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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The smart grid archipelago: Infrastructures of networked (dis)connectivity in Amman	62
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance	37
Proactive state geographies: Geocoded intelligence in London’s ‘suburban shanty towns’	34
Anticipation by redress: Transforming African mega-infrastructure futures	31
After zombies: Notes on labor union and municipal renewal	29
Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home	29
The Kings ain't playin’ no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento	28
Ventography and the spatial politics of wind	28
Plastic monsters: Abjection, worms, the Cthulhic, and the black single-use plastic bag	27
Could commodities themselves speak? An introduction to the agnotology of the spectacle	26
Livestreamed land: Scams and certainty in Myanmar’s digital land market	22
Circular movements: Migratory citizenships in anticolonial Athens	21
Beyond repair: Staying with breakdown at the interstices	20
The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife	20
Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation: The liminality of land administration platforms in Kenya	19
Automating gentrification: Landlord technologies and housing justice organizing in New York City homes	19
The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation	17
Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law	16
A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation	16
‘Accumulation by appropriation’: The integration of recyclable-waste collector cooperatives in Salvador, Brazil, and the right to the city	16
Speculation on infrastructural ecology: Pigeons, Gaza, and internet access	15
Between energy and politics: Ruin, renewal, and the contours of state power in post-apartheid South Africa	15
Latency, uncertainty, contagion: Epistemologies of risk-as-reform in crime forecasting software	14
Victim, broker, activist, fixer: Surviving dispossession in working class Lahore	14
Spaceport Cornwall: Scaling environmentally responsible space futures in South West England	13

Exposing the private, engaging in the public. Asylum seekers, intimate publics and normative performances of public participation	13
The quick response border: Pandemic biopolitics, affective complicities and flexible technologies	12
The politics of deautomation: Being disaffected by platform capitalism	11
Zany beetroot: architecture, autopoiesis, and the spatial formations of late capital	11
“You cannot really live (or die) here” – Ongoing struggles over Muslim cemeteries in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957–2020	10
Apparatuses of observation and occupation: Settler colonialism and space science in Hawai'i	10
Bordering public institutions through the routinization of borderwork and datafication: Internalized immigration regimes within UK health care and higher education	10
Earthmoving for the extraterrestrial	10
Border and im/mobility entanglements in the Mediterranean: Introduction to the special issue	10
Sustaining empire: Conservation by ruination at Kalama Atoll	10
Under pressure: Catching the pulse of a Cuban crisis	10
Fuelling the developmental state: Governing through differential mobilities in Ethiopia	9
An Alaska tax story: Tribal sovereignty, settler colonialism, and the Indigenous tax space	9
Desirable futures: Time as possibility, practice, politics	9
Threats and ambivalence in land formalization: The case of settler-colonial land regime in East Jerusalem/al-Quds	9
Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China–Myanmar Economic Corridor	9
The entangled geographies of responsibility: Contested policy narratives of migration governance along the Balkan Route	9
The inheritance and repetition of colonial practices of dispossession	8
The racial environmental state and abolition geography in California’s Central Valley	8
Living and dying in the shadow of coal: Relocating social death and its contestations in Lephalale	8
Street Salafism: Contingency and urbanity as religious creed	8
On delivery waiting: The entanglement of gig and border temporalities in platform cities	8
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies	8
Wasting and wanting: An extractive supply chain approach to outer space geographies	8
Cities after planning	8
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore’s labour-migration regime	8
Austerity without deficits: The global political economy of Norway’s fiscal paradox	7
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point	7
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp	7
Negotiating access to contested urban spaces: Street traders’ resistance against exclusionary practices in Harare, Zimbabwe	7
Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography	7
Money, slavery, myth	7
Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert	7
Kaam: Youth, religiosity, and the cultural production of work in a North Indian Madrasa	7
Going deep: Excavation, collaboration and imagination at the Kola Superdeep Borehole	7
Jumping scale in the Black Atlantic: Critical visuality in the archives of slavery	7
The place of the dead, the time of dictatorship: Nostalgia, sovereignty, and the corpse of Ferdinand Marcos	6
Accommodation for profit, not for refugees: Racial capitalism and the logics of Berlin’s refugee accommodation market	6
Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political	6
What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging	6
Beyond the hype: Digital transformations in global land, housing, and property	6
Electromagnetic economies of worth: Repurposing a radio dish and debating technoscientific modernity at the equator	6
Away from the border and into the frontier: The paradoxical geographies of US immigration law	6
Nowhere land: The evicted space of Black tenants’ rights in Montreal	5
Learning the city through urban agriculture	5
Volumetric Mediation of the Subterranean Mine: Geologic Intimacy in a Taiwan Coal Village	5
The work of landlord technology: The fictions of frictionless property management	5
