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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The university and the city: Spaces of risk, decolonisation, and civic disruption	78
Winners of the Ashby Prizes	76
Governing through ESG and the green spirit of asset manager capitalism	72
Platformed distinction work: Rethinking the migration and integration of food delivery workers in China	61
The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism	61
Reorienting new state capitalism to food and agriculture	58
The political: A view from Jakarta’s kampungs	57
Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure	42
Uneven and combined development in anthropology	37
Institutional conformity, entrepreneurial governance and local contingency: Problematizing central-local dynamics in localizing China's low-income housing policy	35
Becoming ‘farazat’: Re-examining feminisation from a Tunis used clothes sorting factory	35
The landlord state goes abroad: The remaking of the Norwegian ‘Energy Nation’ as a global rentier	35
The geometry of (anti)imperialism in food regime analysis	35
Reformulating theories of ‘accumulation by dispossession’: ‘Contested accumulations through displacement’ in postcolonial Punjab, Pakistan	34
Patterns of opportunity spaces and agency across regional contexts: Conditions and drivers for change	33
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	32
Racialized downgrading and upgrading: Dis/articulation and the Fijian kava commodity chain	32
The multiple-theories problem: The case of spatial industrial clustering	32
The horizontal governance of environmental upgrading: Lessons from the Prosecco and Valpolicella wine value chains in Italy	31
Adaptable state-controlled market actors: Underwriters and investors in the market of local government bonds in China	31
Introduction: Critical approaches to rentiership	29
More-than-human economies of writing	28
Whither hydrocarbons? The rescaling of global oil and gas markets amidst COVID-19 and a contested transition	28
A win-win situation? Urban regeneration and the paradox of homeowner displacement	27
The blockchain challenge for Sweden's housing and mortgage markets	27

Grasping transformative regional development – Exploring intersections between industrial paths and sustainability transitions	27
From homes to assets: Transcalar territorial networks and the financialization of build to rent in Greater Manchester	25
Summer suburbanization in Moscow Region: Investigation with nighttime lights satellite imagery	25
A vicious cycle: Fiscal intervention, pension underfunding, and instability in (re)making racialized geographies	25
Multiple binds and forbidden pleasures: Writing as poaching at French universities	24
Introduction: Uneven development and social difference in capitalism	24
“Cowboy up”: Gender, labor, and workforce housing in Colorado ski country	23
Theories of capitalism and coloniality in world systems analysis, the Dar es Salaam School of history and the New Indian Labour History	23
Extended state infrastructure power in an age of networked competition: The cases of Thailand and Taiwan	23
Does capitalism drive towards the commodification of everything?	22
Understanding social class in place: Responding to supergentrification in Aspen, Colorado	22
Balancing equity-based goals with market-driven forces in land development: The case of density bonusing in Toronto	21
Global destruction networks and hybrid e-waste economies: Practices and embeddedness in Guiyu, China	21
Visualising global currents of international students between 1999 and 2018	21
On the need for caution in using ‘big data’ for built environment research: A response to Chng et al. (2024)	21
Refusing relocation: Urban street vendors and the problem of the neoliberal device	21
The economic returns of decentralisation: Government quality and the role of space	21
Crops, claims and the politics of risk in India’s agricultural insurance programme	20
The firm-territory nexus in a fragmented economy: Scales of global value and wealth chain entanglement	20
Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development	20
“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	19
A double-edged sword: The conditional properties of elite network ties in the financial sector	19
The ontological politics of kosher food: Between strict orthodoxy and global markets	19
‘We’re just an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’: Strategies and (a)politics of change in Berlin's community food spaces	19
Racial capitalism, coloniality and the financialization of Caribbean remittances	19
Dilemmas of 21st century land value capture: Examining Henry George’s legacy in a new Gilded Age	18
The spectral scientists of corridor B: Neoliberalization and its ghosts in higher education	18
Uncertainty in the drylands: Rethinking in/formal insurance from pastoral East Africa	17
Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies	17
Curating an ‘educational environment’: Commercial libraries, new entrepreneurs and shifting geographies of education in India	17
Alone and lonely. The economic cost of solitude for regions in Europe	17
A borderland analytic: Thinking uneven development from the U.S.–Mexico borderlands	17
