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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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	41
Pollution is colonialism	32
Digital hauntology: the Heeum Museum’s VR exhibition and the ghostly testimonies of Japanese military ‘comfort women’	31
Kerbs and curbs, desire and damage: an affirmative account of children’s play and being well during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
On the drag of the ship(ped)	21
Performing geographies of disappearance: migration and the case of the Saharan knowledge claim	16
Essential care: migrant Latin American youth negotiating acts of caring before and during COVID lockdowns	16
Philosophy of the Tourist	15
The institutionalization of parkour: blurring the boundaries of tight and loose spaces	15
More-than-human urban food growing imaginaries: engaging with the senses	14
Plant-based food politics: veganism, quiet activism and small businesses in Sydney’s foodscapes	14
Towards a research agenda for animal and disability geographies: ableism, speciesism, care, space, and place	13
Retail ruins: the ghosts of post-industrial spectacle	13
Experiences of ‘sensory space-time compression’ in migrant homemaking	13
Artificial intelligence and the city: urbanistic perspectives on AI	12
Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment	12
Planty temporalities: sea buckthorn in post-mining landscapes	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	11
Ruins and the politics of disappearance: racial and social invisibilities in Detroit’s abandonment tourism	10
‘Like yelling bomb in an airport’: bed bugs and more-than-human geographies of migrant farm worker hostels	10
Encounters convening publics: opposing politics and confronting trouble-making	10
The politics of feeling: populism, progressivism, liberalism	10
Migration research in ‘play space’: joyful encounters, empathic unsettlement and refusal in arts-based ethnography	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
Practicing feminist approaches to social media research	9
Terrorscapes of desova : disappearance and apparition in Rio de Janeiro	9
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
Mediterranean geographies from the abyss. Traces of the wake: boats and shipwrecks	8
Threshold: how smart homes change us inside and out	8
“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
‘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
‘Why has this guy got his foot in the sink?’: challenges, encounters and everyday geographies of practicing wudu	7
COVID19 geographies: activities and activisms of those opposed to or concerned about changes to sexual and gendered legislation and cultures	7
Micro-visual encounters with homelessness in an urban railway station	7
Beyond refugeeness: complex subjectivities in Palestinian refugee camps	7
Shapes of hot water: the ontological politics of handwashing during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Rethinking spaces of gendered livestock ownership: pastoralist women’s knowledge, care, and labor	7
Creative writing: Urban renewal, the creative city and graffiti in Johannesburg	7
Earth, cosmos and culture: geographies of outer space in Britain, 1900–2020	7
A walk with “that wild dog of yours”: tales of circumscribed, co-negotiated and adaptive walking practices	7
The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos, by	6
‘What can a little leaf do?’: mulch, farming autonomy, and the generosity of infrastructures in ruined agricultural landscapes	6
The sea in festival-making: sensorial, affective, material, and political life at a festival on the Arabian seashore in Kerala, India	6
Living between inside and outside: the disciplined domesticities of prison staff quarters in the UK’s Victorian-era prisons	6
Affective practices and embodied cultural performances: creating atmospheres at Hanfu festivals	6
What happened to the progressive sense of place? Exploratory place writing from Kilburn to Neukölln	6
‘Empty returns’: home and its unmaking during Greek-Cypriot refugee women’s return visits	6
Philip Larkin and the place of writing	6
Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourses from the perspective of COVID-19	5
When top-down infrastructures fail: spaces and practices of care and community under COVID-19	5
Interfacing as embodied practice: journeys between print, screen and beyond	5
The subterranean in crime fiction: examining Edinburgh’s underground in Ian Rankin’s John Rebus novels	5
In the interstices of ubiquity: respatialising Bogotá through black relational territories	5
Food security and the ma(s)king of indigenous peoples’ dispossession: the example of Inuit in Canada	5
Vegetal intimacies in science	5
Urban belonging as place-based affect	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
Doing social infrastructure “by the book”? The contested place of children in Aotearoa New Zealand’s transforming public libraries	5
‘To remember means to fight [fascism]!’: constellations of visibility and disappearance in Brandenburg, Germany	5
‘Now there’s just a different feel’: spatiotemporal commitments & commercial racialization as markers of rural belonging	5
Nothing there . A small Armenian town between disappearance and endurance	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
Estate regeneration and its discontents: public housing, place and inequality in London	4
Mobile therapeutic ‘home’ territories during the COVID-19 pandemic and moments of being well pedalling	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
‘Stuffed if I [still don’t] know’: towards weak methodologies	4
Remapping the body: an autoethnography of pain, paraesthesia, and the co-production of functional neurological symptoms	4
# SpendYourSummerInGeorgia : popular geopolitics, grassroots activism and tourism marketing against Russia	4
Bubbles, fortresses and rings of steel: risk and socio-spatialities in Australians’ accounts of border controls during the COVID-19 pandemic	4

The transgressive art of walking: entanglements of urban activism and tourism in South Tel Aviv	3
Plantation worlds	3
Occupational and social mobility of skilled migrants: an intersectional analysis	3
Towards an assemblage approach to mobile disability politics	3
Negotiating trust in AI-enabled navigation technologies: imaginaries, ecologies, habits	3
Custodians of a resort island: standing by between oblivion and restoration	3
Algorithmic frictions: how couriers shape and subvert on-demand delivery platforms in lisbon	3
Towards the geographies of loneliness: interpreting the spaces of loneliness in farming contexts	3
People’s education ‘was subversive’. Spaces and struggles of Brazilian Movimento de Cultura Popular towards radical and decolonized geographies of educat	3
Making sense of ‘middle-age’: thinking from and through the middle	3
Affective exits: leaving as desire against neoliberal futurity	3
Reassembling third places: affective infrastructures in post-pandemic cafés in Kolkata	3
‘Standing still … in a moving place’ – reassessing lyrics and the spaces they construct through the musical landscapes of The Blue Nile	3
Concealed productions of structural violence: a cultural flagship in post-authoritarian Spain	3
Minding the emptiness of nothing: methodological nothingness and the spatial anthropology of futility	3
Geographies of awkward encounters: unsettling moments for women in spaces of active leisure in Southeast Queensland, Australia	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
Auratic distance: art’s role in heritage production	3
Moving behind the scenes of public space: the differentiation of market traders’ routinized mobilities	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
Dissonant seas: Black critical theory, river run thee , and the counterpoint to critical ocean geography	3
Young people and TikTok use in Australia: digital geographies of care in popular culture	3
Ferals and gentrification in urban Australia: place, death and memory	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
Planetary justice: stories and studies of action, resistance and solidarity	3
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors	3
Care ethics in transnational healthcare: attentiveness, competence, and responsibility in medical travel facilitation	3
Hidden costs of (in)visibility : an intersectional examination of homonormativity and its implications for queercide in South African townships	3