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Overview

John Connell is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research is situated within the Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Sociology and Political Science, Demography, Political Science and International Relations, General Health Professions, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics covered in their work include Island Studies and Pacific Affairs, Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration, Migration and Labor Dynamics, Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies, and Water Governance and Infrastructure.

Connell has contributed to several peer-reviewed journals and publication venues with varying frequency. Frequent venues include:

  • Australian Geographer
  • Global Food Security
  • Urban Studies
  • Public Administration
  • The Round Table

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Connell and others include:

  • COVID-19 and tourism in Pacific SIDS: lessons from Fiji, Vanuatu and Samoa?, 2021, The Round Table
  • Continuity and change in the contemporary Pacific food system, 2022, Global Food Security
  • Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok's increasing urban heat island, 2023, Urban Studies
  • The core executive and small states: Is coordination the primary challenge?, 2020, Public Administration

Frequent co-authors associated with Connell's work include:

  • Danny Marks
  • Phil McManus
  • Jack Corbett
  • Kirstie Petrou
  • Xuesong Ding

Best Publications

  • Sound Tracks: Popular Music Identity and Place

    John Connell;Christopher R. Gibson

  • Medical tourism: Sea, sun, sand and … surgery

    John Connell

  • Contemporary medical tourism: Conceptualisation, culture and commodification

    John Connell

  • Music and Tourism

    Chris Gibson;John Connell

  • Music and Tourism: On the Road Again

    Christopher R. Gibson;John Connell

  • World music: deterritorializing place and identity

    John Connell;Chris Gibson

  • Writing Across Worlds: Literature and Migration

    Russell King;John Connell;Paul White

  • Sub-Saharan Africa: beyond the health worker migration crisis?

    John Connell;Pascal Zurn;Barbara Stilwell;Magda Awases

  • Migration and remittances in island microstates: a comparative perspective on the South Pacific and the Caribbean

    John Connell;Dennis Conway

  • Migration from rural areas : the evidence from village studies

    Connell J;Dasgupta B;Laishley R;Lipton M

  • The Last Colonies

    Robert Aldrich;John Connell

  • Remittances in the Pacific: An Overview

    John Connell;Richard P C Brown

  • The migration of doctors and nurses from South Pacific Island Nations.

    Richard P.C. Brown;John Connell

  • Beyond Manila: Walls, Malls, and Private Spaces

    J Connell

  • Losing ground? Tuvalu, the greenhouse effect and the garbage can

    John Connell

  • Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia

    Christopher R Gibson;John Connell

  • Cultural Festivals and Economic Development in Nonmetropolitan Australia

    Christopher R Gibson;Gordon R Waitt;Jim Walmsley;John Connell

  • The Parkes Elvis revival festival: economic development and contested place identities in rural Australia

    Christopher R Brennan-Horley;John Connell;Christopher R Gibson

  • Islands at Risk?: Environments, Economies and Contemporary Change

    John Connell

  • ‘Bongo Fury’: tourism, music and cultural economy at Byron Bay, Australia

    Chris Gibson;John Connell

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson University of Wollongong
Joel Negin
Joel Negin University of Sydney
Gordon R Waitt
Gordon R Waitt University of Wollongong
Russell King
Russell King University of Sussex

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