Political Geography

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Geography is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality273
Lithium extractivism and water injustices in the Salar de Atacama, Chile: The colonial shadow of green electromobility107
Digital extraction: Blockchain traceability in mineral supply chains60
Bodies as urban infrastructure: Gender, intimate infrastructures and slow infrastructural violence52
Are cities ever more cosmopolitan? Studying trends in urban-rural divergence of cultural attitudes50
Scaling just transitions: Legitimation strategies in coal phase-out commissions in Canada and Germany49
The evolving techniques of the social engineering of extraction: Introducing political (re)actions ‘from above’ in large-scale mining and energy projects48
Faith no more? The divergence of political trust between urban and rural Europe47
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth43
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization43
(Re)making hydrosocial territories: Materializing and contesting imaginaries and subjectivities through hydraulic infrastructure37
The impossible energy trinity: Energy security, sustainability, and sovereignty in cross-border electricity systems33
Locating the territoriality of territory in border studies33
Earth politics: Territory and the subterranean – Introduction to the special issue31
The importance of recognizing difference: Rethinking Central and East European environmentalism31
The “Greening” of Empire: The European Green Deal as the EU first agenda28
The deep border28
Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change28
Practicing decolonial political geography: Island perspectives on neocolonialism and the China threat discourse28
Conflict on the urban fringe: Urbanization, environmental stress, and urban unrest in Africa28
Infrastructural territorialisations: Mega-infrastructures and the (re)making of Kenya27
The unequal geographies of climate finance: Climate injustice and dependency in the world system27
Uncertainty, exhaustion, and abandonment beyond South/North divides: Governing forced migration through strategic ambiguity26
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US26
Blue governmentality: Elemental activism with conservation technologies on plundered seas26
Building an inclusive peace is an uneven socio-spatial process: Colombia's differential approach26
Coupling national geo-political economic strategies and the Belt and Road Initiative: The China-Belarus Great Stone Industrial Park23
Bordering dynamics and the geopolitics of cross-border tourism between China and Myanmar23
The Mediterranean as a carceral seascape21
Critical Geopolitics/critical geopolitics 25 years on21
Towards a multi-scalar and multi-horizon framework of energy injustice: A whole systems analysis of Estonian energy transition20
Place, candidate roots, and voter preferences in an age of partisan polarization: Observational and experimental evidence20
Celebrations, Exaltations and Alpha Lands: Everyday geographies of the far-right20
Climate injustice, criminalisation of land protection and anti-colonial solidarity: Courtroom ethnography in an age of fossil fuel violence20
The future lies beneath: Mineral science, resource-making, and the (de)differentiation of the Peruvian underground20
Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China20
Decolonizing cartography and ontological conflict: Counter-mapping in Colombia and “cartographies otherwise”19
Cavernous politics: Geopower, territory, and the Kurdish question in Turkey19
Anxiety geopolitics: Hybrid warfare, civilisational geopolitics, and the Janus-faced politics of anxiety18
Limits, ecomodernism and degrowth18
Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic18
Frontiers’ violence: The interplay of state of exception, frontier habitus, and organized violence18
Asserting Europe's technological sovereignty amid American platform finance: Countering financial sector dependence on Big Tech?18
Forest crisis narratives: Illegal logging, datafication and the conservation frontier in the Romanian Carpathian Mountains17
The contentious politics of hydropower dam impact assessments in the Mekong River basin17
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania17
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies17
When climate justice goes wrong: Maladaptation and deep co-production in transformative environmental science and policy17
The Brazilian Green Revolution17
Renewable energy expansion or the preservation of national energy sovereignty? Norwegian renewable energy policy meets resource nationalism17
The enduring coloniality of ecological modernization: Wind energy development in occupied Western Sahara and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights17
The global visa cost divide: How and why the price for travel permits varies worldwide16
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground16
“Choking without killing”: Opacity and the grey area of migration governmentality16
Symbolic versus material concerns of rural consciousness in the United States16
The politics of discretion: Authority and influence in asylum dispersal16
Chinese environmental activism and the environmental politics of rumors15
The Game: Or, ‘the making of migration’ along the Balkan Route15
The coloniality of green extractivism: Unearthing decarbonisation by dispossession through the case of nickel15
Interstitial and Abyssal geographies15
‘Individual sovereignty’ in pandemic times – A contradiction in terms?15
