Political Geography

Article	Citations
De-centering the urban waterscape via patterns, relations and traces of drinking water quality in Kaolack, Senegal	511
African Union defense demand and spatial spillovers	112
Grateful reckonings with the political geographies of resistance; a response	94
Unpacking land-associated assemblages ‘from below’: Smallholders' land access strategies at the commercial tree-crop frontier	88
Challenging the ‘absent state’: Neoliberal extractivist governance and state effects in the northwest Peruvian Amazon	71
Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization	70
Review essay	62
Editorial Board	54
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip	52
The deeping rural-urban divide in U.S. Presidential politics: Presidential votes in Iowa, 2008–2020	51
Spatializing the political ecologies of the future	41
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground	37
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice	37
‘Waging word wars’: The ‘emotionscape’ of the United Nations Security Council and the Russian war in Ukraine	37
Finding home in a paper – Revisiting “The construction of national identity through the production of ritual and spectacle: An analysis of National Day parades in Singapore”	35
Local voting at local elections revisited: ‘Friends and neighbors voting’ at mayoral elections in rural Poland	35
The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality'	33
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia	32
Corporate contentious politics: Palm oil companies and land conflicts in Indonesia	32
Volumising territorial sovereignty: Atmospheric sciences, climate, and the vertical dimension in 20th century China	32
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market	31
Troubling the politics of island relation: The Comoros in between, on the edge, and as microcosm	30
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US	30
Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark	30
To forty more years of Political Geography	29

Worlding decolonisation: Rediscovering federalist and pluralist geographies of more-than-national liberation	29
Populist ecologies of Bitcoin	29
Editorial Board	29
Look who perpetrates violence and where: Explaining variation in forced migration	28
Editorial Board	27
The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests	27
Concerning community, with Lynn Staeheli	27
Debating diaspora: Securitization framework and the Turkish state's making of dissent abroad	26
The everyday art of resistance: Interpreting "resistancescapes" against urban violence in Palestine	26
Editorial Board	26
A proxy geopolitics of poppies, peasants, and national sovereignty: Turkey’s rhetorical resistance to America’s war on drugs	26
Staking claims: Hybrid governance and state-making on the North Kosovo frontier	26
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand	25
Minority gentrification: Re-evaluation of class and ethno-nationalism intersectionality	24
Commoning in the Anthropocene: Exploring the political possibility of caring with in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece	24
Rain, rain, voter go away? New evidence on rainfall and voter turnout from the universe of North Carolina voters during the 2012–2020 presidential elections	24
Domestic drone futures	24
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’	24
Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand	24
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities	23
Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks	23
Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India	23
Psychoanalytic political ecology	22
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya	22
Gaza: The first full-scale AI war?	22
Tipping point urbanism: A study of the painting and fading of the macromural La Mariposa in governing self-built settlements in Bogotá	21
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life	20
Can the borderland speak? Entangled territoriality in the foothills of Northeast India	20
“Staying is complicated, Not staying, however, is unthinkable”: A critical review of Indigenous presence in “natural” parks as a critique of colonial place making for conservation and leisure	20
WITHDRAWN: Making spaces for debate in the digital age	19
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl	19
Assembling governance in São Paulo's "Cracolândia"	19
Green national paradox? How the far right turned Sweden from a (reputed) pioneer of climate mitigation to an obstructor	19
Jurisdictional imaginaries as contested geographies: A metaphor analysis of reference cases about Canada's Impact Assessment Act	19
Climates of control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines	18
Between colonising waters and extracting forest fronts: Entangled eco-frontiers in the Usumacinta River Basin	18
Collaborations: Joint plenary editorial introduction	18
Exception beyond the sovereign state: Makhmour refugee camp between statism and autonomy	17
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies	17
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting: How comparativists misunderstood Canadian scholars on local candidates	17