Multiple entrepreneurial ecosystems? Worker cooperative development in Toronto and Montréal	17
Corrigendum	17
Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: ‘Digitally organised informality’, migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India	16
Who owns and controls global capital? Uneven geographies of asset manager capitalism	16
Real estate valuations, heritage branding and the construction of the world’s most expensive city	16
Writing economies and economies of writing	15
Affective life of financial loss: Detaching from lost investments in the wake of the gig economy	15
Contested values of development: Experiencing commodification of livelihoods through displacement and resettlement in Mozambique	15
Firm decline and the mobility of US inventors, 1976–2015	15
Re-framing a semi-periphery: The making of Lisbon as a global real estate market	14
Rethinking job loss in an age of assetisation: Lessons from the study of precarious older workers	14
From policy to institution: Implementing land reform in Dar es Salaam’s unplanned settlements	14
‘Commodification of everything’ arguments in the social sciences: Variants, specification, evaluation, critique	14
Immaterial animals and financialized forests: Asset manager capitalism, ESG integration and the politics of livestock	14
Remaking the socio-spatial fix: Actors, time and crisis in two iron ore towns	14
At the territorial roots of global processes: Heterogeneous modes of regional involvement in Global Value Chains	14
The fragility of public-private labour governance in times of crisis: The Sri Lankan apparel industry in post-pandemic times	13
The law, financial subordination and the empire of capital: On Shaina Potts’ Judicial Territory	13

Measuring mass displacement of urban renewal in Shenzhen, China: Using longitudinal mobile phone trajectory data	13
The fragile ‘art’ of multi-apping: Resilience and snapping in the gig economy	13
Decolonising polycrisis: Southern perspectives on interlocking crises	13
Background check: Spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser's expanded conception of capitalism	13
Geographies of devaluation: Spatialities of the German coal exit	13
The proximity and dynamics of intercity technology transfers in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area: Evidence from patent transfer networks	12
Municipal structural adjustment: For an institutional analysis of global development finance	12
The geoeconomics of globalization 2.0	12
State Capitalism and Spanish port development along the Maritime Silk Road	12
Soft space development against territorial-bounded governance logics: The case of Shenzhen-Shanwei Cooperation Zone	12
Mobile workers, contingent labour: Migration, the gig economy and the multiplication of labour	12
The ontological politics of freshness: Qualities of food and sustainability governance	11
Writing geography: Teaching research writing and storytelling in the discipline	11
Negotiating the Wild West: Variegated neoliberalisation of the Swedish labour migration regime and the wild berry migration industry	11
Multiple logics in financialisation? Moving to carbon sustainability in build-to-rent development	11
The drunkard’s intention lies not on the wine: Reinterpreting culture-led urban redevelopment in China amidst profound regime changes	11
Doing economics differently	11
An economy in the making: Negotiating capitalist and beyond-capitalist ontologies and relations in makerspaces	11
Power couples, cities, and wages	10
Towards a pragmatist economic geography	10
An abundance of caution for a ‘stagnation nation’? Financial services policy development in post-growth Britain	10
The expansion of China’s market margins: Navigating contingencies and conjunctures	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
International financial subordination in the age of asset manager capitalism	10
A very British state capitalism: Variegation, political connections and bailouts during the COVID-19 crisis	10
Microgeographies of assetisation: Realising value of households and residents in co-living housing	10
Social reproduction and public finance: A comparative study of TIF in California and Chicago	10
Inclusive growth, public transit infrastructure investments and neighbourhood trajectories of inequality in Montreal	10
The state as a market maker: The rise (and fall) of Brazilian securitization in the 21st century	10
Global locational inequality: Assessing unequal exchange effects	10
Post-entrepreneurial cities? Runaway housing costs and the humanitarian turn in urban governance	10
Encompassing the everyday: Grounded responses to the geoeconomic	10
Territorial stigmatization and housing commodification under racial neoliberalism: The case of Denmark's ‘ghettos’	10
Speeding up, slowing down, losing grip: On digital media metronomes and timespace friction in the platformised temporalities of fashion design	10
Transnationalizing intrapreneurship of Chinese private investment in Africa	10
Land, values and valuation work: Moral imaginaries of land markets in England and Germany	10
When large-scale regeneration becomes an engine of urban growth: How new power coalitions are shaping Milan's governance	10
Locating online labour: The salience of the national scale in remote digital work	10