OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social & Cultural Geography is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Pollution is colonialism	39
Digital hauntology: the Heeum Museum’s VR exhibition and the ghostly testimonies of Japanese military ‘comfort women’	29
Essential care: migrant Latin American youth negotiating acts of caring before and during COVID lockdowns	28
Performing geographies of disappearance: migration and the case of the Saharan knowledge claim	26
The Unsettling Outdoors: Environmental Estrangement in Everyday Life, by Russell Hitchings. London: Wiley, RGS-IBG Book Series 2021 176 pp., $51.95 paperback (ISBN: 978-1-119-54915-4); $124.95 hardbac	23
The institutionalization of parkour: blurring the boundaries of tight and loose spaces	18
Kerbs and curbs, desire and damage: an affirmative account of children’s play and being well during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
On the drag of the ship(ped)	16
Retail ruins: the ghosts of post-industrial spectacle	15
Philosophy of the Tourist	14
Towards a research agenda for animal and disability geographies: ableism, speciesism, care, space, and place	13
Plant-based food politics: veganism, quiet activism and small businesses in Sydney’s foodscapes	13
Experiences of ‘sensory space-time compression’ in migrant homemaking	13
Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment	12
Artificial intelligence and the city: urbanistic perspectives on AI	12
More-than-human urban food growing imaginaries: engaging with the senses	12
‘Like yelling bomb in an airport’: bed bugs and more-than-human geographies of migrant farm worker hostels	11
Planty temporalities: sea buckthorn in post-mining landscapes	11
Night-time bedroom soundscapes: embodied geographies of housing and home	11
Paradoxes of emancipation: radical imagination and space in neoliberal Greece	11
The politics of listing and urban heritage: social housing, representation and the case of Robin Hood Gardens	10
The politics of feeling: populism, progressivism, liberalism	10
A place where there is no need to explain: LGBTQ Muslims, collective disidentification and queer space in Brussels, Belgium	9
Feeling–living–fighting the housing crisis: testimonio as methodology in geographic housing research	9
Ruins and the politics of disappearance: racial and social invisibilities in Detroit’s abandonment tourism	9

Threshold: how smart homes change us inside and out	8
Watching embryos: exploring the geographies of assisted reproduction through encounters with embryo imaging technologies	8
Migration research in ‘play space’: joyful encounters, empathic unsettlement and refusal in arts-based ethnography	8
School food at home: Brazil’s national school food programme (PNAE) during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
The Insta-Gaze: investigating the endurance of stereotypes of Africa	8
Encounters convening publics: opposing politics and confronting trouble-making	8
Micro-visual encounters with homelessness in an urban railway station	8
Terrorscapes of desova : disappearance and apparition in Rio de Janeiro	8
Creative writing: Urban renewal, the creative city and graffiti in Johannesburg	7
A walk with “that wild dog of yours”: tales of circumscribed, co-negotiated and adaptive walking practices	7
Mediterranean geographies from the abyss. Traces of the wake: boats and shipwrecks	7
‘Why has this guy got his foot in the sink?’: challenges, encounters and everyday geographies of practicing wudu	7
Rethinking spaces of gendered livestock ownership: pastoralist women’s knowledge, care, and labor	7
COVID19 geographies: activities and activisms of those opposed to or concerned about changes to sexual and gendered legislation and cultures	7
Earth, cosmos and culture: geographies of outer space in Britain, 1900–2020	7
Shapes of hot water: the ontological politics of handwashing during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
“We’re not that much different from you!”: navigating positions of betweenness to explore solidarity, care and vulnerability in refugee and forced migration research	7
Beyond refugeeness: complex subjectivities in Palestinian refugee camps	7
The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos, by	7
‘No one can just occupy the space without our permission’: informal governance mechanisms and the politics of street traders’ access to space in Harare’s contested Central Business District (CBD)	7
‘Empty returns’: home and its unmaking during Greek-Cypriot refugee women’s return visits	6
Living between inside and outside: the disciplined domesticities of prison staff quarters in the UK’s Victorian-era prisons	6
What happened to the progressive sense of place? Exploratory place writing from Kilburn to Neukölln	6
Philip Larkin and the place of writing	6
‘What can a little leaf do?’: mulch, farming autonomy, and the generosity of infrastructures in ruined agricultural landscapes	6
