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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’
Lecturer in Human Geography, Brunel University (1999-2001)
Lecturer in Human Geography, Liverpool John Moores University (1994-1999)
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)
Fluent Danish. Working knowledge of Dutch, French and German.
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
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.
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.
I am presently engaged in two empirical projects with Dr. Christian Klesse in the Department of Sociology at MMU which both examine transnational sexual politics in Europe.
1) Transnational Activism and LGBTQ Politics in Poland
In this project we explore questions regarding transnational co-operation and solidarity in contemporary LGBT politics in Poland. We trace the development of transnational activist networks related to equality festivals and marches in Krakow, Poznan and Warsaw. We interview activists who either organised or participated in such events, ranging from individuals with no political or organisational affiliation, to those who were active within trade unions, political parties, or professional lesbian and gay and LGBTQ social and political organisations. The study focuses on how solidarities around LGBTQ politics in Poland were produced and sustained. We seek to understand the transnational dimensions of LGBTQ politics in Poland and how notions of solidarity were deployed, mobilised and contested within activist networks. The project entails data collection in Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland and the UK. We are currently completing a book based on this project for Manchester University Press.
2) Envisioning Queer Europe through Queer Film Festivals
This project examines how LGBTQ film festivals create communities and sustain modes of visibility in different urban localities across Europe. In some European contexts, where queer visibilities have often been subject of violent contestation and in these contexts queer film festivals are particularly important sites of LGBTQ community formation and the articulation of political claims in the cultural public sphere. The project examines the relationship between political agendas of organisers, institutional support and the degree of contestation in the public sphere. Semi-structured interviews with organisers and volunteers at
each festival enable us to compare programming strategies, political agendas and sources of financial and institutional support. The project involves data collection at queer film festivals at a wide range of sites in the Czech Republic, Germany Ireland, Italy and Serbia.
J. Binnie (2016). Critical queer regionality and LGBTQ politics in Europe. Gender, Place & Culture. pp.1-12.
J. Binnie (2014). Relational Comparison, Queer Urbanism and Worlding Cities. Geography Compass. 8(8), pp.590-599.
J. Binnie (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.
J. Binnie (2014). Relational Comparison and
Y. Taylor (2012). Educational Diversity. Palgrave Macmillan UK.
J. Binnie, S. Millington, JJ. Holloway, C. Young (2006). Cosmopolitan Urbanism. Routledge.
J. Binnie (2004). The Globalization of Sexuality. SAGE Publications Ltd.
D. Bell, J. Binnie (2000). The Sexual Citizen Queer Politics and Beyond. Polity.
J. Binnie (2016). Critical queer regionality and LGBTQ politics in Europe. Gender, Place & Culture. pp.1-12.
J. Binnie (2014). Relational Comparison, Queer Urbanism and Worlding Cities. Geography Compass. 8(8), pp.590-599.
J. Binnie (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.
J. Binnie (2014). Relational Comparison and
J. Binnie, C. Klesse (2013). The Politics of Age, Temporality and Intergenerationality in Transnational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Activist Networks. Sociology. 47(3), pp.580-595.
J. Binnie, C. Klesse (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.
J. Binnie, C. Klesse (2012). Solidarities and tensions: Feminism and transnational LGBTQ politics in Poland. European Journal of Women's Studies. 19(4), pp.444-459.
J. Binnie (2011). Class, sexuality and space: A comment. Sexualities. 14(1), pp.21-26.
J. Binnie, C. Klesse (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.
K. Ward, J. Binnie, G. Brown, K. Browne, A. Ingram, et al. G. Isaacs, W. Leap, A. Tucker. (2010). Reading Andrew Tucker's Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. 29(8), pp.454-462.
J. Binnie (2010). Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire. pp.21-36.
J. Binnie, F. Stella Homing Desires: Transnational Queer Migrants Negotiating Homes and Homelands. The Sociological Review.
J. Binnie (2009). Rethinking the place of queer and the erotic within geographies of sexualities. pp.167-179.
J. Binnie (2009). Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging. FEMINIST LEGAL STUDIES. 17(1), pp.115-119.
J. Binnie (2008). Locating economics within sexuality studies. Sexualities. 11(1-2), pp.100-103.
J. Binnie, T. Edensor, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young (2007). Mundane mobilities, banal travels. Social and Cultural Geography. 8(2), pp.165-174.
J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young (2007). Mundane geographies: alienation, potentialities, and practice Alienation, subjectification, and the banal. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE. 39(3), pp.515-520.
J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young (2007). Mundane geographies: alienation, potentialities, and practice. Environment and Planning A. 39(3), pp.515-520.
D. Bell, J. Binnie (2006). Geographies of sexual citizenship. Political Geography. 25(8), pp.869-873.
J. Binnie (2005). Scaling sexual citizenship: Globalization and the queer politics of mobility. CULTURE HEALTH & SEXUALITY. 7, pp.S12-S12.
