OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space is 9. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Platformed distinction work: Rethinking the migration and integration of food delivery workers in China	90
Is capitalism structurally indifferent to gender?: Routes to a value theory of reproductive labour	69
The university and the city: Spaces of risk, decolonisation, and civic disruption	69
The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism	64
More work for Big Mother: Revaluing care and control in smart homes	64
Uneven and combined state capitalism	62
Governing through ESG and the green spirit of asset manager capitalism	57
Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia	54
Uneven and combined development in anthropology	51
Reorienting new state capitalism to food and agriculture	47
The landlord state goes abroad: The remaking of the Norwegian ‘Energy Nation’ as a global rentier	40
The uneven geography of real estate investment by Mainland Chinese state-owned and private enterprises in the U.S.: Local market conditions, migration, and ethnic networks	35
The political: A view from Jakarta’s kampungs	33
Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure	32
Institutional conformity, entrepreneurial governance and local contingency: Problematizing central-local dynamics in localizing China's low-income housing policy	31
The multiple-theories problem: The case of spatial industrial clustering	31
Becoming ‘farazat’: Re-examining feminisation from a Tunis used clothes sorting factory	31
The geometry of (anti)imperialism in food regime analysis	31
Racialized downgrading and upgrading: Dis/articulation and the Fijian kava commodity chain	29
Reformulating theories of ‘accumulation by dispossession’: ‘Contested accumulations through displacement’ in postcolonial Punjab, Pakistan	29
Patterns of opportunity spaces and agency across regional contexts: Conditions and drivers for change	29
The blockchain challenge for Sweden's housing and mortgage markets	28
The horizontal governance of environmental upgrading: Lessons from the Prosecco and Valpolicella wine value chains in Italy	28
Whither hydrocarbons? The rescaling of global oil and gas markets amidst COVID-19 and a contested transition	27
More-than-human economies of writing	27

A win-win situation? Urban regeneration and the paradox of homeowner displacement	26
From homes to assets: Transcalar territorial networks and the financialization of build to rent in Greater Manchester	26
Grasping transformative regional development – Exploring intersections between industrial paths and sustainability transitions	26
Introduction: Critical approaches to rentiership	25
Adaptable state-controlled market actors: Underwriters and investors in the market of local government bonds in China	25
A vicious cycle: Fiscal intervention, pension underfunding, and instability in (re)making racialized geographies	23
The firm-territory nexus in a fragmented economy: Scales of global value and wealth chain entanglement	23
Searching for housing in the digital age: Neighborhood representation on internet rental housing platforms across space, platform, and metropolitan segregation	23
Introduction: Uneven development and social difference in capitalism	21
Multiple binds and forbidden pleasures: Writing as poaching at French universities	21
Theories of capitalism and coloniality in world systems analysis, the Dar es Salaam School of history and the New Indian Labour History	21
Summer suburbanization in Moscow Region: Investigation with nighttime lights satellite imagery	21
“Cowboy up”: Gender, labor, and workforce housing in Colorado ski country	20
Does capitalism drive towards the commodification of everything?	20
Extended state infrastructure power in an age of networked competition: The cases of Thailand and Taiwan	20
Balancing equity-based goals with market-driven forces in land development: The case of density bonusing in Toronto	20
Understanding social class in place: Responding to supergentrification in Aspen, Colorado	19
On the need for caution in using ‘big data’ for built environment research: A response to Chng et al. (2024)	19
Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development	19
Refusing relocation: Urban street vendors and the problem of the neoliberal device	18
Global destruction networks and hybrid e-waste economies: Practices and embeddedness in Guiyu, China	18
The economic returns of decentralisation: Government quality and the role of space	18
Visualising global currents of international students between 1999 and 2018	18
‘We’re just an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’: Strategies and (a)politics of change in Berlin's community food spaces	17
The ontological politics of kosher food: Between strict orthodoxy and global markets	17
Racial capitalism, coloniality and the financialization of Caribbean remittances	17
Visualising rural access index and not served rural population in Africa	17
“They had already sold”: Uncovering relations among the local state, the market and the public in the case of municipal housing privatization in Rosengård, Sweden	17
A double-edged sword: The conditional properties of elite network ties in the financial sector	17
Dilemmas of 21st century land value capture: Examining Henry George’s legacy in a new Gilded Age	16
The spectral scientists of corridor B: Neoliberalization and its ghosts in higher education	16
Uncertainty in the drylands: Rethinking in/formal insurance from pastoral East Africa	16
Alone and lonely. The economic cost of solitude for regions in Europe	15