State making through conservation: The case of post-conflict Nepal15
Nuclear necropower: The engineering of death conditions around a nuclear power plant in south India15
The transnational state and migration: Reach, flows and Policies15
The People's Climate March: Environmental populism as political genre15
The socio-ecological fix by multi-scalar states: The development of ‘Greenways of Paradise’ in Chengdu15
Beyond limits and scarcity: Feminist and decolonial contributions to degrowth15
Refugees and racial capitalism: Meatpacking and the primitive accumulation of labor14
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea14
Floods, communal conflict and the role of local state institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa14
A political geography of walking in Jordan: Movement and politics14
The role of contextual factors in the electoral resurgence of extreme right-wing forces in Spain: The case of Andalusia13
Conservation as counterinsurgency: A case of ceasefire in a rebel forest in southeast Myanmar13
Interventions in critical health geopolitics: Borders, rights, and conspiracies in the COVID-19 pandemic13
Incarceration, classification and control: Administrative detention in settler colonial Australia13
Security implications of climate development in conflict-affected states: Implications of local-level effects of rural hydropower development on farmers in Herat13
Interventions on the concept of externalisation in migration and border studies12
Contested spaces of illiberal and authoritarian politics: Human rights and democracy in crisis12
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market12
Principled pragmatism in climate policy? The EU and changing practices of climate justice12
Colonising geology: Volcanic politics and geopower12
The case for socialist modernism12
The many shades of grey in urban governance: How illegality shapes urban planning, policy and development12
Ecosystemic politics: Analyzing the consequences of speaking for adjacent nature on the global stage12
Domestic drone futures12
What is the geography of trust? The urban-rural trust gap in global perspective11
Unpacking administrative rank: Intercity competition and the remaking of local state space in China11
The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring11
Whitescapes: A posthumanist political ecology of Alpine migrant (im)mobility11
Criminalized crops: Environmentally-justified illicit crop interventions and the cyclical marginalization of smallholders11
Interventions on Democratizing Infrastructure11
Mapping the subaquatic animals in the Aquatocene: Offshore wind power, the materialities of the sea and animal soundscapes11
A coalbed methane ‘stratum’ for a low-carbon future: A critical inquiry from the Lorraine Basin (France)11
Forced migration and legal-spatial violence in the United States and Germany11
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment11
Blueing business as usual in the ocean: Blue economies, oil, and climate justice11
Between exclusionary nationalism and urban citizenship in East Jerusalem/ al-Quds11
Frames of extractivism: Small-scale goldmining formalization and state violence in Colombia11
Transformation is not a metaphor11
In the Shadow of the Tower: Spatial proximity to mosques, visible diversity, and support for the radical right10
Conservation in violent environments: Introduction to a special issue on the political ecology of conservation amidst violent conflict10
Urban atmospheres of terror10
The politics of saving Muslim women in India: Gendered geolegality, security, and territorialization10
The carceral wet: Hollowing out rights for migrants in maritime geographies10
Islands as interstitial encrypted geographies: Making (and failing) cryptosecessionist exits10
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis10
The consequences of internal displacement on civil war violence: Evidence from Syria10
The geography of truth and lies10
Populist far right discursive-institutional tactics in European regional decarbonization9
Infrastructure, Jurisdiction, Extractivism: Keywords for decolonizing geographies9
Belarus, Russia, and the escape from geopolitics9
The environmental geopolitics of allocation: State power and institutional stability in Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna management9
Wars in refuge: Locating Syrians’ intimate knowledges of violence across time and space9
Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand9
Corporate gift or political sacrifice? State-sponsored CSR and electricity provision in Guinean extractive enclaves9
Limits to climate action - Narratives of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage9
For a prefigurative pandemic politics: Disrupting the racial colonial quarantine9
Selective border permeability: Governing complex environmental issues through and beyond COVID-199
The land of the past? Neo-populism, neo-fascism, and the failure of the left in Brazil9
Passing as a tourist: Exploring the everyday urban geopolitics of tourism9
Putting the crisis to work: The real estate sector and London's housing crisis9
Disciplinary geopolitics and the rise of international development studies in China9
Security, violence, and mobility: The embodied and everyday politics of negotiating Muslim femininities9
Making sense of (the Russian war in) Ukraine: On the politics of knowledge and expertise9
Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography9
Hybrid territorialisation: A reconfiguration of rural spaces through gold mining in Upper Guinea9
“Russian Troops Out! No to NATO expansion!” A pacific geopolitics for a new Europe9
