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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Solidarity and collective forms of social reproduction: the social and political legacy of Syntagma Square, Athens	106
The radical bookstore: counterspace for social movements	21
Towards a culture of care for ethical review: connections and frictions in institutional and individual practices of social research ethics	19
Lively robots: robotic technologies in COVID-19	19
Mapping the moral geographies of education: character, citizenship and values	18
Digital and non-digital representations as actors in the enactment of selfhood and community on the Appalachian Trail	17
The transition to parenthood in urban space: continuity and disruption of embodied experience and spatial practice	17
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	16
The institutionalization of parkour: blurring the boundaries of tight and loose spaces	14
Bedding into bags: the life histories of materials, makers and the time of making in a case study of fabric upcycling	14
Pandemic-induced deathscapes: end-of-life, funerary and bereavement challenges for British-Bangladeshi Muslims	14
Editors note	11
Kerbs and curbs, desire and damage: an affirmative account of children’s play and being well during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Animated lands: studies in territoriology	11
Urban belonging as place-based affect	11
Some popular cultural geographies, starring Cyrille Regis, Delia Derbyshire, an Ewok, Mickey Mouse, Napalm Death, the Sylvanian families, and anonymous hate mail…	11
The politics of dating apps: gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in Urban China	11
Queer Latinx Worldmakings: geographies of food, love and familia in prison	11
Deadly intersections: living and dying with non-humans in everyday life	10
‘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	10
‘We love it here and there’: Turkish Alevi older migrants’ belonging to places	10
For a Liberatory Politics of Home	10
Feminist city: claiming space in a man-made world	9
‘Plantation memories: episodes of everyday racism’ (Memórias da Plantação: episódios de racismo quotidiano’/ trad. Nuno Quintas); rev. cient. Júlia Correia; rev. linguística João Berhan	9
Threshold Modernisms: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London	9

Why ‘cultures of care’?	8
Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourses from the perspective of COVID-19	8
Legal and cultural geographies of displacement: home un making through material belongings	8
‘Am I Being Unreasonable’ to use Mumsnet to explore historical geographies of childhood in domestic spaces?	8
Absorbents, practices, and infrastructures: Changing socio-material landscapes of menstrual waste in Lilongwe, Malawi	7
Urban living and the search for new societal metaphors: Insights from Brussels participatory arts practices	7
‘All my friends here are ghosts’: everyday geo-legalities in a rural poultry town	7
Urban surfaces, graffiti, and the right to the city	7
Building emotional-political communities to address gendered violence against women and girls during COVID-19 in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro	7
Linguistic sound walks: setting out ways to explore the relationship between linguistic soundscapes and experiences of social diversity	7
Intricate critical turn: changing geographical knowledge production in an authoritarian context	7
Glasgow’s contested LGBT pride spaces: examining dimensions of variegated homonormativities	7
Wastelands to Wetlands: questioning wellbeing futures in urban greening	7
Writing subjectivity without subjecthood: the machinic unconscious of Nathalie Sarraute’s Tropisms	7
Children’s prosthetic citizenship as ‘here-and-now’, ‘not-yet’ and ‘not-here’. the case of the mobile preschool	6
Apocalyptic nothingness: lacks, holes, and the limits of the geographical imagination	6
Reconstructing culture: seasonal labour migration and the cultural geographies of social change in rural western India	6
Communicative patterns and social networks between scientists and technicians in a culture of care: discussing morality across a hierarchy of occupational spaces	6
Home SOS: Gender, Violence, and Survival in Crisis Ordinary Cambodia	6
Problematising density: COVID-19, the crowd, and urban life	6
‘Now there’s just a different feel’: spatiotemporal commitments & commercial racialization as markers of rural belonging	5
Is the terrain still vague ? Reconsidering indeterminate spaces	5
Understanding ‘faith’ in faith-based organizations: refugee resettlement work as religious practice	5
The ‘Mirrored Ceiling’: Young undergraduate student women’s expectations of gendered career opportunities and constraints	5
