OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Dialogues in Human Geography is 4. 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
Stencil adventures: Learning from political ecology to advance energy justice	137
State property, venture capital and the urbanisation of state capitalism	104
Beyond informality: Expanding the scope of Southern smart urbanism	65
Geographies of super-philanthropy: Disaggregating the global philanthropic complex	44
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures	43
Dancing on the head of a needle? ‘Disciplining’ energy justice scholarship	42
Planetary rural thinking in digital geographies	42
The city of homosocial breadwinners Romit Chowdhury, City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport . Rutgers University Press, 202	39
Hurricane season grammars: On speaking across Black geographies/Atlantics/ecologies	36
The freedom to forget	28
The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	27
Struggling over new asset geographies	26
Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’	26
State-orchestrated hinterlands? Reworking the digital growth machine from China’s East Data West Computing initiative	26
The lingering exceptionalism of global China	23
Embodying non-places: The drag of the human in a time of cognitive convenience	21
Academic hoaxing, decolonial politics, and epistemic pluriversality	20
Cosmopolitics of Mt. Merapi Adam Bobbette, The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java , Duke University Press, 2023. $26.50 (paperback price) ISBN	20
Critical geography, Islam, and the possibility of engaging the more-than-critical	19
Erratum to The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	19
Mountains matter	18
Of spaces and freedoms, used and misused	17
Witches as glitches: A response to Leszczynski and Elwood	16
Heirs to a future yet to come: Thoughts on colonial debts	16
Follow the thing: Air rights	16

Dignity, mega-projects, and the problem of scale	15
Social reproduction, precarity, and the ‘new asset geographies’	15
Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A conversation	15
Decolonial leaps in more-than-human geographies	14
Automation and environmental dispositions	13
Transforming dispositions towards automation	13
Form, genre, voice, and authority in human geography: A speculative genealogy	13
Topology beyond application: Drawing social and mathematical worlds into rhythm	13
On postcapitalist repair	12
Desire’s misrecognitions, or the promise of mutable attachments	12
Philanthropy’s invention of the ‘underclass’	12
Coloniality in the colony: A response	12
Muslim peripheries: A world regional perspective	12
What to do with being/feeling ‘out of it’? Three options for health geographers	11
Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant	11
Seven thoughts on seven ethics	11
Taking ‘fallen-below’ seriously: Spacing, placing, and scaling foundational liveability	11
Smart cities and their settings in the Global South: Informality as a marker	11
Towards ‘a progressive sense of thick time’ and the future of geographical thinking	11
Situated digital involuntary: Intersectional digital freedom and agency	11
Reorienting GIScience for a data-intensive society	11
Critical computation on a geographical register	10
Place-based approaches to develop the foundations and diversities of energy geographies	10
Young people and life-course inequalities: The role of families and housing	10
Reclaiming planetary consciousness	10
Beyond the decolonial: Critical Muslim geographies	10
State-led venture capital as capitalist state-led ventures	9
Emplacing the disposition toward automation	9
Reclaiming public space as educational space	9
Sharpening the needle: A critical engagement with the call to ‘discipline energy justice’	9
World-ending flatness	9
An introduction to a non-fascist geography	9
Governing with care, reciprocity, and relationality: Recognising the connectivity of human and more-than-human wellbeing and the process of decolonisation	9
Urban state venturism: On state-led venture capital investments in the urban process of capital accumulation	9
A sexuality pivot: Thinking through solidarity, geographies of sexuality, and a world in transition	9
The urban dialectic: Between distant time and thick time	9
Worlding the geographies of homelessness: Informality, precarity, and theory from the Global South	9
What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning	8
The survey sciences in thin air	8
Beyond directional care: Theorising mutuality in the geographies of care through the lens of friendship	8
Making margins visible	8
Clarifying rupture: An authors’ reply	8
Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies	8
Time and being awkward	8
Why study the history of exploration?	8
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India	8
Energy geographies, interconnections, and embeddedness	8
On education landscapes and learning commons	7
Revisiting ‘infrastructures of social reproduction’	7
Critical Muslim geographies through a critical geography of Islamophobia	7

Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary	7
Fissured thought for fractured times: Reflections on geography, ecology and the state	7
Between ontologies and practices: How to deal with democratic theory?	7
Haunted worlds, unknowable futures Petrus Liu, The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus , Durham: Duke Un	7
The imperial in a global history of science of the British empire	6
Awkward encounters of planning and repair: Healing the city under the weight of ‘new Kigali’	6
From foreclosure to potentiality	6
When the call comes from inside the house	6
Geomorphic eugenics and the engineering of surplus territory	6
Crisis urbanism in resource-based cities	6
The modalities and politics of crisis urbanism: A new reparative conjuncture?	6
Foundational liveability, the 15-min city and the limits to place-based policy	6
Navigating macro and micro across urban assemblages	6
The world as abject: On less-than-human geographies	6
The developing foundational movement	6
‘Foreclosed future’ in between continuity and innovation in youth’ futures research	6
Putting ‘rupture’ to work at the Three Gorges Dam	6
The fragmented sovereignty of the ummah : A response to Sidaway's manifesto	5
The Indo-Pacific: In what sense a region?	5
Challenging opacity, embracing fuzziness: Geographical thought and praxis in a post-truth age	5
Moralization as class war	5
Re-labeling the underclass	5
Comrade Santos	5
Making sense of foreign investment screening through sectoral analysis	5
The plural economies of the Latin American City Jennifer Tucker, Outlaw Capital: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development . University	5
Extending dialogues on the urban	5
Limit(ation)s, sustainability, and the future of climate migration	5
The politics of academic deception: A conjunctural analysis	5
Not waving but drowning	5
What is the place of abandonment in planetary rural geographies?	5
Territorial futures: On belonging, caste, and pedagogy	5
Toward a poetics of the abyss: Suspending wor(l)ds	5
Theory and explanation in economics and in financial geography	4
Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies	4
Common problems or different questions: A critique of ‘assetization’	4
The point is to change it: Locating community geography and praxis in a neoliberalizing academia	4
Towards a right to the rural?	4
Geographies of alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness through the lens of participatory video	4
Cosmohistories and pluriversal dialogues: The future of the history of geography	4
‘Revolution of space’, autogestion, and appropriation of nature in Henri Lefebvre’s political and revolutionary project	4
Poking the dragon! The fiery range of energy geographers’ brea(d)th	4
Affective infrastructures and political organisation	4
Taking forward sexuality-based solidarities in a geopolitical world in transition	4
Moving towards a critical perspective on automation: Theories of technology, labour, and capitalism	4
Geographies of subsumption	4
Identifying the revolutionary agent in the radical project of autogestion	4
Gaia and the repositioning of the state territoriality: A dialogue with critical geopolitical ecology	4
Rural movements within and against rentier capitalism	4
All theories are wrong but some are useful Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Theory and Explanation in Geography , Chichester: Wiley, 2023; 226 pp. $39.95 (paperbac	4