John Connell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3692648 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Connell |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Connell |
| ASSINATURA | CONNELL J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6450-2435 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 168 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 984 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 162 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 17 |
Rural dreams and constrained cosmopolitanism
Taiwanese Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) are one of the largest WHM cohorts in Australia. While mainstream media and public discourse often portray them as exploited labourers in precarious rural employment, this paper challenges such portrayals by highlighting the agency and diverse experiences of Taiwanese WHMs. Driven by their perceptions of a ‘rural idyll,’ many Taiwanese youth actively choose to work and live in rural and regional areas beyon…
‘Parky goes Techno!’
The unique feature of our journey is the real-life 24-7 experiences of Parkinson’s, rather than the snapshot of what is the focus of some research. The story captures achievements and differences which can be made to people’s lives. Our now new friends. (N=10) who live with and without Parkinson’s join virtually to become involved in the dance and physical activity sessions. The findings highlight the feeling of wellbeing, a strengthening of the …
Guestworker Schemes in Pacific Island Countries
Guestworker schemes have increased in geographical extent and numerical importance in the twenty‐first century. In the southern hemisphere, Australia and New Zealand developed schemes primarily drawing workers from small Pacific island states to meet horticultural needs. Proponents of guestwork pointed to a triple win for farmers, workers and source countries, couched in economic terms. In small Pacific states, such economic gains were less evide…
Popular culture and tourism
Chinese Tourism in Australia
Reflective practice and feedback – empowering university students’ teaching of dance in UK state schools
A mixed methods approach for gathering data was adopted to report Level 5, 2nd (N = 34; F27, M7) and Level 6, 3rd (N = 29; M5, F24) year University students’ (N = 63) reflections of dance practice at Leeds Beckett University in the north of England. Five research instruments were utilised to gather data: questionnaires (including both open and closed questions), semi-structured interviews, reflective logs, pictorial evidence and observations. Ref…
Unequal and unjust
The intensity of Bangkok’s urban heat island during the dry season can be as high as 6–7° and in the densest areas the urban heat island’s intensity is approximately 4°C. The urban heat island thus is causing a city already oppressively hot to become even hotter. The urban heat island also contributes to health problems, such as heat stroke and fatigue, particularly to those with lower incomes. We historically examine the numerous causes of Bangk…
The tourist pose
Their lives don't matter to politicians
Thailand is consistently ranked as having the worst road safety record in Asia, and one of the worst globally. Most deaths are of the rural poor, a function of necropolitical ecology. A primary factor is the materiality and design of the road system, built to increase mobility rather than improve safety, and lacking a hierarchical structure. Highways are poorly integrated into both rural areas and Thai cities, and ignore the needs of motorcycle d…
Our ‘Pacific family’. Heroes, guests, workers or a precariat
Australia launched a Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP) in 2012, shortly after a similar scheme in New Zealand, to bring seasonal workers from Pacific Island Countries (PICS) to work in agriculture. The scheme was seen as a potential ‘Triple Win' with sending and receiving countries, and workers' households, benefiting. Workers’ remittances contributed to welfare, especially housing and education, and small business establishment, but there were soc…
‘Boogieing with Mrs P’
This real-life story can be rationalised as an auto-ethnographic appreciation of the journey of Diane and I. The journey is new to us when it was once known and planned. The path has veered with new challenges realised since the ”death sentence” was passed. This longitudinal research, is original and unique, drawing initially upon the fundamentals of Parkinson’s and the brain and then the events of our story. Not that we are experts, but boy can …
Chinese tourists at the University of Sydney
In this century, a distinctive campus tourism has emerged. Campus tourism has thrived in China and outbound tourism from China has fostered the growth of this form of niche tourism elsewhere. In Australia, the University of Sydney attracts many visitors, with organized tour groups and independent tourists mainly coming from China. A distinctive ‘experiencescape’ combines evolving physical and cultural factors: heritage architecture, mythology, op…
Covid-19 and tourism in Pacific Sids
Tourism was of critical economic importance in Pacific SIDS until COVID-19 border closures cut off international ties. The virus did not reach Vanuatu and Samoa, and few cases occurred in Fiji. The collapse of tourism, on land and from cruise ships, resulted in increased unemployment and the closure of hotels and tourism-oriented businesses with multiplier effects throughout the island economies. Many people returned to home islands, putting pres…
