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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home	65
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance	39
Ventography and the spatial politics of wind	32
After zombies: Notes on labor union and municipal renewal	30
The smart grid archipelago: Infrastructures of networked (dis)connectivity in Amman	28
Anticipation by redress: Transforming African mega-infrastructure futures	24
An urban political ecology of empire: Indigenous resistance in Guåhan	23
Could commodities themselves speak? An introduction to the agnotology of the spectacle	21
Plastic monsters: Abjection, worms, the Cthulhic, and the black single-use plastic bag	21
Livestreamed land: Scams and certainty in Myanmar’s digital land market	20
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
Beyond borders: The spatial politics of urban fragmentation in Jakarta	19
Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law	17
Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation: The liminality of land administration platforms in Kenya	16
The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation	15
‘Accumulation by appropriation’: The integration of recyclable-waste collector cooperatives in Salvador, Brazil, and the right to the city	15
A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation	15
Automating gentrification: Landlord technologies and housing justice organizing in New York City homes	14
Speculation on infrastructural ecology: Pigeons, Gaza, and internet access	14
Border and im/mobility entanglements in the Mediterranean: Introduction to the special issue	13
Between energy and politics: Ruin, renewal, and the contours of state power in post-apartheid South Africa	13
Zany beetroot: architecture, autopoiesis, and the spatial formations of late capital	12
The quick response border: Pandemic biopolitics, affective complicities and flexible technologies	11
Latency, uncertainty, contagion: Epistemologies of risk-as-reform in crime forecasting software	11

The politics of deautomation: Being disaffected by platform capitalism	11
Spaceport Cornwall: Scaling environmentally responsible space futures in South West England	11
Exposing the private, engaging in the public. Asylum seekers, intimate publics and normative performances of public participation	11
Land grabbing through unlivability: Necro-scapes and slow violence in the expansion of conservation regimes in Tanzania	10
Under pressure: Catching the pulse of a Cuban crisis	10
Earthmoving for the extraterrestrial	10
Apparatuses of observation and occupation: Settler colonialism and space science in Hawai'i	10
“You cannot really live (or die) here” – Ongoing struggles over Muslim cemeteries in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957–2020	10
Desirable futures: Time as possibility, practice, politics	10
Cemetery as archive: A critical legal geography of two chronotopes	10
Bordering public institutions through the routinization of borderwork and datafication: Internalized immigration regimes within UK health care and higher education	10
An Alaska tax story: Tribal sovereignty, settler colonialism, and the Indigenous tax space	10
Sustaining empire: Conservation by ruination at Kalama Atoll	10
The entangled geographies of responsibility: Contested policy narratives of migration governance along the Balkan Route	9
Unseeing urban divides in Luanda and Maputo	9
Fuelling the developmental state: Governing through differential mobilities in Ethiopia	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
‘Rescuing Europe’ and ‘balancing powers’: A postcolonial critique of European digital sovereignty	8
Cities after planning	8
Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China–Myanmar Economic Corridor	8
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies	8
Street Salafism: Contingency and urbanity as religious creed	8
The inheritance and repetition of colonial practices of dispossession	8
On delivery waiting: The entanglement of gig and border temporalities in platform cities	7
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point	7
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore’s labour-migration regime	7
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp	7
Money, slavery, myth	7
Electromagnetic economies of worth: Repurposing a radio dish and debating technoscientific modernity at the equator	6
Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political	6
Going deep: Excavation, collaboration and imagination at the Kola Superdeep Borehole	6
Kaam: Youth, religiosity, and the cultural production of work in a North Indian Madrasa	6
Jumping scale in the Black Atlantic: Critical visuality in the archives of slavery	6
Living and dying in the shadow of coal: Relocating social death and its contestations in Lephalale	6
Beyond the hype: Digital transformations in global land, housing, and property	6
Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography	6
Away from the border and into the frontier: The paradoxical geographies of US immigration law	6
Pasturing dairy infrastructures in Northeastern Turkey: Pasture-cheesemaking, dairy technosciences and the Kars Kaşar Cheese	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
Painting an inclusive enclosure: Post-racial public art as compensatory cultural strategy in Pittsburgh	5
Dependency, sovereignty, and “underdevelopment:” tribes in the energy transition	5
Estranged companions: Bed bugs, biologies, and affective histories	5
