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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Infrastructures as colonial beachheads: The Central Arizona Project and the taking of Navajo resources	51
Creative extraction: Black towns in white space	49
Reclaiming the chocolate city: Soundscapes of gentrification and resistance in Washington, DC	41
Automating gentrification: Landlord technologies and housing justice organizing in New York City homes	32
Urban specters	32
Dwelling in liminalities, thinking beyond inhabitation	31
Rethinking “Disinvestment”: Historical geographies of predatory property relations on Chicago’s South Side	28
The sedimentation of whiteness as landscape	26
Affect and critique: A politics of boredom*	26
Beyond repair: Staying with breakdown at the interstices	24
What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging	23
Grammars of reckoning: Redressing racial regimes of property	22
Racial regimes of property: Introduction to the special issue	20
Dispossession as depotentiation	18
Growing Black food on sacred land: Using Black liberation theology to imagine an alternative Black agrarian future	18
Blue lines and blues infrastructures: Notes on water, race, and space	17
The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife	17
Sophia’s choice: Debt, social welfare, and racial finance capitalism	16
Thresholds	15
Hopes multiplied amidst decline: Understanding gendered precarity in times of austerity	14
The multiple temporalities of infrastructure: Atomic cities and the memory of lost futures	13
‘German Theory’: Cosmopolitan geographies, counterfactual histories and the (non)travel of a ‘German Foucault’	13
Disquieting ambivalence of mega-infrastructures: Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway as spectacle and ruination	13
The racial environmental state and abolition geography in California’s Central Valley	13
Apparatuses of observation and occupation: Settler colonialism and space science in Hawai'i	12

Dromoelimination: Accelerating settler colonialism in Palestine	11
Civilizing swamps in California: Formations of race, nature, and property in the nineteenth century U.S. West	11
Value extraction through refugee carcerality: Data, labour and financialised accommodation	11
Saildrones and Snotbots in the Blue Anthropocene: Sensing technologies, multispecies intimacies, and scientific storying	11
The evolution of EUropean border governance through crisis: Frontex and the interplay of protracted and acute crisis narratives	11
Victim, broker, activist, fixer: Surviving dispossession in working class Lahore	10
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies	10
“Now is the real Jungle!” Institutional hunting and migrants’ survival after the eviction of the Calais camp	10
Standing by the promise: Acts of anticipation in Rio and Jakarta	10
Warehousing asylum seekers: The logistification of reception	10
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S.	9
Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert	9
Border and im/mobility entanglements in the Mediterranean: Introduction to the special issue	9
Prison fixes and flows: Carceral mobilities and their critical logistics	9
The ocean and the city: Spatial forgeries of racial capitalism	9
Living with hate relationships: Familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment	9
The hopeful labour of begging – Homeless people’s struggles for a better life in Paris	8
Perceptions of atmosphere: Air, waste, and narratives of life and work in Mumbai	8
In the wake of logistics: Situated afterlives of race and labour on the Magdalena River	8
‘A war of houses and a war of land’: Gentrification, post-politics and resistance in authoritarian Cambodia	8
Estranged companions: Bed bugs, biologies, and affective histories	8
Urban Social Hauntings: Disappearing Gravestone Murals in Gentrifying Brooklyn	8
Soil, territory, land: The spatial politics of settler organic farming in the West Bank, Israel/Palestine	7
Geocultural power and the digital Silk Roads	7
Decolonizing regional planning from the Global South: Active geographies and social struggles in Northeastern Brazil	7
Death traps: Holes in urban India	7
Subalternity as displacement: Memoirs of homelessness and the struggle to be heard	7
Autonomy within entanglements: Illegalised migrants, the EU border regime, and the political economy of Nouadhibou, Mauritania	7
“Erasing a mural does not erase reality”: Queer visibility, urban policing, and the double life of a mural in Ecuador	7
The Kings ain't playin’ no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento	6
To fail an asylum seeker: Time, space and legal events	6
Itinerant urbanization: On circles, fractals and the critique of segmented space	6
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point	5
Refusing to relinquish: How settler Canada uses race, property, and jurisdiction to undermine urban Indigenous land reclamation	5
The entangled geographies of responsibility: Contested policy narratives of migration governance along the Balkan Route	5
Governing mobility in times of crisis: Practicing the border and embodying resistance in and beyond the hotspot infrastructure	5
Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law	5
