Dr Christopher Lizotte

Lecturer in Human Geography

School of Law and Social Sciences

Role

Dr Christopher Lizotte is a Lecturer in Human Geography for the School of Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University.

Areas of expertise

Nationalism
Territory and territoriality
Geopolitics

Teaching and supervision

Modules taught

Autumn 2021:

GEOG5012 Political Geography: Place and Power (Module leader)
GEOG4001 Introduction to Human Geography (Co-teacher)
GEOG4007 Introduction to Geographical Skills and Techniques (Co-teacher)
GEOG4008 Geographical Perspectives (Tutor)

Research

Research projects

Projects as Principal Investigator, or Lead Academic if project is led by another Institution

Developing digital literacy pedagogy through the study of misinformation (01/09/2025 - 30/06/2026), funded by: Leverhulme Trust

Publications

Lizotte C, When the call comes from inside the house
Dialogues in Human Geography [in press] (2025) ISSN: 2043-8206 eISSN: 2043-8214 When the call comes from inside the house Open Access version on RADAR
Lizotte C, Luger J, Conspiracists at Rush Hour: The Extraordinary Nature of the Far-Right’s Algorithmic Creep into Ordinary Democratic Spaces
Antipode Online (2024) Conspiracists at Rush Hour: The Extraordinary Nature of the Far-Right’s Algorithmic Creep into Ordinary Democratic Spaces Open Access version on RADAR
Nagel C, Lizotte C, Introduction to the virtual forum: Gaza's past, present, and futures
Political Geography (2024) ISSN: 0962-6298 eISSN: 1873-5096
Lizotte C, Kallio KP, Introduction to the special issue on the geographies of populism and populist geographies
Space and Polity [online first] (2023) ISSN: 1356-2576 eISSN: 1470-1235
Lizotte C, For ordinary kindness in human geography
Dialogues in Human Geography 14 (2) (2023) pp.357-360 ISSN: 2043-8206 eISSN: 2043-8214 For ordinary kindness in human geography Open Access version on RADAR
Lizotte C, Rethinking laïcité as a geopolitical concept
Modern and Contemporary France 31 (3) (2023) pp.305-321 ISSN: 0963-9489 eISSN: 1469-9869 Rethinking laïcité as a geopolitical concept Open Access version on RADAR
Lizotte C, Kallio K, Youth far-right politics in Finland as a form of lived citizenship
Space and Polity 27 (3) (2023) pp.309-334 ISSN: 1356-2576 eISSN: 1470-1235 Youth far-right politics in Finland as a form of lived citizenship Open Access version on RADAR
Lizotte C, The prosaic stateness of secularism: diversity, incoherence and divergence in the application of laïcité
Geopolitics 29 (3) (2023) pp.962-986 ISSN: 1465-0045 eISSN: 1557-3028 The prosaic stateness of secularism: diversity, incoherence and divergence in the application of laïcité Open Access version on RADAR
Lizotte C, The war in Ukraine, the American far-right and the “other” critique of geopolitics
Political Geography 98 (2022) ISSN: 0962-6298 eISSN: 1873-5096
Lizotte C, Review essay: The need for nuance in situating and connecting colonialisms across time and space
Political Geography 99 (2022) ISSN: 0962-6298 eISSN: 1873-5096
Lizotte C, Bennett MM, Grove K, Introduction: Virtual forum on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Political Geography 97 (2022) ISSN: 0962-6298 eISSN: 1873-5096
Lizotte C, The geography of truth and lies
Political Geography 89 (2021) ISSN: 0962-6298 eISSN: 1873-5096
Casaglia A, Coletti R, Lizotte C, Agnew J, Mamadouh V, Minca C, Interventions on European nationalist populism and bordering in time of emergencies
Political Geography 82 (2020) ISSN: 0962-6298 eISSN: 1873-5096
Lizotte C, The mainstreaming of “vulgar territory” and popular visions of hyper‐bordered and feminized territory
Geography Compass 14 (9) (2020) ISSN: 1749-8198 eISSN: 1749-8198
Lizotte C, Nguyen N, Schooling from the classroom to the state: Understanding schools as geopolitical sites
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38 (5) (2020) pp.920-937 ISSN: 2399-6544 eISSN: 2399-6552
Lizotte C, Laïcité as assimilation, laïcité as negotiation: Political geographies of secularism in the French public school
Political Geography 77 (2020) ISSN: 0962-6298 eISSN: 1873-5096
Lizotte C, Where are the people? Refocusing political geography on populism
Political Geography 71 (2019) pp.139-141 ISSN: 0962-6298 eISSN: 1873-5096
Cohen D, Lizotte C, Teaching the market: Fostering consent to education markets in the United States
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 47 (9) (2015) pp.1824-1841 ISSN: 0308-518X eISSN: 1472-3409
Mitchell K, Lizotte C, The grassroots and the gift: Moral authority, American philanthropy, and activism in education
Foucault Studies 18 (2014) pp.66-89 ISSN: 1832-5203 eISSN: 1832-5203
Lizotte C, The moral imperatives of geographies of school failure: Mobilizing market-based reform coalitions
Canadian Geographies 57 (3) (2013) pp.289-295 ISSN: 0008-3658 eISSN: 1541-0064

Moisio S, Koch N, Jonas A, Lizotte C, Luukkonen J, (ed.), Handbook on the changing geographies of the state ,
Edward Elgar (2020) ISBN: 9781788978040 eISBN: 9781788978057

Lizotte C, Populism and feminist geography
in Sydney Calkin; Cordelia Freeman (ed.), Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, DeGruyter (2025) Populism and feminist geography Open Access version on RADAR
Lizotte C, Populism and geography
in Barney Warf (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Springer Nature (2024) ISBN: 9783031259005 eISBN: 9783031259005 Populism and geography Open Access version on RADAR
Lizotte C, Introduction. Security and the state
in Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State, Edward Elgar (2020) ISBN: 9781788978040 eISBN: 9781788978057
Lizotte C, Mitchell K, Governing through failure: Neoliberalism, philanthropy, and education reform in Seattle
in Governing Practices: Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and the Ethnographic Imaginary, University of Toronto Press (2016) ISBN: 9781487500832 eISBN: 9781487511913

Further details

Other experience

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki (2017-2020)

Previous education

BA Geography and Architectural Studies, Middlebury College (magna cum laude), 2007
MA Geography, University of Washington, 2012
Ph.D Geography, University of Washington, 2017

Dr Christopher Lizotte

Role

Areas of expertise

Teaching and supervision

Modules taught

Research

Research projects

Projects as Principal Investigator, or Lead Academic if project is led by another Institution

Publications

Journal articles

Further details

Other experience

Previous education