OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning D-Society & Space is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The smart grid archipelago: Infrastructures of networked (dis)connectivity in Amman	62
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance	37
Proactive state geographies: Geocoded intelligence in London’s ‘suburban shanty towns’	34
Anticipation by redress: Transforming African mega-infrastructure futures	31
After zombies: Notes on labor union and municipal renewal	29
Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home	29
The Kings ain't playin’ no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento	28
Ventography and the spatial politics of wind	28
Plastic monsters: Abjection, worms, the Cthulhic, and the black single-use plastic bag	27
Could commodities themselves speak? An introduction to the agnotology of the spectacle	26
Livestreamed land: Scams and certainty in Myanmar’s digital land market	22
Circular movements: Migratory citizenships in anticolonial Athens	21
Beyond repair: Staying with breakdown at the interstices	20
The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife	20
Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation: The liminality of land administration platforms in Kenya	19
Automating gentrification: Landlord technologies and housing justice organizing in New York City homes	19
The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation	17
A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation	16
‘Accumulation by appropriation’: The integration of recyclable-waste collector cooperatives in Salvador, Brazil, and the right to the city	16
Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law	16
Between energy and politics: Ruin, renewal, and the contours of state power in post-apartheid South Africa	15
Speculation on infrastructural ecology: Pigeons, Gaza, and internet access	15
Latency, uncertainty, contagion: Epistemologies of risk-as-reform in crime forecasting software	14
Victim, broker, activist, fixer: Surviving dispossession in working class Lahore	14
Spaceport Cornwall: Scaling environmentally responsible space futures in South West England	13

Exposing the private, engaging in the public. Asylum seekers, intimate publics and normative performances of public participation	13
The quick response border: Pandemic biopolitics, affective complicities and flexible technologies	12
The politics of deautomation: Being disaffected by platform capitalism	11
Zany beetroot: architecture, autopoiesis, and the spatial formations of late capital	11
“You cannot really live (or die) here” – Ongoing struggles over Muslim cemeteries in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957–2020	10
Apparatuses of observation and occupation: Settler colonialism and space science in Hawai'i	10
Bordering public institutions through the routinization of borderwork and datafication: Internalized immigration regimes within UK health care and higher education	10
Earthmoving for the extraterrestrial	10
Border and im/mobility entanglements in the Mediterranean: Introduction to the special issue	10
Sustaining empire: Conservation by ruination at Kalama Atoll	10
Under pressure: Catching the pulse of a Cuban crisis	10
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
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
Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China–Myanmar Economic Corridor	9
The entangled geographies of responsibility: Contested policy narratives of migration governance along the Balkan Route	9
The racial environmental state and abolition geography in California’s Central Valley	8
Living and dying in the shadow of coal: Relocating social death and its contestations in Lephalale	8
Street Salafism: Contingency and urbanity as religious creed	8
On delivery waiting: The entanglement of gig and border temporalities in platform cities	8
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies	8
Wasting and wanting: An extractive supply chain approach to outer space geographies	8
Cities after planning	8
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore’s labour-migration regime	8
The inheritance and repetition of colonial practices of dispossession	8
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point	7
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp	7
Negotiating access to contested urban spaces: Street traders’ resistance against exclusionary practices in Harare, Zimbabwe	7
Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography	7
Money, slavery, myth	7
Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert	7
Kaam: Youth, religiosity, and the cultural production of work in a North Indian Madrasa	7
Going deep: Excavation, collaboration and imagination at the Kola Superdeep Borehole	7
Jumping scale in the Black Atlantic: Critical visuality in the archives of slavery	7
Austerity without deficits: The global political economy of Norway’s fiscal paradox	7