Disappearance, emergence, and appearance: garbage and the politics of placemaking in Cartagena, Colombia	5
When top-down infrastructures fail: spaces and practices of care and community under COVID-19	5
Vegetal intimacies in science	5
Cultures of labour: aspiration, developmental futures and the materiality of memory after Chinese economic reform	5
Therapeutic landscapes during the COVID-19 pandemic: increased and intensified interactions with nature	5
Getting to Know Noisiness: Moving on Concepts and Debates for (Aero)mobilities and Atmospheres	4
The Feel of Algorithms	4
Constructing the geographical imagination: the Dickensian as a discourse	4
The geographies of sexual violence in education: a photovoice study in and around a South African township secondary school	4
Coupling constraints affecting daily mobilities of Swedish families with wheelchair-using children	4
The social stone: a story of transformation from ableist to accessible topology	4
# SpendYourSummerInGeorgia : popular geopolitics, grassroots activism and tourism marketing against Russia	4
‘Worn out’: debt discipline, hunger, and the gendered contingencies of the COVID-19 pandemic amongst Cambodian garment workers	4
Making space: Investigating the diversity conundrum for British music festivals	4
Bubbles, fortresses and rings of steel: risk and socio-spatialities in Australians’ accounts of border controls during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Growing up, moving out, going on: Im/mobilities and youth transitions in the un/making of friendships	4
“You better stay healthy and postpone any illness until I can be with you”: the multidirectional ‘care ecologies’ of migrant women during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Estate regeneration and its discontents: public housing, place and inequality in London	4
Plant-based food politics: veganism, quiet activism and small businesses in Sydney’s foodscapes	4
Post-return emotions: everyday food practices of overseas returned students in Shanghai	4
A personal geography of care and disability	4
Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: on decolonising practices and discourses	4
Towards a research agenda for animal and disability geographies: ableism, speciesism, care, space, and place	4
Mobile therapeutic ‘home’ territories during the COVID-19 pandemic and moments of being well pedalling	4
Interfacing as embodied practice: journeys between print, screen and beyond	4
Mapping home, memory and spatial recovery in forced displacement	4

Undoing man ual labour: the performative force of female building workers	4
Declaring, scanning, sniffing, searching: unpacking the mobility cultures of Australia’s biosecurity	3
Imagining post-fossil tourism mobilities with Norwegian tourists	3
Deathly storytelling in the ecological city: how pigeons became falcon food in Baltimore, Maryland	3
More-than-human urban food growing imaginaries: engaging with the senses	3
Construction as a ‘building event’: exploring the role of project architects and their practices of intermediation during the construction of global architecture	3
Sonic registers of belonging: British mobile young people in UK higher education	3
Radio and the anti-geopolitical ear: imaginative geographies of a Syrian family’s migration to Europe on BBC Radio 4	3
Animal-based entertainment industries, animal death and Social Licence to Operate (SLO): an analysis of ‘The Final Race’ and the 2019 Melbourne Cup	3
The prison as a postmilitary landscape	3
The status of being or the achievement of becoming? Towards better understandings of cars as status symbols	3
‘We were turned into Jews’: space, subjectivation, and resistance in occupied Paris	3
Visual disability in spatio-temporal assemblages: conceptualizing reference points from a non-pointillist perspective	3
A literary geography of the sinthome: the case of Sherlock Holmes and The Stormy Petrels of British Columbia	3
The intimate geopolitics of charitable knitting: how crafting makes bodies	3
On the technological unconscious: thinking the (a)signifying production of subjects and bodies with sonographic imaging	3
Making visible the Chicagoland suburban healthcare landscape of latina women: a qualitative GIS approach	3
Experiences of ‘sensory space-time compression’ in migrant homemaking	3
Unruly domestication: poverty, family, and statecraft in urban Perú	3
The work that plants do: life, labour and the future of vegetal economies	3
Philosophy of the Tourist	3
Young adults’ re-imagining of postsecular spaces in Czechia	3
Towards the geographies of loneliness: interpreting the spaces of loneliness in farming contexts	3
Travelling ‘down South’: language, cultural capital and spatiality in Chennai’s information technology sector	3