OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning D-Society & Space is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An urban political ecology of empire: Indigenous resistance in Guåhan	67
Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home	39
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance	38
Ecofascism and the politics of de/territorialization	34
Anticipation by redress: Transforming African mega-infrastructure futures	30
The smart grid archipelago: Infrastructures of networked (dis)connectivity in Amman	26
After zombies: Notes on labor union and municipal renewal	26
Ventography and the spatial politics of wind	24
Plastic monsters: Abjection, worms, the Cthulhic, and the black single-use plastic bag	22
The Kings ain't playin’ no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento	22
Circular movements: Migratory citizenships in anticolonial Athens	19
Beyond borders: The spatial politics of urban fragmentation in Jakarta	18
A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation	17
Could commodities themselves speak? An introduction to the agnotology of the spectacle	17
Temporalities of infrastructure: An ethnographic study of rural road building, spectral mining, and good living	17
Livestreamed land: Scams and certainty in Myanmar’s digital land market	17
Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation: The liminality of land administration platforms in Kenya	15
Speculation on infrastructural ecology: Pigeons, Gaza, and internet access	15
Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law	15
Between energy and politics: Ruin, renewal, and the contours of state power in post-apartheid South Africa	14
Automating gentrification: Landlord technologies and housing justice organizing in New York City homes	13
The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation	13
‘Accumulation by appropriation’: The integration of recyclable-waste collector cooperatives in Salvador, Brazil, and the right to the city	13
Spaceport Cornwall: Scaling environmentally responsible space futures in South West England	12
Cemetery as archive: A critical legal geography of two chronotopes	12

Exposing the private, engaging in the public. Asylum seekers, intimate publics and normative performances of public participation	12
The quick response border: Pandemic biopolitics, affective complicities and flexible technologies	12
Border and im/mobility entanglements in the Mediterranean: Introduction to the special issue	11
Land grabbing through unlivability: Necro-scapes and slow violence in the expansion of conservation regimes in Tanzania	11
The politics of deautomation: Being disaffected by platform capitalism	11
Zany beetroot: architecture, autopoiesis, and the spatial formations of late capital	11
Latency, uncertainty, contagion: Epistemologies of risk-as-reform in crime forecasting software	11
When do forests matter?	10
“You cannot really live (or die) here” – Ongoing struggles over Muslim cemeteries in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957–2020	10
Under pressure: Catching the pulse of a Cuban crisis	10
Sustaining empire: Conservation by ruination at Kalama Atoll	10
Bordering public institutions through the routinization of borderwork and datafication: Internalized immigration regimes within UK health care and higher education	9
An Alaska tax story: Tribal sovereignty, settler colonialism, and the Indigenous tax space	9
The entangled geographies of responsibility: Contested policy narratives of migration governance along the Balkan Route	8
Threats and ambivalence in land formalization: The case of settler-colonial land regime in East Jerusalem/al-Quds	8
Axolotl soup: Hydrocoloniality, contested foodscapes, and plural values of nature	8
Earthmoving for the extraterrestrial	8
Concluding comment: Ecofascism—who needs it?	7
The inheritance and repetition of colonial practices of dispossession	7
Connections to Ngayirr Ngurambang (Sacred Country) and art undermining settler colonial power	7
Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China–Myanmar Economic Corridor	7
Fuelling the developmental state: Governing through differential mobilities in Ethiopia	7
‘Rescuing Europe’ and ‘balancing powers’: A postcolonial critique of European digital sovereignty	7
Wasting and wanting: An extractive supply chain approach to outer space geographies	7
On delivery waiting: The entanglement of gig and border temporalities in platform cities	7
Desirable futures: Time as possibility, practice, politics	7
Unseeing urban divides in Luanda and Maputo	7
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies	6
Money, slavery, myth	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
‘I want to keep it like my home’. Hagia Sophia and the politics of exhaustion and care of an urban landmark	6
The goat speech: Ecofascism in Palestine-Israel	6
Cities after planning	6
Going deep: Excavation, collaboration and imagination at the Kola Superdeep Borehole	6
Jumping scale in the Black Atlantic: Critical visuality in the archives of slavery	6
Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography	6
Living and dying in the shadow of coal: Relocating social death and its contestations in Lephalale	6
Street Salafism: Contingency and urbanity as religious creed	6
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore’s labour-migration regime	6
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp	6
Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political	6
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point	6