Political Geography

Article	Citations
Unpacking land-associated assemblages ‘from below’: Smallholders' land access strategies at the commercial tree-crop frontier	685
Review essay	176
Editorial Board	118
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”	113
Grateful reckonings with the political geographies of resistance; a response	94
African Union defense demand and spatial spillovers	78
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground	74
Challenging the ‘absent state’: Neoliberal extractivist governance and state effects in the northwest Peruvian Amazon	58
Volumising territorial sovereignty: Atmospheric sciences, climate, and the vertical dimension in 20th century China	52
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia	50
Troubling the politics of island relation: The Comoros in between, on the edge, and as microcosm	49
De-centering the urban waterscape via patterns, relations and traces of drinking water quality in Kaolack, Senegal	46
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice	45
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market	43
The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality'	43
‘Waging word wars’: The ‘emotionscape’ of the United Nations Security Council and the Russian war in Ukraine	42
Corporate contentious politics: Palm oil companies and land conflicts in Indonesia	41
Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization	40
Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand	39
Unravelling inclusive food citizenship: Insights from East-Central London	39
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	38
The everyday art of resistance: Interpreting "resistancescapes" against urban violence in Palestine	36
Minority gentrification: Re-evaluation of class and ethno-nationalism intersectionality	36
Psychoanalytic political ecology	35
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’	33

Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand	32
Editorial Board	32
Editorial Board	32
Editorial Board	30
Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India	30
A proxy geopolitics of poppies, peasants, and national sovereignty: Turkey’s rhetorical resistance to America’s war on drugs	29
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities	28
Debating diaspora: Securitization framework and the Turkish state's making of dissent abroad	27
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya	27
The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests	26
Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark	26
Worlding decolonisation: Rediscovering federalist and pluralist geographies of more-than-national liberation	26
Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks	24
Domestic drone futures	24
Staking claims: Hybrid governance and state-making on the North Kosovo frontier	24
Commoning in the Anthropocene: Exploring the political possibility of caring with in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece	24
“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	24
WITHDRAWN: Making spaces for debate in the digital age	23
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life	23
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting: How comparativists misunderstood Canadian scholars on local candidates	23
Collaborations: Joint plenary editorial introduction	23
Can the borderland speak? Entangled territoriality in the foothills of Northeast India	22
Jurisdictional imaginaries as contested geographies: A metaphor analysis of reference cases about Canada's Impact Assessment Act	22
Between colonising waters and extracting forest fronts: Entangled eco-frontiers in the Usumacinta River Basin	22
Tipping point urbanism: A study of the painting and fading of the macromural La Mariposa in governing self-built settlements in Bogotá	22
Climates of control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines	21
Assembling governance in São Paulo's "Cracolândia"	21
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl	21
The political geographies of AI and the manosphere	21
Pastoralism and conservation: The politics and notions of environmental justice under the grazing ban policy in Inner Mongolia, China	21
Gaza: The first full-scale AI war?	21
Who you gonna call? Theorising everyday security practices in urban spaces with multiple security actors – The case of Beirut's Southern Suburbs	21
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi	21
Editorial Board	20
Showerheads, coffee machines and the everyday political geographies of the green backlash	20
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies	20
The ethnic-spatial conservation fix: Contradictory tensions between restitution and enclosure within communally owned protected areas in South Africa	20
From local site to global logics. Infrastructure, capitalism and violence	20
Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance	20
Green national paradox? How the far right turned Sweden from a (reputed) pioneer of climate mitigation to an obstructor	20
Reclaiming sovereignty over the body: Post-2022 Russian migration between bio-, thanato- and necropolitics	19
Interpreting Title IX: A feminist legal geography of sexual assault prevention on U.S. college campuses	19
The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century	19
Restoring landscapes to build common futures: Land redistribution and environmental action in rural Scotland	19
The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico	18
Editorial Board	18
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’	18
All maritime crimes are local: Understanding the causal link between illegal fishing and maritime piracy	18
Asserting Europe's technological sovereignty amid American platform finance: Countering financial sector dependence on Big Tech?	18
How and why does demographic decline lead to support for populist parties? The case of the Czech Republic	18

Feminist geopolitics of creativity: A study of women practicing Islamic and traditional visual arts in Istanbul	18
Good bridges make good neighbors: The convergence of political support astride the Connecticut river	17
Place-based resentment in an egalitarian welfare state	17
Hydro-legal geopolitics: Why states join—or reject—global water treaties	17
The making of a hydrofrontier: Geopolitics, securitization and ‘green’ energy imaginaries in India's eastern borderlands	17
Embodied geopolitics and negotiations of belongings from Turkey to Athens after 2016	17
Bloody, hairy, and hormonal: An intimate geopolitics of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)	17
Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence	16
