Political Geography

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Geography is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Troubling the politics of island relation: The Comoros in between, on the edge, and as microcosm665
Unpacking land-associated assemblages ‘from below’: Smallholders' land access strategies at the commercial tree-crop frontier172
Review essay114
Editorial Board108
Unravelling inclusive food citizenship: insights from East-Central London92
Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization77
Corporate contentious politics: Palm oil companies and land conflicts in Indonesia69
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US54
African Union defense demand and spatial spillovers52
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market49
The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality'48
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice46
‘Waging word wars’: The ‘emotionscape’ of the United Nations Security Council and the Russian war in Ukraine46
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”45
Grateful reckonings with the political geographies of resistance; a response42
Volumising territorial sovereignty: Atmospheric sciences, climate, and the vertical dimension in 20th century China42
De-centering the urban waterscape via patterns, relations and traces of drinking water quality in Kaolack, Senegal42
Challenging the ‘absent state’: Neoliberal extractivist governance and state effects in the northwest Peruvian Amazon41
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground40
Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark38
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia38
Commoning in the Anthropocene: Exploring the political possibility of caring with in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece37
A proxy geopolitics of poppies, peasants, and national sovereignty: Turkey’s rhetorical resistance to America’s war on drugs37
The everyday art of resistance: Interpreting "resistancescapes" against urban violence in Palestine36
Domestic drone futures35
The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests34
Editorial Board32
Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India32
Editorial Board32
Debating diaspora: Securitization framework and the Turkish state's making of dissent abroad30
Editorial Board30
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand29
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’29
Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand28
Staking claims: Hybrid governance and state-making on the North Kosovo frontier28
Worlding decolonisation: Rediscovering federalist and pluralist geographies of more-than-national liberation28
Minority gentrification: Re-evaluation of class and ethno-nationalism intersectionality26
Rain, rain, voter go away? New evidence on rainfall and voter turnout from the universe of North Carolina voters during the 2012–2020 presidential elections26
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya25
Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks25
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities25
Psychoanalytic political ecology24
Climates of control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines24
“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 leisure24
Gaza: The first full-scale AI war?24
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life24
WITHDRAWN: Making spaces for debate in the digital age23
Exception beyond the sovereign state: Makhmour refugee camp between statism and autonomy23
Jurisdictional imaginaries as contested geographies: A metaphor analysis of reference cases about Canada's Impact Assessment Act22
From local site to global logics. Infrastructure, capitalism and violence22
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting: How comparativists misunderstood Canadian scholars on local candidates22
Can the borderland speak? Entangled territoriality in the foothills of Northeast India22
Collaborations: Joint plenary editorial introduction22
The political geographies of AI and the manosphere21
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl21
Who you gonna call? Theorising everyday security practices in urban spaces with multiple security actors – The case of Beirut's Southern Suburbs21
Tipping point urbanism: A study of the painting and fading of the macromural La Mariposa in governing self-built settlements in Bogotá21
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi21
Pastoralism and conservation: The politics and notions of environmental justice under the grazing ban policy in Inner Mongolia, China20
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies20
Green national paradox? How the far right turned Sweden from a (reputed) pioneer of climate mitigation to an obstructor20
Assembling governance in São Paulo's "Cracolândia"20
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits20
Between colonising waters and extracting forest fronts: Entangled eco-frontiers in the Usumacinta River Basin20
Showerheads, coffee machines and the everyday political geographies of the green backlash19
Editorial Board19
The ethnic-spatial conservation fix: Contradictory tensions between restitution and enclosure within communally owned protected areas in South Africa19
Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance19
Reclaiming sovereignty over the body: Post-2022 Russian migration between bio-, thanato- and necropolitics18
All maritime crimes are local: Understanding the causal link between illegal fishing and maritime piracy18
Contradictory populist ecologies: Pro-peasant propaganda and land grabbing in rural Hungary18
The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century18
The making of a hydrofrontier: Geopolitics, securitization and ‘green’ energy imaginaries in India's eastern borderlands18
Keeping migrants at the margins. Governing through ambiguity and the politics of discretion in the post-2015 EUropean migration and border regime18
Interpreting Title IX: A feminist legal geography of sexual assault prevention on U.S. college campuses18
Restoring landscapes to build common futures: Land redistribution and environmental action in rural Scotland18
How and why does demographic decline lead to support for populist parties? The case of the Czech Republic18
The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico18
Good bridges make good neighbors: The convergence of political support astride the Connecticut river17
Feminist geopolitics of creativity: A study of women practicing Islamic and traditional visual arts in Istanbul17
Bloody, hairy, and hormonal: An intimate geopolitics of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)17
Editorial Board17
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’17
