Professor John Connell

Professor John Connell, BA, PhD
Professor

Madsen Building (F09), Rm 440
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John Connell's principal research interests are concerned with political, economic and social development in less developed countries, especially in the South Pacific region and in other small island states. Much of this research is currently oriented to issues of rural development, migration and inequality. A second research theme is on decolonisation and nationalism. More recently he has worked on the cultural geography of music and food. He is presently working on the impact of tourism and festivals on rural and regional development, and the global migration of skilled health workers. He has written books on migration and development issues, especially concerning Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia and urbanisation in the Third World.

He has been a consultant to both the Department of Primary Industry and the Department of Mines and Energy in Papua New Guinea, and worked with the South Pacific Commission, the World Health Organisation and the International Labour Organisation on long-term projects on migration and employment in the South Pacific region.

• Connell, J. 2007, Islands, Idylls and the Detours of Development, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 28, 116-135.
• Connell, J. 2007, Towards Free Trade in the Pacific? The Genesis of the Kava-Biscuit War Between Fiji and Vanuatu, Geographical Research, 45, 1-12.
• Connell, J. 2007, The Fiji Times and the Good Citizen. Constructing Modernity and Nationhood in Fiji, The Contemporary Pacific, 19, 85-109.
• Connell, J. 2006, Holding on to Modernity? Siwai, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, in J. Connell and E. Waddell, eds, Environment, Development and Change in the Asia-Pacific. Between Local and Global, Routledge, London, 127-146.
• Connell, J. 2006, "The Taste of Paradise". Selling Fiji and FIJI Water, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 47, 342-350.
• Connell, J. 2006, Hillsong: A Megachurch in the Sydney Suburbs, Australian Geographer, 36 , 315-332.
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  Connell, J., and Gibson, C., 2005, Music and Tourism: On The Road Again, Channel View Press, Clevedon.
• Connell, J., 2004, The Migration of Skilled Health Workers; from the Pacific Islands to the World, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 13, 155-177.
• Connell, J., and Gibson, C., 2004, World Music: Deterritorialising Place and Identity, Progress in Human Geography, 28, 342-361.
• Connell, J., 2003, Losing Ground? Tuvalu, the Greenhouse Effect and the Garbage Can, Asia-Pacific View Point, 44, 89-107.
• Connell, J. and Gibson, C., 2003, Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place, Routledge, London
• Connell, J. and Lea, J., 2002, Urbanisation in the South Pacfic: towards sustainable development, Routledge, London
• Connell, J., 2000, Sydney. The emergence of a World City, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Aldrich, R. and Connell, J., 1998, The Last Colonies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Connell, J., 1997, Papua New Guinea: the struggle for development, Routledge, London.
• Connell, J., 1995, Samoan worlds: Culture, migration, identity and Albert Wendt, in R. King, J. Connell and P. White, eds, Writing of Passages: Migration and Literature, Routledge, London.

• GEOS 2122/2922 - Urban Geography
• GEOS 3053/3953 & GEOS 3054/3954 - Asia-Pacific Field School
• GEOS 3512/3912 - Contemporary Global Geographies