Writing economies and economies of writing	15
A borderland analytic: Thinking uneven development from the U.S.–Mexico borderlands	15
Curating an ‘educational environment’: Commercial libraries, new entrepreneurs, and shifting geographies of education in India	15
Corrigendum	15
Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies	14
Remaking the socio-spatial fix: Actors, time and crisis in two iron ore towns	14
Who owns and controls global capital? Uneven geographies of asset manager capitalism	14
The fragile ‘art’ of multi-apping: Resilience and snapping in the gig economy	14
From policy to institution: Implementing land reform in Dar es Salaam’s unplanned settlements	14
Multiple entrepreneurial ecosystems? Worker cooperative development in Toronto and Montréal	14
Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: ‘Digitally organised informality’, migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India	14
Firm decline and the mobility of US inventors, 1976–2015	14
The fragility of public-private labour governance in times of crisis: The Sri Lankan apparel industry in post-pandemic times	13
Contested values of development: Experiencing commodification of livelihoods through displacement and resettlement in Mozambique	13
Rethinking job loss in an age of assetisation: Lessons from the study of precarious older workers	13
‘Commodification of everything’ arguments in the social sciences: Variants, specification, evaluation, critique	13
At the territorial roots of global processes: Heterogeneous modes of regional involvement in Global Value Chains	13

Affective life of financial loss: Detaching from lost investments in the wake of the gig economy	13
Immaterial animals and financialized forests: Asset manager capitalism, ESG integration and the politics of livestock	13
Re-framing a semi-periphery: The making of Lisbon as a global real estate market	12
Geographies of devaluation: Spatialities of the German coal exit	12
Ethical product havens in the global diamond trade: Using the Wayback Machine to evaluate ethical market outcomes	12
The geoeconomics of globalization 2.0	12
Measuring mass displacement of urban renewal in Shenzhen, China: Using longitudinal mobile phone trajectory data	12
Background check: Spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser's expanded conception of capitalism	12
Towards a pragmatist economic geography	11
The company is here to do goodness to us: Imaginaries of development, whiteness, and patronage in Sierra Leone's agribusiness investment deals	11
Writing geography: Teaching research writing and storytelling in the discipline	11
State Capitalism and Spanish port development along the Maritime Silk Road	11
Doing economics differently	11
An economy in the making: Negotiating capitalist and beyond-capitalist ontologies and relations in makerspaces	11
The proximity and dynamics of intercity technology transfers in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area: Evidence from patent transfer networks	11
Winners of the Ashby prizes	11
Mobile workers, contingent labour: Migration, the gig economy and the multiplication of labour	11
Negotiating the Wild West: Variegated neoliberalisation of the Swedish labour migration regime and the wild berry migration industry	10
Speeding up, slowing down, losing grip: On digital media metronomes and timespace friction in the platformised temporalities of fashion design	10
The ontological politics of freshness: Qualities of food and sustainability governance	10
The drunkard’s intention lies not on the wine: Reinterpreting culture-led urban redevelopment in China amidst profound regime changes	10
An abundance of caution for a ‘stagnation nation’? Financial services policy development in post-growth Britain	10
Territorial stigmatization and housing commodification under racial neoliberalism: The case of Denmark's ‘ghettos’	10
Multiple logics in financialisation? Moving to carbon sustainability in build-to-rent development	10
Social reproduction and public finance: A comparative study of TIF in California and Chicago	10
Land, values, and valuation work: Moral imaginaries of land markets in England and Germany	9
A very British state capitalism: Variegation, political connections and bailouts during the COVID-19 crisis	9
Gift giving in the neoliberal city: Polanyi's substantivism and the exchange of density for affordable housing in Vancouver	9
Territorial development in Bavaria between spatial justice and austere federalism: A historical-materialist policy analysis of Bavarian regional development politics and policies, 2008–2018	9
International financial subordination in the age of asset manager capitalism	9
When large-scale regeneration becomes an engine of urban growth: How new power coalitions are shaping Milan's governance	9
Inclusive growth, public transit infrastructure investments and neighbourhood trajectories of inequality in Montreal	9
Transnationalizing intrapreneurship of Chinese private investment in Africa	9
The state as a market maker: The rise (and fall) of Brazilian securitization in the 21st century	9
Planning incapacitated: Environmental planning and the political ecology of austerity	9
Encompassing the everyday: Grounded responses to the geoeconomic	9
The expansion of China’s market margins: Navigating contingencies and conjunctures	9
‘Locked in the Rat Race’: Variegated financial subjectivities in the United Kingdom	9
Rethinking Polanyi's double movement through participatory justice: Land use planning in Puerto Rico	9
Power couples, cities, and wages	9