Political Geography

Article	Citations
The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality'	377
Corporate contentious politics: Palm oil companies and land conflicts in Indonesia	133
De-centering the urban waterscape via patterns, relations and traces of drinking water quality in Kaolack, Senegal	78
Territory and lithium extraction: The Great Land of Lipez and the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia	71
Unpacking land-associated assemblages ‘from below’: Smallholders' land access strategies at the commercial tree-crop frontier	70
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”	64
Challenging the ‘absent state’: Neoliberal extractivist governance and state effects in the northwest Peruvian Amazon	62
Grateful reckonings with the political geographies of resistance; a response	58
African Union defense demand and spatial spillovers	55
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground	54
Editorial Board	54
Review essay	49
The deeping rural-urban divide in U.S. Presidential politics: Presidential votes in Iowa, 2008–2020	44
Spatializing the political ecologies of the future	42
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip	40
The case for socialist modernism	38
Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization	38
The Geo-imaginaries of potential in Mexico's Burgos Basin	36
‘Waging word wars’: The ‘emotionscape’ of the United Nations Security Council and the Russian war in Ukraine	36
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice	35
Troubling the politics of island relation: The Comoros in between, on the edge, and as microcosm	34
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia	34
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US	33
Local voting at local elections revisited: ‘Friends and neighbors voting’ at mayoral elections in rural Poland	29
Volumising territorial sovereignty: Atmospheric sciences, climate, and the vertical dimension in 20th century China	28

Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand	28
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market	28
Commoning in the Anthropocene: Exploring the political possibility of caring with in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece	27
Domestic drone futures	27
Worlding decolonisation: Rediscovering federalist and pluralist geographies of more-than-national liberation	26
Psychoanalytic political ecology	26
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya	26
Can civic nationalism reduce corruption? Transnational and translocal insights from Solomon Islands	25
The everyday art of resistance: Interpreting "resistancescapes" against urban violence in Palestine	25
Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks	24
“Let us create space”: Reclaiming peace and security in a Kenyan Somali community	24
Populist ecologies of Bitcoin	24
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand	24
Look who perpetrates violence and where: Explaining variation in forced migration	24
The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests	24
A proxy geopolitics of poppies, peasants, and national sovereignty: Turkey’s rhetorical resistance to America’s war on drugs	23
Harnessing the sending state: Pragmatic improvisations and negotiated memberships of the Chinese diaspora in Laos	23
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities	23
Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark	22
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	22
Staking claims: Hybrid governance and state-making on the North Kosovo frontier	22
Editorial Board	22
Concerning community, with Lynn Staeheli	21
Minority gentrification: Re-evaluation of class and ethno-nationalism intersectionality	21
Editorial Board	21
Debating diaspora: Securitization framework and the Turkish state's making of dissent abroad	21
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’	20
To forty more years of Political Geography	20
Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India	20
Virtual Forum introduction: Environmental limits, scarcity and degrowth	20
Editorial Board	20
Exception beyond the sovereign state: Makhmour refugee camp between statism and autonomy	19
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies	19
Gaza: The first full-scale AI war?	19
Climates of control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines	18
Who you gonna call? Theorising everyday security practices in urban spaces with multiple security actors – The case of Beirut's Southern Suburbs	17
Housing in the face of crisis: The influence of Israel's 2011 protest on housing policy	17
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting: How comparativists misunderstood Canadian scholars on local candidates	17
Collaborations: Joint plenary editorial introduction	17
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi	17
Pastoralism and conservation: The politics and notions of environmental justice under the grazing ban policy in Inner Mongolia, China	16
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl	16
Jurisdictional imaginaries as contested geographies: A metaphor analysis of reference cases about Canada's Impact Assessment Act	16
Between colonising waters and extracting forest fronts: Entangled eco-frontiers in the Usumacinta River Basin	15
WITHDRAWN: Making spaces for debate in the digital age	15
Conservation in violent environments: Introduction to a special issue on the political ecology of conservation amidst violent conflict	15
The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico	15
Assembling governance in São Paulo's "Cracolândia"	15
Embodied geopolitics and negotiations of belongings from Turkey to Athens after 2016	14
Editorial Board	14

All maritime crimes are local: Understanding the causal link between illegal fishing and maritime piracy	14
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’	14
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits	14
Bloody, hairy, and hormonal: An intimate geopolitics of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)	14
Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance	14
How and why does demographic decline lead to support for populist parties? The case of the Czech Republic	14
The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring	13
Contradictory populist ecologies: Pro-peasant propaganda and land grabbing in rural Hungary	13
Asserting Europe's technological sovereignty amid American platform finance: Countering financial sector dependence on Big Tech?	13
Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities	13
