Jon Binnie

Jon Binnie

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Biography

Academic and professional qualifications

I completed my first degree BA Geography, Class One at Durham University in 1990 (I was also awarded The W.B. Fisher Prize and Robin Mills Award for joint best finals performance in Geography)

After a break working in industry I studied for my PhD at University College London. My PhD was awarded in 1997 for the thesis - ‘A Geography of Urban Desires: Sexual Culture and the City’

Previous employment

  • Lecturer in Human Geography, Brunel University (1999-2001)
  • Lecturer in Human Geography, Liverpool John Moores University (1994-1999)

External examiner roles

I have been PhD external examiner at a number of institutions including Aston University, Central European University, Coventry University, Edge Hill University, Nottingham Trent University, King’s College London, Lancaster University, National University of Singapore, University of Cambridge, University of Cape Town, University of Sussex, University of Westminster, London.

Other academic service (administration and management)

Member of the Project Advisory Group of the ESRC-funded project ‘Intimate Migrations: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Migrants in Scotland’ (PI Dr. Francesca Stella, University of Glasgow)

Member of the External Advisory Committee of the European Research Council-funded project LIVEDIFFERENCE ‘Living with Difference in Europe: Making communities out of strangers in an era of super mobility and super diversity’ (PI Professor Gill Valentine, University of Sheffield) 

Languages

Fluent Danish. Working knowledge of Dutch, French and German.

Get in touch

0161 247 1572
E404 John Dalton Building

Teaching

Undergraduate courses

I am unit-coordinator of 6F6Z3014 Political Geography Beyond the Nation

I also contribute to the following course units:

6F5Z3002 Social and Cultural Geography 

6F5Z3008H Fieldwork and Research Design (Human Geography)

6F4Z3005H Tutorials and Field Activities (Human Geography)

6F4Z3002 Introducing Human Geographies

Research outputs

My primary research interest is the relationship between sexuality and space; how sexualities shape the production of space, and what difference space makes to sexual identities, practices and politics. This was the focus of my PhD thesis at University College London, which examined the relationship between queer theory, sexual desire, the politics of representation and the boundaries of geographical knowledge. My work has since focused on five key interconnected themes:

1)  The regulation of sexualities and the politics of sexual citizenship - how space shapes struggles for sexual citizenship. My co-authored book The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and Beyond (Polity) examined sexual citizenship at key sites of sexual politics including the marriage, the military, the market,
consumption and globalization.

2) LGBTQ politics and broader questions of social and spatial justice, including the gender and sexual politics of class and neoliberalism in the UK and Poland.

3) The sexual politics of national identity and globalisation. My book The Globalization of Sexuality (Sage) used a queer postcolonial perspective to examine the role of mobility and migration in forging LGBTQ political agendas across national borders.

4) Sexuality and urban politics. Research on cosmopolitanism and the contested politics of Manchester’s ‘gay village’ featured in a jointly co-edited volume Cosmopolitan Urbanism (Routledge). Lately I have examined the sexual politics of networks and connections between cities, such as the use of city twinning links as a platform for LGBTQ politics.

5) The sexual politics of Europe and Europeanisation. The European Union as a key actor in shaping debates on LGBTQ politics in different European contexts; how sexual politics takes distinctive forms within different European contexts and localities. I have undertaken empirical research in the UK, Ireland, Poland,
The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Serbia and Italy.

While based in Human Geography, I have engaged in and contribute towards interdisciplinary debates on these issues, and have worked on joint and collective projects with scholars in Sociology, Law and Cultural Studies.

  • Books (authored/edited/special issues)

    Binnie, J. (2012) Foreword: Space, affect and value: A commentary on educational diversity: The subject of difference and different subjects.

    Binnie, J., Millington, S., Holloway, J.J., Young, C. (2006) Cosmopolitan Urbanism. Routledge.

    Binnie, J. (2004) The globalization of sexuality.

    Bell, D., Binnie, J. (2000) The Sexual Citizen Queer Politics and Beyond. Polity.