D. Bell, J. Binnie (2004). Authenticating queer space: Citizenship, urbanism and governance. Urban Studies. 41(9), pp.1807-1820.
B. Skeggs, L. Moran, P. Tyrer, J. Binnie (2004). Queer as Folk: Producing the real of urban space. Urban Studies. 41(9), pp.1839-1856.
J. Binnie, B. Skeggs (2004). Cosmopolitan knowledge and the production and consumption of sexualized space: Manchester's gay village. Sociological Review. 52(1), pp.39-61.
J. Binnie (2003). Locating transnationalism: Agency and method. SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 37(3), pp.599-604.
J. Binnie, G. Valentine, K. Sugiyama (2000). Geography of translation sexuality - Perspective essay. Space,society and geographical thought. pp.105-117.
J. Binnie, G. Valentine (1999). Geographies of sexuality - a review of progress. Progress in Human Geography. 23(2), pp.175-187.
J. BINNIE (1999). Geographies of sexuality : A review of progress. Progress in Human Geography. 23, pp.175-187.
J. Binnie (1997). Invisible Europeans: sexual citizenship in the new Europe. Environ Plan A. 29(2), pp.237-248.
J. Binnie (1997). Coming out of geography: Towards a queer epistemology?. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 15(2), pp.223-237.
J. Binnie (2017). Quartering Sexualities: Gay Villages and Sexual Citizenship. In: City of Quarters. Routledge, pp.177-186.
J. Binnie (2017). Sexuality, the Erotic and Geography: Epistemology, Methodology and Pedagogy. In: Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics. pp.29-38.
J. Binnie, C. Klesse (2016). Researching Transnational Activism around LGBTQ Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Activist Solidarities and Spatial Imaginings. In: De-Centring Western Sexualities. Routledge, pp.107-130.
J. Binnie (2016). Rethinking the Place of Queer and the Erotic within Geographies of Sexualities. In: The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory. pp.167-179.
J. Binnie (2015). Global Justice and Desire. N. Dhawan, A. Engel, C. Holzhey, V. Woltersdorff. In: Global Justice and Desire: Queering Economy. Routledge, pp.147-160.
J. Binnie (2015). Classing desire: Erotics, politics, value. In: Global Justice and Desire: Queering Economy. pp.147-160.
J. Binnie (2012). Sexuality, the erotic and geography: Epistemology, methodology and pedagogy. In: Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics. pp.29-38.
J. Binnie, C. Klesse (2012). Researching transnational activism around LGBTQ politics in central and Eastern Europe: Activist solidarities and spatial imaginings. In: De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. pp.107-130.
A. Jorgensen (2012). Urban Wildscapes. In: Urban Wildscapes. Routledge, pp.65-79.
J. Binnie, C. Klesse (2011). Researching transnational activism around LGBTQ politics in central and Eastern Europe: Activist solidarities and spatial imaginings. MJ. Mizielinska, MR. Kulpa. In: De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., pp.107-129.
J. Binnie (2010). Queer theory, neoliberalism and urban governance. In: Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire. pp.21-36.
J. Binnie, JJ. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young (2009). Cosmopolitanism. R. Kitchin, N. Thrift. In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, pp.307-313.
J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young (2005). Conclusion: The paradoxes of cosmopolitan urbanism. In: Cosmopolitan Urbanism. Routledge, pp.246-253.
J. Binnie, B. Skeggs (2005). Cosmopolitan knowledge and the production and consumption of sexualised space: Manchester's Gay Village. In: Cosmopolitan Urbanism. pp.220-245.
J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington, C. Young (2005). Introduction: Grounding cosmopolitan urbanism: Approaches, practices and policies. pp.1-34.
'Euroscepticism and the gender and sexual politics of neoliberalism', Men in Movement II: Resilient, resistant and changing masculinities in uncertain times, international workshop, Rome, December, 2016 (KEYNOTE)
'Theorising the space between intimate and queer geopolitics’, Intimate Geopolitics workshop, University of Manchester, November 2016.
'Queer solidarity and spaces of festivality: queer film festivals in Europe', University of Glasgow, March 2015.
‘Queer solidarity and spaces of festivality: queer film festivals in Europe', Queer Film Culture: Queer Cinema and Film Festivals conference, University of Hamburg, October 2014 (with Christian Klesse).
‘Banal Europeanisation, mobilities and transnational LGBTQ activist networks, Queer Migrations and Mobilities: Sexuality, Gender, Citizenship, and Intimacy from a European Perspective workshop, Lund University, September 2014 (with Christian Klesse)
‘Some reflections on the relationship between media and LGBTQ politics in diverse post-socialist contexts’, Sexual Minorities, Media and Post-Socialist Countries, University of Leicester, July 2014.
‘Relational comparison, queer urbanism and worlding cities’, Sapienza University of Rome, June 2014.
