Political Geography

Article	Citations
Challenging the ‘absent state’: Neoliberal extractivist governance and state effects in the northwest Peruvian Amazon	534
‘Waging word wars’: The ‘emotionscape’ of the United Nations Security Council and the Russian war in Ukraine	121
African Union defense demand and spatial spillovers	97
Grateful reckonings with the political geographies of resistance; a response	93
Review essay	77
Editorial Board	73
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip	69
The deeping rural-urban divide in U.S. Presidential politics: Presidential votes in Iowa, 2008–2020	57
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground	57
Unpacking land-associated assemblages ‘from below’: Smallholders' land access strategies at the commercial tree-crop frontier	56
Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization	44
Volumising territorial sovereignty: Atmospheric sciences, climate, and the vertical dimension in 20th century China	41
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice	39
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”	38
The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality'	37
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market	36
Troubling the politics of island relation: The Comoros in between, on the edge, and as microcosm	34
Corporate contentious politics: Palm oil companies and land conflicts in Indonesia	34
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US	33
De-centering the urban waterscape via patterns, relations and traces of drinking water quality in Kaolack, Senegal	33
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia	33
Local voting at local elections revisited: ‘Friends and neighbors voting’ at mayoral elections in rural Poland	32
Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark	32
The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests	31
Worlding decolonisation: Rediscovering federalist and pluralist geographies of more-than-national liberation	31

Staking claims: Hybrid governance and state-making on the North Kosovo frontier	29
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’	29
Debating diaspora: Securitization framework and the Turkish state's making of dissent abroad	29
Editorial Board	28
Look who perpetrates violence and where: Explaining variation in forced migration	28
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand	28
To forty more years of Political Geography	27
Editorial Board	27
The everyday art of resistance: Interpreting "resistancescapes" against urban violence in Palestine	27
Concerning community, with Lynn Staeheli	27
Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India	26
Psychoanalytic political ecology	26
A proxy geopolitics of poppies, peasants, and national sovereignty: Turkey’s rhetorical resistance to America’s war on drugs	26
Editorial Board	26
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	26
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya	25
Commoning in the Anthropocene: Exploring the political possibility of caring with in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece	25
Populist ecologies of Bitcoin	25
Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand	24
Minority gentrification: Re-evaluation of class and ethno-nationalism intersectionality	24
Gaza: The first full-scale AI war?	23
Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks	23
Domestic drone futures	23
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities	23
“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	22
Can the borderland speak? Entangled territoriality in the foothills of Northeast India	22
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life	21
Green national paradox? How the far right turned Sweden from a (reputed) pioneer of climate mitigation to an obstructor	20
Assembling governance in São Paulo's "Cracolândia"	20
Tipping point urbanism: A study of the painting and fading of the macromural La Mariposa in governing self-built settlements in Bogotá	20
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl	20
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting: How comparativists misunderstood Canadian scholars on local candidates	19
Between colonising waters and extracting forest fronts: Entangled eco-frontiers in the Usumacinta River Basin	19
Collaborations: Joint plenary editorial introduction	19
Pastoralism and conservation: The politics and notions of environmental justice under the grazing ban policy in Inner Mongolia, China	18
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi	18
Who you gonna call? Theorising everyday security practices in urban spaces with multiple security actors – The case of Beirut's Southern Suburbs	18
The political geographies of AI and the manosphere	17
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies	17
Exception beyond the sovereign state: Makhmour refugee camp between statism and autonomy	17
Climates of control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines	17
Jurisdictional imaginaries as contested geographies: A metaphor analysis of reference cases about Canada's Impact Assessment Act	17
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
Keeping migrants at the margins. Governing through ambiguity and the politics of discretion in the post-2015 EUropean migration and border regime	16
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
Place-based resentment in an egalitarian welfare state	16
Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance	16
WITHDRAWN: Making spaces for debate in the digital age	16

