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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Ventography and the spatial politics of wind	54
Perceptions of atmosphere: Air, waste, and narratives of life and work in Mumbai	36
Sparks from the friction of terrain: Transport animals, borderlands, and the territorial imagination in China	36
(Tiny) spaces of hope: Reclaiming, maintaining, and reframing housing in the tiny house movement	33
Retrofit: Aerial cable cars and the reengineering of urban peripheries	31
Anticipation by redress: Transforming African mega-infrastructure futures	28
The inheritance and repetition of colonial practices of dispossession	28
The case for doing less in our peer reviews	27
Repair and the 2014 Mount Polley Mine disaster: Antirelationality, constraint, and legacies of socio-ecological disruption in settler colonial British Columbia	26
On delivery waiting: The entanglement of gig and border temporalities in platform cities	24
Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China–Myanmar Economic Corridor	22
Automated office infrastructures and the valuation of work	20
After zombies: Notes on labor union and municipal renewal	20
On cosmic injustices: Critical thinking, outer space, green values, and capitalist ideologies in a planetary age	19
The smart grid archipelago: Infrastructures of networked (dis)connectivity in Amman	19
Refusing to relinquish: How settler Canada uses race, property, and jurisdiction to undermine urban Indigenous land reclamation	19
Homeless shelters and the blues	15
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies	15
Dwelling as politics: An emancipatory praxis of/through care and space in everyday life	15
‘German Theory’: Cosmopolitan geographies, counterfactual histories and the (non)travel of a ‘German Foucault’	14
Capture land as abolition geography: The mutuality of placemaking and flight	14
“This place is no better than a jail”: The geographies of surrogate houses in India	14
Cities after planning	14
Restoration otherwise: Towards alternative coastal ecologies	13
Experiments in peripheral urbanization: Building and unbuilding commons in urban India	13

Proactive state geographies: Geocoded intelligence in London’s ‘suburban shanty towns’	13
The racial environmental state and abolition geography in California’s Central Valley	12
Becoming fugitive: Prison breaks and the space of punishment	12
‘A war of houses and a war of land’: Gentrification, post-politics and resistance in authoritarian Cambodia	11
Wasting and wanting: An extractive supply chain approach to outer space geographies	11
Urban Social Hauntings: Disappearing Gravestone Murals in Gentrifying Brooklyn	10
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance	10
Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home	10
Unplanned links, unanticipated outcomes: Urban refugees in Halba (Lebanon)	9
Autorecovery and everyday disaster in Mexico City’s peripheries	9
Guerrilla farms: Practicing food sovereignty in Assam	9
Street Salafism: Contingency and urbanity as religious creed	9
Blackfoot legal traditions, treaty-making, and non-territorial forms of settler jurisdiction? Niitsitapi oral histories of Treaty 7	9
Assembling traces of border violence. Counter-mapping as counter-archiving	9
Weight loss, cure, and temporality in the “Diet Capital of the World”: Disciplining fatness in Durham, North Carolina	8
After eviction, before emergence: Temporal displacements and differentiated futures in Boribana, Abidjan (2019–2022)	8
‘An Epic Tale of England’: Atmospheric authentication of nationalist narratives	8
Infrastructures as colonial beachheads: The Central Arizona Project and the taking of Navajo resources	8
Deepening counter institutions: Property, lands, relations, and the economic future of the Tŝilhqot’in	8
Infrastructural (im)mobility: Urban maritime development in the Suez Canal Zone and Marseille	8
Blue lines and blues infrastructures: Notes on water, race, and space	7
Dispossession as depotentiation	7
Going deep: Excavation, collaboration and imagination at the Kola Superdeep Borehole	7
Could commodities themselves speak? An introduction to the agnotology of the spectacle	7
The Kings ain't playin’ no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento	7
The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife	6
Plastic monsters: Abjection, worms, the Cthulhic, and the black single-use plastic bag	6
Carceral domesticity as containment of troubled families in Santiago, Chile	6
Territorializing the air: Border-crossing air pollution and the geopolitics of atmospheric science in East Asia	6
Warehousing asylum seekers: The logistification of reception	6
Colonial laws, postcolonial infrastructures: Land acquisition, urban informality, and politics of infrastructural development in Pakistan	6
Peripheral humanitarianism: Ephemerality, experimentation, and effects of refugee provisioning in Paris	6
Some Black feminist notes on Native feminisms and the flesh	6
Money, slavery, myth	6
Keeping time with digital technologies: From real-time environments to forest futurisms	6
Subalternity as displacement: Memoirs of homelessness and the struggle to be heard	6
Circular movements: Migratory citizenships in anticolonial Athens	6
Co-production and Smart Environmentality: Smart Eldercare in Urban China	5
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp	5
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point	5
“El Chamizal is ours forever:” Rumor, time, and the law in El Paso’s settler society	5
Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert	5
Awakening from the sleep-walking society: Crisis, detachment and the real in prepper awakening narratives	5
Migration control entangled with local histories: The case of Greek–Turkish regime of bordering	5
Domesticating logistical futures: A grounded account of failure	5
Agricultural infrastructures: Land, race, and statecraft in Turkey	5
