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Dr Jason Luger

Assistant Professor

School: Geography and Natural Sciences

I am a Human Geographer and a member of the Social and Cultural Geographies Research Group at Northumbria. My research focuses on the cultures, politics, contestations, and textures of urban space and place, online and offline.

Currently, I am Principle Investigator for the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust funded project, 'Generation-Z and the Post-Industrial City: Past, Present and Future', which explores how young people (18-24) in Greater Newcastle and Greater Glasgow position themselves within, and beyond, the post-industrial.

I am currently a committee member of the RGS-IBG Social and Cultural Geography Research Group, Associate Editor of The Journal of Urban Affairs (2021-2026), and an Associate Editor of The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (since 2017). I am a senior fellow with the Far Right Analysis Network (FRAN), since 2021. 

Jason Luger

My research cuts across urban, political, and cultural geography and explores questions of urban space, place, power, politics, and how they relate to digital platforms.

In my work I utilize a mix of qualitative methods, including site-based ethnographies in comparative urban settings from Southeast Asia, to the UK and Central Europe, to the United States; as well as digital ethnography and mixed media analyses.

In particular, I focus on:

  • The nature of urban public space offline and online
  • The political geographies of authoritarianism and the far right
  • The relationship between digital platforms and the formation of identity, community, and understandings of place
  • Representations and understandings of the urban through mixed media, popular culture, film, literature
  • Cultural activism / creative resistance in comparative urban contexts
  • Masculinities across changing landscapes 

I have authored academic papers and chapters on the above themes, including two edited volumes (2017 and 2022) and an upcoming monograph entitled The Illiberal City: Comparative Urban (Re)actions through Space, Territory, and Culture (Bristol University Press).

  • Constance Copley Cities of Left Behind Lads?: Exploring Urban Social Infrastructures (USI), Identity, and Health Among Young Men in Northern England Start Date: 01/10/2025 End Date: 17/10/2025
  • Constance Copley Post-Digital Masculinities: Young Men, Wellbeing, and Urban Social Infrastructures in Deindustrial Northern England Start Date: 01/10/2025
Geography PhD June 30 2016

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