  • Chapters in books

    Binnie, J. (2017) 'Quartering sexualities: Gay villages and sexual citizenship.' City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City. pp. 163-172.

    Binnie, J. (2017) 'Sexuality, the Erotic and Geography: Epistemology, Methodology and Pedagogy.' Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics. pp. 29-38.

    Binnie, J. (2016) 'Rethinking the Place of Queer and the Erotic within Geographies of Sexualities.' The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory. pp. 167-179.

    Binnie, J., Klesse, C. (2016) 'Researching Transnational Activism around LGBTQ Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Activist Solidarities and Spatial Imaginings.' De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. pp. 107-130.

    Binnie, J. (2015) 'Classing desire: Erotics, politics, value.' Global Justice and Desire: Queering Economy. pp. 147-160.

    Binnie, J. (2015) 'Classing desire: Erotics, politics, value.' Global Justice and Desire: Queering Economy. pp. 147-160.

    Binnie, J. (2012) 'Sexuality, the erotic and geography: Epistemology, methodology and pedagogy.' Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics. pp. 29-38.

    Binnie, J., Klesse, C. (2012) 'Researching transnational activism around LGBTQ politics in central and Eastern Europe: Activist solidarities and spatial imaginings.' De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. pp. 107-130.

    Edensor, T.J., Evans, B., Holloway, J., Millington, S., Binnie, J. (2012) 'Playing in industrial ruins: interrogating teleological understandings of play in spaces of material alterity and low surveillance.' Urban Wildscapes. Routledge,

    Binnie, J., Klesse, C. (2011) 'Researching transnational activism around LGBTQ politics in Central and Eastern Europe: activist solidarities and spatial imaginings.' De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. Ashgate,

    Binnie, J. (2010) 'Queer theory, neoliberalism and urban governance.' Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire. pp. 21-36.

    Binnie, J. (2010) 'Queer theory, neoliberalism and urban governance.' Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire. pp. 21-36.

    Binnie, J., Holloway, J., Young, C. (2009) 'Cosmopolitanism.' In Kitchin, R., Thrift, N. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier,

    Binnie, J., Holloway, J.J., Millington, S., Young, C. (2009) 'Cosmopolitanism.' International Encyclopedia of Human Geography: Volume 1-12.

    Binnie, J., Holloway, J., Millington, S., Young, C. (2009) 'Cosmopolitanism.' In Kitchin, R., Thrift, N. (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, pp. 307-313.

    Binnie, J., Holloway, J., Millington, S., Young, C. (2006) 'Conclusion: The paradoxes of cosmopolitan urbanism.' Routledge, pp. 246-253.

    Binnie, J., Holloway, J., Millington, S., Young, C. (2005) 'Introduction: Grounding cosmopolitan urbanism: Approaches, practices and policies.' pp. 1-34.

    Binnie, J., Skeggs, B. (2005) 'Cosmopolitan knowledge and the production and consumption of sexualised space: Manchester's Gay Village.' Cosmopolitan Urbanism. pp. 220-245.

  • Journal articles

    Stella, F., Binnie, J. (2024) 'Homing desires: transnational queer migrants negotiating homes and homelands in Scotland.' The Sociological Review,

    Binnie, J.R., Klesse, C. (2018) 'Comparative queer methodologies and queer film festival research.' Studies in European Cinema, 15(1) pp. 55-71.

    Binnie, J.R., Klesse, C. (2017) 'The politics of age and generation at the GAZE International LGBT Film Festival in Dublin.' The Sociological Review, 66(1) pp. 191-206.

    Binnie, J. (2016) 'Critical queer regionality and LGBTQ politics in Europe.' Gender, Place & Culture, pp. 1-12.

    Binnie, J. (2014) 'Relational comparison, queer urbanism and worlding cities.' Geography Compass, 8(8) pp. 590-599.

    Binnie, J. (2014) 'Relational comparison and LGBTQ activism in European cities.' International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(3) pp. 951-966.