Weathering Saharan dust beyond the Spanish Mediterranean Basin: An interdisciplinary dialogue	5
Estranged companions: Bed bugs, biologies, and affective histories	5
The multiple temporalities of infrastructure: Atomic cities and the memory of lost futures	5

Painting an inclusive enclosure: Post-racial public art as compensatory cultural strategy in Pittsburgh	5
Pasturing dairy infrastructures in Northeastern Turkey: Pasture-cheesemaking, dairy technosciences and the Kars Kaşar Cheese	5
Planetary media: Decolonizing the space industry through Indigenous ownership	5
Popular logistics for collective unpredictabilities in pandemic Madrid	4
Capture land as abolition geography: The mutuality of placemaking and flight	4
Deepening counter institutions: Property, lands, relations, and the economic future of the Tŝilhqot’in	4
Land, reconfigured: Defying the laws of physics, upholding the rules of the market in the metaverse	4
Urban Social Hauntings: Disappearing Gravestone Murals in Gentrifying Brooklyn	4
Convivial atmotechnics: Animating atmospheres of togetherness and indeterminacy in Kingston and Abidjan	4
As if there was a border. Bordering through excision in Melilla and the Canary Islands	4
Homeless shelters and the blues	4
Thresholds	4
Narratives of labour as infrastructure and the automative imagination	4
Weight loss, cure, and temporality in the “Diet Capital of the World”: Disciplining fatness in Durham, North Carolina	4
Planning context: Flexible plans and mayoral authority in French urban planning	4
Consequential theory, consequential geography	4
“This place is no better than a jail”: The geographies of surrogate houses in India	4
Psychic geographies of queer multiculturalism: Reading Fanon, settler colonialism and race in queer space	4
Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor	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
‘An aerial slum’: Race, air pollution and the affective atmospheres of urban modernity	4
Agitative pauses, intentional moorings: Stasis as resistance	4
“El Chamizal is ours forever:” Rumor, time, and the law in El Paso’s settler society	3
Contentious plots: Staking durable claims to ethnic belonging in Nairobi	3
Flexible sovereignty and contested legality: The overseas employment and legal struggles of Chinese workers	3
Blue lines and blues infrastructures: Notes on water, race, and space	3
Fatal blow: Urbicidal geographies, pax colonial and black sovereignty in the Colombian city	3
Geographies of missing data: Spatializing counterdata production against feminicide	3
Against abstraction: Reclaiming and reorienting to embodied collective knowledges of solidarity	3
(Re)mediation as flourishing: Digital assemblages of care and the everyday biopolitics of claiming asylum	3
Urbanizing social reproduction: (Re)thinking the politics of care in capitalist urban development	3
Comfort in chaos: A sensory account of climate change denial	3
Infrastructural politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Pasts, presents, futures	3
Value extraction through refugee carcerality: Data, labour and financialised accommodation	3
Contingent autonomy: Robotic encounters in an uncertain world	3
Points of persuasion: Truth spots in future city development	3
Space technologies for development? Practicing sovereignty, beyond inclusion	3
A ghost town called Singapore: The politics of geographic storytelling, from the “wild heart of Saugatuck” to “Singapore Dunes, LLC”	3
Living with hate relationships: Familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment	3
“History can’t be written without us in the center”: Colonial trauma, the cartographic body, and decolonizing methodologies in urban planning	3
On the iron cage: Infrastructural worlding in Mandate Palestine	3
The good, the bad and the tenant: Rental platforms renewing racial capitalism in the post-apartheid housing market	3
Counterfactual future-thinking	3
Dromoelimination: Accelerating settler colonialism in Palestine	3
To fail an asylum seeker: Time, space and legal events	3
Autorecovery and everyday disaster in Mexico City’s peripheries	2
A minor theory of direct action politics and performance in New Orleans’ economic justice movement	2
From copper mining to data extractivism? Data worth making at Chile’s Data Observatory Foundation	2
Experiments in peripheral urbanization: Building and unbuilding commons in urban India	2
Becoming fugitive: Prison breaks and the space of punishment	2
Trauma apps and the making of the ‘smart’ refugee	2
Soil, territory, land: The spatial politics of settler organic farming in the West Bank, Israel/Palestine	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
Restoration otherwise: Towards alternative coastal ecologies	2
Race, space, and social reproduction: The spatial organization of racialized labour in Italian food agriculture	2
(Tiny) spaces of hope: Reclaiming, maintaining, and reframing housing in the tiny house movement	2
Urban orientalism and the informal city in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2
Modernism in the present tense: “Dangerous” Scandinavian suburbs and their hereafters	2
Dwelling as politics: An emancipatory praxis of/through care and space in everyday life	2
The sedimentation of whiteness as landscape	2
Fintech ‘frontiers’ and the platformed motorcycle: Emergent infrastructures of value creation in African cities	2
Domesticating logistical futures: A grounded account of failure	2
Peripheral humanitarianism: Ephemerality, experimentation, and effects of refugee provisioning in Paris	2
Repair and the 2014 Mount Polley Mine disaster: Antirelationality, constraint, and legacies of socio-ecological disruption in settler colonial British Columbia	2
‘A war of houses and a war of land’: Gentrification, post-politics and resistance in authoritarian Cambodia	2
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S.	2
The case for doing less in our peer reviews	2
Autonomy within entanglements: Illegalised migrants, the EU border regime, and the political economy of Nouadhibou, Mauritania	2
Subalternity as displacement: Memoirs of homelessness and the struggle to be heard	2