Political Geography

Papers
(The TQCC of Political Geography is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Unpacking land-associated assemblages ‘from below’: Smallholders' land access strategies at the commercial tree-crop frontier747
Review essay192
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”135
Grateful reckonings with the political geographies of resistance; a response122
African Union defense demand and spatial spillovers101
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground83
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice80
The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality'62
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market56
Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization55
Volumising territorial sovereignty: Atmospheric sciences, climate, and the vertical dimension in 20th century China52
Troubling the politics of island relation: The Comoros in between, on the edge, and as microcosm50
De-centering the urban waterscape via patterns, relations and traces of drinking water quality in Kaolack, Senegal47
Unravelling inclusive food citizenship: Insights from East-Central London44
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia44
‘Waging word wars’: The ‘emotionscape’ of the United Nations Security Council and the Russian war in Ukraine43
Challenging the ‘absent state’: Neoliberal extractivist governance and state effects in the northwest Peruvian Amazon42
Corporate contentious politics: Palm oil companies and land conflicts in Indonesia42
Rain, rain, voter go away? New evidence on rainfall and voter turnout from the universe of North Carolina voters during the 2012–2020 presidential elections41
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’39
Editorial Board36
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Editorial Board34
Commoning in the Anthropocene: Exploring the political possibility of caring with in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece33
Worlding decolonisation: Rediscovering federalist and pluralist geographies of more-than-national liberation31
Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark31
Debating diaspora: Securitization framework and the Turkish state's making of dissent abroad30
A proxy geopolitics of poppies, peasants, and national sovereignty: Turkey’s rhetorical resistance to America’s war on drugs30
Staking claims: Hybrid governance and state-making on the North Kosovo frontier30
Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks29
The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests28
Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand28
Domestic drone futures28
The everyday art of resistance: Interpreting "resistancescapes" against urban violence in Palestine27
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities27
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya26
Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India26
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand26
Minority gentrification: Re-evaluation of class and ethno-nationalism intersectionality25
Psychoanalytic political ecology25
Erratum to “Populism and territoriality” [Political Geography 131 (2026) 103617]25
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life24
“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 leisure24
Who you gonna call? Theorising everyday security practices in urban spaces with multiple security actors – The case of Beirut's Southern Suburbs24
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting: How comparativists misunderstood Canadian scholars on local candidates23
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi23
Tipping point urbanism: A study of the painting and fading of the macromural La Mariposa in governing self-built settlements in Bogotá22
Climates of control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines22
WITHDRAWN: Making spaces for debate in the digital age22
Can the borderland speak? Entangled territoriality in the foothills of Northeast India22
Pastoralism and conservation: The politics and notions of environmental justice under the grazing ban policy in Inner Mongolia, China22
Assembling governance in São Paulo's "Cracolândia"22
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies22
From local site to global logics. Infrastructure, capitalism and violence22
Jurisdictional imaginaries as contested geographies: A metaphor analysis of reference cases about Canada's Impact Assessment Act22
Green national paradox? How the far right turned Sweden from a (reputed) pioneer of climate mitigation to an obstructor21
The gaps on our maps21
Gaza: The first full-scale AI war?21
The political geographies of AI and the manosphere21
Collaborations: Joint plenary editorial introduction21
Digital marronage in the neoliberal university: Building a liberatory stack20
Interpreting Title IX: A feminist legal geography of sexual assault prevention on U.S. college campuses20
Showerheads, coffee machines and the everyday political geographies of the green backlash20
Editorial Board20
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl20
The ethnic-spatial conservation fix: Contradictory tensions between restitution and enclosure within communally owned protected areas in South Africa20
Reclaiming sovereignty over the body: Post-2022 Russian migration between bio-, thanato- and necropolitics19
Good bridges make good neighbors: The convergence of political support astride the Connecticut river19
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’19
The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century19
The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico19
Feminist geopolitics of creativity: A study of women practicing Islamic and traditional visual arts in Istanbul19
How and why does demographic decline lead to support for populist parties? The case of the Czech Republic19
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits19
Restoring landscapes to build common futures: Land redistribution and environmental action in rural Scotland19
Asserting Europe's technological sovereignty amid American platform finance: Countering financial sector dependence on Big Tech?18
Bloody, hairy, and hormonal: An intimate geopolitics of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)18
Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]18
Place-based resentment in an egalitarian welfare state18
Editorial Board18
All maritime crimes are local: Understanding the causal link between illegal fishing and maritime piracy18
The making of a hydrofrontier: Geopolitics, securitization and ‘green’ energy imaginaries in India's eastern borderlands18
Probabilistic spaces: Terrains of resilience targeting in an age of generative AI18
Embodied geopolitics and negotiations of belongings from Turkey to Athens after 201618
Hydro-legal geopolitics: Why states join—or reject—global water treaties18
Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance18
Keeping migrants at the margins. Governing through ambiguity and the politics of discretion in the post-2015 EUropean migration and border regime18
The railway panopticon: State formation, carceral power, and everyday policing in the late-nineteenth-century train station17
On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations17
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum17
A spatial interaction model of vote dispersion17
Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities17