Keeping out by keeping alive: Refugee rentierism, racialized containment and the humanitarian-development nexus in transit states	5
Austerity without deficits: The global political economy of Norway’s fiscal paradox	5
What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging	5
The wall as ecology	5
Nowhere land: The evicted space of Black tenants’ rights in Montreal	5
The work of landlord technology: The fictions of frictionless property management	5

Negotiating access to contested urban spaces: Street traders’ resistance against exclusionary practices in Harare, Zimbabwe	5
Capture land as abolition geography: The mutuality of placemaking and flight	4
“This place is no better than a jail”: The geographies of surrogate houses in India	4
Convivial atmotechnics: Animating atmospheres of togetherness and indeterminacy in Kingston and Abidjan	4
Weight loss, cure, and temporality in the “Diet Capital of the World”: Disciplining fatness in Durham, North Carolina	4
Planetary media: Decolonizing the space industry through Indigenous ownership	4
Narratives of labour as infrastructure and the automative imagination	4
Consequential theory, consequential geography	4
Popular logistics for collective unpredictabilities in pandemic Madrid	4
“Everything we do matters”: Contesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in rural Iowa through insurgent planning	4
Urban Social Hauntings: Disappearing Gravestone Murals in Gentrifying Brooklyn	4
Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor	4
A ghost town called Singapore: The politics of geographic storytelling, from the “wild heart of Saugatuck” to “Singapore Dunes, LLC”	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
‘An aerial slum’: Race, air pollution and the affective atmospheres of urban modernity	4
Homeless shelters and the blues	4
Volumetric Mediation of the Subterranean Mine: Geologic Intimacy in a Taiwan Coal Village	4
Deepening counter institutions: Property, lands, relations, and the economic future of the Tŝilhqot’in	4
Planning context: Flexible plans and mayoral authority in French urban planning	4
“El Chamizal is ours forever:” Rumor, time, and the law in El Paso’s settler society	4
Learning the city through urban agriculture	4
Infrastructural politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Pasts, presents, futures	3
Blue lines and blues infrastructures: Notes on water, race, and space	3
“History can’t be written without us in the center”: Colonial trauma, the cartographic body, and decolonizing methodologies in urban planning	3
Space technologies for development? Practicing sovereignty, beyond inclusion	3
To fail an asylum seeker: Time, space and legal events	3
Points of persuasion: Truth spots in future city development	3
The good, the bad and the tenant: Rental platforms renewing racial capitalism in the post-apartheid housing market	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
Thresholds	3
Contentious plots: Staking durable claims to ethnic belonging in Nairobi	3
On the iron cage: Infrastructural worlding in Mandate Palestine	3
Geographies of missing data: Spatializing counterdata production against feminicide	3
(Re)mediation as flourishing: Digital assemblages of care and the everyday biopolitics of claiming asylum	3
Crucial roles of ‘life's work’ amidst public housing renewal in Ottawa and New York City	3
Flexible sovereignty and contested legality: The overseas employment and legal struggles of Chinese workers	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
Other antiracist geographies: Decentred locations of defiant activism, and Second Abolitions	3
Psychic geographies of queer multiculturalism: Reading Fanon, settler colonialism and race in queer space	3
Counterfactual future-thinking	3
Fatal blow: Urbicidal geographies, pax colonial and black sovereignty in the Colombian city	3
Value extraction through refugee carcerality: Data, labour and financialised accommodation	3
Urbanizing social reproduction: (Re)thinking the politics of care in capitalist urban development	3
Entangled lives: Land, property and guardianship in a changing Dakar	2
Contingent autonomy: Robotic encounters in an uncertain world	2
Modernism in the present tense: “Dangerous” Scandinavian suburbs and their hereafters	2
Alluvial gold exploitation along the Quito River: Dredgers and the operations of racial capitalism through social reproduction	2
The case for doing less in our peer reviews	2
Becoming fugitive: Prison breaks and the space of punishment	2
Dwelling as politics: An emancipatory praxis of/through care and space in everyday life	2
Dromoelimination: Accelerating settler colonialism in Palestine	2
Urban orientalism and the informal city in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2
Soil, territory, land: The spatial politics of settler organic farming in the West Bank, Israel/Palestine	2
Trauma apps and the making of the ‘smart’ refugee	2
Corrigendum to Spaceport Cornwall: Scaling environmentally responsible space futures in South West England	2
Restoration otherwise: Towards alternative coastal ecologies	2
A minor theory of direct action politics and performance in New Orleans’ economic justice movement	2
Against abstraction: Reclaiming and reorienting to embodied collective knowledges of solidarity	2
Autonomy within entanglements: Illegalised migrants, the EU border regime, and the political economy of Nouadhibou, Mauritania	2
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S.	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
Experiments in peripheral urbanization: Building and unbuilding commons in urban India	2