The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective	16
The railway panopticon: State formation, carceral power, and everyday policing in the late-nineteenth-century train station	16
Global China in the American heartland: Chinese investment, populist coalitions, and the new red scare	16
On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations	16
Keeping migrants at the margins. Governing through ambiguity and the politics of discretion in the post-2015 EUropean migration and border regime	16
Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities	16
Interpreting NIMBY as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps’ siting: A comparative case study in two Greek regions	16
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits	16
Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]	16
Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq	16
Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography	16
Is green hydrogen really colonial? A commentary on Tunn et al. 2025	15
Local and indigenous knowledge systems on nature-based solutions: Addressing Green Colonialism in Mangrove restoration of the Indian Sundarbans	15
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum	15
Violent environments and the low-carbon energy transition: Cautionary tales from Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea	15
The spatial politics of green hydrogen: Speculative enactments, contested dynamics and alternative pathways in southern Chile	15
In the camp but not of the camp. The forced incorporation of Bangladeshi host communities in Rohingya refugee camps	15
Governing through temporariness: Disaster, temporal governmentality, and refugee agency in the Rohingya camps	15
A spatial interaction model of vote dispersion	15
Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic	15
Resistance and the moral problems of scholarly refusal	14
Three stages of civil society development in the Global East: Lessons from Montenegro, 1989–2020	14
Political Geography and the urgency of holding space for open and critical inquiry	14
Neoliberalizing state spaces in postwar Western Europe: The emergence of a new integrative regime of sovereignty	14
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals	14
Political ecologies of the Green New Deal: Critiques, contentions and radical appropriations	14
Editorial Board	14
Institutional knowledge and perceived rural representation	14
Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration ‘crisis’ on BBC Radio 4	14
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations	13
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania	13
Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis	13
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea	13
Being-in-family and being-in-community: Ontological (in)securities, diaspora youth agencies, and the Rwandan emigration state	13
Rethinking environmental governance for development: the blue œconomy dispositif	13
Frontier ecologies: Israel's settler colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan	13
Tringapore – Singapore in geopolitical comics	13
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment	13
Editorial Board	12
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states	12
Topography of power. Visual domination and the geography of pursuit on Alpine borders	12
Editorial Board	12
Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries	12
Caught in the net: unraveling the piracy-IUU fishing milieu in Indonesian waters through survey data	12
Editorial Board	12
The geography of intent: The bodily implications of border surveillance technologies	12
Geopolitical assemblages and disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, India	12
Space to think? Chinese think tanks and the uneven development of party-state power	12
Necrosettlements: Life-threatening housing, necropolitics and the poor's deadly living in Mumbai	12
A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009–2022	12
Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin	11
Where do we go? Explaining democratic capital location preferences	11
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China	11
Creating a new climate transition politics? Reflections on a Real Deal for Australia	11
Revisiting “For ethnography in political geography”	11
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid	11
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach	11
Degrowing desire	11
Regional immunity complexes: A plurospherical and autoimmunological reimagining of regional security	11
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study	11
Gatekeeping beyond the state: The mombasa port development program and the emergence of the gatekeeper city	11
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar	11
Pseudo-landed water people: Experiences of informality in Tai O village, Hong Kong	11
The nature conservation-geopolitics complex: Bridging between conservation geopolitics and peace park discourses	11
The price of climate finance: Agency, knowledge and refusal in Mexico	11
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey	11
The green, green grass of the nation. A new far-right ecology in Spain	11
Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar	11
Review forum	11
The more things change, the more they remain the same	11
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis	10
The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives	10

Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions: A decolonial perspective from the Garo Indigenous community in Bangladesh	10
Polish geopolitical vertigo: Grassroots popular geopolitics meets right-wing populism	10
Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change	10
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization	10
Woman, Life, Freedom: Decoding the feminist uprising in Iran	10
When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting?	10
Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform	10
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers	10
Scientific nationalism and museums of the future in Germany and the UAE	10
Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones	10
Lost votes, divided cities: The unequal electoral geography of invalid voting in Germany’s urban neighbourhoods (2002–2025)	10
Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita	10
Urban atmospheres of terror	10
Migrant struggles in the Darién Gap-Tapón: Rethinking a more-than-human border	10
Seams of power: Migration, state capitalism, and the dual mobilities of European energy investment in Jordan	10
From local turn to space-relational analysis: Participatory peacebuilding in a Colombian borderland	9