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi	17
Who you gonna call? Theorising everyday security practices in urban spaces with multiple security actors – The case of Beirut's Southern Suburbs	17
The ethnic-spatial conservation fix: Contradictory tensions between restitution and enclosure within communally owned protected areas in South Africa	16
The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico	16
How and why does demographic decline lead to support for populist parties? The case of the Czech Republic	16
Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance	16
Pastoralism and conservation: The politics and notions of environmental justice under the grazing ban policy in Inner Mongolia, China	16
The making of a hydrofrontier: Geopolitics, securitization and ‘green’ energy imaginaries in India's eastern borderlands	16
Interpreting Title IX: A feminist legal geography of sexual assault prevention on U.S. college campuses	16
Place-based resentment in an egalitarian welfare state	15

The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring	15
All maritime crimes are local: Understanding the causal link between illegal fishing and maritime piracy	15
Bloody, hairy, and hormonal: An intimate geopolitics of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)	15
Contradictory populist ecologies: Pro-peasant propaganda and land grabbing in rural Hungary	15
Keeping migrants at the margins. Governing through ambiguity and the politics of discretion in the post-2015 EUropean migration and border regime	15
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’	14
Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities	14
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits	14
Asserting Europe's technological sovereignty amid American platform finance: Countering financial sector dependence on Big Tech?	14
The impossible energy trinity: Energy security, sustainability, and sovereignty in cross-border electricity systems	14
Global China in the American heartland: Chinese investment, populist coalitions, and the new red scare	14
Embodied geopolitics and negotiations of belongings from Turkey to Athens after 2016	14
The ambivalent relations behind civil society’s engagement in the “grey zones” of migration and integration governance: Case studies from Belgium	14
Interpreting NIMBY as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps’ siting: A comparative case study in two Greek regions	14
Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic	14
Editorial Board	14
Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq	13
Surplus precaritization: Supply chain capitalism and the geoeconomics of hope in Myanmar's borderlands	13
Is green hydrogen really colonial? A commentary on Tunn et al. 2025	13
Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]	13
In the camp but not of the camp. The forced incorporation of Bangladeshi host communities in Rohingya refugee camps	13
Local and indigenous knowledge systems on nature-based solutions: Addressing Green Colonialism in Mangrove restoration of the Indian Sundarbans	13
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum	13
Violent environments and the low-carbon energy transition: Cautionary tales from Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea	13
On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations	13
A spatial interaction model of vote dispersion	12
The railway panopticon: State formation, carceral power, and everyday policing in the late-nineteenth-century train station	12
Resistance and the moral problems of scholarly refusal	12
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment	12
The 2020 vote and beyond: Old situations, new complications	12
Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence	12
Being-in-family and being-in-community: Ontological (in)securities, diaspora youth agencies, and the Rwandan emigration state	12
Three stages of civil society development in the Global East: Lessons from Montenegro, 1989–2020	12
Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration ‘crisis’ on BBC Radio 4	12
Frontier ecologies: Israel's settler colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan	12
The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective	12
Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography	12
Political ecologies of the Green New Deal: Critiques, contentions and radical appropriations	12
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania	12
Institutional knowledge and perceived rural representation	12
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea	11
Editorial Board	11
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals	11
Gatekeeping beyond the state: The mombasa port development program and the emergence of the gatekeeper city	11
Editorial Board	11
Necrosettlements: Life-threatening housing, necropolitics and the poor's deadly living in Mumbai	11
Tringapore – Singapore in geopolitical comics	11
The violence of space and spaces of violence: Peace as violence in unequal and divided spaces	11
Editorial Board	11
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey	11
Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis	11
Neoliberalizing state spaces in postwar Western Europe: The emergence of a new integrative regime of sovereignty	11
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations	11
The geography of intent: The bodily implications of border surveillance technologies	11
A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009–2022	10
Babelic organisations and the interpreters of geopolitical knowledge production	10
Regional immunity complexes: A plurospherical and autoimmunological reimagining of regional security	10
Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar	10
The green, green grass of the nation. A new far-right ecology in Spain	10
Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries	10
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study	10
Geopolitical assemblages and disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, India	10
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions: A decolonial perspective from the Garo Indigenous community in Bangladesh	10
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states	10
Placing the city in Lynn Staeheli's scholarship	10
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China	10
Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita	10
Where do we go? Explaining democratic capital location preferences	9
The politics of discretion: Authority and influence in asylum dispersal	9
The nature conservation-geopolitics complex: Bridging between conservation geopolitics and peace park discourses	9
Wars in refuge: Locating Syrians’ intimate knowledges of violence across time and space	9
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid	9
Revisiting “For ethnography in political geography”	9
Urban atmospheres of terror	9
Scientific nationalism and museums of the future in Germany and the UAE	9
Woman, Life, Freedom: Decoding the feminist uprising in Iran	9
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach	9
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers	9
Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform	9
The more things change, the more they remain the same	9

Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China	9
Creating a new climate transition politics? Reflections on a Real Deal for Australia	9
The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives	9
Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change	9
Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones	9
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar	9
Review forum	9
Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin	9
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization	9
Pseudo-landed water people: Experiences of informality in Tai O village, Hong Kong	9
Housing and populist ecologies	8
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis	8
Captive calculations and benevolent abandonment: Ransom piracy and the carceral occupation of hostage ships along the coast of Somalia	8
Editorial Board	8
Technology and the construction of oceanic space: Bathymetry and the Arctic continental shelf dispute	8
Leaving home: Using videogames to help students understand forced migration	8
When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting?	8
Towards a multi-scalar and multi-horizon framework of energy injustice: A whole systems analysis of Estonian energy transition	8
Russian spatial imaginaries and the invasion of Ukraine: Geopolitics and nationalist fantasies	8
Blue governmentality: Elemental activism with conservation technologies on plundered seas	8
The evacuation camp as paradoxical space for women	8
The Sea in Sea Rescue: Conceptualising solidarity with maritime migrants	8
The politics of tears	8
Duality and dual use in Israel's war on Gaza	8
Environment and integration on the edge of Europe	8
Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-19	8
From local turn to space-relational analysis: Participatory peacebuilding in a Colombian borderland	8
Review forum	8
The most important memorial is the ongoing labour of justice	8
Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River	8
Changing geographies of voter turnout: Michigan and the urban/rural divide	8
Watching North Korea from the sky: Remote sensing and documenting human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea	8
Caravan politics in the depoliticised city: Applying and opposing exceptional measures for Dutch Traveller, Sinti, and Roma caravan sites	8
Editorial Board	8
Fast and slow violence and the survival work of the stateless: The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia	8
Towards hydrosocial autonomy within modernity. A long-term analysis (1850–1980) of socio-material fracturing of flood protection infrastructures in an Alpine valley	8
Estonia's “Return to Europe”: The relationship between neoliberalism, statelessness, and Westward integration in post-independence Estonia	8
War on two fronts: Gender regimes and the ethnonationalist state in Myanmar and Sri Lanka	8
Labor resistance and municipal power: Scalar mismatch in the Los Angeles Green New Deal	8
