OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Dialogues in Human 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	75
The lingering exceptionalism of global China	74
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures	71
Glitch epistemology and the question of (artificial) intelligence: Perceptions, encounters, subjectivities	49
Beyond informality: Expanding the scope of Southern smart urbanism	45
Planetary rural thinking in digital geographies	44
Dancing on the head of a needle? ‘Disciplining’ energy justice scholarship	41
The city of homosocial breadwinners ChowdhuryRomit, City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2023; 205 pp. $27.95 (pap	38
Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’	36
State property, venture capital and the urbanisation of state capitalism	32
Geographies of super-philanthropy: Disaggregating the global philanthropic complex	28
Struggling over new asset geographies	26
Follow the thing: Air rights	25
Of spaces and freedoms, used and misused	23
Heirs to a future yet to come: Thoughts on colonial debts	23
Critical geography, Islam, and the possibility of engaging the more-than-critical	20
Social reproduction, precarity, and the ‘new asset geographies’	18
Academic hoaxing, decolonial politics, and epistemic pluriversality	16
Erratum to The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	16
Dignity, mega-projects, and the problem of scale	15
Witches as glitches: A response to Leszczynski and Elwood	15
Transforming dispositions towards automation	14
Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A conversation	13
Mountains matter	13
Desire’s misrecognitions, or the promise of mutable attachments	12

What to do with being/feeling ‘out of it’? Three options for health geographers	12
Decolonial leaps in more-than-human geographies	12
Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant	12
Cosmopolitics of Mt. Merapi Adam Bobbette, The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java , Duke University Press, 2023. $26.50 (paperback price) ISBN 978-1-4780-2505	12
Philanthropy’s invention of the ‘underclass’	11
Towards ‘a progressive sense of thick time’ and the future of geographical thinking	11
Coloniality in the colony: A response	10
Automation and environmental dispositions	10
Of waters and bridges	10
Smart cities and their settings in the Global South: Informality as a marker	9
Mine/Machine	9
Muslim peripheries: A world regional perspective	9
Form, genre, voice, and authority in human geography: A speculative genealogy	9
On postcapitalist repair	9
Is this the humanism we have been looking for?	9
Finding ‘new’ geographies in dedications, acknowledgements, and citations	9
Seven thoughts on seven ethics	8
Young people and life-course inequalities: The role of families and housing	8
The urban dialectic: Between distant time and thick time	8
Beyond the decolonial: Critical Muslim geographies	8
The state of water	8
Reclaiming planetary consciousness	8
Legalizing war/militarizing law	8
The radical contribution of what's in between M and M′	8
Reorienting GIScience for a data-intensive society	8
Place-based approaches to develop the foundations and diversities of energy geographies	8
Worlding the geographies of homelessness: Informality, precarity, and theory from the Global South	8
A sexuality pivot: Thinking through solidarity, geographies of sexuality, and a world in transition	7
Beyond binaries? Spatial possibilities in Southeast Asia	7
State-led venture capital as capitalist state-led ventures	7
World-ending flatness	6
Diversifying the compact city: A renewed agenda for geographical research	6
Making margins visible	6
On HIV assemblages, inequalities and subject formation	6
Emplacing the disposition toward automation	6
Critical computation on a geographical register	6
An introduction to a non-fascist geography	6
Why study the history of exploration?	6
Governing with care, reciprocity, and relationality: Recognising the connectivity of human and more-than-human wellbeing and the process of decolonisation	6
Urban state venturism: On state-led venture capital investments in the urban process of capital accumulation	6
What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning	6
Clarifying rupture: An authors’ reply	6
Sharpening the needle: A critical engagement with the call to ‘discipline energy justice’	5
Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies	5
Putting ‘rupture’ to work at the Three Gorges Dam	5
Time and being awkward	5
The survey sciences in thin air	5
Uncanny frontiers: Amazon in outer space	5
Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary	5
The imperial in a global history of science of the British empire	5

