OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Unravelling neighbourhood change: Decomposing the effects of residential mobility and incumbent change on credit access in California	119
Winners of the Ashby Prizes	103
Governing through ESG and the green spirit of asset manager capitalism	67
The landlord state goes abroad: The remaking of the Norwegian ‘Energy Nation’ as a global rentier	60
The political: A view from Jakarta’s kampungs	58
The multiple-theories problem: The case of spatial industrial clustering	58
Financialization and local statecraft: Truth and consequences	50
Uneven and combined development in anthropology	48
Becoming ‘ farazat’ : Re-examining feminisation from a Tunis used clothes sorting factory	43
Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure	41
Reformulating theories of ‘accumulation by dispossession’: ‘Contested accumulations through displacement’ in postcolonial Punjab, Pakistan	41
Reorienting new state capitalism to food and agriculture	37
The geometry of (anti)imperialism in food regime analysis	35
Planning deregulation and commodification: How is housing precarity structurally encouraged through Permitted Development Rights?	34
Patterns of opportunity spaces and agency across regional contexts: Conditions and drivers for change	34
The blockchain challenge for Sweden's housing and mortgage markets	33
Whither hydrocarbons? The rescaling of global oil and gas markets amidst COVID-19 and a contested transition	32
Racialized downgrading and upgrading: Dis/articulation and the Fijian kava commodity chain	32
Adaptable state-controlled market actors: Underwriters and investors in the market of local government bonds in China	30
The making of migrants’ wageless life: Exploiting by debasing	30
Introduction: Critical approaches to rentiership	30
Working with and against climate finance	30
From homes to assets: Transcalar territorial networks and the financialization of build to rent in Greater Manchester	30
The horizontal governance of environmental upgrading: Lessons from the Prosecco and Valpolicella wine value chains in Italy	29
Grasping transformative regional development – Exploring intersections between industrial paths and sustainability transitions	29

The firm-territory nexus in a fragmented economy: Scales of global value and wealth chain entanglement	26
Crops, claims and the politics of risk in India’s agricultural insurance programme	25
Introduction: Uneven development and social difference in capitalism	25
On the need for caution in using ‘big data’ for built environment research: A response to Chng et al. (2024)	24
Theories of capitalism and coloniality in world systems analysis, the Dar es Salaam School of history and the New Indian Labour History	23
“Cowboy up”: Gender, labor, and workforce housing in Colorado ski country	22
Shifting baselines: From austerity to additionality in the mangrove forest	22
Multiple binds and forbidden pleasures: Writing as poaching at French universities	22
An empirically grounded conceptual framework of the determinants of economic resilience: Insights from seven major Canadian regions	22
Extended state infrastructure power in an age of networked competition: The cases of Thailand and Taiwan	22
Does capitalism drive towards the commodification of everything?	22
The ontological politics of kosher food: Between strict orthodoxy and global markets	21
Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development	21
A double-edged sword: The conditional properties of elite network ties in the financial sector	21
Articulations: Production and social reproduction in an industrial neighborhood of Delhi	21
Dilemmas of 21st century land value capture: Examining Henry George’s legacy in a new Gilded Age	21
The economic returns of decentralisation: Government quality and the role of space	21
Curating an ‘educational environment’: Commercial libraries, new entrepreneurs and shifting geographies of education in India	20
A borderland analytic: Thinking uneven development from the U.S.–Mexico borderlands	20
Uncertainty in the drylands: Rethinking in/formal insurance from pastoral East Africa	20
‘We’re just an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’: Strategies and (a)politics of change in Berlin's community food spaces	20
Alone and lonely. The economic cost of solitude for regions in Europe	19
Tracing the flow of money to reveal spatial effects and inequalities in cash transfer programmes	19
Corrigendum	19
Reordering labour, value, and informality in Accra’s e-waste economy: Circuits of persistence and precarity	19
Real estate valuations, heritage branding and the construction of the world’s most expensive city	19
The political aspects of “full housing”: What if paying landlords to house people doesn’t work?	18
Who owns and controls global capital? Uneven geographies of asset manager capitalism	18
