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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
First conversation	39
Oil extraction and Indigenous women: Examining the necropolitics of the settler state in the Bakken region	23
Reviewer Acknowledgment	19
Capitalist urbanization in the post-neoliberal and de-globalizing world economy: A minor critical engagement with VIP-Urbanism literature	19
Geographies of nationalism	17
Addendum	17
Re-examining the links between women's work and household power dynamics: Insights from rural and urban Ghana	16
Interspecies relations in Johannesburg's outdoors ecologies	13
CRISPR futures: Rethinking the politics of genome editing	12
Handloom weavers’ landscape of India: An interpretation of their identity and existence	10
Black intimacies with food sovereignty and land in the midst of gentrification in Saint Paul’s historic Rondo	9
CUSMA, a capitalist adventurism? Marxist analysis of class inequities in the Canada-United States-Mexico agreement	8
Socioecological topologies of student debt in the United States	8
Land use and development: The early work of Phil O’Keefe	8
Capitalist crisis and the geography of the clothing industry	7
The spatial antecedents for drone governance in Afghanistan	7
Potential violence, trauma and all the feels: Towards collaborative, reflexive and self-aware methodologies for researching the far right	6
Making space for healthcare delivery by drone in Ghana: A case study	6
The question of ‘sustainable’ technology: From socio-ecological fixes to transformations	6
Digital activism in housing struggles: Countering algorithmic violence with algorithmic care	6
Contemporary anti-racist struggle and Lenin’s thought: The enduring bond between racism and imperialism	5
The Politics of Entrepreneurial Embedded ‘VIP Urbanism’ in Bengaluru: Elite Practices and Agency Problem	5
The political economy of bordering and the reproduction of borders in the case of Frontex	5
Art for re-existence: Casa Pueblo's decolonial landscape interventions toward an energy insurrection	5
The unsustainable life of British Universities	5

“A thorn in their throat” planning for settler colonial removal in hizma	5
Applying friction to the flooded zone: An examination of current work by the protest artist collective CityLoup	5
Mahsa Amini's killing, state violence, and moral policing in Iran	5
Eldercare and re-purposing the built environment of urban China: Capital switching and bundled commodities in recent trends	5
Different approach, same focus: How China is shaping the future of its African cooperation through education	5
Subjective destitution, love, and rebellion in pandemic times: Theorizing with Hot Skull	5
Agrarian futures and normative practices: A case study of small-scale ecological farming	5
From Jamestown to Bethlehem: Local connections of geopolitical violence	5
Geographies of hydrogen: A review of trends, themes and concepts	5
Divergent temporalities and belonging: The temporal–spatial paradox of digital nomadism	5
Neither chains nor networks: Modeling ambivalence in the US automotive sector	5
“If we rebuild the kitchen, we rebuild the heart”: Post-relief transformational politics in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico	4
Relocating occupation: A critical environmental justice analysis of the US military migration from Okinawa to Guåhan	4
Global food insecurity as a crisis of social reproduction for the classes of labour	4
Remembering Phil O’Keefe	4
Re-purposing the built environment of urban China: Residential eldercare and David Harvey's capital switching in a new era	4
Occupying the past: The carceral archaeology of the Israel antiquities authority	4
Social movements’ struggles under new municipalism: Confronting the neoliberal Parque Pümpin megaproject in Valparaíso city	3
Thinking across agrarian class hierarchies in guest worker programs: Limitations to worker and farmer collective strategies	3
The labor of strikes: Unions, workers, and the 2023 US strike wave	3
Reviewer Acknowledgment	3
Antimonumentos and other aesthetic interventions amidst generalized violence: Seeds in the “political subsoil” of central Mexico	3
On the dichotomy between housing justice and environmental justice	3
The Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal: Potential impacts and implications	3
Germany then and now: Guilt, white supremacy and sustaining genocide, from the far-right to the radical left	3
“Demystifying the Global ‘Just Transition’—On Power Struggles and Electric Mountains”	3
The ambivalence of potential	3
