OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environment and Planning D-Society & Space is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Creative extraction: Black towns in white space	44
Infrastructures as colonial beachheads: The Central Arizona Project and the taking of Navajo resources	44
“Exceeding Beringia”: Upending universal human events and wayward transits in Arctic spaces	43
Contained and abandoned in the “humane” border: Black migrants’ immobility and survival in Moroccan urban space	38
Reclaiming the chocolate city: Soundscapes of gentrification and resistance in Washington, DC	34
Patchwork: Repair labor and the logic of infrastructure adaptation in Mexico City	30
Rendering settler sovereign landscapes: Race and property in the Empire State	29
Coordinating office space: Digital technologies and the platformization of work	29
Urban specters	27
Dwelling in liminalities, thinking beyond inhabitation	25
Affect and critique: A politics of boredom*	24
Securing the subterranean volumes: Geometrics, land subsidence and the materialities of things	24
Kidnapping migrants as a tactic of border enforcement	24
Automating gentrification: Landlord technologies and housing justice organizing in New York City homes	23
Gendering the care/control nexus of the humanitarian border: Women’s bodies and gendered control of mobility in a EUropean borderland	23
Rethinking “Disinvestment”: Historical geographies of predatory property relations on Chicago’s South Side	22
Beyond repair: Staying with breakdown at the interstices	22
Encountering automation: Redefining bodies through stories of technological change	21
The sedimentation of whiteness as landscape	21
Grammars of reckoning: Redressing racial regimes of property	19
Liberating the family: Debt, education and racial capitalism in South Africa	16
Growing Black food on sacred land: Using Black liberation theology to imagine an alternative Black agrarian future	16
Dispossession as depotentiation	16
Improvising urban spaces, inhabiting the in-between	15
Blue lines and blues infrastructures: Notes on water, race, and space	15

What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging	15
Thresholds	15
Transformation as relational mobilisation: The networked geography of Addis Ababa’s sustainable transport interventions	14
Racial regimes of property: Introduction to the special issue	13
Urban borderwork: Ethnographies of policing	13
Sophia’s choice: Debt, social welfare, and racial finance capitalism	13
Mapping lesbian and queer lines of desire: Constellations of queer urban space	12
The multiple temporalities of infrastructure: Atomic cities and the memory of lost futures	12
The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife	12
‘German Theory’: Cosmopolitan geographies, counterfactual histories and the (non)travel of a ‘German Foucault’	11
Hopes multiplied amidst decline: Understanding gendered precarity in times of austerity	11
Disquieting ambivalence of mega-infrastructures: Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway as spectacle and ruination	10
Saildrones and Snotbots in the Blue Anthropocene: Sensing technologies, multispecies intimacies, and scientific storying	10
Standing by the promise: Acts of anticipation in Rio and Jakarta	9
Voicing the environment: Latour, Peirce and an expanded politics	9
Living with hate relationships: Familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment	9
The racial environmental state and abolition geography in California’s Central Valley	9
Dromoelimination: Accelerating settler colonialism in Palestine	9
“Now is the real Jungle!” Institutional hunting and migrants’ survival after the eviction of the Calais camp	9
Apparatuses of observation and occupation: Settler colonialism and space science in Hawai'i	8
Civilizing swamps in California: Formations of race, nature, and property in the nineteenth century U.S. West	8
Urban commons to private property: Gendered environments in Mumbai’s fisher communities	8
The evolution of EUropean border governance through crisis: Frontex and the interplay of protracted and acute crisis narratives	8
Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert	8
Prison fixes and flows: Carceral mobilities and their critical logistics	8
‘We are in the process’: The exploitation of hope and the political economy of waiting among the aspiring irregular migrants in Nepal	8
Victim, broker, activist, fixer: Surviving dispossession in working class Lahore	8
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies	8
Being earthbound: Arendt, process and alienation in the Anthropocene	7
Warehousing asylum seekers: Thelogistificationof reception	7
The logistics of police power: Armored vehicles, colonial boomerangs, and strategies of circulation	6
LGBTQ situated memory, place-making and the sexual politics of gentrification	6
Police guns and private security cars. Ordering the state through socio-material policing assemblages in Nairobi	6
Molar and molecular entanglements: Parenting, care and making home in the context of energy capitalism	6
The ocean and the city: Spatial forgeries of racial capitalism	6
Death traps: Holes in urban India	6
Value extraction through refugee carcerality: Data, labour and financialised accommodation	6
The nomos of the freeport	6
Perceptions of atmosphere: Air, waste, and narratives of life and work in Mumbai	6
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S.	6
To fail an asylum seeker: Time, space and legal events	6
Estranged companions: Bed bugs, biologies, and affective histories	6
‘A war of houses and a war of land’: Gentrification, post-politics and resistance in authoritarian Cambodia	6