The unequal geographies of climate finance: Climate injustice and dependency in the world system	8
Retraction notice to “Climate shocks and conflict: Evidence from colonial Nigeria” [Political Geography 50 (2015) 33–47]	7
Review essay	7
Rescaling the socialist state: Territorial politics and city-region restructuring in Maoist China	7
Illiberal peacebuilding in a hybrid regime. Authoritarian strategies for conflict containment in Myanmar	7
Constructing disposable farmworkers: Interrogating narrative and legal contours of the US racial capitalist state	7
Where do regimes rally their supporters? The geographical distribution of pro-war mobilization in Russia, 2022	7
Prohibition geographies: Afterward to special issue on “Illicit geographies and contested environments”	7
Deportation as a neo-colonial act: how deporting state influence extends beyond the border	7
Urban spatial politics and collective action in revolutionary Cairo: Counter spaces and paradoxes of mobilisation	7
Imposing order from the skies? Civil aviation as a precarious site of state sovereignty in Somalia	7
Introduction to the virtual forum: Gaza's past, present, and futures	7
Intimate bordering: Intimacy, anti-blackness and gender violence in the making of the Dominican border	7
Al Aqsa flood in long histories of Palestinian resistance	7
Flex commodities and intertwining world-ecologies: Indonesian palm waste as an environmental fix in the New Zealand dairy industry	7
On pipelines, readiness and annotative labour: Political geographies of AI and data infrastructures in Africa	7
Wasla. Tracing the lasting impacts of an entangled colonial history on a Miskitu community	7
“Home has always been at the heart of our self-government”: Housing, home and Indigenous self-determination in Fort Good Hope, Canada	7
Affective borderings: Sovereignty and Tibetan refugee placemaking at the Nepal/China borderlands	7
Care, continuity, and meaningful change	7
Review forum	7
Necropolitics, peacebuilding and racialized violence: The elimination of indigenous leaders in Colombia	7
Editorial Board	7
The socio-ecological fix by multi-scalar states: The development of ‘Greenways of Paradise’ in Chengdu	7
Towards a solid-fluid territory: Sand dredging, volumetric practices, and earthly elements	7
Borders on steroids: Open borders in a Covid-19 world?	7
Editorial Board	7
The unbearable lightness of neoliberalism: Monsters, ghosts, and the poetics of neoliberal infrastructures	7
Cybernetic States: Communication, Control, and State-Space in the Advanced Research Projects Agency	7
Corrigendum to “Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change” [Political Geography 92 (2022) 102512]	7
Racial capitalism and spheres of influence: Australian assertions of white possession in the Pacific	7
How Narcos work together: Debt, trust and community governance in Bolivia's cocaine supply chain	7
“The government is confused”: The political utility of institutional ambiguity in Jordan's humanitarian arena	6
Conjuncture and repair: A response to ‘relational repair: Black life beyond injury’ by Jovan Scott Lewis	6
Do women commemorate women? How gender and ideology affect decisions on naming female streets	6
External Europeanization through timber trade agreements: Tracing causality in environmental governance reform	6
Counter-maps of body-territory: Gender-based violence in Mexico	6
How do governments discursively reconcile plans for expanding oil and gas production with global climate goals? The cases of Colombia and Nigeria	6
The surge of the small donorate in U.S. elections: A view from Texas statewide campaigns	6
Mean Streets: Power, ideology and the politics of memory	6
Perceived fairness of intra-municipal cohesion politics: Does place of residence affect party preferences?	6
Temporal geographies of premature death: Caste, law, and infrastructure in Swachh Bharat	6
An urban political ecology of populism	6
Critically reflecting on the PolGRG Book Prize	6
Geography, pluriverse and ‘Southern Thought’: Engaging with decoloniality from the Mediterranean	6
Resilience, responsibility and state abandon: The changing role of the government in emergencies	6
Food practices, queer social reproduction and the geographies of LGBTQ+ activism	6
Strategic coupling of administrative rationality and cultural imaginaries in municipal amalgamations	6
Towards a global perspective on interrelated green hydrogen transitions: The case of Colombia	6
The politics of just transition: Authoritarian environmentalism and implementation flexibility in forest conservation	6
Virtual Forum Introduction: The Geographies of Political Geography: Celebrating the Journal's 40-Year Anniversary	6
It's just a watch: Ambiguity, ethics and the politics of representing and reading slow violence	6
The sociospatial ecology of deaths during police interactions in the United States, 2016–2020	6
Corrupting climate change institutions from the inside Systemic Collusion in the Peruvian Forest Governance	6
Making modern water: The content, actors, and processes of embedding the Mahaweli Development Project in Sri Lanka (1963–2010)	6
Spatialities of slow resistance in Congo-Brazzaville	6