Transforming Guizhou: Urbanization in an ethnic region in southwest China	3
The politics of internet shutdowns in Jammu and Kashmir	3
From personal responsibility to an eco-socialist state: Political economy, popular discourses and the climate crisis	3
Mike Davis: Planetarity and environmentalisms: the invention of new environmental histories from the Ecology of Fear to Victorian	3
New municipalism and the right to the city: A Lefebvrean re-examination and lessons from Barcelona	3
Communication: Marxism, deproletarianisation, geographers and non-geographers	3
Donald Trump and Hostess CupCakes: Distinguishing the persisting sources of Trump's popular support, 2015–2025	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
CPEC this and CPEC that: Spatial dialectics of state power and resistance in Balochistan	3
Miner threat: Premature death to prefigurative politics for unearthing solar-grade silica	2
Financialization and the reorganization of U.S. public housing	2
Communicating Friedrich Engels's return to Manchester: Arts and cultural event, history lesson, or call to action?	2
Populism and the commons in the Anthropocene: Exploring a fitting political strategy for our epoch	2
Luxury Venice: The spread of touristification processes as alpha territorialisation	2
Does solar energy get recycled? Exploring the political ecology and toxic geographies of solar panel disposal	2
Poor miners and empty e-wallets: Latin American experiences with cryptocurrencies in crisis	2
Technological transformations and the city: Emerging research themes towards a socially just smart metropolis from a Marxist perspective	2
Lithium and green extractivism in Chile: Discourses and practices during Gabriel Boric's government	2
Edward W. Soja's Radical Spatial Perspective	2
Jerusalem, rescripted: Retheorizing embodiment in the production of place	2
Illegal luxuritecture: How the super-rich in Hong Kong land grab and unlawfully expand their luxury living spaces	2
Cross-class alliances and the rise of electric vehicles in Dublin	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

The jurisprudence of digital blackouts: Law and its exceptions in Jammu and Kashmir	2
A review of postdevelopment energies: From eco-modernity toward technological maturity	2
Feeding lines: Standing up in the neoliberal charitable food regime	2
Fictions of the market: The shelter component of the consumer price index in theory and practice	2
The ideology of intersectionality: Historical materialist observations	2
‘Settler’ and ‘internal’ colonialism in ‘Canada’: Reconciling competing conceptual approaches to Canadian Colonialism in the North	2
Rethinking geography's explanations of contemporary imperialism after the US occupation of Afghanistan	2
The citizen’s uprising in Sri Lanka: A watershed moment against racial capitalism	2
Territoriality and the politics of ancestrality: Meaning, scope, and depth of Indigenous struggles in the North of Chile	1
The language of intractability and the Gaza War: Conflating anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is historically problematic and misses how much contemporary Israel has become a role model for ethno-nationa	1
From hydro-hegemony to hydro-coercion: Politics of precarity in India–Bangladesh transboundary water conflicts	1
Alpha territorialisation in Milan: Framing a research agenda	1
Capital switching, economic crisis, and land rent: Examining discontinuation of Swedish municipal site leasehold in the 1980s	1
Black Geographies unveiled: A critical review	1
Toward critical demography 2.0	1
Interrogating “light but tight” model of education: Saffron neoliberalism and India's new education policy	1
Economics and politics under Modi government: A synoptic view	1
Sabotaging hunting, prefiguring anti-speciesist futures	1
Changing social relations of production is essential to advance a sustainability transformation	1
Far-right transnationalism, digital affordances, and the specter of a new geopolitics	1
Daron Acemoğlu's or Paul Baran's prize? A critique of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics	1
A politics of conviction: The refusal of colonial carcerality in Palestinian graffiti	1
The political ecology of money: Uneven development, materiality, and unequal exchange	1
Reanimating Marxist state theory: On the material force of capital's silent power	1
Powering the pluriverse: Possibilities and limits to decolonial energy transitions in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico	1
Contesting elite capture: Repositioning insurgent planning for mass movements	1