Political Geography

Papers
(The TQCC of Political Geography is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality'377
Corporate contentious politics: Palm oil companies and land conflicts in Indonesia133
De-centering the urban waterscape via patterns, relations and traces of drinking water quality in Kaolack, Senegal78
Territory and lithium extraction: The Great Land of Lipez and the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia71
Unpacking land-associated assemblages ‘from below’: Smallholders' land access strategies at the commercial tree-crop frontier70
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 Amazon62
Grateful reckonings with the political geographies of resistance; a response58
African Union defense demand and spatial spillovers55
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground54
Editorial Board54
Review essay49
The deeping rural-urban divide in U.S. Presidential politics: Presidential votes in Iowa, 2008–202044
Spatializing the political ecologies of the future42
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip40
Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization38
The case for socialist modernism38
‘Waging word wars’: The ‘emotionscape’ of the United Nations Security Council and the Russian war in Ukraine36
The Geo-imaginaries of potential in Mexico's Burgos Basin36
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice35
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia34
Troubling the politics of island relation: The Comoros in between, on the edge, and as microcosm34
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US33
Local voting at local elections revisited: ‘Friends and neighbors voting’ at mayoral elections in rural Poland29
Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand28
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market28
Volumising territorial sovereignty: Atmospheric sciences, climate, and the vertical dimension in 20th century China28
Domestic drone futures27
Commoning in the Anthropocene: Exploring the political possibility of caring with in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece27
Psychoanalytic political ecology26
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya26
Worlding decolonisation: Rediscovering federalist and pluralist geographies of more-than-national liberation26
The everyday art of resistance: Interpreting "resistancescapes" against urban violence in Palestine25
Can civic nationalism reduce corruption? Transnational and translocal insights from Solomon Islands25
Look who perpetrates violence and where: Explaining variation in forced migration24
The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests24
Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks24
“Let us create space”: Reclaiming peace and security in a Kenyan Somali community24
Populist ecologies of Bitcoin24
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand24
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities23
A proxy geopolitics of poppies, peasants, and national sovereignty: Turkey’s rhetorical resistance to America’s war on drugs23
Harnessing the sending state: Pragmatic improvisations and negotiated memberships of the Chinese diaspora in Laos23
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
Staking claims: Hybrid governance and state-making on the North Kosovo frontier22
Editorial Board22
Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark22
Editorial Board21
Debating diaspora: Securitization framework and the Turkish state's making of dissent abroad21
Concerning community, with Lynn Staeheli21
Minority gentrification: Re-evaluation of class and ethno-nationalism intersectionality21
To forty more years of Political Geography20
Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India20
Virtual Forum introduction: Environmental limits, scarcity and degrowth20
Editorial Board20
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’20
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies19
Gaza: The first full-scale AI war?19
Exception beyond the sovereign state: Makhmour refugee camp between statism and autonomy19
Climates of control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines18
Housing in the face of crisis: The influence of Israel's 2011 protest on housing policy17
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting: How comparativists misunderstood Canadian scholars on local candidates17
Collaborations: Joint plenary editorial introduction17
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi17
Who you gonna call? Theorising everyday security practices in urban spaces with multiple security actors – The case of Beirut's Southern Suburbs17
Jurisdictional imaginaries as contested geographies: A metaphor analysis of reference cases about Canada's Impact Assessment Act16
Pastoralism and conservation: The politics and notions of environmental justice under the grazing ban policy in Inner Mongolia, China16
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl16
The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico15
Assembling governance in São Paulo's "Cracolândia"15
Between colonising waters and extracting forest fronts: Entangled eco-frontiers in the Usumacinta River Basin15
WITHDRAWN: Making spaces for debate in the digital age15
Conservation in violent environments: Introduction to a special issue on the political ecology of conservation amidst violent conflict15
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits14
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 governance14
How and why does demographic decline lead to support for populist parties? The case of the Czech Republic14
Embodied geopolitics and negotiations of belongings from Turkey to Athens after 201614
Editorial Board14
All maritime crimes are local: Understanding the causal link between illegal fishing and maritime piracy14
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’14
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth13
Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography13
Interpreting Title IX: A feminist legal geography of sexual assault prevention on U.S. college campuses13
Place-based resentment in an egalitarian welfare state13
Keeping migrants at the margins. Governing through ambiguity and the politics of discretion in the post-2015 EUropean migration and border regime13
The impossible energy trinity: Energy security, sustainability, and sovereignty in cross-border electricity systems13
Surplus precaritization: Supply chain capitalism and the geoeconomics of hope in Myanmar's borderlands13
The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring13
Contradictory populist ecologies: Pro-peasant propaganda and land grabbing in rural Hungary13
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 complexities13
Interpreting NIMBY as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps’ siting: A comparative case study in two Greek regions13
