Dr Filippo Dionigi
PhD, MSc, MSc
Expertise
A scholar of International Relations with regional expertise on the Middle East especially Lebanon, Syrian refugees, and Islamist movements (esp. Hezbollah).
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Politics/International Relations
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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Biography
In 2014, I received a Leverhulme EC Fellowship, and since then, a significant portion of my research has been dedicated to the Syrian refugee crisis in neighbouring Arab countries. Specifically, I investigate how displacement is influenced by conceptions of space in international relations theory and international politics at large.
In 2022, I was awarded a BA Talent Development Award. Currently, my focus is exploring the potential of computational text analysis applied to the study of Islamist movements. Particularly, I utilize NLP and Text-Mining techniques to track variations in political discourse and identity. Through this analysis, I aim to develop hypotheses regarding the factors that contribute to these variations.
Research interests
My work concentrates on analyzing and advancing international relations theories applied to the context of Middle Eastern politics and societies.
I research the impact of Syrian displacement on Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq, with a particular focus on the interplay between concepts of space, borders, and displacement.
I also explore the use of natural language processing and text mining to examine critically the ideological landscape of Islamist movements in the region and its evolution across time and cases.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Text-Mining Islamist Movements
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/01/2022 to 30/09/2022
Publications
Selected publications
02/01/2023Displacement as Heterotopic Space: The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan
Geopolitics
Recent publications
01/01/2023Lebanon as the politics of permanent crisis
Handbook of Middle East Politics
Hezbollah's Secretary-General Speeches Archive: 2001-2021(CSV)
Displacement as Heterotopic Space: The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan
Geopolitics
Academic Trends in Forced Displacement
Academic Trends in Forced Displacement
International relations theory and EU-Middle East Relations
Routledge Handbook of EU-Middle East Relations