OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Geography is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Language is land, land is language: The importance of Indigenous languages	25
Mahsa Amini's killing, state violence, and moral policing in Iran	10
The Housing Question, ground rent theory, and differentiation vs. homogenization	9
The 2007/08 capitalist crisis evolution in Greece: A geographical political economy perspective	9
Inventing hell: how the Ethiopian and Eritrean regimes produced famine in Tigray	8
Immanuel Wallerstein, the “modern world-system,” and radical human geography	8
“Demystifying the Global ‘Just Transition’—On Power Struggles and Electric Mountains”	8
The rise of “behavioral man”: Randomized controlled trials and the “new” development agenda	7
Geographies of nationalism	7
The question of ‘sustainable’ technology: From socio-ecological fixes to transformations	7
Rentier capitalism in question	6
Revisiting Engels’ ‘housing question’: Work and housing conditions of immigrant platform delivery riders in Barcelona	5
Landscape memories of land struggles in plateaus of two Nsukka villages in Nigeria	5
Animating and sustaining outrage: The place of crisis pregnancy centers in abortion justice	5
The double return of Friedrich Engels: Towards a dialectics of the trace	5
Antinomies of space and nature or an open totality? Neil Smith and Henri Lefebvre on nature and society	5
Engels’ ‘proletarisation’ and ‘great towns’ vis-à-vis dispossession, and gendered work in an informal economy	4
Veiled futures? Debt burdens, the Belt Road Initiative, and official Chinese lending after coronavirus	4
Massey, Marx, and human geography: disjunctures and provocations	4
Introduction: Friedrich Engels and geography	3
The (Im)possibility of Achieving a Peaceful Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	3
Reclaiming provincialism	3
Covid-19 and some contours of India’s ongoing agrarian crisis	3
From personal responsibility to an eco-socialist state: Political economy, popular discourses and the climate crisis	3
Presence and absence: Crisis pregnancy centers and abortion facilities in the contemporary reproductive justice landscape	3

The ‘Palestine poster’ and everyday memoricide: Making killing memory mundane	3
Military spending and economic development: A theoretical note	3
Neoliberal capitalism and misery of small peasantry and agricultural labourers in India	3
Global food insecurity as a crisis of social reproduction for the classes of labour	3
Engels, humanism and revolutionary praxis: The centrality of the dynamic analysis of historical materialism and its inherent relation to overcoming capitalist alienation	2
Different approach, same focus: How China is shaping the future of its African cooperation through education	2
Contesting elite capture: Repositioning insurgent planning for mass movements	2
BDS as the baseline of solidarity: toward a model of co-struggling with Palestinians in their movement for justice and liberation	2
Covid-19, capitalism and political elites: The real threat to humanity	2
Social movements’ struggles under new municipalism: Confronting the neoliberal Parque Pümpin megaproject in Valparaíso city	2
Economics and politics under Modi government: A synoptic view	2
Pandemic transition: Techno-politics and social reproduction struggles	2
Nurturing the production of nature	2
Geographies of artificial intelligence: Labor, surveillance, and activism	2
Geographies of ground rent: Periodizing ground rent theory, spatializing ground rent refusal	2
A political autopsy of Liberal Los Angeles	2
Existential capitalism and gentrification in pandemic times	2
Luxury Venice: The spread of touristification processes as alpha territorialisation	2
The spatial antecedents for drone governance in Afghanistan	2
Modernization through capitalization: The hidden costs of Ethiopia’s Gibe III Dam and NESTown initiative	2
Historical materialism, social change, and the necessity of revolutionary optimism	2
Community Renewable Energy Ecologies (CREE): Rhizomatic renewable energy development and experimental–experiential emancipation	2
A politics of conviction: The refusal of colonial carcerality in Palestinian graffiti	2
Oil extraction and Indigenous women: Examining the necropolitics of the settler state in the Bakken region	2
Alpha territorialisation in Milan: Framing a research agenda	2
Debate on the linkages between large-scale agriculture and farmers food security: Examples from Ethiopia	2
The oilfields of Mesopotamia: Resource conflict, oil extraction and heritage destruction in Iraq	2
Public housing, intersectoral competition, and urban ground rent: Iran’s first public housing program that never was	2
Adventures with Marx	2