Decarbonization debt and energy rents: On the limits of mobilizing private climate finance for housing decarbonization	18
Re-framing a semi-periphery: The making of Lisbon as a global real estate market	17
Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: ‘Digitally organised informality’, migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India	17
Rethinking job loss in an age of assetisation: Lessons from the study of precarious older workers	16
‘Commodification of everything’ arguments in the social sciences: Variants, specification, evaluation, critique	16
The law, financial subordination and the empire of capital: On Shaina Potts’ Judicial Territory	16
Fictional, yet real: Worlding informality in cities of the Global South	15
Urban-rural hierarchy, rural agency, and planetary thinking: Learning from a village in China	15
Remaking the socio-spatial fix: Actors, time and crisis in two iron ore towns	15
The fragility of public-private labour governance in times of crisis: The Sri Lankan apparel industry in post-pandemic times	15
Livelihood upgrading in global production networks: Household commodity producers in an Indonesian Coastal Community	15
Contested values of development: Experiencing commodification of livelihoods through displacement and resettlement in Mozambique	14
Geographies of devaluation: Spatialities of the German coal exit	14
Immaterial animals and financialized forests: Asset manager capitalism, ESG integration and the politics of livestock	14
The fragile ‘art’ of multi-apping: Resilience and snapping in the gig economy	14
Municipal structural adjustment: For an institutional analysis of global development finance	14
At the territorial roots of global processes: Heterogeneous modes of regional involvement in Global Value Chains	14
From policy to institution: Implementing land reform in Dar es Salaam’s unplanned settlements	14
Measuring mass displacement of urban renewal in Shenzhen, China: Using longitudinal mobile phone trajectory data	14
Managing overaccumulation: China’s new affordable rental housing programme and its financialization through REITs	13
Back to the office: How proximity survived the pandemic in financial centres	13
Background check: Spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser's expanded conception of capitalism	13

The service transition as double fix: Mass low-end employment, gendered care economies, and the limits of global growth	13
Soft space development against territorial-bounded governance logics: The case of Shenzhen-Shanwei Cooperation Zone	13
Decolonising polycrisis: Southern perspectives on interlocking crises	12
Everyday land speculation without production in state-led urbanization: The case of Indonesia’s new capital city	12
Intercity coopetition and regional innovation: The role of urban polycentricity	12
Platform freedom: Financial subjectivity at the nexus of investment and social media	12
Gold, drugs, blood, and global capital: The new business imperialism and extractivism dynamics in postcolonial Peru	12
The geoeconomics of globalization 2.0	12
Towards a pragmatist economic geography	12
An economy in the making: Negotiating capitalist and beyond-capitalist ontologies and relations in makerspaces	11
Boom, bust, churn: Prison closure and prison expansion in New South Wales, Australia	11
Doing economics differently	11
Land, values and valuation work: Moral imaginaries of land markets in England and Germany	11
Multiple logics in financialisation? Moving to carbon sustainability in build-to-rent development	11
Territorial stigmatization and housing commodification under racial neoliberalism: The case of Denmark's ‘ghettos’	11
The drunkard’s intention lies not on the wine: Reinterpreting culture-led urban redevelopment in China amidst profound regime changes	11
The expansion of China’s market margins: Navigating contingencies and conjunctures	10
Social reproduction and public finance: A comparative study of TIF in California and Chicago	10
Speeding up, slowing down, losing grip: On digital media metronomes and timespace friction in the platformised temporalities of fashion design	10
Inclusive growth, public transit infrastructure investments and neighbourhood trajectories of inequality in Montreal	10
Territorial development in Bavaria between spatial justice and austere federalism: A historical-materialist policy analysis of Bavarian regional development politics and policies, 2008–2018	10
Central bank digital currencies and state capitalism in China: The decentralisation and recentralisation dynamics of the E-CNY	10
An abundance of caution for a ‘stagnation nation’? Financial services policy development in post-growth Britain	10
Transnationalizing intrapreneurship of Chinese private investment in Africa	10
The state as a market maker: The rise (and fall) of Brazilian securitization in the 21st century	10