OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social & Cultural Geography is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate change, COVID-19, and the co-production of injustices: a feminist reading of overlapping crises	88
Intolerable intersectional burdens: a COVID-19 research agenda for social and cultural geographies	44
‘I wouldn’t take the risk of the attention, you know? Just a lone girl biking’: examining the gendered and classed embodied experiences of cycling	21
Lively robots: robotic technologies in COVID-19	17
A good life? A good death? Reconciling care and harm in animal research	16
‘My room is the kitchen’: lived experience of home-making, home-unmaking and emerging housing strategies of disadvantaged urban youth in austerity Ireland	16
‘Worn out’: debt discipline, hunger, and the gendered contingencies of the COVID-19 pandemic amongst Cambodian garment workers	14
Therapeutic landscapes during the COVID-19 pandemic: increased and intensified interactions with nature	14
Urban singles and shared housing	13
Filmic geographies: audio-visual, embodied-material	12
‘I felt trapped’: young women’s experiences of shared housing in austerity Britain	12
Negotiating ‘ideal worker’ and intensive mothering ideologies: Australian mothers’ emotional geographies during their commutes	12
When ‘cultures of care’ meet: entanglements and accountabilities at the intersection of animal research and patient involvement in the UK	11
Retooling the public library as social infrastructure: a Dutch illustration	11
Absorbents, practices, and infrastructures: Changing socio-material landscapes of menstrual waste in Lilongwe, Malawi	11
‘We may be long in the tooth, but it makes us tough’: exploring stillness for older adults during the COVID-19 lockdowns	10
Vegan world-making in meat-centric society: the embodied geographies of veganism	10
Un/making the ‘sensory home’: tastes, smells and sounds during disasters	10
Becoming a bona fide cosmopolitan: unpacking the narratives of Western-situated degree-seeking transnational students in China	10
‘I have to know where I can go’: mundane mobilities and everyday public toilet access for people living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)	10
Why ‘cultures of care’?	10
Slow violence in public parks in the U.S.: can we escape our troubling past?	9
Animal-based entertainment industries, animal death and Social Licence to Operate (SLO): an analysis of ‘The Final Race’ and the 2019 Melbourne Cup	9
Extinctionscapes: Spatializing the commodification of animal lives and afterlives in conservation landscapes	9
The temporalities of supported decision-making by people with cognitive disability	8

On the margins: young men’s mundane experiences of austerity in English coastal towns	8
Urban trauma in the ruins of industrial culture: Miners’ Welfares of the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK	8
Disability, hostility and everyday geographies of un/safety	7
Touring and obscuring: how sensual, embodied and haptic gay touristic practices construct the geopolitics of pinkwashing	7
Caring for those who care: towards a more expansive understanding of ‘cultures of care’ in laboratory animal facilities	7
The production of urban commons through alternative food practices	7
‘Without cleanliness we can’t lead the life, no?’ Cleanliness practices, (in)accessible infrastructures, social (im)mobility and (un)sustainable consumption in Mysore, India	7
International education ‘here’ and ‘there’: geographies, materialities and differentiated mobilities within UK degrees	7
Dwelling on-the-move together in Sweden: sharing exclusive housing in times of marketization	7
A personal geography of care and disability	7
Linguistic sound walks: setting out ways to explore the relationship between linguistic soundscapes and experiences of social diversity	7
Tasting as a social practice: a methodological experiment in making taste public	7
Facing hunger, framing food banks, imaging austerity	7
Care crises and care fixes under Covid-19: the example of transnational live-in care work	7
Young men’s sports betting assemblages: masculinities, homosociality and risky places	7
The rush of the rush hour: mobility justice for seniors on public transport in Sydney, Australia	6
Missed connections? Everyday mobility experiences and the sociability of public transport in Amsterdam during COVID-19	6
Finding one place in another: post/phenomenology, memory anddéjà vu	6
The paradoxical habits of busyness and the complexity of intimate time-space	6
The everyday lived experiences of Airbnbification in London	6
When research animals become pets and pets become research animals: care, death, and animal classification	6
Geographies of food beyond food: transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil	6
‘We’re the cheap smart home’: the actually existing smart home as rented and shared	6
Debilitating landscapes of care and support: envisaging alternative futures	6
Crafting masculinities: embodying, recuperating and redistributing care in young lives	6
‘It died once at playgroup, I didn’t know what to do’: towards vital, vibrant, material geographies of the mobile phone in austerity	6
Home here and there: a spatial perspective on mobile experiences of ‘home’ among international students	5
Learning to labor in high-technology: experiences of overwork in university internships at digital media firms in North America	5
Land and ethnographic practices—(re)making toward healing	5
Balancing the formal and the informal: the relational challenges of everyday practices of co-operation in shared housing co-operatives in the UK	5
Everyday urbanisms in the pandemic city: a feminist comparative study of the gendered experiences of Covid-19 in Southern cities	5
‘I wouldn’t trade this country of ours for anything’: place, identity and men’s stories of the 2016 M7.8 Kaikōura/Waiau earthquake	5
Gender, spatiality and motherhood: intergenerational change in Greek-Cypriot migrant families in the UK	5
Discardscapes of fashion: commodity biography, patch geographies, and preconsumer garment waste in Cambodia	5
Diverse infrastructures of care: community food provisioning in Sydney	5
‘It became an anchor for stuff I really want to keep’: the stabilising weight of self-storage when moving home and away	5
(Re)crafting belonging: cultural-led regeneration, territorialization and craft beer events	5
Care, chaos and cosmos: territorial refrains of refugee belonging	5
“Why Should a Married Man Fetch Water?” Masculinities, gender relations, and the embodied political ecology of urban water insecurity in Malawi	4
Three participatory geographers: reflections on positionality and working with participants in researching religions, spiritualities, and faith	4
Engaging with the home-in-ruins: memory, temporality and the unmaking of home after fire	4
Getting to Know Noisiness: Moving on Concepts and Debates for (Aero)mobilities and Atmospheres	4
‘They tell us to keep our distance, but we sleep five people in one tent’: The opportunistic governance of displaced people in Calais during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
When top-down infrastructures fail: spaces and practices of care and community under COVID-19	4
‘When housing is provided, but you have only the closet’. Sexual orientation and family housing support in Athens, Greece	4
The languishing bike: depleting capacities of cycling-bodies	4
Rethinking gamified democracy as frictional: a comparative examination of the Decide Madrid and vTaiwan platforms	4
‘Tales from other people’s houses’: home and dis/connection in an East London neighbourhood	4
Thinking with new materialism about ‘safe-un-safe’ campus space for LGBTTIQA+ students	4
Building emotional-political communities to address gendered violence against women and girls during COVID-19 in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro	4

Repertoires of ‘migrant names’: an inquiry into mundane identity production	4
Enigmatic objects and playful provocations: the mysterious case of Golden Head	4
Emotional labour in a translocal context: rural migrant workers in China’s service sector	4
Mobile educational space and imaginative travellers in-situ: A case study of a UK international branch campus in China	4
Problematising density: COVID-19, the crowd, and urban life	4
Towards a culture of care for ethical review: connections and frictions in institutional and individual practices of social research ethics	4