OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning D-Society & Space is 5. 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