”) people continue to occupy the margins of geography, especially compared to the amount of work centred on lesbian and gay lives. Though research on trans geographies in educational and health settings is expanding, most literatures stem from the USA. This paper shares findings from a study about the experiences of trans people who study and/or work on a specific university …
The other side of coastal towns: Young men's precarious lives on the margins of England
English coastal resorts are among the most deprived towns in the country, with levels of economic and social deprivation often exceeding those of the inner areas of large cities and former industrial settlements. Their dominant image in the media and other forms of representation, however, is of places of innocent fun and leisure, often associated with their history as holiday destinations for working-class families, although the darker side of t…
Sexualities and Social Justice: Young People and the Doing of Gender and Sexual Equalities in a Former Ship‐Building Community
This participatory youth ethnography—utilising interviews, focus‐groups, observational diaries, and artwork—explores young people’s differing attitudes to current sexual equalities in a former ship‐building community in Northern England. Adapting Raymond Williams’ cultural Marxist framework on class, it identifies three intersecting repertoires of transition: a dominant liberal disposition of “inclusive sexualities”, based on the universal rights…
Queer social reproduction in the precarious city: Replenishing LGBTQ households in London
This paper explores the practices and labours undertaken by queer people to reproduce shared households in London, and the uneven power relations, histories and economic conditions mediating this replenishment.Through bringing feminist geographical engagements with social reproduction into conversation with queer geographies of urban space, the article argues for greater attention to the hard work of social reproduction undertaken by queer shared…
Queering digital temporalities? Visceral geographies of Grindr
Neoliberal discourses present digital technologies as life-enhancing, promising a collapse of space and time as time becomes neatly organised in ways where lives become increasingly convenient and ‘productive’. Grindr offers such an experience, promising users instant and numerous sexual encounters in the places they live, doing so, however, against sets of heteronormative ideas of time, sex and sexuality. In this article, I explore the ways that…
Discharging Affect: Creating Feminist Spaces of Potential for Masculinities and Boyhood
The meat market’: Production and regulation of masculinities on the Grindr grid in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
This article explores the regulatory practices that shape the production of embodied masculinities in profile pictures in the online dating app, Grindr. Mobile dating applications are becoming increasingly enmeshed in everyday socio-sexual lives, providing ‘new’ spaces for construction, embodiment and performance of gender and sexuality. I draw on 31 semi-structured interviews and four participant research diaries with men who use Grindr in Newca…
Embodying precarious masculinities
Trans experiences of a university campus in northern England
The spatial experiences of transgender and gender non‐conforming (“trans”) people continue to occupy the margins of geography, especially compared to the amount of work centred on lesbian and gay lives. Though research on trans geographies in educational and health settings is expanding, most literatures stem from the USA. This paper shares findings from a study about the experiences of trans people who study and/or work on a specific university …
Anticipating touch: Haptic geographies of Grindr encounters in Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne, UK
This paper explores the haptic geographies of embodied, material, and spatial anticipations of offline erotic encounters that Grindr users have in their homes. I explore how touch and place are co‐constituted, arguing that men who use Grindr are learning how to negotiate their erotic Grindr practices through anticipations, identities, and the places that encounters are situated
The other side of coastal towns: Young men's precarious lives on the margins of England
English coastal resorts are among the most deprived towns in the country, with levels of economic and social deprivation often exceeding those of the inner areas of large cities and former industrial settlements. Their dominant image in the media and other forms of representation, however, is of places of innocent fun and leisure, often associated with their history as holiday destinations for working-class families, although the darker side of t…
Digital geographies of austerity: Young men’s material, affective and everyday relationships with the digital
Transgender negotiations of precarity: Contested spaces of higher education
We use feminist and queer theorisations of precarity as emotional and embodied to explore how trans people experience and negotiate university campus spaces in North East England. Through analysis of 15 interviews conducted with university students and staff, we highlight how precarity is lived and felt through an exploration of the ways in which different spaces of the campus become contexts of hope, comfort, and belonging, as well as anxiety, f…
Sexualities and Social Justice: Young People and the Doing of Gender and Sexual Equalities in a Former Ship‐Building Community
This participatory youth ethnography—utilising interviews, focus‐groups, observational diaries, and artwork—explores young people’s differing attitudes to current sexual equalities in a former ship‐building community in Northern England. Adapting Raymond Williams’ cultural Marxist framework on class, it identifies three intersecting repertoires of transition: a dominant liberal disposition of “inclusive sexualities”, based on the universal rights…
Crafting masculinities: Embodying, Recuperating and Redistributing Care in Young Lives
Research on geographies of care identifies care work as a low-paid, menial and ultimately feminized activity. Much of the work in the field, unsurprisingly, has focused upon the plight of women and how the division of labour produces and sustains gender inequalities. We are interested in how new generations understand gender, work and care and the possibilities for generating heterogeneous, caring masculinities. Using creative methods, we engage …
On the margins: Young men's mundane experiences of austerity in English coastal towns
This paper explores the everyday experiences of young white working-class men living in coastal towns badly affected by austerity programmes implemented in the UK since 2010. The lives and aspirations of marginal young men seldom feature in studies of the effects of economic crisis and austerity. These men are positioned at the intersection of several rhetorical constructions with contradictory and ambivalent affects. They are expected, and still…
Queering digital temporalities? Visceral geographies of Grindr
Neoliberal discourses present digital technologies as life-enhancing, promising a collapse of space and time as time becomes neatly organised in ways where lives become increasingly convenient and ‘productive’. Grindr offers such an experience, promising users instant and numerous sexual encounters in the places they live, doing so, however, against sets of heteronormative ideas of time, sex and sexuality. In this article, I explore the ways that…
Queer social reproduction in the precarious city: Replenishing LGBTQ households in London
This paper explores the practices and labours undertaken by queer people to reproduce shared households in London, and the uneven power relations, histories and economic conditions mediating this replenishment.Through bringing feminist geographical engagements with social reproduction into conversation with queer geographies of urban space, the article argues for greater attention to the hard work of social reproduction undertaken by queer shared…
Queer Precarities - Introduction for themed issue
In this introduction to the themed section, we begin to explore how queer and precarity might be used to analyse how vulnerabilities are constituted across diverse spaces. We situate the contents of the themed section in relation to the context in which it was worked on, defined by the Covid-19 pandemic and the increased precarisation of Higher Education workers in the United Kingdom, as well as current literature on queerness and precarity. The …
Discharging Affect: Creating Feminist Spaces of Potential for Masculinities and Boyhood
Masculine and Violent Temporalities: Examining the Legacies of Men’s Unwanted Sexual Experiences
This article argues that sexual violence ruptures masculine temporalities, revealing the limits of gendered constructions of time and the ways they sustain violence and inequality. We draw upon research that explored the lives of 40 men living in England after incidents of sexual violence. Exploring the relationship between masculinized temporalities and the rupture created by sexual violence, we argue that gendered temporalities enable violence …
Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)