The 2020 New Caledonia Referendum
At a second referendum in October 2020 the majority of the eligible population of New Caledonia voted to remain with France rather than choose independence. After violent conflict in the 1980s, two accords brought a process of ‘rebalancing’ over 30 years, aimed at creating a ‘common destiny’ primarily between the Indigenous Melanesian Kanak population and European settlers, culminating in a series of referendums on independence. Despite some econ…
Taiwanese Working holiday makers in rural and regional Australia
Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) from overseas have been a valuable source of employment in rural and regional Australia. This is one significant part of a growing resort to temporary migration to meet employment problems especially in regional areas. Little is known about the experience and contribution of Asian WHMs despite the presence of significant numbers, especially from Taiwan. Most Taiwanese WHMs are young educated women who have moved in s…
Islands, Languages, and Development
This article is referred to by:Identifying and Analyzing the Dominant Languages in Small Island Developing States
Identity, Culture and Politics
The Ends of Empire
The core executive and small states
This article interrogates three key arguments derived from the functional approach to studying the core executive: (1) that coordination is the primary problem that confronts executive decision‐makers; (2) that improved coordination will lead to better governance; and (3) that linkage problems dissipate as policy systems consolidate. Drawing on the experience of hitherto understudied small states, including 112 interviews with political elites, w…
Another Pause for Independence? The 2018 New Caledonia Referendum
New Caledonia is a distinctive French overseas territory with significant interest in independence. It reflects the legacy of a settler colony, where Melanesians were displaced to reservations in the nineteenth century. Pressure for independence comes almost exclusively from the minority Kanak (Melanesian) population. In the 1980s a violent and unsuccessful struggle for independence was defeated and the Matignon Accords, followed by the Noumea Ac…
Flower viewing from horseback? New directions in Chinese tourism in Australia
In this century Chinese tourists in Australia have rapidly become the most numerous national source. Relatively little is known about their socio-economic status, their geographical origins and expectations of tourism, and their attitudes to and perceptions of Australia, although every Australian state has devised a specific Chinese tourism strategy to tap into this market. Chinese tourism is concentrated in metropolitan areas in the eastern stat…
Tourism as political theatre in North Korea
Nothing There Atoll? “Farewell to the Carteret Islands”
Handbook on climate change vulnerability, environments and communities
The mystifying trend towards handbooks continues. This is one of an Edward Elgar series of handbooks on energy, the environment and climate change and focuses mainly on the Asia-Australia region as...
The Pacific islands. environment and society
By a sad and improbable coincidence, in the week that this book was published in Hawai’i, its editor, Moshe Rapaport, tragically died while pursuing his love of tramping around Wellington in New Ze...
Sound Tracks
Sound Tracks is the first comprehensive book on the new geography of popular music, examining the complex links between places, music and cultural identities. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective on local, national and global scenes, from the 'Mersey' and 'Icelandic' sounds to 'world music', and explores the diverse meanings of music in a range of regional contexts.In a world of intensified globalisation, links between space, music and id…
World music
Music has been neglected in geography, yet the rise of 'world music' exemplifies the multiple ways in which places are constructed, commodified and contested. Music from distant and 'exotic' places has long entered the western canon, yet the pace of diffusion to the west accelerated with the rise of reggae and the marketing of Paul Simon's Graceland (1986), which pointed to the modification and transformation of distant, 'other' musics for wester…
Medical tourism
Contemporary medical tourism
The Last Colonies
This comprehensive and authoritative book is about the last colonies, those remaining territories formally dependent on metropolitan powers. It discusses the surprisingly large number of these territories, mainly small isolated islands with limited resources. Yet these places are not as obscure as might be expected. They may be major tourist destinations, military bases, satellite tracking stations, tax havens or desolate, underpopulated spots th…
Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia
Music, Tourism and the Transformation of Memphis
This article discusses the complex links between tourism, music and place. Music tourism is a rapidly expanding and diverse tourist niche, although rarely acknowledged by geographers or tourism scholars. The article discusses historical precedents, before sketching a typology of contemporary linkages between music, tourism and place, including museums and festivals, sites of birth and death and (musical) creation, and locations enshrined in lyric…
