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  • Dittmer, J. (2012). Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero: Metaphors, Narratives, and Geopolitics. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. [Accepted]
  • Dittmer, J. (2010). Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Publisher URL
  • Dittmer, J., Sturm, T. (2010). Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions. Aldershot: Ashgate. Author URL

    • Book Chapter

  • Dittmer, J. (2012). A Map of Hicksville. In The Comics Grid, Journal of Comics Scholarship. Year One ( pp.200-203). London: The Comics Grid Digital First Editions. Publisher URL
  • Dittmer, J., Parr, D. (2011). Mediating Sovereignty: A comparative latent semantic analysis of US newspapers and conflicts in Kosovo and South Ossetia. In Mäder, U., Simko, D. (Eds.). Stabilization and Progress in the Western Balkans ( pp.11-40). Bern: Peter Berg.
  • Dittmer, J. (2010). Critical Geopolitics. In Warf, B. (Ed.). The Encyclopedia of Geography ( ). London: SAGE Publications.
  • Dittmer, J. (2010). Obama, Son of Perdition?: Narrative rationality and the role of the 44th President of the United States in the end-of-days. In Dittmer, J., Sturm, T. (Eds.). Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions ( pp.73-95). Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Dittmer, J. (2010). Popular Culture, Geography and. In Warf, B. (Ed.). The Encyclopedia of Geography ( ). London: SAGE Publications.
  • Sturm, T., Dittmer, J. (2010). Introduction: Mapping the End Times. In Dittmer, J., Sturm, T. (Eds.). Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions ( pp.1-23). Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Dittmer, J. (2009). Captain America and Captain Britain: Geopolitical identity and 'the Special Relationship'. In Weiner, R. (Ed.). Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero: Critical Essays ( pp.135-146). McFarland and Co.: Jefferson, NC and London.
  • Dittmer, J. (2009). Fighting for Home: Masculinity and the Constitution of the Domestic in the Pages of Tales of Suspense and Captain America. In DeTora, L. (Ed.). Heroes of Film, Comics and American Culture: Essays on Real and Fictional Defenders of Home ( pp.96-116). Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland and Co..
  • Dittmer, J. (2009). Maranatha! Premillennial dispensationalism and the counter-intuitive geopolitics of (in)security. In Dodds, K., Ingram, A. (Eds.). Spaces of Security and Insecurity: Geographies of the War on Terror ( pp.221-238). Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Dittmer, J. (2009). People: Bowman, I. In Thrift, N., Kitchin, R. (Eds.). International Encyclopedia of Human Geography ( pp.340-341). Oxford: Elsevier.
  • Dittmer, J. (2009). Social & Cultural Geography: Popular Culture. In Thrift, N., Kitchin, R. (Eds.). The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography ( ). New York: Elsevier.
  • Dittmer, J. (2009). Textual and Discourse Analysis. In DeLyser, D., Crang, M., McDowell, L., Aitken, S., Herbert, S. (Eds.). SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Human Geography ( pp.274-286). London: SAGE Publications.
  • Dittmer, J., Weiner, R. (2009). A Selected Bibliographic Essay: Academic literature. In Weiner, R. (Ed.). Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero: Critical Essays ( pp.227-240). Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland and Co..
  • Dittmer, J. (2008). Literature and Nationalism. In Herb, G., Kaplan, D. (Eds.). Nations and Nationalisms: A Global Historical Overview ( pp.485-498). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
  • Dittmer, J. (2007). Retconning America: Captain America in the Wake of WWII and the McCarthy Hearings. In Wandtke, T. (Ed.). The Amazing Transforming Superhero!: Essays on the Revision of Characters in Comic Books, Film and Television ( pp.33-51). Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Co Inc..