Place-based resentment in an egalitarian welfare state17
Asserting Europe's technological sovereignty amid American platform finance: Countering financial sector dependence on Big Tech?17
Violent environments and the low-carbon energy transition: Cautionary tales from Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea16
Embodied geopolitics and negotiations of belongings from Turkey to Athens after 201616
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum16
A spatial interaction model of vote dispersion16
Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence16
Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic16
Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]16
Surplus precaritization: Supply chain capitalism and the geoeconomics of hope in Myanmar's borderlands16
Local and indigenous knowledge systems on nature-based solutions: Addressing Green Colonialism in Mangrove restoration of the Indian Sundarbans15
Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography15
In the camp but not of the camp. The forced incorporation of Bangladeshi host communities in Rohingya refugee camps15
Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities15
Global China in the American heartland: Chinese investment, populist coalitions, and the new red scare15
The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective15
Is green hydrogen really colonial? A commentary on Tunn et al. 202515
Interpreting NIMBY as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps’ siting: A comparative case study in two Greek regions15
On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations15
The railway panopticon: State formation, carceral power, and everyday policing in the late-nineteenth-century train station15
The spatial politics of green hydrogen: Speculative enactments, contested dynamics and alternative pathways in southern Chile14
Neoliberalizing state spaces in postwar Western Europe: The emergence of a new integrative regime of sovereignty14
Institutional knowledge and perceived rural representation14
Resistance and the moral problems of scholarly refusal14
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals14
Necrosettlements: Life-threatening housing, necropolitics and the poor's deadly living in Mumbai14
Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq14
Editorial Board14
Political Geography and the urgency of holding space for open and critical inquiry14
Political ecologies of the Green New Deal: Critiques, contentions and radical appropriations13
Three stages of civil society development in the Global East: Lessons from Montenegro, 1989–202013
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations13
Tringapore – Singapore in geopolitical comics13
Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration ‘crisis’ on BBC Radio 413
Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis13
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment13
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea13
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania13
Topography of power. Visual domination and the geography of pursuit on Alpine borders13
Rethinking environmental governance for development: the blue œconomy dispositif13
Frontier ecologies: Israel's settler colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan12
A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009–202212
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states12
Editorial Board12
Being-in-family and being-in-community: Ontological (in)securities, diaspora youth agencies, and the Rwandan emigration state12
Gatekeeping beyond the state: The mombasa port development program and the emergence of the gatekeeper city12
Space to think? Chinese think tanks and the uneven development of party-state power12
Babelic organisations and the interpreters of geopolitical knowledge production12
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China12
Editorial Board12
Editorial Board12
Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries12
The geography of intent: The bodily implications of border surveillance technologies12
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study11
Regional immunity complexes: A plurospherical and autoimmunological reimagining of regional security11
Geopolitical assemblages and disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, India11
Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin11
The nature conservation-geopolitics complex: Bridging between conservation geopolitics and peace park discourses11
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization11
Caught in the net: unraveling the piracy-IUU fishing milieu in Indonesian waters through survey data11
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey11
Where do we go? Explaining democratic capital location preferences11
Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones11
Creating a new climate transition politics? Reflections on a Real Deal for Australia11
Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar11
Polish geopolitical vertigo: Grassroots popular geopolitics meets right-wing populism11
The green, green grass of the nation. A new far-right ecology in Spain11
Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita11
Woman, Life, Freedom: Decoding the feminist uprising in Iran11
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers11
Revisiting “For ethnography in political geography”11
The more things change, the more they remain the same10
Lost votes, divided cities: The unequal electoral geography of invalid voting in Germany’s urban neighbourhoods (2002–2025)10
When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting?10
Urban atmospheres of terror10
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions: A decolonial perspective from the Garo Indigenous community in Bangladesh10
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid10
Migrant struggles in the Darién Gap-Tapón: Rethinking a more-than-human border10
Review forum10
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis10
Scientific nationalism and museums of the future in Germany and the UAE10
Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform10
Pseudo-landed water people: Experiences of informality in Tai O village, Hong Kong10
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach10
The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives10
Seams of power: Migration, state capitalism, and the dual mobilities of European energy investment in Jordan10
Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change10
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar10
The most important memorial is the ongoing labour of justice9
From local turn to space-relational analysis: Participatory peacebuilding in a Colombian borderland9