Psychic geographies of queer multiculturalism: Reading Fanon, settler colonialism and race in queer space	5
Race, space, and social reproduction: The spatial organization of racialized labour in Italian food agriculture	5
Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography	5
Apportioned city: Gendered delineations of asylum, work and violence in Cape Town	5

Thresholds	4
A minor theory of direct action politics and performance in New Orleans’ economic justice movement	4
From securitisation to martialisation: Logistics of humanitarian protection in Brazil’s Amazon	4
Geocultural power and the digital Silk Roads	4
Civilizing swamps in California: Formations of race, nature, and property in the nineteenth century U.S. West	4
Flexible sovereignty and contested legality: The overseas employment and legal struggles of Chinese workers	4
A ghost town called Singapore: The politics of geographic storytelling, from the “wild heart of Saugatuck” to “Singapore Dunes, LLC”	4
Livestreamed land: Scams and certainty in Myanmar’s digital land market	4
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore’s labour-migration regime	4
Growing Black food on sacred land: Using Black liberation theology to imagine an alternative Black agrarian future	4
Fintech ‘frontiers’ and the platformed motorcycle: Emergent infrastructures of value creation in African cities	4
“History can’t be written without us in the center”: Colonial trauma, the cartographic body, and decolonizing methodologies in urban planning	4
Camps and counterterrorism: Security and the remaking of refuge in Kenya	4
Racial regimes of property: Introduction to the special issue	4
From copper mining to data extractivism? Data worth making at Chile’s Data Observatory Foundation	4
Living and dying in the shadow of coal: Relocating social death and its contestations in Lephalale	4
Neighborhood over nation: Place-based state-making of the middle-class in Mumbai	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
Between energy and politics: Ruin, renewal, and the contours of state power in post-apartheid South Africa	3
The place of the dead, the time of dictatorship: Nostalgia, sovereignty, and the corpse of Ferdinand Marcos	3
The work of landlord technology: The fictions of frictionless property management	3
The social lives of rental proptech: Entanglements between capitalist, care and techno-utopian values	3
Adverse commoning: Tracing contested legal geographies of the urban commons	3
Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border	3
Austerity without deficits: The global political economy of Norway’s fiscal paradox	3
Kaam: Youth, religiosity, and the cultural production of work in a North Indian Madrasa	3
Hopes multiplied amidst decline: Understanding gendered precarity in times of austerity	3
“Erasing a mural does not erase reality”: Queer visibility, urban policing, and the double life of a mural in Ecuador	3
Accommodation for profit, not for refugees: Racial capitalism and the logics of Berlin’s refugee accommodation market	3
‘Accumulation by appropriation’: The integration of recyclable-waste collector cooperatives in Salvador, Brazil, and the right to the city	3
The hopeful labour of begging – Homeless people’s struggles for a better life in Paris	3
A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation	3
Speculation on infrastructural ecology: Pigeons, Gaza, and internet access	3
Beyond the hype: Digital transformations in global land, housing, and property	3
Comfort in chaos: A sensory account of climate change denial	3
A broken heart and fear of the bulldozer: Organized abandonment and living with abandon in Hawai‘i	3
Of serial murder and true crime: Some preliminary thoughts on black feminist research praxis and the implications of settler colonialism	3
Modernity’s (non)objective character	3
World class from within: Aspiration, connection and brokering in the Colombo real estate market	3
Automating gentrification: Landlord technologies and housing justice organizing in New York City homes	3
What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging	2
The sedimentation of whiteness as landscape	2
Carceral domesticities and the geopolitics of Love Jihad	2
Beyond repair: Staying with breakdown at the interstices	2
Urbanizing social reproduction: (Re)thinking the politics of care in capitalist urban development	2
Caring at the edges: Infrastructures of care and repair in urban deprivation	2
No name in the street: Unknowability, Black women, and missing geographies	2
“Now is the real Jungle!” Institutional hunting and migrants’ survival after the eviction of the Calais camp	2
Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political	2
Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law	2
Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation: The liminality of land administration platforms in Kenya	2
The corporate effect: Making capitalist space and peasant dispossession in the Peruvian Andes	2
Carceral domesticities: An introduction	2
More than just dying: Black life and futurity in the face of state-sanctioned environmental racism	2
‘Things should be better’ – Immobility, labour and the negotiation of hope amongst young Ghanaian craftsmen	2
Introduction: Hope, labour, disconnection	2
Infrastructural politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Pasts, presents, futures	2
Autonomy of migration in the light of deportation. Ethnographic and theoretical accounts of entangled appropriations of voluntary returns from Morocco	2
Living with hate relationships: Familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment	2
Urban specters	2
Berghain: Space, affect, and sexual disorientation	2
The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation	2
Away from the border and into the frontier: The paradoxical geographies of US immigration law	2
Electromagnetic economies of worth: Repurposing a radio dish and debating technoscientific modernity at the equator	2