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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
‘A war of houses and a war of land’: Gentrification, post-politics and resistance in authoritarian Cambodia	51
The racial environmental state and abolition geography in California’s Central Valley	33
Proactive state geographies: Geocoded intelligence in London’s ‘suburban shanty towns’	32
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies	31
‘German Theory’: Cosmopolitan geographies, counterfactual histories and the (non)travel of a ‘German Foucault’	28
Refusing to relinquish: How settler Canada uses race, property, and jurisdiction to undermine urban Indigenous land reclamation	26
Dwelling as politics: An emancipatory praxis of/through care and space in everyday life	26
The inheritance and repetition of colonial practices of dispossession	24
The smart grid archipelago: Infrastructures of networked (dis)connectivity in Amman	23
Becoming fugitive: Prison breaks and the space of punishment	22
Perceptions of atmosphere: Air, waste, and narratives of life and work in Mumbai	20
Repair and the 2014 Mount Polley Mine disaster: Antirelationality, constraint, and legacies of socio-ecological disruption in settler colonial British Columbia	18
Urban Social Hauntings: Disappearing Gravestone Murals in Gentrifying Brooklyn	18
Guerrilla farms: Practicing food sovereignty in Assam	17
On cosmic injustices: Critical thinking, outer space, green values, and capitalist ideologies in a planetary age	17
Automated office infrastructures and the valuation of work	15
Anticipation by redress: Transforming African mega-infrastructure futures	14
The case for doing less in our peer reviews	13
Capture land as abolition geography: The mutuality of placemaking and flight	13
Restoration otherwise: Towards alternative coastal ecologies	13
Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home	13
(Tiny) spaces of hope: Reclaiming, maintaining, and reframing housing in the tiny house movement	12
Homeless shelters and the blues	11
“This place is no better than a jail”: The geographies of surrogate houses in India	11
On delivery waiting: The entanglement of gig and border temporalities in platform cities	11

Street Salafism: Contingency and urbanity as religious creed	11
Ventography and the spatial politics of wind	11
Prison fixes and flows: Carceral mobilities and their critical logistics	10
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance	10
After zombies: Notes on labor union and municipal renewal	10
Sparks from the friction of terrain: Transport animals, borderlands, and the territorial imagination in China	10
Cities after planning	10
The Kings ain't playin’ no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento	9
Experiments in peripheral urbanization: Building and unbuilding commons in urban India	9
Colonial laws, postcolonial infrastructures: Land acquisition, urban informality, and politics of infrastructural development in Pakistan	9
Wasting and wanting: An extractive supply chain approach to outer space geographies	9
Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China–Myanmar Economic Corridor	9
Retrofit: Aerial cable cars and the reengineering of urban peripheries	9
Camps and counterterrorism: Security and the remaking of refuge in Kenya	8
‘An Epic Tale of England’: Atmospheric authentication of nationalist narratives	8
Deepening counter institutions: Property, lands, relations, and the economic future of the Tŝilhqot’in	8
Civilizing swamps in California: Formations of race, nature, and property in the nineteenth century U.S. West	8
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point	8
Blue lines and blues infrastructures: Notes on water, race, and space	7
Infrastructures as colonial beachheads: The Central Arizona Project and the taking of Navajo resources	7
Subalternity as displacement: Memoirs of homelessness and the struggle to be heard	7
Psychic geographies of queer multiculturalism: Reading Fanon, settler colonialism and race in queer space	7
Dispossession as depotentiation	7
The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife	7
Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert	7
Warehousing asylum seekers: The logistification of reception	6
Migration control entangled with local histories: The case of Greek–Turkish regime of bordering	6
Racial regimes of property: Introduction to the special issue	6
A minor theory of direct action politics and performance in New Orleans’ economic justice movement	6
Apportioned city: Gendered delineations of asylum, work and violence in Cape Town	5
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp	5
“El Chamizal is ours forever:” Rumor, time, and the law in El Paso’s settler society	5
Some Black feminist notes on Native feminisms and the flesh	5
Circular movements: Migratory citizenships in anticolonial Athens	5
Living and dying in the shadow of coal: Relocating social death and its contestations in Lephalale	5
Money, slavery, myth	5
Unplanned links, unanticipated outcomes: Urban refugees in Halba (Lebanon)	5
Livestreamed land: Scams and certainty in Myanmar’s digital land market	5
Growing Black food on sacred land: Using Black liberation theology to imagine an alternative Black agrarian future	5
Infrastructural (im)mobility: Urban maritime development in the Suez Canal Zone and Marseille	5