Violent environments and the low-carbon energy transition: Cautionary tales from Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea17
Governing through temporariness: Disaster, temporal governmentality, and refugee agency in the Rohingya camps16
Is green hydrogen really colonial? A commentary on Tunn et al. 202516
The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective16
What is the frontier to the migrating bird? Ladakh, education-driven migration, and the frontier as home15
Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq15
In the camp but not of the camp. The forced incorporation of Bangladeshi host communities in Rohingya refugee camps15
Frontier ecologies: Israel's settler colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan15
The spatial politics of green hydrogen: Speculative enactments, contested dynamics and alternative pathways in southern Chile15
Global China in the American heartland: Chinese investment, populist coalitions, and the new red scare15
Interpreting NIMBY as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps’ siting: A comparative case study in two Greek regions15
Being-in-family and being-in-community: Ontological (in)securities, diaspora youth agencies, and the Rwandan emigration state15
Local and indigenous knowledge systems on nature-based solutions: Addressing Green Colonialism in Mangrove restoration of the Indian Sundarbans15
Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence15
Resistance and the moral problems of scholarly refusal15
Editorial Board14
Topography of power. Visual domination and the geography of pursuit on Alpine borders14
Political Geography and the urgency of holding space for open and critical inquiry14
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals14
Institutional knowledge and perceived rural representation14
Rethinking environmental governance for development: the blue œconomy dispositif14
Neoliberalizing state spaces in postwar Western Europe: The emergence of a new integrative regime of sovereignty14
Tringapore – Singapore in geopolitical comics14
Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis14
Three stages of civil society development in the Global East: Lessons from Montenegro, 1989–202013
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations13
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment13
Political ecologies of the Green New Deal: Critiques, contentions and radical appropriations13
Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration ‘crisis’ on BBC Radio 413
Necrosettlements: Life-threatening housing, necropolitics and the poor's deadly living in Mumbai13
Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries13
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea13
Editorial Board13
The geography of intent: The bodily implications of border surveillance technologies13
Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar12
A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009–202212
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states12
Gatekeeping beyond the state: The mombasa port development program and the emergence of the gatekeeper city12
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study12
Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin12
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China12
Geopolitical assemblages and disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, India12
Editorial Board12
Space to think? Chinese think tanks and the uneven development of party-state power12
Reppin’ your constituency? Urban-rural differences in geographical representation in Swedish parliamentary debates12
Creating a new climate transition politics? Reflections on a Real Deal for Australia12
Woman, Life, Freedom: Decoding the feminist uprising in Iran12
The green, green grass of the nation. A new far-right ecology in Spain12
Editorial Board12
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey12
Caught in the net: unraveling the piracy-IUU fishing milieu in Indonesian waters through survey data12
Where do we go? Explaining democratic capital location preferences12
The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives11
Review forum11
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach11
Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform11
Scientific nationalism and museums of the future in Germany and the UAE11
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar11
The nature conservation-geopolitics complex: Bridging between conservation geopolitics and peace park discourses11
Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita11
Pseudo-landed water people: Experiences of informality in Tai O village, Hong Kong11
Degrowing desire11
Polish geopolitical vertigo: Grassroots popular geopolitics meets right-wing populism11
Seams of power: Migration, state capitalism, and the dual mobilities of European energy investment in Jordan11
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions: A decolonial perspective from the Garo Indigenous community in Bangladesh11
Lost votes, divided cities: The unequal electoral geography of invalid voting in Germany’s urban neighbourhoods (2002–2025)11
Revisiting “For ethnography in political geography”11
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid11
The price of climate finance: Agency, knowledge and refusal in Mexico11
Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change11
Migrant struggles in the Darién Gap-Tapón: Rethinking a more-than-human border11
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization10
The Sea in Sea Rescue: Conceptualising solidarity with maritime migrants10
Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River10
From local turn to space-relational analysis: Participatory peacebuilding in a Colombian borderland10
Towards hydrosocial autonomy within modernity. A long-term analysis (1850–1980) of socio-material fracturing of flood protection infrastructures in an Alpine valley10
Editorial Board10
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis10
“We'll never go”: Inuit youth refusals as climate politics10
War on two fronts: Gender regimes and the ethnonationalist state in Myanmar and Sri Lanka10
Estonia's “Return to Europe”: The relationship between neoliberalism, statelessness, and Westward integration in post-independence Estonia10
Duality and dual use in Israel's war on Gaza10
Caravan politics in the depoliticised city: Applying and opposing exceptional measures for Dutch Traveller, Sinti, and Roma caravan sites10
In the gap between my thoughts and yours: A response to commentaries on the 2025 political geography plenary10
When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting?10
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers10
Fast and slow violence and the survival work of the stateless: The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia10
Regional immunity complexes: A plurospherical and autoimmunological reimagining of regional security10
Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-1910
Review forum10
Leaving home: Using videogames to help students understand forced migration10
Technology and the construction of oceanic space: Bathymetry and the Arctic continental shelf dispute10
Own, fund, and spill: Canada's ‘frontier-making state project,’ 1973–8410
Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones10
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