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Overview

Jason Dittmer is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the broad domain of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development, Political Science and International Relations, Demography, and History.

Their scholarly contributions address a variety of topics, notably:

  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Philippine History and Culture
  • History, Culture, and Diplomacy
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Military History and Strategy

Dittmer has published research in several academic venues, with recurring publications in:

  • Geopolitics
  • Political Geography
  • International Political Sociology
  • The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Environment and Planning D Society and Space

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Dittmer include:

  • "Putting geopolitics in its place: Gibraltar and the emergence of strategic locations", 2021, Political Geography
  • "Thinking with Diplomacy: Within and Beyond Practice Theory", 2021, International Political Sociology
  • "The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific", 2023, Geopolitics
  • "Food sovereignty and property in Cuba and the United States", 2021, The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • "The Figure of the Refugee in Superhero Cinema", 2020, Geopolitics

Frequent collaborators in Dittmer's work include:

  • Sarah A. Blue
  • Amy Trauger
  • Hilda E. Kurtz
  • Dina AlAwadhi
  • Costas M. Constantinou

Best Publications

  • Captain America's Empire: Reflections on Identity, Popular Culture, and Post‐9/11 Geopolitics

    Jason Dittmer

  • Geopolitical assemblages and complexity

    Jason Dittmer

  • Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity

    Jason Dittmer

  • Popular Geopolitics Past and Future: Fandom, Identities and Audiences

    Jason Dittmer;Klaus Dodds

  • Popular Geopolitics 2.0: Towards New Methodologies of the Everyday

    Jason Dittmer;Nicholas Gray

  • Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero: Metaphors, Narratives, and Geopolitics

    Jason Dittmer

  • Have you heard the one about the disappearing ice? Recasting Arctic geopolitics

    Jason Dittmer;Sami Moisio;Alan Ingram;Klaus Dodds

  • Textual and discourse analysis

    J Dittmer

  • Mimicking state diplomacy: the legitimizing strategies of unofficial diplomacies

    Fiona McConnell;Terri Moreau;Jason Dittmer

  • Comic book visualities: a methodological manifesto on geography, montage and narration

    Jason Dittmer

  • The museum as assemblage: bringing forth affect at the Australian War Memorial

    Emma Waterton;Jason Dittmer

  • The tyranny of the serial: popular geopolitics, the nation and comic book discourse.

    Jason Dittmer

  • “America is Safe While its Boys and Girls Believe in its Creeds!”: Captain America and American Identity Prior to World War 2

    Jason Dittmer

  • The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia

    Neil M. Coe;Jason Dittmer;Nick Gill;Anna Secor

  • Diplomatic Material: Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy

    Jason Dittmer

  • Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions

    Jason Dittmer;Tristan Sturm

  • Humour at the Model United Nations: The Role of Laughter in Constituting Geopolitical Assemblages

    Jason Dittmer

  • The geographical pivot of (the end of) history: Evangelical geopolitical imaginations and audience interpretation of Left Behind

    Jason Dittmer

  • Captain Canuck, audience response, and the project of Canadian nationalism

    Jason Dittmer;Soren Larsen

  • Mapping the political geographies of Europeanization National discourses, external perceptions and the question of popular culture

    Sami Moisio;Veit Bachmann;Luiza Bialasiewicz;Elena dell’Agnese

  • Fear: critical geopolitics and everyday life

    J Dittmer

  • The Geopolitical Audience: Watching Quantum of Solace (2008) in London

    Jason Dittmer;Klaus Dodds

Frequent Co-Authors

Fiona McConnell
Fiona McConnell University of Oxford
Klaus Dodds
Klaus Dodds Middlesex University
Merje Kuus
Merje Kuus University of British Columbia
Nicholas J Gill
Nicholas J Gill University of Exeter
Alan Latham
Alan Latham University College London
Lynn A. Staeheli
Lynn A. Staeheli Durham University
Neil M. Coe
Neil M. Coe University of Sydney
Vincent Pouliot
Vincent Pouliot University of Montreal
Natalie Koch
Natalie Koch Syracuse University

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