The ambivalent relations behind civil society’s engagement in the “grey zones” of migration and integration governance: Case studies from Belgium13
The ethnic-spatial conservation fix: Contradictory tensions between restitution and enclosure within communally owned protected areas in South Africa13
Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq12
On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations12
In the camp but not of the camp. The forced incorporation of Bangladeshi host communities in Rohingya refugee camps12
Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]12
A spatial interaction model of vote dispersion12
Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence12
The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective12
The railway panopticon: State formation, carceral power, and everyday policing in the late-nineteenth-century train station12
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum12
Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic12
The future lies beneath: Mineral science, resource-making, and the (de)differentiation of the Peruvian underground11
Global China in the American heartland: Chinese investment, populist coalitions, and the new red scare11
Being-in-family and being-in-community: Ontological (in)securities, diaspora youth agencies, and the Rwandan emigration state11
The 2020 vote and beyond: Old situations, new complications11
Geographies of unease: Witchcraft and boundary construction in an African borderland11
Editorial Board11
Neoliberalizing state spaces in postwar Western Europe: The emergence of a new integrative regime of sovereignty11
Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration ‘crisis’ on BBC Radio 411
Political ecologies of the Green New Deal: Critiques, contentions and radical appropriations11
Is green hydrogen really colonial? A commentary on Tunn et al. 202511
Editorial Board11
Engaging imaginaries, rejecting utopias: The case for technological progress and political realism to sustain material wellbeing11
Three stages of civil society development in the Global East: Lessons from Montenegro, 1989–202011
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations11
The violence of space and spaces of violence: Peace as violence in unequal and divided spaces10
Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis10
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania10
Frontier ecologies: Israel's settler colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan10
Resistance and the moral problems of scholarly refusal10
Tringapore – Singapore in geopolitical comics10
Necrosettlements: Life-threatening housing, necropolitics and the poor's deadly living in Mumbai10
Gatekeeping beyond the state: The mombasa port development program and the emergence of the gatekeeper city10
Institutional knowledge and perceived rural representation10
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals10
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment10
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea10
Editorial Board9
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states9
Editorial Board9
Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries9
Revisiting “For ethnography in political geography”9
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar9
Decolonizing cartography and ontological conflict: Counter-mapping in Colombia and “cartographies otherwise”9
Editorial Board9
The green, green grass of the nation. A new far-right ecology in Spain9
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey9
A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009–20229
Review forum9
Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform9
Placing the city in Lynn Staeheli's scholarship9
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study9
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China9
Babelic organisations and the interpreters of geopolitical knowledge production9
Regional immunity complexes: A plurospherical and autoimmunological reimagining of regional security9
Geopolitical assemblages and disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, India9
The more things change, the more they remain the same9
Scientific nationalism and museums of the future in Germany and the UAE8
Disciplinary geopolitics and the rise of international development studies in China8
Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita8
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach8
The nature conservation-geopolitics complex: Bridging between conservation geopolitics and peace park discourses8
Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones8
Woman, Life, Freedom: Decoding the feminist uprising in Iran8
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid8
Virtual Forum Introduction: Electoral geographies of the 2020 U.S. presidential race8
Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China8
The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives8
Urban atmospheres of terror8
Wars in refuge: Locating Syrians’ intimate knowledges of violence across time and space8
The politics of discretion: Authority and influence in asylum dispersal8
Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin8
Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar8
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions: A decolonial perspective from the Garo Indigenous community in Bangladesh8
Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change8
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis8
The geography of truth and lies8
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers8
Duality and dual use in Israel's war on Gaza7
Labor resistance and municipal power: Scalar mismatch in the Los Angeles Green New Deal7
Editorial Board7
Housing and populist ecologies7
Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-197
Transformation is not a metaphor7
The Sea in Sea Rescue: Conceptualising solidarity with maritime migrants7
Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River7
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 Korea7
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization7
Technology and the construction of oceanic space: Bathymetry and the Arctic continental shelf dispute7
Caravan politics in the depoliticised city: Applying and opposing exceptional measures for Dutch Traveller, Sinti, and Roma caravan sites7
Borders and bureaucracies of EU mobile citizenship: Polish migrants and the personal identification number in Sweden7
Changing geographies of voter turnout: Michigan and the urban/rural divide7
The politics of tears7
Environment and integration on the edge of Europe7
Fast and slow violence and the survival work of the stateless: The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia7
Captive calculations and benevolent abandonment: Ransom piracy and the carceral occupation of hostage ships along the coast of Somalia7
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