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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures	67
Beyond informality: Expanding the scope of Southern smart urbanism	67
Struggling over new asset geographies	66
Glitch epistemology and the question of (artificial) intelligence: Perceptions, encounters, subjectivities	48
Dancing on the head of a needle? ‘Disciplining’ energy justice scholarship	42
State property, venture capital and the urbanisation of state capitalism	40
The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	36
Geographies of super-philanthropy: Disaggregating the global philanthropic complex	34
Planetary rural thinking in digital geographies	33
Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’	30
Of spaces and freedoms, used and misused	26
Follow the thing: Air rights	26
Transforming dispositions towards automation	22
Critical geography, Islam, and the possibility of engaging the more-than-critical	21
Heirs to a future yet to come: Thoughts on colonial debts	21
Mountains matter	18
Social reproduction, precarity, and the ‘new asset geographies’	16
Dignity, mega-projects, and the problem of scale	15
Witches as glitches: A response to Leszczynski and Elwood	15
Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A conversation	15
Decolonial leaps in more-than-human geographies	14
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	13
Academic hoaxing, decolonial politics, and epistemic pluriversality	13
Desire’s misrecognitions, or the promise of mutable attachments	12
Erratum to The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	12

Automation and environmental dispositions	11
Philanthropy’s invention of the ‘underclass’	11
Finding ‘new’ geographies in dedications, acknowledgements, and citations	10
Of waters and bridges	10
Mine/Machine	10
Coloniality in the colony: A response	10
On postcapitalist repair	10
Form, genre, voice, and authority in human geography: A speculative genealogy	9
Muslim peripheries: A world regional perspective	9
Is this the humanism we have been looking for?	9
Smart cities and their settings in the Global South: Informality as a marker	9
Towards ‘a progressive sense of thick time’ and the future of geographical thinking	9
Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant	8
The radical contribution of what's in between M and M′	8
Seven thoughts on seven ethics	8
Beyond the decolonial: Critical Muslim geographies	8
The state of water	8
Reorienting GIScience for a data-intensive society	8
Beyond binaries? Spatial possibilities in Southeast Asia	7
Governing with care, reciprocity, and relationality: Recognising the connectivity of human and more-than-human wellbeing and the process of decolonisation	7
A sexuality pivot: Thinking through solidarity, geographies of sexuality, and a world in transition	7
Reclaiming planetary consciousness	7
Emplacing the disposition toward automation	6
The urban dialectic: Between distant time and thick time	6
Legalizing war/militarizing law	6
World-ending flatness	6
Worlding the geographies of homelessness: Informality, precarity, and theory from the Global South	6
Urban state venturism: On state-led venture capital investments in the urban process of capital accumulation	6
Critical computation on a geographical register	6
Diversifying the compact city: A renewed agenda for geographical research	6
State-led venture capital as capitalist state-led ventures	6
Why study the history of exploration?	5
The survey sciences in thin air	5
Revisiting ‘infrastructures of social reproduction’	5
Time and being awkward	5
Uncanny frontiers: Amazon in outer space	5
Making margins visible	5
Clarifying rupture: An authors’ reply	5
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India	5
Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary	5
Where is Liberland? Ideology and power beyond territory	5
On HIV assemblages, inequalities and subject formation	5
What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning	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
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
Geomorphic eugenics and the engineering of surplus territory	4
Toward a poetics of the abyss: Suspending wor(l)ds	4
Moralization as class war	4
Critical Muslim geographies through a critical geography of Islamophobia	4

Encounters with For a New Geography	4
Fissured thought for fractured times: Reflections on geography, ecology and the state	4
When the call comes from inside the house	4
Not waving but drowning	4
Between ontologies and practices: How to deal with democratic theory?	4
The imperial in a global history of science of the British empire	4
Navigating macro and micro across urban assemblages	4
The world as abject: On less-than-human geographies	4
‘Foreclosed future’ in between continuity and innovation in youth’ futures research	4
Comrade Santos	4
Spacing sovereign debt	4
Identifying the revolutionary agent in the radical project of autogestion	3
Cosmohistories and pluriversal dialogues: The future of the history of geography	3
Making sense of foreign investment screening through sectoral analysis	3
Territorial futures: On belonging, caste, and pedagogy	3
Moving towards a critical perspective on automation: Theories of technology, labour, and capitalism	3
Social reproduction, infrastructure, and the everyday	3
Testing practices for testing times: Exploring Indigenous-led governance	3
To whom does geography owe a future? Lessons from urban studies	3
Taking forward sexuality-based solidarities in a geopolitical world in transition	3
On colonial exceptionality, neoliberal coloniality, and legal interruptions	3
The public library and the futures of social infrastructure	3
‘Revolution of space’, autogestion, and appropriation of nature in Henri Lefebvre’s political and revolutionary project	3
A global foreclosure of youth futures: Austerity as a shared process	3
Limit(ation)s, sustainability, and the future of climate migration	3
The politics of academic deception: A conjunctural analysis	3
Extending dialogues on the urban	3
Re-labeling the underclass	3
Common problems or different questions: A critique of ‘assetization’	3
‘Sinews’ in Sinews	3
Who controls the infrastructure of social reproduction? Finance, reproduction, and resistance in educational landscapes	3
Postcapitalist practices and human, economic, and cultural geographies	3
Crafting scholarly alliances for multispecies justice	3
Unresolved tensions in green transitions: Retraining and the question of ‘how’?	3
Feeling out of it: Displacement, disengagement and dispossession in experiences of brain fog	3
Geographies of alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness through the lens of participatory video	3
The problem of the urban–rural binary in geography and political ecology	3
Affective infrastructures and political organisation	3
What is the place of abandonment in planetary rural geographies?	3
The fragmented sovereignty of the ummah: A response to Sidaway's manifesto	3
Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies	3
Challenging opacity, embracing fuzziness: Geographical thought and praxis in a post-truth age	3
Gaia and the repositioning of the state territoriality: A dialogue with critical geopolitical ecology	3
Making space for new voices and emerging conversations	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
Extending gestures and global city-making: Analyzing extending urbanization at multiple scales	3
Montage space: Extra scenes	3
Towards a right to the rural?	3
Re-imagining the ‘fields’ of fieldwork	3
Assets and assemblage in the global countryside	3
The point is to change it: Locating community geography and praxis in a neoliberalizing academia	3