Political Geography

Papers
(The TQCC of Political Geography is 8. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
De-centering the urban waterscape via patterns, relations and traces of drinking water quality in Kaolack, Senegal411
The Geo-imaginaries of potential in Mexico's Burgos Basin79
Local voting at local elections revisited: ‘Friends and neighbors voting’ at mayoral elections in rural Poland76
Grateful reckonings with the political geographies of resistance; a response73
Editorial Board61
The deeping rural-urban divide in U.S. Presidential politics: Presidential votes in Iowa, 2008–202058
Spatializing the political ecologies of the future51
Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization46
‘Waging word wars’: The ‘emotionscape’ of the United Nations Security Council and the Russian war in Ukraine44
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice43
Review essay41
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip40
Challenging the ‘absent state’: Neoliberal extractivist governance and state effects in the northwest Peruvian Amazon35
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia34
African Union defense demand and spatial spillovers34
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”32
Unpacking land-associated assemblages ‘from below’: Smallholders' land access strategies at the commercial tree-crop frontier32
The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality'31
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground30
Territory and lithium extraction: The Great Land of Lipez and the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia30
Corporate contentious politics: Palm oil companies and land conflicts in Indonesia30
Volumising territorial sovereignty: Atmospheric sciences, climate, and the vertical dimension in 20th century China29
Troubling the politics of island relation: The Comoros in between, on the edge, and as microcosm29
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market29
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US28
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand26
Can civic nationalism reduce corruption? Transnational and translocal insights from Solomon Islands26
Psychoanalytic political ecology26
“Let us create space”: Reclaiming peace and security in a Kenyan Somali community25
Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks25
Harnessing the sending state: Pragmatic improvisations and negotiated memberships of the Chinese diaspora in Laos24
To forty more years of Political Geography24
Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark24
Editorial Board24
Commoning in the Anthropocene: Exploring the political possibility of caring with in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece24
Editorial Board24
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities23
Editorial Board23
Worlding decolonisation: Rediscovering federalist and pluralist geographies of more-than-national liberation22
Domestic drone futures22
Populist ecologies of Bitcoin22
Rain, rain, voter go away? New evidence on rainfall and voter turnout from the universe of North Carolina voters during the 2012–2020 presidential elections22
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya22
Concerning community, with Lynn Staeheli21
Staking claims: Hybrid governance and state-making on the North Kosovo frontier21
A proxy geopolitics of poppies, peasants, and national sovereignty: Turkey’s rhetorical resistance to America’s war on drugs21
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’20
Look who perpetrates violence and where: Explaining variation in forced migration19
Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand19
The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests19
Minority gentrification: Re-evaluation of class and ethno-nationalism intersectionality19
Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India19
Climates of control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines18
The everyday art of resistance: Interpreting "resistancescapes" against urban violence in Palestine18
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies18
Debating diaspora: Securitization framework and the Turkish state's making of dissent abroad18
Tipping point urbanism: A study of the painting and fading of the macromural La Mariposa in governing self-built settlements in Bogotá18
Collaborations: Joint plenary editorial introduction17
Who you gonna call? Theorising everyday security practices in urban spaces with multiple security actors – The case of Beirut's Southern Suburbs17
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting: How comparativists misunderstood Canadian scholars on local candidates17
Gaza: The first full-scale AI war?17
Between colonising waters and extracting forest fronts: Entangled eco-frontiers in the Usumacinta River Basin17
Exception beyond the sovereign state: Makhmour refugee camp between statism and autonomy17
Pastoralism and conservation: The politics and notions of environmental justice under the grazing ban policy in Inner Mongolia, China16
Jurisdictional imaginaries as contested geographies: A metaphor analysis of reference cases about Canada's Impact Assessment Act16
Contradictory populist ecologies: Pro-peasant propaganda and land grabbing in rural Hungary15
Editorial Board15
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi15
Embodied geopolitics and negotiations of belongings from Turkey to Athens after 201615
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl15
WITHDRAWN: Making spaces for debate in the digital age15
Bloody, hairy, and hormonal: An intimate geopolitics of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)15
Housing in the face of crisis: The influence of Israel's 2011 protest on housing policy15
Assembling governance in São Paulo's "Cracolândia"15
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits14
The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico14
How and why does demographic decline lead to support for populist parties? The case of the Czech Republic14
Asserting Europe's technological sovereignty amid American platform finance: Countering financial sector dependence on Big Tech?14
Interpreting Title IX: A feminist legal geography of sexual assault prevention on U.S. college campuses14
The ambivalent relations behind civil society’s engagement in the “grey zones” of migration and integration governance: Case studies from Belgium14
Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance14
The ethnic-spatial conservation fix: Contradictory tensions between restitution and enclosure within communally owned protected areas in South Africa14
The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring14