In the wake of logistics: Situated afterlives of race and labour on the Magdalena River	6
Decolonizing regional planning from the Global South: Active geographies and social struggles in Northeastern Brazil	6
Border and im/mobility entanglements in the Mediterranean: Introduction to the special issue	5
Dismantling the advertising city: Subvertising and the urban commons to come	5
Autonomy within entanglements: Illegalised migrants, the EU border regime, and the political economy of Nouadhibou, Mauritania	5
Berghain: Space, affect, and sexual disorientation	5
Hostile hospitality and the criminalization of civil society actors aiding border crossers in Greece	5

The entangled geographies of responsibility: Contested policy narratives of migration governance along the Balkan Route	5
Geocultural power and the digital Silk Roads	5
Nowhere land: The evicted space of Black tenants’ rights in Montreal	4
‘Things should be better’ – Immobility, labour and the negotiation of hope amongst young Ghanaian craftsmen	4
Hope, home and insecurity: Gendered labours of resilience among the urban poor of Metro Cebu, the Philippines	4
The Kings ain't playin’ no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento	4
On Immanence and Indeterminacy: Black Feminism and Settler Colonialism	4
Urban Social Hauntings: Disappearing Gravestone Murals in Gentrifying Brooklyn	4
Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law	4
The hopeful labour of begging – Homeless people’s struggles for a better life in Paris	4
FromDeath in the Iceto life in the museum: Absence, affect and mystery in the Arctic	4
Subalternity as displacement: Memoirs of homelessness and the struggle to be heard	4
After entry: Humanitarian exploitation and migrant labour in the fields of southern Italy	4
Itinerant urbanization: On circles, fractals and the critique of segmented space	4
The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation	4
The view from here	4
“Erasing a mural does not erase reality”: Queer visibility, urban policing, and the double life of a mural in Ecuador	4
Soil, territory, land: The spatial politics of settler organic farming in the West Bank, Israel/Palestine	4
Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home	4
Governing mobility in times of crisis: Practicing the border and embodying resistance in and beyond the hotspot infrastructure	4
Points of persuasion: Truth spots in future city development	3
Conscription or constriction: Military policing of urban youth	3
Camps and counterterrorism: Security and the remaking of refuge in Kenya	3
Psychic geographies of queer multiculturalism: Reading Fanon, settler colonialism and race in queer space	3
Becoming fugitive: Prison breaks and the space of punishment	3
Agitative pauses, intentional moorings:Stasisas resistance	3
Risk, resilience and response-able practice in Australia’s changing bushfire landscapes	3
Adverse commoning: Tracing contested legal geographies of the urban commons	3
Introduction: Hope, labour, disconnection	3
Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography	3
Restoration otherwise: Towards alternative coastal ecologies	3
Proactive state geographies: Geocoded intelligence in London’s ‘suburban shanty towns’	3
Scratch-and-sniff Palestine: How olfaction shapes nonsovereign infrastructural spaces	3
Anthroposea: Planning future ecologies in Mumbai’s wetscapes	3
Away from the border and into the frontier: The paradoxical geographies of US immigration law	3
Some Black feminist notes on Native feminisms and the flesh	3
Agricultural infrastructures: Land, race, and statecraft in Turkey	3
The geopolitics of presence and absence at the ruins of Fort Henry	3
The potential politics of the porous city	3
The right to an urban history: The Gaza Master Plan, 1975–1982	3
As if there was a border. Bordering through excision in Melilla and the Canary Islands	2
A diplomatic trip	2
Portraits for change: Refusal politics and liberatory futures	2
The place of the dead, the time of dictatorship: Nostalgia, sovereignty, and the corpse of Ferdinand Marcos	2
Of serial murder and true crime: Some preliminary thoughts on black feminist research praxis and the implications of settler colonialism	2
Peripheral humanitarianism: Ephemerality, experimentation, and effects of refugee provisioning in Paris	2
Migration control entangled with local histories: The case of Greek–Turkish regime of bordering	2
Street Salafism: Contingency and urbanity as religious creed	2
Atmospheric negations: Weaponising breathing, attuning irreducible bodies	2
Sustaining empire: Conservation by ruination at Kalama Atoll	2
Political Detentions, Political Deportations: Repressive Immigration Enforcement in Times of Trump	2
Accommodation for profit, not for refugees: Racial capitalism and the logics of Berlin’s refugee accommodation market	2
‘Accumulation by appropriation’: The integration of recyclable-waste collector cooperatives in Salvador, Brazil, and the right to the city	2
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp	2
‘An Epic Tale of England’: Atmospheric authentication of nationalist narratives	2
Dwelling as politics: An emancipatory praxis of/through care and space in everyday life	2
Reflections on a cis discipline	2
Hope and the future: Temporal agency and the politics of hope in late capitalism	2
On the iron cage: Infrastructural worlding in Mandate Palestine	2
Comfort in chaos: A sensory account of climate change denial	2
Awakening from the sleep-walking society: Crisis, detachment and the real in prepper awakening narratives	2
Unplanned links, unanticipated outcomes: Urban refugees in Halba (Lebanon)	2
Cities after planning	2