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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
De-centering the urban waterscape via patterns, relations and traces of drinking water quality in Kaolack, Senegal511
African Union defense demand and spatial spillovers112
Grateful reckonings with the political geographies of resistance; a response94
Unpacking land-associated assemblages ‘from below’: Smallholders' land access strategies at the commercial tree-crop frontier88
Challenging the ‘absent state’: Neoliberal extractivist governance and state effects in the northwest Peruvian Amazon71
Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization70
Review essay62
Editorial Board54
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip52
The deeping rural-urban divide in U.S. Presidential politics: Presidential votes in Iowa, 2008–202051
Spatializing the political ecologies of the future41
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground37
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice37
‘Waging word wars’: The ‘emotionscape’ of the United Nations Security Council and the Russian war in Ukraine37
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”35
Local voting at local elections revisited: ‘Friends and neighbors voting’ at mayoral elections in rural Poland35
The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality'33
Corporate contentious politics: Palm oil companies and land conflicts in Indonesia32
Volumising territorial sovereignty: Atmospheric sciences, climate, and the vertical dimension in 20th century China32
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia32
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market31
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US30
Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark30
Troubling the politics of island relation: The Comoros in between, on the edge, and as microcosm30
To forty more years of Political Geography29
Worlding decolonisation: Rediscovering federalist and pluralist geographies of more-than-national liberation29
Populist ecologies of Bitcoin29
Editorial Board29
Look who perpetrates violence and where: Explaining variation in forced migration28
Editorial Board27
The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests27
Concerning community, with Lynn Staeheli27
Debating diaspora: Securitization framework and the Turkish state's making of dissent abroad26
The everyday art of resistance: Interpreting "resistancescapes" against urban violence in Palestine26
Editorial Board26
A proxy geopolitics of poppies, peasants, and national sovereignty: Turkey’s rhetorical resistance to America’s war on drugs26
Staking claims: Hybrid governance and state-making on the North Kosovo frontier26
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand25
Minority gentrification: Re-evaluation of class and ethno-nationalism intersectionality24
Commoning in the Anthropocene: Exploring the political possibility of caring with in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece24
Rain, rain, voter go away? New evidence on rainfall and voter turnout from the universe of North Carolina voters during the 2012–2020 presidential elections24
Domestic drone futures24
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’24
Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand24
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities23
Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks23
Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India23
Psychoanalytic political ecology22
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya22
Gaza: The first full-scale AI war?22
Tipping point urbanism: A study of the painting and fading of the macromural La Mariposa in governing self-built settlements in Bogotá21
Can the borderland speak? Entangled territoriality in the foothills of Northeast India20
“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 leisure20
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life20
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl19
Assembling governance in São Paulo's "Cracolândia"19
Green national paradox? How the far right turned Sweden from a (reputed) pioneer of climate mitigation to an obstructor19
Jurisdictional imaginaries as contested geographies: A metaphor analysis of reference cases about Canada's Impact Assessment Act19
WITHDRAWN: Making spaces for debate in the digital age19
Climates of control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines18
Between colonising waters and extracting forest fronts: Entangled eco-frontiers in the Usumacinta River Basin18
Collaborations: Joint plenary editorial introduction18
Exception beyond the sovereign state: Makhmour refugee camp between statism and autonomy17
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies17
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting: How comparativists misunderstood Canadian scholars on local candidates17
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
The ethnic-spatial conservation fix: Contradictory tensions between restitution and enclosure within communally owned protected areas in South Africa16
The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico16
How and why does demographic decline lead to support for populist parties? The case of the Czech Republic16
Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance16
Pastoralism and conservation: The politics and notions of environmental justice under the grazing ban policy in Inner Mongolia, China16
The making of a hydrofrontier: Geopolitics, securitization and ‘green’ energy imaginaries in India's eastern borderlands16
Interpreting Title IX: A feminist legal geography of sexual assault prevention on U.S. college campuses16
Place-based resentment in an egalitarian welfare state15
The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring15
All maritime crimes are local: Understanding the causal link between illegal fishing and maritime piracy15
Bloody, hairy, and hormonal: An intimate geopolitics of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)15
Contradictory populist ecologies: Pro-peasant propaganda and land grabbing in rural Hungary15
Keeping migrants at the margins. Governing through ambiguity and the politics of discretion in the post-2015 EUropean migration and border regime15
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 systems14
Global China in the American heartland: Chinese investment, populist coalitions, and the new red scare14
Editorial Board14
The ambivalent relations behind civil society’s engagement in the “grey zones” of migration and integration governance: Case studies from Belgium14
Interpreting NIMBY as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps’ siting: A comparative case study in two Greek regions14
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits14
Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic14
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’14
Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities14
Embodied geopolitics and negotiations of belongings from Turkey to Athens after 201614
Local and indigenous knowledge systems on nature-based solutions: Addressing Green Colonialism in Mangrove restoration of the Indian Sundarbans13
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum13
Violent environments and the low-carbon energy transition: Cautionary tales from Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea13
