Jonathan Harris
Dr
Dr Jonathan Harris joined DCU in 2024 following posts at King's College London, Stranmillis University College, and his PhD at Cambridge University. He is a long-term visiting scholar at Queen's University Belfast.
He is a long-term fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and member of the Geographical Society of Ireland. He sits on the International Geographical Union's Commission for Political Geography.
Research
• Diplomacy, Development and Diaspora
• African and Francophone Postcolonial Worlds
• Geopolitics of Education
Jonathan works broadly on the social dynamics of radical contestation at the margins of national and international politics. His current project (2025-29), "Diaspora Diplomacy and the Migration Development Nexus", is funded by Research Ireland.
His research contributes to critical debates about international migration, social justice, and postcolonial citizenship by examining the geopolitical assemblages of diasporic and educational settings, with a particular focus on Francophone postcolonial contexts.
Edited Book
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Ruth Craggs;Jonathan Harris;Fiona McConnell (Ed.). (2026) Diplomatic Training: Histories, Geographies, Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press, [Link] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Ruth Craggs; Jonathan Harris; Fiona McConnell (2025) 'Rethinking the late colonial state in Africa through diplomatic training'. Itinerario, :1-19. [DOI] | |
| 2025 | Jonathan Harris; Rodrigue Tassé-Motsou (2025) 'La formation des diplomates du développement en Afrique. Le cas de l’Institut des relations internationales du Cameroun'. Relations Internationales, 201 (1):59-74. https://doi.org/10.3917/ri.201.0059 | |
| 2025 | Noel Purdy; Jonathan Harris; Franka Winter; Emilia Symington (2025) 'Beyond the stereotype: educational underachievement in the Controlled sector in Northern Ireland'. Irish Studies Review, 33 (1):57-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2025.2466752 | |
| 2025 | Ruth Craggs; Jonathan Harris; Fiona McConnell (2025) 'Diplomatic Training and Spaces of Anticolonial Worldmaking'. Antipode, . https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70001 | |
| 2024 | Jonathan Harris (2024) 'Visualising and mapping historical networks of international diplomatic training'. Area, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Jonathan Harris (2024) 'Geopolitics of decolonization'. Geoforum, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Fiona M. McConnell; Jonathan Harris; Ruth Craggs (2024) 'Tracing diplomatic tutelage'. International Political Sociology, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Noel Purdy; Herbert Scheithauer; Jonathan Harris; Roy Willems; Consuelo Mameli; Annalisa Guarani; Antonella Brighi; Damiano Menin; Catherine Culbert; Jayne Hamilton; Trijntje Völlink; Mark Ballentine; Nora Fiedler; Peter Smith (2024) 'The Development of a Multi-Dimensional Coding System to Categorise Negative Online Experiences Including Cyberbullying Behaviors Among Adolescents with Lower Socioeconomic Status'. International Journal of Developmental Science, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Jonathan Harris; Ruth Craggs; Fiona McConnell (2023) 'Understanding Diplomatic Training from the Global South'. DIPLOMATICA, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Jonathan Harris (2022) 'The Making of Tamazgha in France: Territorialities of an Amazigh Diaspora-Assemblage'. Geopolitics, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Jonathan Harris (2020) 'Imazighen of France; articulations of an indigenous diaspora'. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Jonathan Harris (2020) 'Nativist-populism, the internet and the geopolitics of indigenous diaspora'. Political Geography, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Jonathan Harris; Ashley Harris (2018) 'Is The Map More Interesting Than The Territory? A Post-Representational Approach to Michel Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory'. Literary Geographies, . [Link] | |
| 2018 | (2018) 'Is The Map More Interesting Than The Territory? A Post-Representational Approach to Michel Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory'. Literary Geographies, . [Link] | |
| 2015 | Jonathan Harris (2015) 'El Harka: Perceptions of the Migration-Development Nexus in Post-Revolution Tunis'. Population, Space and Place, . [Link] [DOI] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Jonathan Harris (2022) 'The diasporic Amazigh movement in France: articulating indigeneity' In: Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas. [Link] | |
| 2022 | Jonathan Harris; Nacira Abrous (2022) 'Imazighen of France: Developing Indigeneity in Diaspora' In: The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Development. [Link] | |
| 2020 | Jonathan Harris (2020) 'Assembling the Diasporic Nation; Kabylia at the CONIFA World Football Cup' In: Sport and Secessionism. [Link] |
Other Publication
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Jonathan Harris (2024) Training Diplomats of Postcolonial African States 1957-1997: Final Data. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Jonathan Harris (2024) Book review. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | (2020) Marcus M. Payk and Roberta Pergher (eds.), Beyond Versailles; Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities after the Great War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 245 pp. $18.99 (ebk), $35 (pbk), $75 (hbk). [DOI] | |
| 2018 | (2018) Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen) (2nd ed.), Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures. [DOI] |
Teaching Interests
I believe a teacher should create an environment where students can meet their full potential. I design my courses to stretch students, bringing a variety of perspectives and traditions to bear on fundamental questions of power, identity, space and relationality. My lectures and seminars use both high- and low-tech tools to foster interaction and engagement, using formative assessment and feedback techniques to bring students along in their learning journey and empower them to grow in independent critical thought.