Interpreting NIMBY as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps’ siting: A comparative case study in two Greek regions	13
The ambivalent relations behind civil society’s engagement in the “grey zones” of migration and integration governance: Case studies from Belgium	13
The ethnic-spatial conservation fix: Contradictory tensions between restitution and enclosure within communally owned protected areas in South Africa	13
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth	13
Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography	13
Interpreting Title IX: A feminist legal geography of sexual assault prevention on U.S. college campuses	13
Place-based resentment in an egalitarian welfare state	13
Keeping migrants at the margins. Governing through ambiguity and the politics of discretion in the post-2015 EUropean migration and border regime	13
The impossible energy trinity: Energy security, sustainability, and sovereignty in cross-border electricity systems	13
Surplus precaritization: Supply chain capitalism and the geoeconomics of hope in Myanmar's borderlands	13
A spatial interaction model of vote dispersion	12
Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence	12
The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective	12
The railway panopticon: State formation, carceral power, and everyday policing in the late-nineteenth-century train station	12
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum	12
Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic	12
Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq	12
On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations	12
In the camp but not of the camp. The forced incorporation of Bangladeshi host communities in Rohingya refugee camps	12
Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]	12
Political ecologies of the Green New Deal: Critiques, contentions and radical appropriations	11
Is green hydrogen really colonial? A commentary on Tunn et al. 2025	11
Editorial Board	11
Engaging imaginaries, rejecting utopias: The case for technological progress and political realism to sustain material wellbeing	11
Three stages of civil society development in the Global East: Lessons from Montenegro, 1989–2020	11
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations	11
The future lies beneath: Mineral science, resource-making, and the (de)differentiation of the Peruvian underground	11
Global China in the American heartland: Chinese investment, populist coalitions, and the new red scare	11
Being-in-family and being-in-community: Ontological (in)securities, diaspora youth agencies, and the Rwandan emigration state	11
The 2020 vote and beyond: Old situations, new complications	11
Geographies of unease: Witchcraft and boundary construction in an African borderland	11
Editorial Board	11
Neoliberalizing state spaces in postwar Western Europe: The emergence of a new integrative regime of sovereignty	11
Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration ‘crisis’ on BBC Radio 4	11
Resistance and the moral problems of scholarly refusal	10
Tringapore – Singapore in geopolitical comics	10
Necrosettlements: Life-threatening housing, necropolitics and the poor's deadly living in Mumbai	10
Gatekeeping beyond the state: The mombasa port development program and the emergence of the gatekeeper city	10
Institutional knowledge and perceived rural representation	10
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals	10
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment	10
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea	10
The violence of space and spaces of violence: Peace as violence in unequal and divided spaces	10
Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis	10
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania	10
Frontier ecologies: Israel's settler colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan	10
A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009–2022	9
Review forum	9
Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform	9
Placing the city in Lynn Staeheli's scholarship	9
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study	9
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China	9
Babelic organisations and the interpreters of geopolitical knowledge production	9
Regional immunity complexes: A plurospherical and autoimmunological reimagining of regional security	9
Geopolitical assemblages and disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, India	9
The more things change, the more they remain the same	9
Editorial Board	9
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states	9
Editorial Board	9
Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries	9
Revisiting “For ethnography in political geography”	9
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar	9
Decolonizing cartography and ontological conflict: Counter-mapping in Colombia and “cartographies otherwise”	9
Editorial Board	9
The green, green grass of the nation. A new far-right ecology in Spain	9
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey	9
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid	8
Virtual Forum Introduction: Electoral geographies of the 2020 U.S. presidential race	8
Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China	8
The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives	8

Urban atmospheres of terror	8
Wars in refuge: Locating Syrians’ intimate knowledges of violence across time and space	8
The politics of discretion: Authority and influence in asylum dispersal	8
Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin	8
Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar	8
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions: A decolonial perspective from the Garo Indigenous community in Bangladesh	8
Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change	8
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis	8
The geography of truth and lies	8
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers	8
Scientific nationalism and museums of the future in Germany and the UAE	8
Disciplinary geopolitics and the rise of international development studies in China	8
Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita	8
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach	8
The nature conservation-geopolitics complex: Bridging between conservation geopolitics and peace park discourses	8
Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones	8
Woman, Life, Freedom: Decoding the feminist uprising in Iran	8
Editorial Board	7
Housing and populist ecologies	7
Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-19	7
Transformation is not a metaphor	7