War on two fronts: Gender regimes and the ethnonationalist state in Myanmar and Sri Lanka9
Fast and slow violence and the survival work of the stateless: The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia9
Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River9
Duality and dual use in Israel's war on Gaza9
Labor resistance and municipal power: Scalar mismatch in the Los Angeles Green New Deal9
Captive calculations and benevolent abandonment: Ransom piracy and the carceral occupation of hostage ships along the coast of Somalia9
Russian spatial imaginaries and the invasion of Ukraine: Geopolitics and nationalist fantasies9
Editorial Board9
Own, fund, and spill: Canada's ‘frontier-making state project,’ 1973–849
Towards hydrosocial autonomy within modernity. A long-term analysis (1850–1980) of socio-material fracturing of flood protection infrastructures in an Alpine valley9
Caravan politics in the depoliticised city: Applying and opposing exceptional measures for Dutch Traveller, Sinti, and Roma caravan sites9
Estonia's “Return to Europe”: The relationship between neoliberalism, statelessness, and Westward integration in post-independence Estonia9
Technology and the construction of oceanic space: Bathymetry and the Arctic continental shelf dispute9
Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-199
Editorial Board9
Leaving home: Using videogames to help students understand forced migration9
The Sea in Sea Rescue: Conceptualising solidarity with maritime migrants9
“Home has always been at the heart of our self-government”: Housing, home and Indigenous self-determination in Fort Good Hope, Canada9
Housing and populist ecologies9
The unequal geographies of climate finance: Climate injustice and dependency in the world system9
Editorial Board9
Review forum9
Flex commodities and intertwining world-ecologies: Indonesian palm waste as an environmental fix in the New Zealand dairy industry8
Care, continuity, and meaningful change8
Prohibition geographies: Afterward to special issue on “Illicit geographies and contested environments”8
Deportation as a neo-colonial act: how deporting state influence extends beyond the border8
Editorial Board8
Imposing order from the skies? Civil aviation as a precarious site of state sovereignty in Somalia8
Cybernetic States: Communication, Control, and State-Space in the Advanced Research Projects Agency8
Al Aqsa flood in long histories of Palestinian resistance8
Corrigendum to “Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change” [Political Geography 92 (2022) 102512]8
Constructing disposable farmworkers: Interrogating narrative and legal contours of the US racial capitalist state8
On pipelines, readiness and annotative labour: Political geographies of AI and data infrastructures in Africa8
Review forum8
An assemblage approach to performances of sovereignty through Gibraltar's hosting of the 2019 International Island Games8
Rescaling the socialist state: Territorial politics and city-region restructuring in Maoist China8
Where do regimes rally their supporters? The geographical distribution of pro-war mobilization in Russia, 20228
Wasla. Tracing the lasting impacts of an entangled colonial history on a Miskitu community8
Towards a solid-fluid territory: Sand dredging, volumetric practices, and earthly elements8
Affective borderings: Sovereignty and Tibetan refugee placemaking at the Nepal/China borderlands8
Review essay8
How Narcos work together: Debt, trust and community governance in Bolivia's cocaine supply chain8
Intimate bordering: Intimacy, anti-blackness and gender violence in the making of the Dominican border8
The unbearable lightness of neoliberalism: Monsters, ghosts, and the poetics of neoliberal infrastructures8
The socio-ecological fix by multi-scalar states: The development of ‘Greenways of Paradise’ in Chengdu7
How do governments discursively reconcile plans for expanding oil and gas production with global climate goals? The cases of Colombia and Nigeria7
It's just a watch: Ambiguity, ethics and the politics of representing and reading slow violence7
Imposing connectivity: Privileging an elephant corridor over ecotourism in the Sigur Plateau, South India7
A place for pastoral power: From the “government of souls” to “global struggles for souls”7
Cabling and un-cabling Palestine/Israel: Toward a theory of cumulative infrastructural injustice7
Corrupting climate change institutions from the inside Systemic Collusion in the Peruvian Forest Governance7
Conjuncture and repair: A response to ‘relational repair: Black life beyond injury’ by Jovan Scott Lewis7
An urban political ecology of populism7
Critically reflecting on the PolGRG Book Prize7
Introduction to the virtual forum: Gaza's past, present, and futures7
Retraction notice to “Climate shocks and conflict: Evidence from colonial Nigeria” [Political Geography 50 (2015) 33–47]7
Urban spatial politics and collective action in revolutionary Cairo: Counter spaces and paradoxes of mobilisation7
The civic legacies of disaster for youth political agency7
Editorial Board7
Explaining strategic disinterment: Forensics and the reconstruction of the missing in Cyprus7
Poisoned together in prison: Toxicant politics, disposability and carceral capitalism in testimonies of electronic & military waste recycling in a sunbelt Gulag7
Questioning rural populism7
Necropolitics, peacebuilding and racialized violence: The elimination of indigenous leaders in Colombia7
Racial capitalism and spheres of influence: Australian assertions of white possession in the Pacific7
Counter-maps of body-territory: Gender-based violence in Mexico7
Virtual Forum Introduction: The Geographies of Political Geography: Celebrating the Journal's 40-Year Anniversary7
External Europeanization through timber trade agreements: Tracing causality in environmental governance reform7
Temporal geographies of premature death: Caste, law, and infrastructure in Swachh Bharat7
From home to summit: Sovereign bodies and the everyday geopolitics of mountain tourism in Iraqi Kurdistan7
Far right political ecologies and the battery sector: The case of the CATL gigafactory in Debrecen, Hungary7
Mapping the spatial politics of Australian settler colonialism7
Do women commemorate women? How gender and ideology affect decisions on naming female streets6
Spatialities of slow resistance in Congo-Brazzaville6
What epithets conceal: A response to Oliver Belcher's 'Confessing Communism'6
Urban populist ecologies and Duterte's politics of discipline in Manila's Dolomite Beach6
Differentiating the local impact of global drugs and weapons trafficking: How do gangs mediate ‘residual violence’ to sustain Trinidad's homicide boom?6
“The government is confused”: The political utility of institutional ambiguity in Jordan's humanitarian arena6
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