Political Geography

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Geography 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.)
ArticleCitations
The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality193
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Views from the ground82
Lithium extractivism and water injustices in the Salar de Atacama, Chile: The colonial shadow of green electromobility80
The strange geographies of the ‘new’ state capitalism64
Digital extraction: Blockchain traceability in mineral supply chains49
Unearthing feminist territories and terrains43
Bodies as urban infrastructure: Gender, intimate infrastructures and slow infrastructural violence42
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth42
The evolving techniques of the social engineering of extraction: Introducing political (re)actions ‘from above’ in large-scale mining and energy projects41
The anti-politics of smart energy regimes39
Are cities ever more cosmopolitan? Studying trends in urban-rural divergence of cultural attitudes39
Faith no more? The divergence of political trust between urban and rural Europe38
Scaling just transitions: Legitimation strategies in coal phase-out commissions in Canada and Germany38
As the drone flies: Configuring a vertical politics of contestation within forest conservation35
Interventions on European nationalist populism and bordering in time of emergencies33
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization33
Disastrous hydropower, uneven regional development, and decolonization in India's Eastern Himalayan borderlands32
Underground exploration beyond state reach: Alternative volumetric territorial projects in Venezuela, Cuba, and Mexico31
(Re)making hydrosocial territories: Materializing and contesting imaginaries and subjectivities through hydraulic infrastructure30
Earth politics: Territory and the subterranean – Introduction to the special issue30
Locating the territoriality of territory in border studies28
‘Frack off’: Towards an anarchist political ecology critique of corporate and state responses to anti-fracking resistance in the UK28
The importance of recognizing difference: Rethinking Central and East European environmentalism27
Blue governmentality: Elemental activism with conservation technologies on plundered seas26
Production of subterranean resources in the Atacama Desert: 19th and early 20th century mining/water extraction in The Taltal district, northern Chile26
The deep border26
The impossible energy trinity: Energy security, sustainability, and sovereignty in cross-border electricity systems25
Practicing decolonial political geography: Island perspectives on neocolonialism and the China threat discourse25
Resource warfare, pacification and the spectacle of ‘green’ development: Logics of violence in engineering extraction in southern Madagascar24
Building an inclusive peace is an uneven socio-spatial process: Colombia's differential approach24
Infrastructural territorialisations: Mega-infrastructures and the (re)making of Kenya23
Scale in motion? Rethinking scalar production and border externalization23
Conflict on the urban fringe: Urbanization, environmental stress, and urban unrest in Africa23
Spaces of violence: A typology of the political geography of violence against migrants seeking asylum in the EU22
Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change22
Uncertainty, exhaustion, and abandonment beyond South/North divides: Governing forced migration through strategic ambiguity21
Companions, zappers, and invaders: The animal geopolitics of Sealab I, II, and III (1964–1969)21
Bordering dynamics and the geopolitics of cross-border tourism between China and Myanmar20
Concrete and coal: China's infrastructural assemblages in the Balkans19
Climate injustice, criminalisation of land protection and anti-colonial solidarity: Courtroom ethnography in an age of fossil fuel violence19
The future lies beneath: Mineral science, resource-making, and the (de)differentiation of the Peruvian underground19
The Mediterranean as a carceral seascape19
Coupling national geo-political economic strategies and the Belt and Road Initiative: The China-Belarus Great Stone Industrial Park19
Contesting the ‘greening’ of hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon18
Violent maritime spaces: Conservation and security in Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park, India18
Cavernous politics: Geopower, territory, and the Kurdish question in Turkey18
Fighting over friends and neighbors: The effect of inter-candidate geographic distance on intra-party competition18
The socionature that neo-extractivism can see: Practicing redistribution and compensation around large-scale mining in the Southern Ecuadorian Amazon18
Urban resilience as critique: Problematizing infrastructure in post-Sandy New York City18
Critical Geopolitics/critical geopolitics 25 years on18
Place, candidate roots, and voter preferences in an age of partisan polarization: Observational and experimental evidence18
The unequal geographies of climate finance: Climate injustice and dependency in the world system17
Dukarr lakarama: Listening to Guwak, talking back to space colonization17
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US17
Learning lessons and curbing criticism: Legitimizing involuntary resettlement and extractive projects in Mozambique16
Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China16
Towards a multi-scalar and multi-horizon framework of energy injustice: A whole systems analysis of Estonian energy transition16
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground16
Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic15
Contesting uneven development: The political geography of natural gas rents in Peru and Bolivia15
“Choking without killing”: Opacity and the grey area of migration governmentality15
Imposition to agonism: Voluntary poverty alleviation resettlement in rural China15
Frontiers’ violence: The interplay of state of exception, frontier habitus, and organized violence15
Celebrations, Exaltations and Alpha Lands: Everyday geographies of the far-right15
Limits, ecomodernism and degrowth15
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania14
The camp and the question of community14
The contentious politics of hydropower dam impact assessments in the Mekong River basin14
State making through conservation: The case of post-conflict Nepal14
Nuclear necropower: The engineering of death conditions around a nuclear power plant in south India14
Beyond limits and scarcity: Feminist and decolonial contributions to degrowth14
The People's Climate March: Environmental populism as political genre14
The good migrant: Everyday nationalism and temporary migration management on New Zealand dairy farms14
Anxiety geopolitics: Hybrid warfare, civilisational geopolitics, and the Janus-faced politics of anxiety14
The politics of discretion: Authority and influence in asylum dispersal14
‘Individual sovereignty’ in pandemic times – A contradiction in terms?14
Disjointed knowledges, obfuscated visibility. Border controls at the French-Italian Alpine border13
Conservation as counterinsurgency: A case of ceasefire in a rebel forest in southeast Myanmar13
The global visa cost divide: How and why the price for travel permits varies worldwide13
Forest crisis narratives: Illegal logging, datafication and the conservation frontier in the Romanian Carpathian Mountains13
Decolonizing cartography and ontological conflict: Counter-mapping in Colombia and “cartographies otherwise”13
(Re)constructing borders through the governance of tourism and trade in Ladakh, India13
Floods, communal conflict and the role of local state institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa13
The many shades of grey in urban governance: How illegality shapes urban planning, policy and development12
A climate terrorism assemblage? Exploring the politics of climate change-terrorism-radicalisation relations12
The “Greening” of Empire: The European Green Deal as the EU first agenda12
Interventions in critical health geopolitics: Borders, rights, and conspiracies in the COVID-19 pandemic12
Humanitarianism as conflicted care: Managing migrant assistance in EU Assisted Voluntary Return policies12
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea12
A political geography of walking in Jordan: Movement and politics12
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies12
Chinese environmental activism and the environmental politics of rumors12
A microdynamics approach to geographies of violence: Mapping the kill chain in militarized conservation areas11
A coalbed methane ‘stratum’ for a low-carbon future: A critical inquiry from the Lorraine Basin (France)11
Transformation is not a metaphor11
The league of leagues: Meta-populism and the ‘chain of equivalence’ in a cross-border Alpine area11
The Game: Or, ‘the making of migration’ along the Balkan Route11
The Brazilian Green Revolution11
The transnational state and migration: Reach, flows and Policies11
Security implications of climate development in conflict-affected states: Implications of local-level effects of rural hydropower development on farmers in Herat11
The case for socialist modernism11
The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring11
Renewable energy expansion or the preservation of national energy sovereignty? Norwegian renewable energy policy meets resource nationalism11
Mapping the subaquatic animals in the Aquatocene: Offshore wind power, the materialities of the sea and animal soundscapes11
Political geography lecture: Social forms, spatial forms, and the New Right. Celebrating Capital at 150 and explaining the rise of the AfD11
Principled pragmatism in climate policy? The EU and changing practices of climate justice10
Contested spaces of illiberal and authoritarian politics: Human rights and democracy in crisis10
Criminalized crops: Environmentally-justified illicit crop interventions and the cyclical marginalization of smallholders10
Communicating temporalities: The Orientalist unconscious, the European migrant crisis, and the time of the Other10
Symbolic versus material concerns of rural consciousness in the United States10
Frames of extractivism: Small-scale goldmining formalization and state violence in Colombia10
Forced migration and legal-spatial violence in the United States and Germany10
Violence and territorial order in Caracas, Venezuela10
Incarceration, classification and control: Administrative detention in settler colonial Australia10
Interventions on Democratizing Infrastructure10
Mobile sovereignty: The case of ‘boat people’ in Australia10
Conservation in violent environments: Introduction to a special issue on the political ecology of conservation amidst violent conflict10
In the Shadow of the Tower: Spatial proximity to mosques, visible diversity, and support for the radical right10
Blueing business as usual in the ocean: Blue economies, oil, and climate justice9
The enduring coloniality of ecological modernization: Wind energy development in occupied Western Sahara and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights9
The bourgeoisification of the Green-Line: The new Israeli middle-class and the Suburban Settlement9
