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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance	64
Proactive state geographies: Geocoded intelligence in London’s ‘suburban shanty towns’	38
Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home	35
Ventography and the spatial politics of wind	34
The smart grid archipelago: Infrastructures of networked (dis)connectivity in Amman	30
Anticipation by redress: Transforming African mega-infrastructure futures	29
After zombies: Notes on labor union and municipal renewal	28
Plastic monsters: Abjection, worms, the Cthulhic, and the black single-use plastic bag	27
An urban political ecology of empire: Indigenous resistance in Guåhan	27
Livestreamed land: Scams and certainty in Myanmar’s digital land market	23
Could commodities themselves speak? An introduction to the agnotology of the spectacle	23
Circular movements: Migratory citizenships in anticolonial Athens	20
The Kings ain't playin’ no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento	20
The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife	20
The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation	19
Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law	18
‘Accumulation by appropriation’: The integration of recyclable-waste collector cooperatives in Salvador, Brazil, and the right to the city	17
Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation: The liminality of land administration platforms in Kenya	17
Between energy and politics: Ruin, renewal, and the contours of state power in post-apartheid South Africa	16
A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation	16
Beyond repair: Staying with breakdown at the interstices	15
Automating gentrification: Landlord technologies and housing justice organizing in New York City homes	15
Spaceport Cornwall: Scaling environmentally responsible space futures in South West England	14
Speculation on infrastructural ecology: Pigeons, Gaza, and internet access	14
Victim, broker, activist, fixer: Surviving dispossession in working class Lahore	13

Zany beetroot: architecture, autopoiesis, and the spatial formations of late capital	13
The quick response border: Pandemic biopolitics, affective complicities and flexible technologies	13
Border and im/mobility entanglements in the Mediterranean: Introduction to the special issue	12
The politics of deautomation: Being disaffected by platform capitalism	11
Cemetery as archive: A critical legal geography of two chronotopes	11
Exposing the private, engaging in the public. Asylum seekers, intimate publics and normative performances of public participation	11
Apparatuses of observation and occupation: Settler colonialism and space science in Hawai'i	10
Under pressure: Catching the pulse of a Cuban crisis	10
Bordering public institutions through the routinization of borderwork and datafication: Internalized immigration regimes within UK health care and higher education	10
Latency, uncertainty, contagion: Epistemologies of risk-as-reform in crime forecasting software	10
Sustaining empire: Conservation by ruination at Kalama Atoll	10
“You cannot really live (or die) here” – Ongoing struggles over Muslim cemeteries in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957–2020	10
Unseeing urban divides in Luanda and Maputo	9
The entangled geographies of responsibility: Contested policy narratives of migration governance along the Balkan Route	9
Earthmoving for the extraterrestrial	9
Street Salafism: Contingency and urbanity as religious creed	9
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
The inheritance and repetition of colonial practices of dispossession	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
Wasting and wanting: An extractive supply chain approach to outer space geographies	8
Cities after planning	8
Living and dying in the shadow of coal: Relocating social death and its contestations in Lephalale	8
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore’s labour-migration regime	8
On delivery waiting: The entanglement of gig and border temporalities in platform cities	8
The racial environmental state and abolition geography in California’s Central Valley	8
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point	8
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies	8
Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China–Myanmar Economic Corridor	8
Money, slavery, myth	8
Kaam: Youth, religiosity, and the cultural production of work in a North Indian Madrasa	7
Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography	7
The place of the dead, the time of dictatorship: Nostalgia, sovereignty, and the corpse of Ferdinand Marcos	7
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp	7
Jumping scale in the Black Atlantic: Critical visuality in the archives of slavery	7
Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political	7
Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert	7
Going deep: Excavation, collaboration and imagination at the Kola Superdeep Borehole	7
The work of landlord technology: The fictions of frictionless property management	6
What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging	6
Austerity without deficits: The global political economy of Norway’s fiscal paradox	6
Beyond the hype: Digital transformations in global land, housing, and property	6
Negotiating access to contested urban spaces: Street traders’ resistance against exclusionary practices in Harare, Zimbabwe	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
Estranged companions: Bed bugs, biologies, and affective histories	5
Weathering Saharan dust beyond the Spanish Mediterranean Basin: An interdisciplinary dialogue	5
Accommodation for profit, not for refugees: Racial capitalism and the logics of Berlin’s refugee accommodation market	5
Volumetric Mediation of the Subterranean Mine: Geologic Intimacy in a Taiwan Coal Village	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