Migration and remittances in island microstates
For several decades there has been extensive migration from the small island states of the South Pacific and the eastern Caribbean to metropolitan countries, resulting in absolute population decline in some states and new social, economic and political relationships between these island regions and distant worlds. Early research on the consequences for island development of return migration and remittances dwelt upon the unproductive nature of ex…
Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans
Nauru
In recent years supposedly ‘failed states’ have been recognized in the Pacific. Nauru, once rich, has acquired most of the characteristics of a failed state, in large part because of the consequences of an extreme ‘resource curse’ scenario, where other economic sectors fail. Mining of phosphate is now almost over. Wasteful expenditure, especially on a national airline and the panoply of a ‘welfare state’, and inadequate health services and educat…
The migration of doctors and nurses from South Pacific Island Nations
From medical tourism to transnational health care? An epilogue for the future
Sub-Saharan Africa
Bongo Fury’
While tourism has been somewhat neglected in literature on the ‘cultural economy’, it remains an important influence on cultural production, particularly within a global matrix of youth travel. A distinct cultural economy has emerged at Byron Bay in Far North Coast, New South Wales, Australia, which builds on connections between tourism and the production and marketing of music. Counter‐urban migration and tourism have contributed to transformati…
Homeward Bound? Searching for home in Inner Sydney's share houses
Share house living arrangements are increasingly popular for young Australians as a result of a variety of economic and social changes such as the declining affordability of home ownership and delayed and decreasing marriage rates. Despite this rise, share housing is little researched. This paper considers the idea of ‘home’ as it exists in Inner Sydney's share houses, by examining the motivations underlying the decision to live in a share house …
Hillsong
Religious belief and practice, especially Pentecostalism, are increasingly suburban phenomena in an otherwise more secular society. The megachurch of Hillsong in Sydney's north-western suburbs has recently grown rapidly, offering a distinct architecture, institutional structure and informal service format Protestantism generally, distinguished by its stadium show, prosperity preaching, overt materialist orientation and egalitarian populism. Diver…
Islands, idylls and the detours of development
A passing parade of paradigms imported from distant places has failed to bring development to small islands and island states in the Pacific. Insularity might once have suggested purity, but more extended resource frontiers and other external pressures have challenged illusory benefits of 'isolation'. Failures of development, seemingly crystallized in the 'arc of instability', have brought new and more direct external intervention as regional geo…
Vicarious Journeys
This paper discusses links between cultural constructions of places in tourism and in music, with a textual analysis of visual materials associated with selected musical releases. Album covers, liner notes and websites are symbolic devices to market music, establish credibility and ‘authenticity’; they also serve as representations of other places. Economic and technological changes beyond music itself also contributed to the widespread adoption …
France's Overseas Frontier
This 1992 book is a full-length study in English of the 'confetti of empire', the former French colonies which have not gained their independence but remain part of France as the départements et territoires d'outre-mer (DOM-TOMs). More recent French governments have shown a determination to retain these possessions, despite independence movements (notably in New Caledonia) and international criticism. The authors' comprehensive description of the…
Nurturing Relationships
First- and second-generation migrants represent about 40 per cent of the Australian population. With such a large and also diverse immigrant population, urban landscapes are significantly shaped by the gardens created by migrants. Two groups of Vietnamese and Greek migrants, in the inner suburb of Marrickville South in Sydney, were interviewed to examine the relationship between migration history and garden-making practices. Garden composition wa…
Full Circle or Spiralling Out of Control? State Violence and the Control of Urbanisation in Papua New Guinea
There is an administrative reluctance to recognise the permanency of urban settlement in Papua New Guinea. This reluctance, evident since the 1960s, has been characteristic of both the colonial and post-colonial administrations. Opposition to some facets of urbanisation continues today, despite growing population and land pressures in most rural areas and real problems of landlessness emerging in particular rural areas. Colonial control of urban …
The Parkes Elvis Revival Festival
