OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Human Geography is 1. 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
Capitalist urbanization in the post-neoliberal and de-globalizing world economy: A minor critical engagement with VIP-Urbanism literature	42
Oil extraction and Indigenous women: Examining the necropolitics of the settler state in the Bakken region	30
Re-examining the links between women's work and household power dynamics: Insights from rural and urban Ghana	24
Reviewer Acknowledgment	22
Addendum	21
Geographies of nationalism	18
Interspecies relations in Johannesburg's outdoors ecologies	17
CRISPR futures: Rethinking the politics of genome editing	15
Handloom weavers’ landscape of India: An interpretation of their identity and existence	11
Socioecological topologies of student debt in the United States	10
Capitalist crisis and the geography of the clothing industry	8
CUSMA, a capitalist adventurism? Marxist analysis of class inequities in the Canada-United States-Mexico agreement	8
The spatial antecedents for drone governance in Afghanistan	8
Black intimacies with food sovereignty and land in the midst of gentrification in Saint Paul’s historic Rondo	8
Potential violence, trauma and all the feels: Towards collaborative, reflexive and self-aware methodologies for researching the far right	7
The question of ‘sustainable’ technology: From socio-ecological fixes to transformations	7
Making space for healthcare delivery by drone in Ghana: A case study	7
Geographies of hydrogen: A review of trends, themes and concepts	6
From Jamestown to Bethlehem: Local connections of geopolitical violence	6
The political economy of bordering and the reproduction of borders in the case of Frontex	6
The Politics of Entrepreneurial Embedded ‘VIP Urbanism’ in Bengaluru: Elite Practices and Agency Problem	6
Digital activism in housing struggles: Countering algorithmic violence with algorithmic care	6
Mahsa Amini's killing, state violence, and moral policing in Iran	6
Applying friction to the flooded zone: An examination of current work by the protest artist collective CityLoup	6
Neither chains nor networks: Modeling ambivalence in the US automotive sector	5

Global food insecurity as a crisis of social reproduction for the classes of labour	5
Agrarian futures and normative practices: A case study of small-scale ecological farming	5
Tourism-driven spatial fixes and labour flexibilisation: The case of Greece	5
Eldercare and re-purposing the built environment of urban China: Capital switching and bundled commodities in recent trends	5
The unsustainable life of British Universities	5
Different approach, same focus: How China is shaping the future of its African cooperation through education	5
“A thorn in their throat” planning for settler colonial removal in hizma	5
Divergent temporalities and belonging: The temporal–spatial paradox of digital nomadism	5
Repairing harm: Desalination in copper mining and claims for responsibility in Chile's Atacama Desert	5
The politics of place in energy transformations: Contesting green extractivism through indigenous governance in Union Hidalgo, Mexico	5
Corrigendum to: “Undermining the spirit: twentieth-century Inter-American Indian policies as a war against Native life”	5
Subjective destitution, love, and rebellion in pandemic times: Theorizing with Hot Skull	5
Credibility, empire, and the geopolitics of distrust: Rethinking Iran's nuclear question	5
Art for re-existence: Casa Pueblo's decolonial landscape interventions toward an energy insurrection	5
Re-purposing the built environment of urban China: Residential eldercare and David Harvey's capital switching in a new era	4
The politics of internet shutdowns in Jammu and Kashmir	4
“If we rebuild the kitchen, we rebuild the heart”: Post-relief transformational politics in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico	4
CPEC this and CPEC that: Spatial dialectics of state power and resistance in Balochistan	4
Contemporary anti-racist struggle and Lenin’s thought: The enduring bond between racism and imperialism	4
On the dichotomy between housing justice and environmental justice	4
State, imperialism, and the national question in Pakistan	4
Relocating occupation: A critical environmental justice analysis of the US military migration from Okinawa to Guåhan	3
Repression breeds resistance: A call for a methodology of radical solidarity and love to respond to the prison industrial complex and academia's eugenic tendencies	3
Antimonumentos and other aesthetic interventions amidst generalized violence: Seeds in the “political subsoil” of central Mexico	3
New municipalism and the right to the city: A Lefebvrean re-examination and lessons from Barcelona	3
Donald Trump and Hostess CupCakes: Distinguishing the persisting sources of Trump's popular support, 2015–2025	3
Lithium and green extractivism in Chile: Discourses and practices during Gabriel Boric's government	3
The longue durée of primitive accumulation: From depeasantization to deproletarianization	3
The Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal: Potential impacts and implications	3
Social movements’ struggles under new municipalism: Confronting the neoliberal Parque Pümpin megaproject in Valparaíso city	3