Learning the city through urban agriculture	5
Nowhere land: The evicted space of Black tenants’ rights in Montreal	5
Pasturing dairy infrastructures in Northeastern Turkey: Pasture-cheesemaking, dairy technosciences and the Kars Kaşar Cheese	5
Keeping out by keeping alive: Refugee rentierism, racialized containment and the humanitarian-development nexus in transit states	5
“El Chamizal is ours forever:” Rumor, time, and the law in El Paso’s settler society	4
Weight loss, cure, and temporality in the “Diet Capital of the World”: Disciplining fatness in Durham, North Carolina	4
Narratives of labour as infrastructure and the automative imagination	4
“This place is no better than a jail”: The geographies of surrogate houses in India	4
Planning context: Flexible plans and mayoral authority in French urban planning	4
Planetary media: Decolonizing the space industry through Indigenous ownership	4
Homeless shelters and the blues	4
Blue lines and blues infrastructures: Notes on water, race, and space	4
Consequential theory, consequential geography	4
Deepening counter institutions: Property, lands, relations, and the economic future of the Tŝilhqot’in	4
‘An aerial slum’: Race, air pollution and the affective atmospheres of urban modernity	4
Land, reconfigured: Defying the laws of physics, upholding the rules of the market in the metaverse	4
As if there was a border. Bordering through excision in Melilla and the Canary Islands	4
Urban Social Hauntings: Disappearing Gravestone Murals in Gentrifying Brooklyn	4
A ghost town called Singapore: The politics of geographic storytelling, from the “wild heart of Saugatuck” to “Singapore Dunes, LLC”	4
Popular logistics for collective unpredictabilities in pandemic Madrid	4
Capture land as abolition geography: The mutuality of placemaking and flight	4
Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor	4
Convivial atmotechnics: Animating atmospheres of togetherness and indeterminacy in Kingston and Abidjan	4
Agitative pauses, intentional moorings: Stasis as resistance	4
Space technologies for development? Practicing sovereignty, beyond inclusion	3
Contingent autonomy: Robotic encounters in an uncertain world	3
Counterfactual future-thinking	3
On the iron cage: Infrastructural worlding in Mandate Palestine	3
Thresholds	3
Infrastructural politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Pasts, presents, futures	3
Contentious plots: Staking durable claims to ethnic belonging in Nairobi	3
The good, the bad and the tenant: Rental platforms renewing racial capitalism in the post-apartheid housing market	3
(Re)mediation as flourishing: Digital assemblages of care and the everyday biopolitics of claiming asylum	3
Geographies of missing data: Spatializing counterdata production against feminicide	3
Dromoelimination: Accelerating settler colonialism in Palestine	3
“History can’t be written without us in the center”: Colonial trauma, the cartographic body, and decolonizing methodologies in urban planning	3
Comfort in chaos: A sensory account of climate change denial	3
Living with hate relationships: Familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment	3
“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	3
Fatal blow: Urbicidal geographies, pax colonial and black sovereignty in the Colombian city	3
To fail an asylum seeker: Time, space and legal events	3
Against abstraction: Reclaiming and reorienting to embodied collective knowledges of solidarity	3
Psychic geographies of queer multiculturalism: Reading Fanon, settler colonialism and race in queer space	3
Flexible sovereignty and contested legality: The overseas employment and legal struggles of Chinese workers	3
Urbanizing social reproduction: (Re)thinking the politics of care in capitalist urban development	3
Value extraction through refugee carcerality: Data, labour and financialised accommodation	3
Modernism in the present tense: “Dangerous” Scandinavian suburbs and their hereafters	2
Trauma apps and the making of the ‘smart’ refugee	2
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S.	2
Dwelling as politics: An emancipatory praxis of/through care and space in everyday life	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
Peripheral humanitarianism: Ephemerality, experimentation, and effects of refugee provisioning in Paris	2
(Tiny) spaces of hope: Reclaiming, maintaining, and reframing housing in the tiny house movement	2
Repair and the 2014 Mount Polley Mine disaster: Antirelationality, constraint, and legacies of socio-ecological disruption in settler colonial British Columbia	2
Urban orientalism and the informal city in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2
The case for doing less in our peer reviews	2
Subalternity as displacement: Memoirs of homelessness and the struggle to be heard	2
Unplanned links, unanticipated outcomes: Urban refugees in Halba (Lebanon)	2
A minor theory of direct action politics and performance in New Orleans’ economic justice movement	2
Domesticating logistical futures: A grounded account of failure	2
Becoming fugitive: Prison breaks and the space of punishment	2
‘A war of houses and a war of land’: Gentrification, post-politics and resistance in authoritarian Cambodia	2
Soil, territory, land: The spatial politics of settler organic farming in the West Bank, Israel/Palestine	2
Autonomy within entanglements: Illegalised migrants, the EU border regime, and the political economy of Nouadhibou, Mauritania	2
Points of persuasion: Truth spots in future city development	2
Autorecovery and everyday disaster in Mexico City’s peripheries	2
Fintech ‘frontiers’ and the platformed motorcycle: Emergent infrastructures of value creation in African cities	2
Race, space, and social reproduction: The spatial organization of racialized labour in Italian food agriculture	2
Restoration otherwise: Towards alternative coastal ecologies	2