On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations13
Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq13
Surplus precaritization: Supply chain capitalism and the geoeconomics of hope in Myanmar's borderlands13
Is green hydrogen really colonial? A commentary on Tunn et al. 202513
Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]13
In the camp but not of the camp. The forced incorporation of Bangladeshi host communities in Rohingya refugee camps13
Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence12
Being-in-family and being-in-community: Ontological (in)securities, diaspora youth agencies, and the Rwandan emigration state12
Three stages of civil society development in the Global East: Lessons from Montenegro, 1989–202012
Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration ‘crisis’ on BBC Radio 412
Frontier ecologies: Israel's settler colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan12
The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective12
Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography12
Political ecologies of the Green New Deal: Critiques, contentions and radical appropriations12
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania12
Institutional knowledge and perceived rural representation12
A spatial interaction model of vote dispersion12
The railway panopticon: State formation, carceral power, and everyday policing in the late-nineteenth-century train station12
Resistance and the moral problems of scholarly refusal12
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment12
The 2020 vote and beyond: Old situations, new complications12
Editorial Board11
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey11
Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis11
Neoliberalizing state spaces in postwar Western Europe: The emergence of a new integrative regime of sovereignty11
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations11
The geography of intent: The bodily implications of border surveillance technologies11
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea11
Editorial Board11
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals11
Gatekeeping beyond the state: The mombasa port development program and the emergence of the gatekeeper city11
Editorial Board11
Necrosettlements: Life-threatening housing, necropolitics and the poor's deadly living in Mumbai11
Tringapore – Singapore in geopolitical comics11
The violence of space and spaces of violence: Peace as violence in unequal and divided spaces11
The green, green grass of the nation. A new far-right ecology in Spain10
Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries10
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study10
Geopolitical assemblages and disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, India10
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions: A decolonial perspective from the Garo Indigenous community in Bangladesh10
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states10
Placing the city in Lynn Staeheli's scholarship10
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China10
Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita10
A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009–202210
Babelic organisations and the interpreters of geopolitical knowledge production10
Regional immunity complexes: A plurospherical and autoimmunological reimagining of regional security10
Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar10
Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform9
The more things change, the more they remain the same9
Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China9
Creating a new climate transition politics? Reflections on a Real Deal for Australia9
The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives9
Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change9
Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones9
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar9
Review forum9
Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin9
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization9
Pseudo-landed water people: Experiences of informality in Tai O village, Hong Kong9
Where do we go? Explaining democratic capital location preferences9
The politics of discretion: Authority and influence in asylum dispersal9
The nature conservation-geopolitics complex: Bridging between conservation geopolitics and peace park discourses9
Wars in refuge: Locating Syrians’ intimate knowledges of violence across time and space9
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid9
Revisiting “For ethnography in political geography”9
Urban atmospheres of terror9
Scientific nationalism and museums of the future in Germany and the UAE9
Woman, Life, Freedom: Decoding the feminist uprising in Iran9
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach9
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers9
Changing geographies of voter turnout: Michigan and the urban/rural divide8
From local turn to space-relational analysis: Participatory peacebuilding in a Colombian borderland8
Watching North Korea from the sky: Remote sensing and documenting human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea8
The most important memorial is the ongoing labour of justice8
Caravan politics in the depoliticised city: Applying and opposing exceptional measures for Dutch Traveller, Sinti, and Roma caravan sites8
Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River8
Fast and slow violence and the survival work of the stateless: The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia8
Towards hydrosocial autonomy within modernity. A long-term analysis (1850–1980) of socio-material fracturing of flood protection infrastructures in an Alpine valley8
War on two fronts: Gender regimes and the ethnonationalist state in Myanmar and Sri Lanka8
Housing and populist ecologies8
Editorial Board8
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis8
Estonia's “Return to Europe”: The relationship between neoliberalism, statelessness, and Westward integration in post-independence Estonia8
Captive calculations and benevolent abandonment: Ransom piracy and the carceral occupation of hostage ships along the coast of Somalia8
Labor resistance and municipal power: Scalar mismatch in the Los Angeles Green New Deal8
Editorial Board8
The unequal geographies of climate finance: Climate injustice and dependency in the world system8
Technology and the construction of oceanic space: Bathymetry and the Arctic continental shelf dispute8
When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting?8
Russian spatial imaginaries and the invasion of Ukraine: Geopolitics and nationalist fantasies8
The Sea in Sea Rescue: Conceptualising solidarity with maritime migrants8
Leaving home: Using videogames to help students understand forced migration8
The politics of tears8
Towards a multi-scalar and multi-horizon framework of energy injustice: A whole systems analysis of Estonian energy transition8
Duality and dual use in Israel's war on Gaza8
Blue governmentality: Elemental activism with conservation technologies on plundered seas8
Environment and integration on the edge of Europe8
The evacuation camp as paradoxical space for women8
Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-198
Review forum8
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