  • Dittmer, J. Evangelicals. In Dodds, K., Kuus, M., Sharp, J. (Eds.). Ashgate Companion to Critical Geopolitics ( ). Aldershot: Ashgate. [Accepted]
  • Dittmer, J. Political Geography. In Warf, B. (Ed.). Oxford Bibliographies in Geography ( ). New York: Oxford University Press. [Accepted]
  • Dittmer, J. Race, displacement, and the American comics industry’s ‘relevance’ movement. In Curti, G., Craine, J., Aitkin, S. (Eds.). The Fight to Stay Put: Social Lessons through Media Imaginings of Urban Transformation and Change ( ). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. [Accepted]
  • Dittmer, J. Serialization and displacement in graphic narrative. In van den Berg, T. (Ed.). The Mechanics of Serialization ( ). [Submitted]

    • Journal Article

  • DITTMER, J. (2012). Geographies of Mars. Cultural Geographies 19(2), 277- doi:10.1177/1474474012443484. Publisher URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2011). "The Rut" by Dave McKean. Studies in Comics 2(2), 380-387
  • Dittmer, J. (2011). “Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom” by David Harvey. Journal of Cultural Geography 28(1), 227-228 Publisher URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2011). American exceptionalism, visual effects, and the post-9/11 cinematic superhero boom. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29(1), 114-130 doi:10.1068/d4309. Publisher URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2011). CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND THE NARRATION OF NATION. Geographical Review 101(1), 71-87 US: doi:10.1111/j.1931-0846.2011.00073.x. Publisher URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2011). Emotional geographies and Emotion, place and culture. International Journal of Heritage Studies 17(2), 190-192 doi:10.1080/13527258.2011.541070. Publisher URL
  • Dittmer, J., Larsen, S. (2011). Aboriginality and the Arctic North in Canadian Nationalist Superhero Comics, 1940-2004. Historical Geography 38, 52-69 Publisher URL
  • Dittmer, J., Moisio, S., Ingram, A., Dodds, K. (2011). Have you heard the one about the disappearing ice? Recasting Arctic geopolitics. Political Geography 30(4), 202-214 doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.04.002. Publisher URL
  • Dittmer, J., Parr, D. (2011). Mediating Sovereignty: A Comparative Latent Semantic Analysis of U.S. Newspapers and Conflicts in Kosovo and South Ossetia. Media, War & Conflict 4(2), 124-141 doi:10.1177/1750635211406014.
  • Dittmer, J. (2010). Comic book visualities: a methodological manifesto on geography, montage and narration. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35(2), 222-236 doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00376.x. Publisher URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2010). Editor's introduction: Historical geographies of media. Historical Geography 38, 23-25 Publisher URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2010). From freedom fighters to terrorists: women and political violence. Gender, Place and Culture 17(3), 405-407
  • Dittmer, J. (2010). Immersive Virtual Worlds in University-level Human Geography Courses. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 19(2), 139-154 doi:10.1080/10382046.2010.482222.
  • Dittmer, J., Gray, N. (2010). Popular Geopolitics 2.0: Towards new methodologies of the everyday. Geography Compass 11(4), 1664-1677 doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00399.x. Publisher URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2009). Fear: critical geopolitics and everyday life. Progress in Human Geography 33(6), 873-874 doi:10.1177/0309132509340077.
  • Dittmer, J., Spears, Z. (2009). Apocalypse, Now? The Geopolitics of Left Behind. GeoJournal 74(3), 183-189 doi:10.1007/s10708-008-9219-8. Author URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2008). Capitalism and christianity, American style. Environment and Planning D 26(5), 949-950
  • Dittmer, J. (2008). Ian Fleming's Jamaica: Spaces of Legitimation and the Bond-age of Popular Culture. Caribbean Geography 15(1), 14-34
  • Dittmer, J. (2008). Presenting America's world: strategies of innocence in National Geographic Magazine, 1888-1945. Gender, Place and Culture 15(4), 448-450
  • Dittmer, J. (2008). The geographical pivot of (the end of) history: Evangelical geopolitical imaginations and audience interpretation of Left Behind. Political Geography 27(3), 280-300 doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2007.12.002.