Domesticating logistical futures: A grounded account of failure	4
Plastic monsters: Abjection, worms, the Cthulhic, and the black single-use plastic bag	4
Geocultural power and the digital Silk Roads	4
Keeping time with digital technologies: From real-time environments to forest futurisms	4
Race, space, and social reproduction: The spatial organization of racialized labour in Italian food agriculture	4
Weight loss, cure, and temporality in the “Diet Capital of the World”: Disciplining fatness in Durham, North Carolina	4
From copper mining to data extractivism? Data worth making at Chile’s Data Observatory Foundation	4
Agricultural infrastructures: Land, race, and statecraft in Turkey	4
Peripheral humanitarianism: Ephemerality, experimentation, and effects of refugee provisioning in Paris	4
Could commodities themselves speak? An introduction to the agnotology of the spectacle	4

Carceral domesticity as containment of troubled families in Santiago, Chile	4
“The People’s Park is bigger, more freely located, more beautiful and – Our own park”: Workers, parks, and the spaces of class struggle in turn of the century Norrköping, Sweden	4
Going deep: Excavation, collaboration and imagination at the Kola Superdeep Borehole	4
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore’s labour-migration regime	4
Autorecovery and everyday disaster in Mexico City’s peripheries	4
Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography	4
Awakening from the sleep-walking society: Crisis, detachment and the real in prepper awakening narratives	4
Co-production and Smart Environmentality: Smart Eldercare in Urban China	3
Fintech ‘frontiers’ and the platformed motorcycle: Emergent infrastructures of value creation in African cities	3
Living with hate relationships: Familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment	3
Beyond the hype: Digital transformations in global land, housing, and property	3
Flexible sovereignty and contested legality: The overseas employment and legal struggles of Chinese workers	3
After eviction, before emergence: Temporal displacements and differentiated futures in Boribana, Abidjan (2019–2022)	3
Assembling traces of border violence. Counter-mapping as counter-archiving	3
The social lives of rental proptech: Entanglements between capitalist, care and techno-utopian values	3
Neighborhood over nation: Place-based state-making of the middle-class in Mumbai	3
A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation	3
Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border	3
From securitisation to martialisation: Logistics of humanitarian protection in Brazil’s Amazon	3
Thresholds	3
Kaam: Youth, religiosity, and the cultural production of work in a North Indian Madrasa	3
Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation: The liminality of land administration platforms in Kenya	3
Carceral domesticities and the geopolitics of Love Jihad	3
Automating gentrification: Landlord technologies and housing justice organizing in New York City homes	3
The work of landlord technology: The fictions of frictionless property management	3
Territorializing the air: Border-crossing air pollution and the geopolitics of atmospheric science in East Asia	3
Carceral domesticities: An introduction	2
Accommodation for profit, not for refugees: Racial capitalism and the logics of Berlin’s refugee accommodation market	2
Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political	2
‘Accumulation by appropriation’: The integration of recyclable-waste collector cooperatives in Salvador, Brazil, and the right to the city	2
Comfort in chaos: A sensory account of climate change denial	2
What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging	2
Electromagnetic economies of worth: Repurposing a radio dish and debating technoscientific modernity at the equator	2
The corporate effect: Making capitalist space and peasant dispossession in the Peruvian Andes	2
No name in the street: Unknowability, Black women, and missing geographies	2
Speculation on infrastructural ecology: Pigeons, Gaza, and internet access	2
Infrastructural politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Pasts, presents, futures	2
A broken heart and fear of the bulldozer: Organized abandonment and living with abandon in Hawai‘i	2
“History can’t be written without us in the center”: Colonial trauma, the cartographic body, and decolonizing methodologies in urban planning	2
Adverse commoning: Tracing contested legal geographies of the urban commons	2
Urbanizing social reproduction: (Re)thinking the politics of care in capitalist urban development	2
The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation	2
More than just dying: Black life and futurity in the face of state-sanctioned environmental racism	2
Between energy and politics: Ruin, renewal, and the contours of state power in post-apartheid South Africa	2
Caring at the edges: Infrastructures of care and repair in urban deprivation	2
Autonomy of migration in the light of deportation. Ethnographic and theoretical accounts of entangled appropriations of voluntary returns from Morocco	2
Away from the border and into the frontier: The paradoxical geographies of US immigration law	2
World class from within: Aspiration, connection and brokering in the Colombo real estate market	2