Rights to the rescue? The promotion of Indigenous women's political-electoral rights and the rise of the Mexican security state9
Resilience and values: Global perspectives on the values and worldviews underpinning the resilience concept9
Emotional healing as part of environmental and climate justice processes: Frameworks and community-based experiences in times of environmental suffering8
Extra-territorial quarantine in pandemic times8
Decolonizing technology and political ecology futures8
Spatial variation in populist right voting in Austria, 2013–20178
Assemblage-democracy: Reconceptualising democracy through material resource governance8
Corporate security technologies: Managing life and death along a Colombian coal railway8
Realizing citizenship in property: Houseless encampments and the limits of liberalism's promise8
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach8
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study8
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey8
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals8
The case for extending measures of democracy in the world “Beneath”, “Above”, and “Outside” the national level8
Polarizations, exclusionary neonationalisms and the city8
Operationalising memory and identity politics to influence public opinion of refugees: A snapshot from Poland8
Borders and bureaucracies of EU mobile citizenship: Polish migrants and the personal identification number in Sweden8
Embodying vertical geopolitics: Towards a political geography of falling8
Local territorial attachment in times of jurisdictional consolidation8
Regionmaking and conceptual development in South China: Perceiving islands, the Pearl River Delta, and the Greater Bay Area8
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China8
The post-politicization of rental housing financialization: News media, elite storytelling and Australia's new build to rent market8
Political geographies of urban demarcation: Learning from Nepal's state-restructuring process8
Trafficking borders8
Authoritarian space-time8
Extractive governance and mining conflicts: Challenging scalar hierarchies through ‘opening up’ to local sustainability pathways8
Harnessing the sending state: Pragmatic improvisations and negotiated memberships of the Chinese diaspora in Laos8
Rural drinking water governance politics in China: Governmentality schemes and negotiations from below8
Unsettling sovereignty: Violence, myths and the politics of history in the Ethiopian Somali metropolis7
Promised Land: Settlement Schemes in Kenya, 1962 to 20167
The age of the manager is over? Shale gas fracking and the challenge to the post-political regime for English planning7
A harbour in the country, a city in the sea: Infrastructural conduits, territorial inversions and the slippages of sovereignty in Sino-Sri Lankan development narratives7
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations7
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states7
Is planning still political? The politicization of high-speed rail in Spain (1986–2016)7
“Security, mobility, and the body – Syrian insurgent groups’ infrastructures and their geopolitical contestations through/by/in legal institutions”7
Climate coloniality as atmospheric violence: From necropolitics toward planetary mutuality7
Temporal bordering in the space of the camp: Producing and contesting abandonment in Skaramagas and Elaionas camps in Athens7
Tracing the ‘cloud’: Emergent political geographies of global data centres7
From local turn to space-relational analysis: Participatory peacebuilding in a Colombian borderland7
Prefigurative urbanization: Politics through infrastructural repertoires in Guayaquil7
Territorializing spatial data: Controlling land through One Map projects in Indonesia and Myanmar7
The modernist territorial order and the Ukraine crisis7
The pandemic, and the pandemonium of European philosophy7
Resistances in the “Resilient City”: Rise and fall of a disputed concept in New Orleans and Medellin7
Bordering through care and control: Policing and sheltering Central American migrant youth in Mexico7
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum7
Between dependency and engagement: Centring subaltern geopolitics in multiperspectival border studies. Lessons from the Western Sahara7
Weather variability and conflict forecasts: Dynamic human-environment interactions in Kenya7
Scripting climate futures: The geographical assumptions of climate planning7
Left behind in a public services wasteland? On the accessibility of public services and political trust7
“Silk Road here we come”: Infrastructural myths, post-disaster politics, and the shifting urban geographies of Nepal7
Virtual Forum introduction: Populist ecologies: Nature, nationalism, and authoritarianism7
Enjoying climate change: Jouissance as a political factor7
Resplendent care-full climate revolutions7
Carceral labour: Offshore work relations, conflicts and local participation in Ghana's oil and gas industry7
Local voting at local elections revisited: ‘Friends and neighbors voting’ at mayoral elections in rural Poland7
Disaster management takes to the skies: How new technologies are reconfiguring spatialities of power in desert locust management7
Borders on steroids: Open borders in a Covid-19 world?7
“Keep withstanding”: Territory in the body, home and market in Xinjiang, China7
“You can make it here!”: Producing Europe’s mobile borders in the New Gambia7
U.S. anti-abortion ideology on the move: Mobile crisis pregnancy centers as unruly, unmappable, and ungovernable7