Editorial Board	9
Duality and dual use in Israel's war on Gaza	9
Technology and the construction of oceanic space: Bathymetry and the Arctic continental shelf dispute	9
Flex commodities and intertwining world-ecologies: Indonesian palm waste as an environmental fix in the New Zealand dairy industry	9
Russian spatial imaginaries and the invasion of Ukraine: Geopolitics and nationalist fantasies	9
Estonia's “Return to Europe”: The relationship between neoliberalism, statelessness, and Westward integration in post-independence Estonia	9
Review forum	9
Intimate bordering: Intimacy, anti-blackness and gender violence in the making of the Dominican border	9
Own, fund, and spill: Canada's ‘frontier-making state project,’ 1973–84	9
Fast and slow violence and the survival work of the stateless: The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia	9
In the gap between my thoughts and yours: A response to commentaries on the 2025 political geography plenary	9
War on two fronts: Gender regimes and the ethnonationalist state in Myanmar and Sri Lanka	9
Labor resistance and municipal power: Scalar mismatch in the Los Angeles Green New Deal	9
Towards hydrosocial autonomy within modernity. A long-term analysis (1850–1980) of socio-material fracturing of flood protection infrastructures in an Alpine valley	9
Editorial Board	9
Care, continuity, and meaningful change	9
Prohibition geographies: Afterward to special issue on “Illicit geographies and contested environments”	9
Leaving home: Using videogames to help students understand forced migration	9
Caravan politics in the depoliticised city: Applying and opposing exceptional measures for Dutch Traveller, Sinti, and Roma caravan sites	9
The Sea in Sea Rescue: Conceptualising solidarity with maritime migrants	9
Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-19	9
Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River	9
The most important memorial is the ongoing labour of justice	9
The unequal geographies of climate finance: Climate injustice and dependency in the world system	9
Rescaling the socialist state: Territorial politics and city-region restructuring in Maoist China	9
Editorial Board	9
Review forum	8
An assemblage approach to performances of sovereignty through Gibraltar's hosting of the 2019 International Island Games	8
Affective borderings: Sovereignty and Tibetan refugee placemaking at the Nepal/China borderlands	8
Al Aqsa flood in long histories of Palestinian resistance	8
The unbearable lightness of neoliberalism: Monsters, ghosts, and the poetics of neoliberal infrastructures	8
Review essay	8
How Narcos work together: Debt, trust and community governance in Bolivia's cocaine supply chain	8
Urban spatial politics and collective action in revolutionary Cairo: Counter spaces and paradoxes of mobilisation	8
“Home has always been at the heart of our self-government”: Housing, home and Indigenous self-determination in Fort Good Hope, Canada	8
Deportation as a neo-colonial act: how deporting state influence extends beyond the border	8
Cybernetic States: Communication, Control, and State-Space in the Advanced Research Projects Agency	8
Towards a solid-fluid territory: Sand dredging, volumetric practices, and earthly elements	8
Editorial Board	8
Imposing order from the skies? Civil aviation as a precarious site of state sovereignty in Somalia	8
On pipelines, readiness and annotative labour: Political geographies of AI and data infrastructures in Africa	8
Wasla. Tracing the lasting impacts of an entangled colonial history on a Miskitu community	8
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 state	8
Where do regimes rally their supporters? The geographical distribution of pro-war mobilization in Russia, 2022	8
Introduction to the virtual forum: Gaza's past, present, and futures	7
Retraction notice to “Climate shocks and conflict: Evidence from colonial Nigeria” [Political Geography 50 (2015) 33–47]	7
Racial capitalism and spheres of influence: Australian assertions of white possession in the Pacific	7
Critically reflecting on the PolGRG Book Prize	7
Editorial Board	7
Resilience, responsibility and state abandon: The changing role of the government in emergencies	7
Virtual Forum Introduction: The Geographies of Political Geography: Celebrating the Journal's 40-Year Anniversary	7
Necropolitics, peacebuilding and racialized violence: The elimination of indigenous leaders in Colombia	7
Imposing connectivity: Privileging an elephant corridor over ecotourism in the Sigur Plateau, South India	7
Counter-maps of body-territory: Gender-based violence in Mexico	7
Questioning rural populism	7
Cabling and un-cabling Palestine/Israel: Toward a theory of cumulative infrastructural injustice	7
Temporal geographies of premature death: Caste, law, and infrastructure in Swachh Bharat	7
Mapping the spatial politics of Australian settler colonialism	7
The socio-ecological fix by multi-scalar states: The development of ‘Greenways of Paradise’ in Chengdu	7
It's just a watch: Ambiguity, ethics and the politics of representing and reading slow violence	7
External Europeanization through timber trade agreements: Tracing causality in environmental governance reform	7
The civic legacies of disaster for youth political agency	7
Conjuncture and repair: A response to ‘relational repair: Black life beyond injury’ by Jovan Scott Lewis	7
Explaining strategic disinterment: Forensics and the reconstruction of the missing in Cyprus	7
From home to summit: Sovereign bodies and the everyday geopolitics of mountain tourism in Iraqi Kurdistan	7
Standing in the spaces	7
How do governments discursively reconcile plans for expanding oil and gas production with global climate goals? The cases of Colombia and Nigeria	7
Blueing business as usual in the ocean: Blue economies, oil, and climate justice	6
Residential concentration and political engagement among racialized Canadians: The moderating role of intragroup contact	6
Spatialities of slow resistance in Congo-Brazzaville	6
Differentiating the local impact of global drugs and weapons trafficking: How do gangs mediate ‘residual violence’ to sustain Trinidad's homicide boom?	6
Ecological militarization: Engineering territory in the South China Sea	6
Food practices, queer social reproduction and the geographies of LGBTQ+ activism	6
What repoliticisation means and requires: Creating the climate for disagreement	6
There is nothing here! Unequal access to services and rural resentment in Spain	6
Unraveling the frontier: A new look at the Inter-Korean border	6
Attacking the roots: On the limited development of (green) colonialism	6
The surge of the small donorate in U.S. elections: A view from Texas statewide campaigns	6