Anne Bonds
Assistant Professor
Office: Bolton Hall 462
Phone: 414-229-4872
e-mail: bondsa@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vitae: pdf (115kb)
Mailing Address:
Professor Anne Bonds
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Education:
Ph.D., Geography, University of Washington, 2008
M.A., Women's Studies, University of Arizona, 2003
B.S., Economics, University of Wyoming, 2001
Courses Taught:
Geog 105: Introduction to Human Geography
Geog 114: The Geography of Race in the U.S.
Syllabus (102kb)
Geog 115: Introductory Economic Geography
Syllabus (114kb)
Geog/Urb St 945: The Internal Structure of the City
Syllabus (151kb)
Office Hours:
TR 2:00-3:00pm, and by appointment
Research Interests:
- Political economy
- Neoliberal restructuring and governance
- Social theory and the production and management of difference
- The politics of poverty and welfare reform
My research interests center upon geographical approaches to political economy, social theory, and critical poverty and development studies. I am especially interested in exploring the connections between processes of economic change and the discursive and material production of gendered, raced, and classed economic and social identities. My theoretical and empirical work engages with these three key literatures. First, I draw from political economic analyses of neoliberal globalization and capitalist economic restructuring. Second, my approach builds from critical development studies work on uneven development and the production of poverty and inequality. Third, I utilize feminist and critical theories of difference to explore identity construction and the ways in which power and inequality are structured around discourses and practices of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nationality. My current research examines the recruitment and siting of prisons in rural areas experiencing deep poverty in the American Northwest as a strategy for local economic development. This work interrogates the increasingly important role of the prison industry in rural communities in relation to the political economic processes of restructuring and uneven development and local politics of race/ethnicity, class, and poverty.
Teaching Interests:
Economic Geography; Global Political Economy; Urban Geography; Geographies of Poverty and Inequality; Geographies of gender, 'race'/ethnicity and class
Representative Publications:
Bonds, Anne. 2009. Discipline and Devolution: Constructions of Poverty, Race, and Criminality in the Politics of Rural Prison Development. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 41(3).
Lawson, Victoria, Lucy Jarosz, and Anne Bonds. 2009. Dumping grounds and unseen grounds: placing race, ethnicity and poverty in the American Northwest. Annals of the Association of American Geographers (forthcoming).
Bonds, Anne. 2009. Building Prisons, Building Poverty: Prison Sitings, Dispossession, and Mass Incarceration. Lloyd, J, M. Mitchelson, and A. Burridge (eds). Beyond Walls and Cages. Ashgate (forthcoming).
Lawson, Victoria, Lucy Jarosz, and Anne Bonds. 2008. Building the Economy from the Bottom Up: (mis)representations of Poverty in the Rural American Northwest. Social and Cultural Geography, 9(7), pp737-754.
Bonds, Anne. 2006. Calling on Femininity? Gender, Call Centers, and Restructuring in the Rural American West. Acme: On-line International Journal of Critical Geography 5 (1), 28-49.
Bonds, Anne. 2006. Punishment and Profit? The Politics of Prisons, Poverty, and Neoliberal Restructuring in the Rural American Northwest. Antipode, 38 (1), 174-177.