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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Editors note	39
The transition to parenthood in urban space: continuity and disruption of embodied experience and spatial practice	33
Pollution is colonialism	27
Kerbs and curbs, desire and damage: an affirmative account of children’s play and being well during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Performing geographies of disappearance: migration and the case of the Saharan knowledge claim	22
On the drag of the ship(ped)	22
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	20
Building emotional-political communities to address gendered violence against women and girls during COVID-19 in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro	17
Digital hauntology: the Heeum Museum’s VR exhibition and the ghostly testimonies of Japanese military ‘comfort women’	16
Retail ruins: the ghosts of post-industrial spectacle	16
The institutionalization of parkour: blurring the boundaries of tight and loose spaces	16
Philosophy of the Tourist	15
More-than-human urban food growing imaginaries: engaging with the senses	14
Getting to Know Noisiness: Moving on Concepts and Debates for (Aero)mobilities and Atmospheres	14
Experiences of ‘sensory space-time compression’ in migrant homemaking	13
Towards a research agenda for animal and disability geographies: ableism, speciesism, care, space, and place	12
‘Worn out’: debt discipline, hunger, and the gendered contingencies of the COVID-19 pandemic amongst Cambodian garment workers	12
Plant-based food politics: veganism, quiet activism and small businesses in Sydney’s foodscapes	11
The black shoals: offshore formations of black and native studies	11
Encounters convening publics: opposing politics and confronting trouble-making	11
Artificial intelligence and the city: urbanistic perspectives on AI	11
Terrorscapes of desova : disappearance and apparition in Rio de Janeiro	11
‘Like yelling bomb in an airport’: bed bugs and more-than-human geographies of migrant farm worker hostels	10
Paradoxes of emancipation: radical imagination and space in neoliberal Greece	10
The politics of feeling: populism, progressivism, liberalism	10

Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment	10
Planty temporalities: sea buckthorn in post-mining landscapes	10
Ruins and the politics of disappearance: racial and social invisibilities in Detroit’s abandonment tourism	9
Night-time bedroom soundscapes: embodied geographies of housing and home	9
Feeling–living–fighting the housing crisis: testimonio as methodology in geographic housing research	9
Digital geographies of everyday multiculturalism: ‘Let’s go Nando’s!’	9
Watching embryos: exploring the geographies of assisted reproduction through encounters with embryo imaging technologies	9
A place where there is no need to explain: LGBTQ Muslims, collective disidentification and queer space in Brussels, Belgium	8
Mediterranean geographies from the abyss. Traces of the wake: boats and shipwrecks	8
The Insta-Gaze: investigating the endurance of stereotypes of Africa	8
A walk with “that wild dog of yours”: tales of circumscribed, co-negotiated and adaptive walking practices	7
Threshold: how smart homes change us inside and out	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
School food at home: Brazil’s national school food programme (PNAE) during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Beyond refugeeness: complex subjectivities in Palestinian refugee camps	7
Creative writing: Urban renewal, the creative city and graffiti in Johannesburg	7
Affective practices and embodied cultural performances: creating atmospheres at Hanfu festivals	6
‘Empty returns’: home and its unmaking during Greek-Cypriot refugee women’s return visits	6
Shapes of hot water: the ontological politics of handwashing during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
The subterranean in crime fiction: examining Edinburgh’s underground in Ian Rankin’s John Rebus novels	6
‘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)	6
Earth, cosmos and culture: geographies of outer space in Britain, 1900–2020	6
Living between inside and outside: the disciplined domesticities of prison staff quarters in the UK’s Victorian-era prisons	6
The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos, by	6
“We’re not that much different from you!”: navigating positions of betweenness to explore solidarity, care and vulnerability in refugee and forced migration research	6
‘Why has this guy got his foot in the sink?’: challenges, encounters and everyday geographies of practicing wudu	6
No taste like home: geographies of private home dining	5
Doing social infrastructure “by the book”? The contested place of children in Aotearoa New Zealand’s transforming public libraries	5
Feminist city: claiming space in a man-made world	5
Spatialising the collective: the spatial practices of two housing projects in Berlin	5
Valuing the manual: the demarcation of embodied practices within algorithmic decision-making processes	5
Studentification as gendered urban process: student geographies of housing in Waterloo, Canada	5
Food security and the ma(s)king of indigenous peoples’ dispossession: the example of Inuit in Canada	5
Nothing there . A small Armenian town between disappearance and endurance	5
Philip Larkin and the place of writing	5
In the interstices of ubiquity: respatialising Bogotá through black relational territories	5
Sexual assault on public transport: crowds, nation, and violence in the urban commons	5
Urban belonging as place-based affect	5
When top-down infrastructures fail: spaces and practices of care and community under COVID-19	4
On the technological unconscious: thinking the (a)signifying production of subjects and bodies with sonographic imaging	4
Radio and the anti-geopolitical ear: imaginative geographies of a Syrian family’s migration to Europe on BBC Radio 4	4
Mind the information gap! Constructing counter-narratives for urban planning in Detroit’s photobooks	4
# SpendYourSummerInGeorgia : popular geopolitics, grassroots activism and tourism marketing against Russia	4
‘To remember means to fight [fascism]!’: constellations of visibility and disappearance in Brandenburg, Germany	4
Vegetal intimacies in science	4
Interfacing as embodied practice: journeys between print, screen and beyond	4
Estate regeneration and its discontents: public housing, place and inequality in London	4
Bubbles, fortresses and rings of steel: risk and socio-spatialities in Australians’ accounts of border controls during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourses from the perspective of COVID-19	4

Wastelands to Wetlands: questioning wellbeing futures in urban greening	4
Mobile therapeutic ‘home’ territories during the COVID-19 pandemic and moments of being well pedalling	4
‘Stuffed if I [still don’t] know’: towards weak methodologies	4
Moving behind the scenes of public space: the differentiation of market traders’ routinized mobilities	4
‘Now there’s just a different feel’: spatiotemporal commitments & commercial racialization as markers of rural belonging	4
Custodians of a resort island: standing by between oblivion and restoration	3
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors	3
Making sense of ‘middle-age’: thinking from and through the middle	3
Critical toponymies beyond the power-resistance nexus: multiple toponymies and everyday life in the (re-)naming of South China Sea Islands	3
Minding the emptiness of nothing: methodological nothingness and the spatial anthropology of futility	3
Towards an assemblage approach to mobile disability politics	3
Using Tronto’s care ethics to transform debates about UK emergency food	3
Mapping home, memory and spatial recovery in forced displacement	3
Auratic distance: art’s role in heritage production	3
Planetary justice: stories and studies of action, resistance and solidarity	3
Mail art methods and the social and cultural geographies of families affected by rare disease	3
Affective exits: leaving as desire against neoliberal futurity	3
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
Prisms of prejudice: mediating the Middle East from the United States	3
Towards the geographies of loneliness: interpreting the spaces of loneliness in farming contexts	3
Socialist and post-socialist urbanisms: critical reflections from a global perspective	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
Care ethics in transnational healthcare: attentiveness, competence, and responsibility in medical travel facilitation	3
‘Fowl’ play: reverse place-branding of Toxteth, liverpool through the celebrity discourse of Robbie Fowler	3