    Binnie, J. (2014) 'Neoliberalism, Class, Gender and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Politics in Poland.' International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 27(2) pp. 241-257.

    Binnie, J., Klesse, C. (2013) ''Like a Bomb in the Gasoline Station': East-West Migration and Transnational Activism around Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Politics in Poland.' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies,

    Binnie, J., Klesse, C. (2013) 'The Politics of Age, Temporality and Intergenerationality in Transnational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Activist Networks.' Sociology, 47(3) pp. 580-595.

    Binnie, J., Klesse, C. (2012) 'Solidarities and tensions: Feminism and transnational LGBTQ politics in Poland.' European Journal of Women's Studies, 19(4) pp. 444-459.

    Binnie, J. (2011) 'Class, sexuality and space: A comment.' Sexualities, 14(1) pp. 21-26.

    Binnie, J., Klesse, C. (2011) '‘Because It Was a Bit Like Going to an Adventure Park’: The Politics of Hospitality in Transnational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Activist Networks.' Tourist Studies, 11(2) pp. 157-174.

    Ward, K., Binnie, J., Brown, G., Browne, K., Ingram, A., Isaacs, G., Leap, W., Tucker, A. (2010) 'Reading Andrew Tucker's Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town.' POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, 29(8) pp. 454-462.

    Binnie, J. (2009) 'Rethinking the place of queer and the erotic within geographies of sexualities.' pp. 167-179.

    Binnie, J. (2009) 'Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging.' FEMINIST LEGAL STUDIES, 17(1) pp. 115-119.

    Binnie, J. (2008) 'Locating economics within sexuality studies.' Sexualities, 11(1-2) pp. 100-103.

    Binnie, J., Edensor, T., Holloway, J., Millington, S., Young, C. (2007) 'Mundane mobilities, banal travels.' Social and Cultural Geography, 8(2) pp. 165-174.

    Binnie, J., Holloway, J., Millington, S., Young, C. (2007) 'Mundane geographies: alienation, potentialities, and practice Alienation, subjectification, and the banal.' ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE, 39(3) pp. 515-520.

    Binnie, J., Holloway, J., Millington, S., Young, C. (2007) 'Mundane geographies: alienation, potentialities, and practice.' Environment and Planning A, 39(3) pp. 515-520.

    Bell, D., Binnie, J. (2006) 'Geographies of sexual citizenship.' Political Geography, 25(8) pp. 869-873.

    Binnie, J. (2005) 'Scaling sexual citizenship: Globalization and the queer politics of mobility.' CULTURE HEALTH & SEXUALITY, 7pp. S12-S12.

    Skeggs, B., Moran, L., Tyrer, P., Binnie, J. (2004) 'Queer as Folk: Producing the real of urban space.' Urban Studies, 41(9) pp. 1839-1856.

    Bell, D., Binnie, J. (2004) 'Authenticating queer space: Citizenship, urbanism and governance.' Urban Studies, 41(9) pp. 1807-1820.

    Binnie, J., Skeggs, B. (2004) 'Cosmopolitan knowledge and the production and consumption of sexualized space: Manchester's gay village.' Sociological Review, 52(1) pp. 39-61.

    Binnie, J. (2003) 'Locating transnationalism: Agency and method.' SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 37(3) pp. 599-604.

    Binnie, J., Valentine, G., Sugiyama, K. (2000) 'Geography of translation sexuality - Perspective essay.' Space,society and geographical thought, (5) pp. 105-117.

    Binnie, J., Valentine, G. (1999) 'Geographies of sexuality - a review of progress.' Progress in Human Geography, 23(2) pp. 175-187.

    BINNIE, J. (1999) 'Geographies of sexuality : A review of progress.' Progress in Human Geography, 23pp. 175-187.

    Binnie, J. (1997) 'Invisible Europeans: sexual citizenship in the new Europe..' Environ Plan A, 29(2) pp. 237-248.

    Binnie, J. (1997) 'Coming out of geography: Towards a queer epistemology?.' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 15(2) pp. 223-237.