Affective practices and embodied cultural performances: creating atmospheres at Hanfu festivals	6
Vegetal intimacies in science	5
‘To remember means to fight [fascism]!’: constellations of visibility and disappearance in Brandenburg, Germany	5
Doing social infrastructure “by the book”? The contested place of children in Aotearoa New Zealand’s transforming public libraries	5
Spatialising the collective: the spatial practices of two housing projects in Berlin	5
Food security and the ma(s)king of indigenous peoples’ dispossession: the example of Inuit in Canada	5
Wastelands to Wetlands: questioning wellbeing futures in urban greening	5
Constructing social memories by restructuring landscapes: transforming Turkey’s industrial centre into a geopark	5
Studentification as gendered urban process: student geographies of housing in Waterloo, Canada	5
The subterranean in crime fiction: examining Edinburgh’s underground in Ian Rankin’s John Rebus novels	5
Nothing there . A small Armenian town between disappearance and endurance	5
‘Now there’s just a different feel’: spatiotemporal commitments & commercial racialization as markers of rural belonging	5
Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourses from the perspective of COVID-19	5
No taste like home: geographies of private home dining	5
In the interstices of ubiquity: respatialising Bogotá through black relational territories	5
Valuing the manual: the demarcation of embodied practices within algorithmic decision-making processes	5
When top-down infrastructures fail: spaces and practices of care and community under COVID-19	4
# SpendYourSummerInGeorgia : popular geopolitics, grassroots activism and tourism marketing against Russia	4
Mobile therapeutic ‘home’ territories during the COVID-19 pandemic and moments of being well pedalling	4
Mind the information gap! Constructing counter-narratives for urban planning in Detroit’s photobooks	4
Remapping the body: an autoethnography of pain, paraesthesia, and the co-production of functional neurological symptoms	4
Estate regeneration and its discontents: public housing, place and inequality in London	4
On the technological unconscious: thinking the (a)signifying production of subjects and bodies with sonographic imaging	4
Moving behind the scenes of public space: the differentiation of market traders’ routinized mobilities	4
Urban belonging as place-based affect	4

‘Stuffed if I [still don’t] know’: towards weak methodologies	4
Interfacing as embodied practice: journeys between print, screen and beyond	4
Radio and the anti-geopolitical ear: imaginative geographies of a Syrian family’s migration to Europe on BBC Radio 4	4
The new urban ruins: vacancy, urban politics and international experiments in the Post Crisis City The new urban ruins: vacancy, urban politics and international experiments in the Post	3
Towards an assemblage approach to mobile disability politics	3
Auratic distance: art’s role in heritage production	3
Towards the geographies of loneliness: interpreting the spaces of loneliness in farming contexts	3
Minding the emptiness of nothing: methodological nothingness and the spatial anthropology of futility	3
Planetary justice: stories and studies of action, resistance and solidarity	3
Geographies of awkward encounters: unsettling moments for women in spaces of active leisure in Southeast Queensland, Australia	3
‘Fowl’ play: reverse place-branding of Toxteth, liverpool through the celebrity discourse of Robbie Fowler	3
Critical toponymies beyond the power-resistance nexus: multiple toponymies and everyday life in the (re-)naming of South China Sea Islands	3
The transgressive art of walking: entanglements of urban activism and tourism in South Tel Aviv	3
Buycotting to save the neighbourhood? exploring the altered meaning of social infrastructures of consumption during the Covid-19 crisis in Linden, Hannover, Germany	3
Bubbles, fortresses and rings of steel: risk and socio-spatialities in Australians’ accounts of border controls during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Using Tronto’s care ethics to transform debates about UK emergency food	3
Mail art methods and the social and cultural geographies of families affected by rare disease	3
Care ethics in transnational healthcare: attentiveness, competence, and responsibility in medical travel facilitation	3
Affective exits: leaving as desire against neoliberal futurity	3
Making sense of ‘middle-age’: thinking from and through the middle	3
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors	3
When research animals become pets and pets become research animals: care, death, and animal classification	3
Custodians of a resort island: standing by between oblivion and restoration	3
Socialist and post-socialist urbanisms: critical reflections from a global perspective	3