Editorial Board	15
Bloody, hairy, and hormonal: An intimate geopolitics of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)	15
Embodied geopolitics and negotiations of belongings from Turkey to Athens after 2016	15
Contradictory populist ecologies: Pro-peasant propaganda and land grabbing in rural Hungary	15
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
Showerheads, coffee machines and the everyday political geographies of the green backlash	14
Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]	14
Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq	14
Is green hydrogen really colonial? A commentary on Tunn et al. 2025	14
How and why does demographic decline lead to support for populist parties? The case of the Czech Republic	14
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits	14
Violent environments and the low-carbon energy transition: Cautionary tales from Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea	14
On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations	14
Global China in the American heartland: Chinese investment, populist coalitions, and the new red scare	14
The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring	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
Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography	14
Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities	14
In the camp but not of the camp. The forced incorporation of Bangladeshi host communities in Rohingya refugee camps	13
Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic	13
Local and indigenous knowledge systems on nature-based solutions: Addressing Green Colonialism in Mangrove restoration of the Indian Sundarbans	13
The railway panopticon: State formation, carceral power, and everyday policing in the late-nineteenth-century train station	13
Surplus precaritization: Supply chain capitalism and the geoeconomics of hope in Myanmar's borderlands	13
Being-in-family and being-in-community: Ontological (in)securities, diaspora youth agencies, and the Rwandan emigration state	13
A spatial interaction model of vote dispersion	13
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum	13
The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective	13
Interpreting NIMBY as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps’ siting: A comparative case study in two Greek regions	13
Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence	13
Resistance and the moral problems of scholarly refusal	12
Editorial Board	12
The 2020 vote and beyond: Old situations, new complications	12
Frontier ecologies: Israel's settler colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan	12
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals	12
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment	12
Neoliberalizing state spaces in postwar Western Europe: The emergence of a new integrative regime of sovereignty	12
Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration ‘crisis’ on BBC Radio 4	12
Necrosettlements: Life-threatening housing, necropolitics and the poor's deadly living in Mumbai	12
The violence of space and spaces of violence: Peace as violence in unequal and divided spaces	12
Institutional knowledge and perceived rural representation	11
Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis	11
Editorial Board	11
Space to think? Chinese think tanks and the uneven development of party-state power	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 geography of intent: The bodily implications of border surveillance technologies	11
Tringapore – Singapore in geopolitical comics	11
Political ecologies of the Green New Deal: Critiques, contentions and radical appropriations	11
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea	11
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania	11
Editorial Board	11
Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries	10
Where do we go? Explaining democratic capital location preferences	10
Geopolitical assemblages and disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, India	10
Placing the city in Lynn Staeheli's scholarship	10
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China	10
Regional immunity complexes: A plurospherical and autoimmunological reimagining of regional security	10
The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives	10
Gatekeeping beyond the state: The mombasa port development program and the emergence of the gatekeeper city	10
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study	10
The green, green grass of the nation. A new far-right ecology in Spain	10
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states	10
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions: A decolonial perspective from the Garo Indigenous community in Bangladesh	10
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey	10
Babelic organisations and the interpreters of geopolitical knowledge production	10
A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009–2022	10
Wars in refuge: Locating Syrians’ intimate knowledges of violence across time and space	9
The nature conservation-geopolitics complex: Bridging between conservation geopolitics and peace park discourses	9
Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita	9
Captive calculations and benevolent abandonment: Ransom piracy and the carceral occupation of hostage ships along the coast of Somalia	9
Migrant struggles in the Darién Gap-Tapón: Rethinking a more-than-human border	9
Scientific nationalism and museums of the future in Germany and the UAE	9
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization	9
Woman, Life, Freedom: Decoding the feminist uprising in Iran	9
Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China	9
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar	9
The more things change, the more they remain the same	9
The politics of discretion: Authority and influence in asylum dispersal	9

Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach	9
Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform	9
Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-19	9
Environment and integration on the edge of Europe	9
Editorial Board	9
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis	9
Urban atmospheres of terror	9
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid	9
Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change	9
Pseudo-landed water people: Experiences of informality in Tai O village, Hong Kong	9
Revisiting “For ethnography in political geography”	9
Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin	9
Caravan politics in the depoliticised city: Applying and opposing exceptional measures for Dutch Traveller, Sinti, and Roma caravan sites	9
Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones	9
Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar	9
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers	9
Review forum	9
Creating a new climate transition politics? Reflections on a Real Deal for Australia	9
Estonia's “Return to Europe”: The relationship between neoliberalism, statelessness, and Westward integration in post-independence Estonia	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
Changing geographies of voter turnout: Michigan and the urban/rural divide	8
Leaving home: Using videogames to help students understand forced migration	8
Watching North Korea from the sky: Remote sensing and documenting human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea	8
Fast and slow violence and the survival work of the stateless: The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia	8
The most important memorial is the ongoing labour of justice	8
Labor resistance and municipal power: Scalar mismatch in the Los Angeles Green New Deal	8
Towards a multi-scalar and multi-horizon framework of energy injustice: A whole systems analysis of Estonian energy transition	8
The Sea in Sea Rescue: Conceptualising solidarity with maritime migrants	8
The politics of tears	8
Blue governmentality: Elemental activism with conservation technologies on plundered seas	8
Housing and populist ecologies	8
The evacuation camp as paradoxical space for women	8
The unequal geographies of climate finance: Climate injustice and dependency in the world system	8
War on two fronts: Gender regimes and the ethnonationalist state in Myanmar and Sri Lanka	8
Editorial Board	8
Review forum	8
Duality and dual use in Israel's war on Gaza	8
Technology and the construction of oceanic space: Bathymetry and the Arctic continental shelf dispute	8
Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River	8
Russian spatial imaginaries and the invasion of Ukraine: Geopolitics and nationalist fantasies	8
When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting?	8
From local turn to space-relational analysis: Participatory peacebuilding in a Colombian borderland	8