Street Salafism: Contingency and urbanity as religious creed	5
After entry: Humanitarian exploitation and migrant labour in the fields of southern Italy	5
‘Things should be better’ – Immobility, labour and the negotiation of hope amongst young Ghanaian craftsmen	5
Adverse commoning: Tracing contested legal geographies of the urban commons	5
Restoration otherwise: Towards alternative coastal ecologies	5
Points of persuasion: Truth spots in future city development	5
Berghain: Space, affect, and sexual disorientation	5
Agitative pauses, intentional moorings: Stasis as resistance	4
On Immanence and Indeterminacy: Black Feminism and Settler Colonialism	4
Autonomy of migration in the light of deportation. Ethnographic and theoretical accounts of entangled appropriations of voluntary returns from Morocco	4
Accommodation for profit, not for refugees: Racial capitalism and the logics of Berlin’s refugee accommodation market	4
Agricultural infrastructures: Land, race, and statecraft in Turkey	4
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance	4

The view from here	4
Hope and the future: Temporal agency and the politics of hope in late capitalism	4
Comfort in chaos: A sensory account of climate change denial	4
Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography	4
Psychic geographies of queer multiculturalism: Reading Fanon, settler colonialism and race in queer space	4
Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home	4
The rhythms of “acostumbrarse”: Noticing quiet hydro-politics in Colombia’s Caribbean coast	4
Nowhere land: The evicted space of Black tenants’ rights in Montreal	4
The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation	4
Awakening from the sleep-walking society: Crisis, detachment and the real in prepper awakening narratives	4
Unplanned links, unanticipated outcomes: Urban refugees in Halba (Lebanon)	4
Becoming fugitive: Prison breaks and the space of punishment	4
As if there was a border. Bordering through excision in Melilla and the Canary Islands	3
Scratch-and-sniff Palestine: How olfaction shapes nonsovereign infrastructural spaces	3
The good, the bad and the tenant: Rental platforms renewing racial capitalism in the post-apartheid housing market	3
Of serial murder and true crime: Some preliminary thoughts on black feminist research praxis and the implications of settler colonialism	3
Some Black feminist notes on Native feminisms and the flesh	3
Experiments in peripheral urbanization: Building and unbuilding commons in urban India	3
Atmospheric negations: Weaponising breathing, attuning irreducible bodies	3
Risk, resilience and response-able practice in Australia’s changing bushfire landscapes	3
Between the law and the actual situation: Failure as property formation in French colonial Indochina	3
“History can’t be written without us in the center”: Colonial trauma, the cartographic body, and decolonizing methodologies in urban planning	3
Camps and counterterrorism: Security and the remaking of refuge in Kenya	3
Proactive state geographies: Geocoded intelligence in London’s ‘suburban shanty towns’	3
The potential politics of the porous city	3
Portraits for change: Refusal politics and liberatory futures	3
Exposing the private, engaging in the public. Asylum seekers, intimate publics and normative performances of public participation	3
Introduction: Hope, labour, disconnection	3
No name in the street: Unknowability, Black women, and missing geographies	3
‘An Epic Tale of England’: Atmospheric authentication of nationalist narratives	3
Lush aftermath: Race, labor, and landscape in the suburb	2
The place of the dead, the time of dictatorship: Nostalgia, sovereignty, and the corpse of Ferdinand Marcos	2
Urbanizing social reproduction: (Re)thinking the politics of care in capitalist urban development	2
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp	2
Migration control entangled with local histories: The case of Greek–Turkish regime of bordering	2
Sustaining empire: Conservation by ruination at Kalama Atoll	2
Peripheral recovery: ‘Keeping safe’ and ‘keep progressing’ as contradictory modes of ordering in a forensic psychiatric unit	2
On that demon time: Black time geographies of reimagining, recovering, and resisting	2
Away from the border and into the frontier: The paradoxical geographies of US immigration law	2
The social lives of rental proptech: Entanglements between capitalist, care and techno-utopian values	2
Peripheral humanitarianism: Ephemerality, experimentation, and effects of refugee provisioning in Paris	2
Dwelling as politics: An emancipatory praxis of/through care and space in everyday life	2
A diplomatic trip	2
On the iron cage: Infrastructural worlding in Mandate Palestine	2
Political Detentions, Political Deportations: Repressive Immigration Enforcement in Times of Trump	2
‘Accumulation by appropriation’: The integration of recyclable-waste collector cooperatives in Salvador, Brazil, and the right to the city	2
Keeping time with digital technologies: From real-time environments to forest futurisms	2
“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	2
Desirable futures: Time as possibility, practice, politics	2
Fatal blow: Urbicidal geographies, pax colonial and black sovereignty in the Colombian city	2