Global China in the American heartland: Chinese investment, populist coalitions, and the new red scare13
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’13
The railway panopticon: State formation, carceral power, and everyday policing in the late-nineteenth-century train station13
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum13
Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]13
Keeping migrants at the margins. Governing through ambiguity and the politics of discretion in the post-2015 EUropean migration and border regime13
All maritime crimes are local: Understanding the causal link between illegal fishing and maritime piracy13
On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations13
Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence13
Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq13
The impossible energy trinity: Energy security, sustainability, and sovereignty in cross-border electricity systems13
Place-based resentment in an egalitarian welfare state13
Interpreting NIMBY as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps’ siting: A comparative case study in two Greek regions12
In the camp but not of the camp. The forced incorporation of Bangladeshi host communities in Rohingya refugee camps12
Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography12
Is green hydrogen really colonial? A commentary on Tunn et al. 202512
Surplus precaritization: Supply chain capitalism and the geoeconomics of hope in Myanmar's borderlands12
Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities12
Editorial Board12
Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic12
A spatial interaction model of vote dispersion12
The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective12
Geographies of unease: Witchcraft and boundary construction in an African borderland12
Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis11
Political ecologies of the Green New Deal: Critiques, contentions and radical appropriations11
Neoliberalizing state spaces in postwar Western Europe: The emergence of a new integrative regime of sovereignty11
Three stages of civil society development in the Global East: Lessons from Montenegro, 1989–202011
Institutional knowledge and perceived rural representation11
Necrosettlements: Life-threatening housing, necropolitics and the poor's deadly living in Mumbai11
The 2020 vote and beyond: Old situations, new complications11
Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration ‘crisis’ on BBC Radio 411
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations11
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals11
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea11
The violence of space and spaces of violence: Peace as violence in unequal and divided spaces11
Tringapore – Singapore in geopolitical comics11
Resistance and the moral problems of scholarly refusal11
Being-in-family and being-in-community: Ontological (in)securities, diaspora youth agencies, and the Rwandan emigration state11
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania11
Frontier ecologies: Israel's settler colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan11
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment10
Editorial Board10
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states10
A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009–202210
The green, green grass of the nation. A new far-right ecology in Spain10
Gatekeeping beyond the state: The mombasa port development program and the emergence of the gatekeeper city10
Editorial Board10
Placing the city in Lynn Staeheli's scholarship10
Geopolitical assemblages and disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, India10
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey10
Babelic organisations and the interpreters of geopolitical knowledge production10
The geography of intent: The bodily implications of border surveillance technologies10
Decolonizing cartography and ontological conflict: Counter-mapping in Colombia and “cartographies otherwise”10
Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries10
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar9
Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar9
Wars in refuge: Locating Syrians’ intimate knowledges of violence across time and space9
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China9
Review forum9
Revisiting “For ethnography in political geography”9
Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change9
Editorial Board9
Regional immunity complexes: A plurospherical and autoimmunological reimagining of regional security9
Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita9
Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform9
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid9
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study9
The more things change, the more they remain the same9
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis8
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions: A decolonial perspective from the Garo Indigenous community in Bangladesh8
Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China8
Scientific nationalism and museums of the future in Germany and the UAE8
Technology and the construction of oceanic space: Bathymetry and the Arctic continental shelf dispute8
The geography of truth and lies8
Woman, Life, Freedom: Decoding the feminist uprising in Iran8
The politics of tears8
Editorial Board8
Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones8
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach8
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization8
When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting?8
Housing and populist ecologies8
Pseudo-landed water people: Experiences of informality in Tai O village, Hong Kong8
Transformation is not a metaphor8
Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-198
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers8
Disciplinary geopolitics and the rise of international development studies in China8
The nature conservation-geopolitics complex: Bridging between conservation geopolitics and peace park discourses8
The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives8
Urban atmospheres of terror8
The politics of discretion: Authority and influence in asylum dispersal8
Duality and dual use in Israel's war on Gaza8
Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin8
Environment and integration on the edge of Europe8
Captive calculations and benevolent abandonment: Ransom piracy and the carceral occupation of hostage ships along the coast of Somalia8
Fast and slow violence and the survival work of the stateless: The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia8
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