Occupying the past: The carceral archaeology of the Israel antiquities authority	3
Burial at the data plantation: Public memory and the terrain of abolition in “the internet capital of the world”	3
The milpa system in the Mesoamerican region: Microbiome as a human–plant–microbial continuum embedded in indigenous ecological knowledge	3
The labor of strikes: Unions, workers, and the 2023 US strike wave	3
Thinking across agrarian class hierarchies in guest worker programs: Limitations to worker and farmer collective strategies	3
Germany then and now: Guilt, white supremacy and sustaining genocide, from the far-right to the radical left	3
From personal responsibility to an eco-socialist state: Political economy, popular discourses and the climate crisis	3
The ambivalence of potential	3
Transforming Guizhou: Urbanization in an ethnic region in southwest China	3
Reviewer Acknowledgment	3
Mike Davis: Planetarity and environmentalisms: the invention of new environmental histories from the Ecology of Fear to Victorian	3
Feeding lines: Standing up in the neoliberal charitable food regime	2
Communicating Friedrich Engels's return to Manchester: Arts and cultural event, history lesson, or call to action?	2
Miner threat: Premature death to prefigurative politics for unearthing solar-grade silica	2
Rethinking geography's explanations of contemporary imperialism after the US occupation of Afghanistan	2
Luxury Venice: The spread of touristification processes as alpha territorialisation	2
Cross-class alliances and the rise of electric vehicles in Dublin	2
Illegal luxuritecture: How the super-rich in Hong Kong land grab and unlawfully expand their luxury living spaces	2
Edward W. Soja's Radical Spatial Perspective	2
Financialization and the reorganization of U.S. public housing	2

The jurisprudence of digital blackouts: Law and its exceptions in Jammu and Kashmir	2
The ideology of intersectionality: Historical materialist observations	2
Does solar energy get recycled? Exploring the political ecology and toxic geographies of solar panel disposal	2
Populism and the commons in the Anthropocene: Exploring a fitting political strategy for our epoch	2
Fictions of the market: The shelter component of the consumer price index in theory and practice	2
Technological transformations and the city: Emerging research themes towards a socially just smart metropolis from a Marxist perspective	2
Jerusalem, rescripted: Retheorizing embodiment in the production of place	2
A review of postdevelopment energies: From eco-modernity toward technological maturity	2
The citizen’s uprising in Sri Lanka: A watershed moment against racial capitalism	2
Economics and politics under Modi government: A synoptic view	2
An exceptional island: The Jeju Massacre and the abuses of sovereignty – An analysis of South Korea's bloodiest civilian massacre through the lens of Giorgio Agamben's state of exception	2
Poor miners and empty e-wallets: Latin American experiences with cryptocurrencies in crisis	2
Powering the pluriverse: Possibilities and limits to decolonial energy transitions in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico	1
Capital switching, economic crisis, and land rent: Examining discontinuation of Swedish municipal site leasehold in the 1980s	1
‘Settler’ and ‘internal’ colonialism in ‘Canada’: Reconciling competing conceptual approaches to Canadian Colonialism in the North	1
The river is territory: Quilombolas in defense of the waters of eastern Amazonia	1
Building a World-ship: A decolonial approach to just energy transitions	1
Black Geographies unveiled: A critical review	1
Toward critical demography 2.0	1
Alpha territorialisation in Milan: Framing a research agenda	1
Between empires: Middling modernizers and the interstices of development	1
Far-right transnationalism, digital affordances, and the specter of a new geopolitics	1
From hydro-hegemony to hydro-coercion: Politics of precarity in India–Bangladesh transboundary water conflicts	1
Territoriality and the politics of ancestrality: Meaning, scope, and depth of Indigenous struggles in the North of Chile	1
Voices from the territory, evidence-building processes, and scientific (un)neutrality: Learning lessons from indigenous responses to environmental impact assessment's territorial fragmentation in Tara	1
Parks, perks, conflicts, and resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan's conservation paradigm	1
Daron Acemoğlu's or Paul Baran's prize? A critique of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics	1
Changing social relations of production is essential to advance a sustainability transformation	1
Reanimating Marxist state theory: On the material force of capital's silent power	1
Sabotaging hunting, prefiguring anti-speciesist futures	1
The political ecology of money: Uneven development, materiality, and unequal exchange	1
Contesting elite capture: Repositioning insurgent planning for mass movements	1
A politics of conviction: The refusal of colonial carcerality in Palestinian graffiti	1
Interrogating “light but tight” model of education: Saffron neoliberalism and India's new education policy	1