‘The politics of age, temporality and intergenerationality in transnational lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer activist networks’, Revisioning Gender: Complex Inequalities and Global Dimensions conference, Stockholm University, June 2014 (with Christian Klesse).
‘Queering the region’, Critical Terrain: Dividing Lines and Lives seminar, London South Bank University, February 2014
‘Neoliberalism, class, gender and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer politics in Poland’, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest, January 2014.
'Neoliberalism, class, gender and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer politics in Poland', The Cultural Translation of Sexuality in European Context, University of Warwick, June 2013 (KEYNOTE)
'The (im)possibly queer international feminist politics of solidarity in Central and Eastern Europe', (Im)possibly Queer International Feminisms, University of Sussex, May 2013. (KEYNOTE)
‘Discourses on migration and transnational activism around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer politics in Poland’, Gender, Migration and Space: A Memorial for Tijen Uguris. Open University, Camden Office, London with Christian Klesse (presented by Christian Klesse), March 2013
‘In what sense a regional problem in transnational queer studies?’ Queer/ing Regions symposium, Centre for the Study of Inequality, Culture and Difference, Nottingham Trent University, February 2013.
‘Geographies of cosmopolitan urbanism’, Microterritorialities in Cities, UNESP (State University of Sao Paulo) Presidente Prudente, Presidente Prudente, Brazil November 2012. (KEYNOTE)
‘Negotiating colonial memories and postcolonial sensitivities’, Postcolonial Sexualities: Emerging Solidarities workshop, University of Sheffield, November 2012 (with Christian Klesse).
‘Transnational migration and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer activism in Poland’ , School of Environmental Science University of Liverpool, March 2012 (with Christian Klesse).
‘Transnational epistemologies of geographies of sexualities’, Connecting Differences Through Spatial Borders, Latin American Geography of Gender conference, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, November 2011 (KEYNOTE)
‘Transnational migration and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer activism in Poland’ Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds, October 2011 (with Christian Klesse),
‘Theorising Sexualities in the 1990s’, Generational Sexualities, University of Oxford, September 2011
‘Learning from Leiden: city-twinning and the production of transnational solidarity in lesbian and gay politics’, European Geographies of Sexualities, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, September 2011 (KEYNOTE)
‘Classing desire: examining the class politics of queer political economy’, Gender, Sexuality and Political Economy, Manchester Metropolitan University, May 2011 (KEYNOTE)
‘City twinning and transnational solidarities’, Sexual Nationalisms: Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Belonging in the New Europe, University of Amsterdam, January 2011 (KEYNOTE)
‘Re-mapping desire: histories and futures of the geographies of sexualities’, Spaces of Difference, University of Milano-Bicocca, October 2010.(with David Bell) (KEYNOTE)
‘Mapping whose desire? Theories, epistemologies and methodologies in the geographies of sexualities’, 15 years after Mapping Desire, Where are the Geographies of Sexualities? Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, June, 2010
‘Transnational activism, sexual politics and the question of solidarity’ (with Christian Klesse), Sexy Spaces: Leisure and Geography, Intersectionalities, University of Brighton, May 2009 (KEYNOTE)
‘Queer politics and the challenge of homonormativity’, Spaces of Sexualities Unlimited: Still Queerying Geographies?, Brighton University, August 2006 (KEYNOTE)
‘Spatial scale and the governance of sexuality’, Revisiting Governing from Feminist and Queer Perspectives, AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent, June 2006 (KEYNOTE)
‘Geographies of queer globalization: networks, scales, practices’, Global Queeries: Sexualities, Postcolonialities, Globalities, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, May 2006 (KEYNOTE)
‘Transnational activism and sexual citizenship in post-socialist Poland’, Queer Theory and Heteronormativity, University of Stockholm, November 2005 (KEYNOTE)
‘Sexuality and space: prospects for a queer globalization’, Sexuality and Space: Queering Globalization, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York, New York, February 2001 (KEYNOTE)
International workshop on 'The Rhetorics of Comparison and the Europeanisation of LGBTQ Politics', Manchester Metropolitan University, May 2016
International symposium on 'Queer Film Festivals as Activism', Manchester Metropolitan University, February 2016
Co-convenor of research seminar series, Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, 2009-2011
Co-convenor of international workshop on ‘Anglo-Polish Perspectives on Sexual Politics workshop, Manchester Metropolitan University, July 2009
Co-convenor of three sessions on ‘The Geographies of Play’, annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, April 2008
Co-organiser of MISST conference on ‘Everyday Life in the Global City’, Manchester Metropolitan University, July 2007
Co-convenor of three sessions on ‘The Politics of Transnational Activist Networks’, annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 2006
Co-convenor of two sessions on ‘Mundane Urban Geographies’, annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, April 2004
Co-convenor of three sessions on ‘Cosmopolitan Geographies’, annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, March 2003
Convenor and chair of session on ‘Legal Sexual Geographies/ Geographies of Sexual Citizenship’, annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, March 2003