  • Dittmer, J. (2008). Visual methodologies: An introduction to the interpretation of visual materials, 2nd edition. Professional Geographer 60(3), 428-429
  • Dittmer, J., Dodds, K. (2008). Popular geopolitics past and future: Fandom, identities and audiences. Geopolitics 13(3), 437-457 doi:10.1080/14650040802203687. Author URL
  • Flusty, S. D., J Gilbert, E. K., M, (2008). Interventions in banal neoimperialism. Political Geography 27(6), 617-629 doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2008.06.003. Author URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2007). America is safe while its boys and girls believe in its creeds!. Captain America and American identity prior to World War 2. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25(3), 401-423 doi:10.1068/d1905. Author URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2007). Changing US Metanarratives of Russia in NATO Expansion Debates 1993-2002. National Identities 9(1), 49-66 doi:10.1080/14608940601145687. Author URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2007). Colonialism and Place Creation in Mars Pathfinder Media Coverage. Geographical Review 97(1), 112-130 doi:10.1111/j.1931-0846.2007.tb00282.x. Publisher URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2007). In the Space of Theory: Postfoundational geographies of the nation-state by Matthew Sparke. Geographical Review 97(3), 432-433
  • Dittmer, J. (2007). Of Gog and Magog: The Geopolitical Visions of Jack Chick and Premillennial Dispensationalism. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 6(2), 278-303 Author URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2007). The tyranny of the serial: popular geopolitics, the nation and comic book discourse. Antipode 39(2), 247-268 doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2007.00520.x. Author URL
  • Dittmer, J., Larsen, S. (2007). Captain Canuck, audience response, and the project of Canadian nationalism. Social and Cultural Geography 8(5), 736-753 doi:10.1080/14649360701633311. Author URL
  • Lukinbeal, C., Craine, J., Dittmer, J. (2007). Aether: a propectus. Aether: the Journal of Media Geography 1(1), 1-3 Author URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2006). Global Geopolitics: A Critical Introduction by Klaus Dodds. Area 38(4), 475-476 doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.714_4.x. Author URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2006). Homage to Temptation: A Trip into Jamaica's Coffee Country. Focus on Geography 49(2), 32-36
  • Dittmer, J. (2006). Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World by Oliver Morton. Progress in Physical Geography 30(4), 573-574 doi:10.1177/030913330603000412. Author URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2006). Teaching the Social Construction of Regions in Regional Geography Classes; or, Why Do Vampires Come From Eastern Europe? Journal of Geography in Higher Education 30(1), 49-61 doi:10.1080/03098260500499618. Author URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2006). Towards a Regionally Balanced Geographic Education Beyond Geography Class. Journal of Geography 104(5), 223-224
  • Dittmer, J., Watts, P. (2006). A Note on Anarchists' Geographic Images at the G8 Protests in Savannah, Georgia. Occasional Papers of the Georgia Southern Museum 2 Author URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2005). Captain America's Empire: reflections on identity, popular culture and geopolitics. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95(3), 626-643 doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2005.00478.x.
  • Dittmer, J. (2005). NATO, the EU, and Central Europe: differing symbolic shapes in newspaper accounts of enlargement. Geopolitics 10(1), 76-98 doi:10.1080/14650040590907677.
  • Dittmer, J. (2004). Assessing School Assessment: A case study of the geographic implications of the "A+ Plan" in Jacksonville, Florida. Southeastern Geographer 44(2), 170-185 Author URL
  • Dittmer, J. (2004). The Soufriere Hills Volcano and the postmodern landscapes of Montserrat. Focus on Geography 47(4), 1-7
  • Dittmer, J. (2003). Dracula and the cultural construction of Europe. Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 12(2-3), 233-248
  • Dittmer, J. (2003). Scale, ethnicity, and redistricting in South Florida. Florida Geographer 34, 22-43
  • Leib, J., Dittmer, J. (2002). Florida's residual votes, voting technology, and the 2000 election. Political Geography 21(1), 91-98 doi:10.1016/S0962-6298(01)00064-6. Author URL
  • Dittmer, J. Captain America in the News: Changing mediascapes and the appropriation of a superhero. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics [Accepted]
  • McConnell, F., Moreau, T., Dittmer, J. Mimicking state diplomacy: the legitimizing strategies of unofficial diplomacies. Geoforum [Accepted]
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