This paper discusses the annual Elvis Revival Festival in the small town of Parkes, 350 km to the west of Sydney, in rural Australia. It explores the way in which a remote place with few economic prospects has created a tourism product, and subsequently captured national publicity, through a festival based around commemoration of the birthday of Elvis Presley, a performer who had never visited Australia, and certainly not Parkes. The Festival beg…
Acculturation and Health in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
The two cultures of health worker migration
Birdwatching, Twitching and Tourism
Birdwatching has grown in importance in recent decades as a new variant of niche tourism, but has largely escaped geographical documentation. Global growth has been reflected in the development of tourism companies, websites and guidebook coverage, mainly in Western nations. New complexity and competition are reflected in the emergence of distinct sub-categories of birdwatchers. Birdwatching has been particularly significant in more remote places…
The Geography of Development or the Development of Geography
The Bougainville Connection
Migration from Rural Areas
Assessing Village Labour Situations in Developing Countries
Journal Article Assessing Village Labour Situations in Developing Countries Get access Assessing Village Labour Situations in Developing Countries. By John Connell And Michael Lipton. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. 180. £3.95.)Village Society and Labour Use. By Biplab Dasgupta et al. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. vi + 229. £5.00.) Grant Kirkpatrick Grant Kirkpatrick Brunel University Search for other works by this author …
Migration from Rural Areas
Assessing Village Labour Situations in Developing Countries
A Study prepared for the International Labour Office, within the framework of the World Employment Programme, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Migration from Rural Area, the Evidence from Village Studies
Diagnosis and cure
The Political Economy of Urbanization in Melanesia
The authors attempt to provide a comprehensive review of urbanization in three Melanesian countries (Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu) and in Fiji. The focus of the paper is on the development and perpetuation of various forms of inequality exemplified by Melanesian urbanization and its colonial origins
Status or Subjugation? Women, Migration and Development in the South Pacific
Despite much research on migration in the South Pacific, there is almost no information relating either to the migration of women (either internally or internationally) or to the impact of migration on women (either those who move or those who stay) or on the societies of emigration. This article attempts to draw restricted conclusions from the limited data available, indicate some implications of these conclusions and point to the problems of la…
Status or Subjugation? Women, Migration and Development in the South Pacific
John Connell, Status or Subjugation? Women, Migration and Development in the South Pacific, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 4, Special Issue: Women in Migration (Winter, 1984), pp. 964-983
Population and employment in developing countries
Towards Kanaky? Politics and Land in New Caledonia
Trouble in Paradise“
Australian perceptions of the South Pacific are largely shaped by promotional tourist reports. Australian press coverage of violent conflict in New Caledonia erupting late in 1984, during the Kanak struggle for independence, produced a very different image of one part of the region. The Australian media coverage focused on violent events, used evocative language and dramatic headlines and stressed the threat that violence posed for Australian tou…
The fight for Kanaky
New Caledonia
Development Studies in Australian Geography1
Acculturation and Health in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Wokmani
Rural development and migration. A study of family choices in the Philippines
New Caledonia
Tax Havens and Global Capitalism
The growth of tax haven activities has been a feature of recent global capitalist development, yet geographical analysis of these activities has been limited. Vanuatu has become the South Pacific's major tax haven, expanding through its ability to capture (mainly) Australian and Asian investment in the 1970s and 1980s. Tax haven activities in Vanuatu have increasingly contributed to local employment and income generation, despite the growth of co…
The Future of Migration in the Pacific and Asia
The Future of Migration in the Pacific and Asia
The XVIIth Pacific Science Association Congress met in Honolulu, Hawaii from May 27, to June 1, 1991, with an attendance in excess of 1,500, most of whom presented papers. Honolulu, Geneva of the Pacific Century (as locals are calling it), is able to attract a large number of visitors, easily and relatively cheaply, in addition to the considerable resident talent con? ducting research in the Pacific. There were many well-balanced programs, bringi…
France's Overseas Frontier
This 1992 book is a full-length study in English of the 'confetti of empire', the former French colonies which have not gained their independence but remain part of France as the départements et territoires d'outre-mer (DOM-TOMs). More recent French governments have shown a determination to retain these possessions, despite independence movements (notably in New Caledonia) and international criticism. The authors' comprehensive description of the…
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