Where is Liberland? Ideology and power beyond territory	5
Revisiting ‘infrastructures of social reproduction’	5
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India	5
Spacing sovereign debt	5
The plural economies of the Latin American City TuckerJennifer L.. Outlaw Capital: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development. University of Georgia Press, 2023; 274 pp. $29.95 (paperb	4
Comrade Santos	4
The politics of academic deception: A conjunctural analysis	4
Fissured thought for fractured times: Reflections on geography, ecology and the state	4
Geomorphic eugenics and the engineering of surplus territory	4
Navigating macro and micro across urban assemblages	4
Moralization as class war	4
Book review forum HudaniShakirah, Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 258 pp., $32.50. ISBN: 9780226832722.	4
Toward a poetics of the abyss: Suspending wor(l)ds	4
Re-labeling the underclass	4
When the call comes from inside the house	4
Critical Muslim geographies through a critical geography of Islamophobia	4
Encounters with For a New Geography	4
Not waving but drowning	4
The Indo-Pacific: In what sense a region?	4
The world as abject: On less-than-human geographies	4
Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies	4
Between ontologies and practices: How to deal with democratic theory?	4
‘Foreclosed future’ in between continuity and innovation in youth’ futures research	4
Haunted worlds, unknowable futures Petrus Liu, The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus , Durham: Duke University Press,	4
Territorial futures: On belonging, caste, and pedagogy	4
Postcapitalist practices and human, economic, and cultural geographies	3
Testing practices for testing times: Exploring Indigenous-led governance	3
Black livingness and insurgent ecological politics: Thinking across Black geographies / Atlantics / ecologies	3
Social reproduction, infrastructure, and the everyday	3
‘Sinews’ in Sinews	3
The point is to change it: Locating community geography and praxis in a neoliberalizing academia	3
Extending gestures and global city-making: Analyzing extending urbanization at multiple scales	3
All theories are wrong but some are useful Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Theory and Explanation in Geography , Chichester: Wiley, 2023; 226 pp. $39.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-	3
Affective infrastructures and political organisation	3
On colonial exceptionality, neoliberal coloniality, and legal interruptions	3
Limit(ation)s, sustainability, and the future of climate migration	3
Extending dialogues on the urban	3
Gaia and the repositioning of the state territoriality: A dialogue with critical geopolitical ecology	3
‘Revolution of space’, autogestion, and appropriation of nature in Henri Lefebvre’s political and revolutionary project	3
Making space for new voices and emerging conversations	3
Planting flags in water	3
To whom does geography owe a future? Lessons from urban studies	3
Towards a right to the rural?	3
Unresolved tensions in green transitions: Retraining and the question of ‘how’?	3
Moving towards a critical perspective on automation: Theories of technology, labour, and capitalism	3
The public library and the futures of social infrastructure	3
Re-imagining the ‘fields’ of fieldwork	3
Common problems or different questions: A critique of ‘assetization’	3
Cosmohistories and pluriversal dialogues: The future of the history of geography	3
The fragmented sovereignty of the ummah : A response to Sidaway's manifesto	3
Making sense of foreign investment screening through sectoral analysis	3
Geographies of alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness through the lens of participatory video	3
A global foreclosure of youth futures: Austerity as a shared process	3
Social experiments and the praxis of geographical knowledge production: Emerging architectural practices in urban and regional China	3
Notes on bewilderment, suspension, and urban life at the extensions	3
The problem of the urban–rural binary in geography and political ecology	3
Assets and assemblage in the global countryside	3
Feeling out of it: Displacement, disengagement and dispossession in experiences of brain fog	3
Montage space: Extra scenes	3
Who controls the infrastructure of social reproduction? Finance, reproduction, and resistance in educational landscapes	3
Taking forward sexuality-based solidarities in a geopolitical world in transition	3
Identifying the revolutionary agent in the radical project of autogestion	3
Challenging opacity, embracing fuzziness: Geographical thought and praxis in a post-truth age	3
Crafting scholarly alliances for multispecies justice	3
What is the place of abandonment in planetary rural geographies?	3