OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning D-Society & Space is 6. 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
Infrastructures as colonial beachheads: The Central Arizona Project and the taking of Navajo resources	44
Creative extraction: Black towns in white space	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
Kidnapping migrants as a tactic of border enforcement	24
Affect and critique: A politics of boredom*	24
Securing the subterranean volumes: Geometrics, land subsidence and the materialities of things	24
Gendering the care/control nexus of the humanitarian border: Women’s bodies and gendered control of mobility in a EUropean borderland	23
Automating gentrification: Landlord technologies and housing justice organizing in New York City homes	23
Rethinking “Disinvestment”: Historical geographies of predatory property relations on Chicago’s South Side	22
Beyond repair: Staying with breakdown at the interstices	22
The sedimentation of whiteness as landscape	21
Encountering automation: Redefining bodies through stories of technological change	21
Grammars of reckoning: Redressing racial regimes of property	19
Dispossession as depotentiation	16
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
What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging	15
Thresholds	15

Improvising urban spaces, inhabiting the in-between	15
Blue lines and blues infrastructures: Notes on water, race, and space	15
Transformation as relational mobilisation: The networked geography of Addis Ababa’s sustainable transport interventions	14
Sophia’s choice: Debt, social welfare, and racial finance capitalism	13
Racial regimes of property: Introduction to the special issue	13
Urban borderwork: Ethnographies of policing	13
The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife	12
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
‘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
Saildrones and Snotbots in the Blue Anthropocene: Sensing technologies, multispecies intimacies, and scientific storying	10
Disquieting ambivalence of mega-infrastructures: Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway as spectacle and ruination	10
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
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
‘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
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
Being earthbound: Arendt, process and alienation in the Anthropocene	7
Warehousing asylum seekers: Thelogistificationof reception	7
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
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