Ecosystemic politics: Analyzing the consequences of speaking for adjacent nature on the global stage9
Between exclusionary nationalism and urban citizenship in East Jerusalem/ al-Quds9
Hybrid territorialisation: A reconfiguration of rural spaces through gold mining in Upper Guinea9
Digital humor against essentialization: Strategies of Baltic Russian-speaking social media users9
Rights to the rescue? The promotion of Indigenous women's political-electoral rights and the rise of the Mexican security state9
Authoritarian power in space, time and exile9
Raise your voices! Civilian protest in civil wars9
Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond COVID-199
The role of contextual factors in the electoral resurgence of extreme right-wing forces in Spain: The case of Andalusia9
Interstitial and Abyssal geographies9
Creating environmental subjects: Conservation as counter-insurgency in Aceh, Indonesia, 1925–19409
Domestic drone futures9
The geography of truth and lies9
For a prefigurative pandemic politics: Disrupting the racial colonial quarantine9
The carceral wet: Hollowing out rights for migrants in maritime geographies9
Asserting Europe's technological sovereignty amid American platform finance: Countering financial sector dependence on Big Tech?9
Whitescapes: A posthumanist political ecology of Alpine migrant (im)mobility9
Islands as interstitial encrypted geographies: Making (and failing) cryptosecessionist exits9
Making sense of (the Russian war in) Ukraine: On the politics of knowledge and expertise8
A tale of regional transformation: From political community to security regions the politics of security and regionalism in West Africa8
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach8
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis8
Colonising geology: Volcanic politics and geopower8
The politics of saving Muslim women in India: Gendered geolegality, security, and territorialization8
The socio-ecological fix by multi-scalar states: The development of ‘Greenways of Paradise’ in Chengdu8
Security, violence, and mobility: The embodied and everyday politics of negotiating Muslim femininities8
Water sharing and the right to water: Refusal, rebellion and everyday resistance8
Putting the crisis to work: The real estate sector and London's housing crisis8
“Russian Troops Out! No to NATO expansion!” A pacific geopolitics for a new Europe8
Extra-territorial quarantine in pandemic times8
Decolonizing technology and political ecology futures8
The pandemic, and the pandemonium of European philosophy8
Polarizations, exclusionary neonationalisms and the city8
The land of the past? Neo-populism, neo-fascism, and the failure of the left in Brazil8
Rural drinking water governance politics in China: Governmentality schemes and negotiations from below8
The role of ex-paramilitaries and former prisoners in political tourism8
Corporate gift or political sacrifice? State-sponsored CSR and electricity provision in Guinean extractive enclaves8
The post-politicization of rental housing financialization: News media, elite storytelling and Australia's new build to rent market8
Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography7
The consequences of internal displacement on civil war violence: Evidence from Syria7
Of “madness,” against Babylon: A story of resistance, (mis)representation, and paradox in the Caribbean7
Bringing the tracker-guards back in: Arms-carrying markets and quests for status in conservation at war7
The case for extending measures of democracy in the world “Beneath”, “Above”, and “Outside” the national level7
Passing as a tourist: Exploring the everyday urban geopolitics of tourism7
Borders on steroids: Open borders in a Covid-19 world?7
Local voting at local elections revisited: ‘Friends and neighbors voting’ at mayoral elections in rural Poland7
Resilience and values: Global perspectives on the values and worldviews underpinning the resilience concept7
“Security, mobility, and the body – Syrian insurgent groups’ infrastructures and their geopolitical contestations through/by/in legal institutions”7
Tracing the ‘cloud’: Emergent political geographies of global data centres7
Labour internationalism and the public sector: The case of the Public Services International7
“You can make it here!”: Producing Europe’s mobile borders in the New Gambia7
Assemblage-democracy: Reconceptualising democracy through material resource governance7
Refugees and racial capitalism: Meatpacking and the primitive accumulation of labor7
Belarus, Russia, and the escape from geopolitics7
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market7
Between dependency and engagement: Centring subaltern geopolitics in multiperspectival border studies. Lessons from the Western Sahara7
“Keep withstanding”: Territory in the body, home and market in Xinjiang, China7
Bordering through care and control: Policing and sheltering Central American migrant youth in Mexico7
Corporate security technologies: Managing life and death along a Colombian coal railway7
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals7
Borders and bureaucracies of EU mobile citizenship: Polish migrants and the personal identification number in Sweden7
Spatial variation in populist right voting in Austria, 2013–20177
Wars in refuge: Locating Syrians’ intimate knowledges of violence across time and space7
Resistances in the “Resilient City”: Rise and fall of a disputed concept in New Orleans and Medellin7
The environmental geopolitics of allocation: State power and institutional stability in Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna management6