Parched and impatient: Political engagement after drought6
Going back to school: Engaging veterans’ memories of the Malvinas war in secondary schools in Santa Fe, Argentina6
Introduction: Virtual forum on the Russian invasion of Ukraine6
The impact of precarious security conditions on renewable electrification: The case of the West Bank6
Whither the ECOWAS free movement protocols? Pandemic nationalism, borders, and migration in West Africa6
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’6
“It will kill your dreams, your goals, your everything”—Humanitarian migrants, governance through containment and the Italian accommodation system6
Barking up the tree wrongly? How national security strategies frame climate and other environmental change as security issues6
The stories we tell ourselves: Local newspaper reporting and support for the radical right6
“Let us create space”: Reclaiming peace and security in a Kenyan Somali community6
Neoliberalising the divided city6
International rivers as border infrastructures: En/forcing borders in South Asia6
Regional inequalities and transnational solidarity in the European Union6
Transitional justice from the margins: Collective reparations and Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission6
Dictatorships and universities: The 1980 Turkish military coup d’état and Turkish geography6
Virtual forum introduction: Populist nationalisms and new geographies of exclusion6
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits6
Institutionalisation of public participation in China's urban regeneration from the perspective of historical institutionalism: Three-stage cases in Guangzhou6
Between colonising waters and extracting forest fronts: Entangled eco-frontiers in the Usumacinta River Basin6
Housing in the face of crisis: The influence of Israel's 2011 protest on housing policy6
Black life beyond injury: Relational repair and the reparative conjuncture6
Geopolitics of decolonisation: The subaltern diplomacies of Lusophone Africa (1961–1974)6
The Geo-imaginaries of potential in Mexico's Burgos Basin6
Human rights memorials in turmoil: Antagonistic memories in contemporary Chile6
Bordering through othering: On strategic ambiguity in the making of the EU-Turkey refugee deal6
Affective borderings: Sovereignty and Tibetan refugee placemaking at the Nepal/China borderlands6
Digital degrowth innovation: Less growth, more play6
Geopolitical ecology for our times6
Afghanistan's energy sociotechnical imaginaries: Alternative visions in a conflict zone6
Regional cleavages in African politics: Persistent electoral blocs and territorial oppositions6
Interventions in the political geographies of resistance: The contributions of Cindi Katz, 15 years on6
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities6
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar5
Grabbing the commons: Forest rights, capital and legal struggle in the Carpathian Mountains5
Othering, governing, and resistance of abject urban animals: Egyptian geese and their right to the city5
Rights and health versus rights to health: Bringing Indigenous Peoples’ legal rights into the spaces of health care services5
The spaces of Australian capitalism: Making “place” out of “space” in The Unknown Industrial Prisoner5
Contradictory populist ecologies: Pro-peasant propaganda and land grabbing in rural Hungary5
Neither more nor less, but enough: Towards a modest political ecology of the future5
Geo-political complexities of governmentality and Balkanism: Deconstructing UNESCO World Intangible Cultural Heritage discourses5
Policing authoritarian neoliberalism in South London5
More-than-human political geographies: Abjection and sovereign power5
Territory and lithium extraction: The Great Land of Lipez and the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia5
Hybrid governmentality in practice: Territoriality and biopolitics in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh5
Defining invasive alien species from the roots up: Lessons from the ‘De-eucalyptising Brigades’ in Galicia, Spain5
Unsettled Rights: Afro-descendant recognition and ex-situ titling in Colombia5
Ungovernability and ungovernable life in Palestine5
Labor resistance and municipal power: Scalar mismatch in the Los Angeles Green New Deal5
Police power in green: Furthering political ecologies of the state5
Understanding megacities. An argument on the role of democratic ideals5
Populism and the rise of the far right: Two different problems for political ecology5
A new electoral map? Brexit, realignment and the changing geography of party support in England5
Friends, neighbors, and sponsors in the 2016 French primary election. Revisiting a classical hypothesis from aggregated-level data5
The long memory of the land: Pre-colonial origins of Mapuche mobilization in Chile5
Tracing territorial-illicit relations: Pathways of influence and prospects for governance5
Living in a ‘free jail’: Asylum seekers' and local residents' experiences of discomfort with asylum seeker accommodation5
Economic re-colonisation: Financialisation, indigeneity and the epistemic violence of resolution5
The ambivalent relations behind civil society’s engagement in the “grey zones” of migration and integration governance: Case studies from Belgium5
All good things come from below? Scalar constructions of the ‘local’ in conflicts over mining5
Geographies of precarity and violence in the Kurdish kolberi underground economy5
Deaths, disappearances, borders: Migrant disappearability as a technology of deterrence5
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