The Sea in Sea Rescue: Conceptualising solidarity with maritime migrants	7
Borders and bureaucracies of EU mobile citizenship: Polish migrants and the personal identification number in Sweden	7
Changing geographies of voter turnout: Michigan and the urban/rural divide	7
When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting?	7
Watching North Korea from the sky: Remote sensing and documenting human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea	7
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization	7
Technology and the construction of oceanic space: Bathymetry and the Arctic continental shelf dispute	7
Caravan politics in the depoliticised city: Applying and opposing exceptional measures for Dutch Traveller, Sinti, and Roma caravan sites	7
Labor resistance and municipal power: Scalar mismatch in the Los Angeles Green New Deal	7
The politics of tears	7
Environment and integration on the edge of Europe	7
Fast and slow violence and the survival work of the stateless: The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia	7
Captive calculations and benevolent abandonment: Ransom piracy and the carceral occupation of hostage ships along the coast of Somalia	7
Duality and dual use in Israel's war on Gaza	7
Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River	7
Illiberal peacebuilding in a hybrid regime. Authoritarian strategies for conflict containment in Myanmar	6
Al Aqsa flood in long histories of Palestinian resistance	6
Flex commodities and intertwining world-ecologies: Indonesian palm waste as an environmental fix in the New Zealand dairy industry	6
“Home has always been at the heart of our self-government”: Housing, home and Indigenous self-determination in Fort Good Hope, Canada	6
Leaving home: Using videogames to help students understand forced migration	6
Intimate bordering: Intimacy, anti-blackness and gender violence in the making of the Dominican border	6
From local turn to space-relational analysis: Participatory peacebuilding in a Colombian borderland	6
Russian spatial imaginaries and the invasion of Ukraine: Geopolitics and nationalist fantasies	6
The evacuation camp as paradoxical space for women	6
Constructing disposable farmworkers: Interrogating narrative and legal contours of the US racial capitalist state	6
Counter-maps of body-territory: Gender-based violence in Mexico	6
Prohibition geographies: Afterward to special issue on “Illicit geographies and contested environments”	6
Review essay	6
Care, continuity, and meaningful change	6
Borders on steroids: Open borders in a Covid-19 world?	6
Spatial variation in populist right voting in Austria, 2013–2017	6
Corrigendum to “Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change” [Political Geography 92 (2022) 102512]	6
Rescaling the socialist state: Territorial politics and city-region restructuring in Maoist China	6
Towards a multi-scalar and multi-horizon framework of energy injustice: A whole systems analysis of Estonian energy transition	6
Cybernetic States: Communication, Control, and State-Space in the Advanced Research Projects Agency	6
Towards hydrosocial autonomy within modernity. A long-term analysis (1850–1980) of socio-material fracturing of flood protection infrastructures in an Alpine valley	6
On pipelines, readiness and annotative labour: Political geographies of AI and data infrastructures in Africa	6
The unequal geographies of climate finance: Climate injustice and dependency in the world system	6
Estonia's “Return to Europe”: The relationship between neoliberalism, statelessness, and Westward integration in post-independence Estonia	6
Editorial Board	6
The socio-ecological fix by multi-scalar states: The development of ‘Greenways of Paradise’ in Chengdu	6
It's just a watch: Ambiguity, ethics and the politics of representing and reading slow violence	6
Racial capitalism and spheres of influence: Australian assertions of white possession in the Pacific	6
Introduction to the virtual forum: Gaza's past, present, and futures	6
The carceral wet: Hollowing out rights for migrants in maritime geographies	6
The unbearable lightness of neoliberalism: Monsters, ghosts, and the poetics of neoliberal infrastructures	6
Towards a solid-fluid territory: Sand dredging, volumetric practices, and earthly elements	6
Review essay	6
Wasla. Tracing the lasting impacts of an entangled colonial history on a Miskitu community	6
The most important memorial is the ongoing labour of justice	6
Deportation as a neo-colonial act: how deporting state influence extends beyond the border	6
Scripting climate futures: The geographical assumptions of climate planning	6
Blue governmentality: Elemental activism with conservation technologies on plundered seas	6
Editorial Board	6
Necropolitics, peacebuilding and racialized violence: The elimination of indigenous leaders in Colombia	6
Urban spatial politics and collective action in revolutionary Cairo: Counter spaces and paradoxes of mobilisation	6
Review forum	6
How do governments discursively reconcile plans for expanding oil and gas production with global climate goals? The cases of Colombia and Nigeria	6
Virtual forum introduction: Populist nationalisms and new geographies of exclusion	6
Affective borderings: Sovereignty and Tibetan refugee placemaking at the Nepal/China borderlands	6
External Europeanization through timber trade agreements: Tracing causality in environmental governance reform	6
Mapping the spatial politics of Australian settler colonialism	5
Putting the crisis to work: The real estate sector and London's housing crisis	5
“The government is confused”: The political utility of institutional ambiguity in Jordan's humanitarian arena	5
Resilience, responsibility and state abandon: The changing role of the government in emergencies	5
Neoliberalising the divided city	5
The surge of the small donorate in U.S. elections: A view from Texas statewide campaigns	5
Urban populist ecologies and Duterte's politics of discipline in Manila's Dolomite Beach	5
Floods, communal conflict and the role of local state institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa	5
What repoliticisation means and requires: Creating the climate for disagreement	5
Perceived fairness of intra-municipal cohesion politics: Does place of residence affect party preferences?	5
“There, seated upon the toilet, apparently in the midst of defecation, was the president of the United States”: Toilets and elite politics in the USA and UK	5
Mean Streets: Power, ideology and the politics of memory	5
Unpacking administrative rank: Intercity competition and the remaking of local state space in China	5