Prefigurative urbanization: Politics through infrastructural repertoires in Guayaquil6
Harnessing the sending state: Pragmatic improvisations and negotiated memberships of the Chinese diaspora in Laos6
Urban atmospheres of terror6
What is the geography of trust? The urban-rural trust gap in global perspective6
Going back to school: Engaging veterans’ memories of the Malvinas war in secondary schools in Santa Fe, Argentina6
Enjoying climate change: Jouissance as a political factor6
Introduction: Virtual forum on the Russian invasion of Ukraine6
Interventions on the concept of externalisation in migration and border studies6
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum6
Operationalising memory and identity politics to influence public opinion of refugees: A snapshot from Poland6
U.S. anti-abortion ideology on the move: Mobile crisis pregnancy centers as unruly, unmappable, and ungovernable6
The modernist territorial order and the Ukraine crisis6
Territory, sovereignty and entitlement: Diplomatic discourses in the United Nations Security Council6
Sounding “brown”: Everyday aural discrimination and othering6
Geopolitics of decolonisation: The subaltern diplomacies of Lusophone Africa (1961–1974)6
Regionmaking and conceptual development in South China: Perceiving islands, the Pearl River Delta, and the Greater Bay Area6
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment6
Disaster management takes to the skies: How new technologies are reconfiguring spatialities of power in desert locust management6
A harbour in the country, a city in the sea: Infrastructural conduits, territorial inversions and the slippages of sovereignty in Sino-Sri Lankan development narratives6
The age of the manager is over? Shale gas fracking and the challenge to the post-political regime for English planning6
Carceral labour: Offshore work relations, conflicts and local participation in Ghana's oil and gas industry6
Digital degrowth innovation: Less growth, more play6
Weather variability and conflict forecasts: Dynamic human-environment interactions in Kenya6
Scripting climate futures: The geographical assumptions of climate planning6
“Silk Road here we come”: Infrastructural myths, post-disaster politics, and the shifting urban geographies of Nepal6
Embodying vertical geopolitics: Towards a political geography of falling6
Disciplinary geopolitics and the rise of international development studies in China6
Money talks: Decentralized personalism and the sources of campaign funding6
Unpacking administrative rank: Intercity competition and the remaking of local state space in China6
Limits to climate action - Narratives of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage6
Indeed, space matters in processes of subjectivation6
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations6
Human rights memorials in turmoil: Antagonistic memories in contemporary Chile6
Virtual forum introduction: Populist nationalisms and new geographies of exclusion6
Blinded like a state? Urban sanitation, improvement and high modernism in contemporary Myanmar6
Regional cleavages in African politics: Persistent electoral blocs and territorial oppositions6
International rivers as border infrastructures: En/forcing borders in South Asia5
“Let us create space”: Reclaiming peace and security in a Kenyan Somali community5
When climate justice goes wrong: Maladaptation and deep co-production in transformative environmental science and policy5
Authoritarian space-time5
“It will kill your dreams, your goals, your everything”—Humanitarian migrants, governance through containment and the Italian accommodation system5
The ambivalent relations behind civil society’s engagement in the “grey zones” of migration and integration governance: Case studies from Belgium5
The stories we tell ourselves: Local newspaper reporting and support for the radical right5
Interventions in the political geographies of resistance: The contributions of Cindi Katz, 15 years on5
Neoliberalising the divided city5
Parched and impatient: Political engagement after drought5
Arcane geopolitics: Heidegger, Schmitt and the political theology of Gnosticism5
Friends, neighbors, and sponsors in the 2016 French primary election. Revisiting a classical hypothesis from aggregated-level data5
Temporal bordering in the space of the camp: Producing and contesting abandonment in Skaramagas and Elaionas camps in Athens5
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits5
Neither more nor less, but enough: Towards a modest political ecology of the future5
Conceptualising environmental governance in turbulent times: Insights from Brexit and waste in the UK5
Virtual Forum introduction: Populist ecologies: Nature, nationalism, and authoritarianism5
Housing in the face of crisis: The influence of Israel's 2011 protest on housing policy5
Local territorial attachment in times of jurisdictional consolidation5
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar5
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China5
The Geo-imaginaries of potential in Mexico's Burgos Basin5
Climate coloniality as atmospheric violence: From necropolitics toward planetary mutuality5
All good things come from below? Scalar constructions of the ‘local’ in conflicts over mining5
Police power in green: Furthering political ecologies of the state5
Unsettling sovereignty: Violence, myths and the politics of history in the Ethiopian Somali metropolis5
Realizing citizenship in property: Houseless encampments and the limits of liberalism's promise5
Understanding megacities. An argument on the role of democratic ideals5
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