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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Embodying non-places: The drag of the human in a time of cognitive convenience	131
Stencil adventures: Learning from political ecology to advance energy justice	96
State property, venture capital and the urbanisation of state capitalism	80
Beyond informality: Expanding the scope of Southern smart urbanism	62
Geographies of super-philanthropy: Disaggregating the global philanthropic complex	59
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures	43
Planetary rural thinking in digital geographies	42
Dancing on the head of a needle? ‘Disciplining’ energy justice scholarship	40
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	34
The lingering exceptionalism of global China	29
The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	26
Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’	26
Struggling over new asset geographies	25
Dignity, mega-projects, and the problem of scale	23
Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A conversation	23
Decolonial leaps in more-than-human geographies	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	19
Social reproduction, precarity, and the ‘new asset geographies’	18
Erratum to The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	18
Mountains matter	17
Critical geography, Islam, and the possibility of engaging the more-than-critical	17
Of spaces and freedoms, used and misused	16

Transforming dispositions towards automation	16
Heirs to a future yet to come: Thoughts on colonial debts	15
Witches as glitches: A response to Leszczynski and Elwood	14
Follow the thing: Air rights	14
Smart cities and their settings in the Global South: Informality as a marker	13
Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant	13
Muslim peripheries: A world regional perspective	13
Philanthropy’s invention of the ‘underclass’	12
What to do with being/feeling ‘out of it’? Three options for health geographers	11
Coloniality in the colony: A response	11
On postcapitalist repair	11
Automation and environmental dispositions	11
Form, genre, voice, and authority in human geography: A speculative genealogy	11
Desire’s misrecognitions, or the promise of mutable attachments	11
Towards ‘a progressive sense of thick time’ and the future of geographical thinking	11
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
Topology beyond application: Drawing social and mathematical worlds into rhythm	10
Situated digital involuntary: Intersectional digital freedom and agency	10
The state of water	10
Taking ‘fallen-below’ seriously: Spacing, placing, and scaling foundational liveability	10
Reclaiming planetary consciousness	10
Beyond the decolonial: Critical Muslim geographies	9
State-led venture capital as capitalist state-led ventures	9
A sexuality pivot: Thinking through solidarity, geographies of sexuality, and a world in transition	9
World-ending flatness	9
Reclaiming public space as educational space	9
Reorienting GIScience for a data-intensive society	9
Emplacing the disposition toward automation	9
Seven thoughts on seven ethics	9
Critical computation on a geographical register	9
Urban state venturism: On state-led venture capital investments in the urban process of capital accumulation	9
Beyond binaries? Spatial possibilities in Southeast Asia	9
Uncanny frontiers: Amazon in outer space	8
Making margins visible	8
The urban dialectic: Between distant time and thick time	8
Worlding the geographies of homelessness: Informality, precarity, and theory from the Global South	8
Why study the history of exploration?	8
Time and being awkward	8
Revisiting ‘infrastructures of social reproduction’	8
An introduction to a non-fascist geography	8
Energy geographies, interconnections, and embeddedness	8
Sharpening the needle: A critical engagement with the call to ‘discipline energy justice’	8
What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning	8
Beyond directional care: Theorising mutuality in the geographies of care through the lens of friendship	8
Governing with care, reciprocity, and relationality: Recognising the connectivity of human and more-than-human wellbeing and the process of decolonisation	8
On education landscapes and learning commons	8
Clarifying rupture: An authors’ reply	7
Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies	7
Critical Muslim geographies through a critical geography of Islamophobia	7

Navigating macro and micro across urban assemblages	7
The survey sciences in thin air	7
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India	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
Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary	7
Where is Liberland? Ideology and power beyond territory	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 world as abject: On less-than-human geographies	6
From foreclosure to potentiality	6
The modalities and politics of crisis urbanism: A new reparative conjuncture?	6
Putting ‘rupture’ to work at the Three Gorges Dam	6
Crisis urbanism in resource-based cities	6
‘Foreclosed future’ in between continuity and innovation in youth’ futures research	6
Geographies of subsumption	6
Geomorphic eugenics and the engineering of surplus territory	6
Awkward encounters of planning and repair: Healing the city under the weight of ‘new Kigali’	6
The imperial in a global history of science of the British empire	6
The developing foundational movement	6
When the call comes from inside the house	6
Re-labeling the underclass	5
Foundational liveability, the 15-min city and the limits to place-based policy	5
Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies	5
Limit(ation)s, sustainability, and the future of climate migration	5
Cosmohistories and pluriversal dialogues: The future of the history of geography	5
The Indo-Pacific: In what sense a region?	5
The plural economies of the Latin American City Jennifer Tucker, Outlaw Capital: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development . University	5
Challenging opacity, embracing fuzziness: Geographical thought and praxis in a post-truth age	5
Moralization as class war	5
Making sense of foreign investment screening through sectoral analysis	5
Toward a poetics of the abyss: Suspending wor(l)ds	5
What is the place of abandonment in planetary rural geographies?	5
Extending dialogues on the urban	5
Territorial futures: On belonging, caste, and pedagogy	5
The politics of academic deception: A conjunctural analysis	4
Not waving but drowning	4
Identifying the revolutionary agent in the radical project of autogestion	4
Geographies of alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness through the lens of participatory video	4
The point is to change it: Locating community geography and praxis in a neoliberalizing academia	4
The fragmented sovereignty of the ummah : A response to Sidaway's manifesto	4
‘Revolution of space’, autogestion, and appropriation of nature in Henri Lefebvre’s political and revolutionary project	4
Gaia and the repositioning of the state territoriality: A dialogue with critical geopolitical ecology	4
Rural movements within and against rentier capitalism	4
Moving towards a critical perspective on automation: Theories of technology, labour, and capitalism	4
Affective infrastructures and political organisation	4
Comrade Santos	4
Montage space: Extra scenes	4
Common problems or different questions: A critique of ‘assetization’	4
Towards a right to the rural?	4