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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond informality: Expanding the scope of Southern smart urbanism	71
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures	68
Struggling over new asset geographies	67
Dancing on the head of a needle? ‘Disciplining’ energy justice scholarship	49
Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’	44
The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	43
The lingering exceptionalism of global China	36
Glitch epistemology and the question of (artificial) intelligence: Perceptions, encounters, subjectivities	35
Planetary rural thinking in digital geographies	33
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	30
Geographies of super-philanthropy: Disaggregating the global philanthropic complex	28
State property, venture capital and the urbanisation of state capitalism	26
Of spaces and freedoms, used and misused	25
Follow the thing: Air rights	23
Transforming dispositions towards automation	22
Dignity, mega-projects, and the problem of scale	19
Critical geography, Islam, and the possibility of engaging the more-than-critical	16
Mountains matter	15
Heirs to a future yet to come: Thoughts on colonial debts	15
Social reproduction, precarity, and the ‘new asset geographies’	15
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	14
Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A conversation	14
Witches as glitches: A response to Leszczynski and Elwood	13
Erratum to The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	12
Decolonial leaps in more-than-human geographies	12

Academic hoaxing, decolonial politics, and epistemic pluriversality	12
Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant	11
Desire’s misrecognitions, or the promise of mutable attachments	11
Philanthropy’s invention of the ‘underclass’	10
Coloniality in the colony: A response	10
On postcapitalist repair	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
Towards ‘a progressive sense of thick time’ and the future of geographical thinking	9
Finding ‘new’ geographies in dedications, acknowledgements, and citations	9
Muslim peripheries: A world regional perspective	9
Mine/Machine	9
Form, genre, voice, and authority in human geography: A speculative genealogy	8
What to do with being/feeling ‘out of it’? Three options for health geographers	8
Seven thoughts on seven ethics	8
Is this the humanism we have been looking for?	8
The state of water	8
The radical contribution of what's in between M and M′	8
Reorienting GIScience for a data-intensive society	8
Young people and life-course inequalities: The role of families and housing	7
Governing with care, reciprocity, and relationality: Recognising the connectivity of human and more-than-human wellbeing and the process of decolonisation	7
Beyond the decolonial: Critical Muslim geographies	7
Place-based approaches to develop the foundations and diversities of energy geographies	7
Reclaiming planetary consciousness	7
State-led venture capital as capitalist state-led ventures	6
The urban dialectic: Between distant time and thick time	6
Critical computation on a geographical register	6
Diversifying the compact city: A renewed agenda for geographical research	6
Legalizing war/militarizing law	6
Beyond binaries? Spatial possibilities in Southeast Asia	6
Emplacing the disposition toward automation	6
Worlding the geographies of homelessness: Informality, precarity, and theory from the Global South	6
World-ending flatness	6
A sexuality pivot: Thinking through solidarity, geographies of sexuality, and a world in transition	6
Why study the history of exploration?	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
Urban state venturism: On state-led venture capital investments in the urban process of capital accumulation	5
Making margins visible	5
Clarifying rupture: An authors’ reply	5
Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies	5
What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning	5
Where is Liberland? Ideology and power beyond territory	5
On HIV assemblages, inequalities and subject formation	5
Revisiting ‘infrastructures of social reproduction’	5
Time and being awkward	5
Geomorphic eugenics and the engineering of surplus territory	4
Critical Muslim geographies through a critical geography of Islamophobia	4

‘Foreclosed future’ in between continuity and innovation in youth’ futures research	4
Encounters with For a New Geography	4
Not waving but drowning	4
Between ontologies and practices: How to deal with democratic theory?	4
Putting ‘rupture’ to work at the Three Gorges Dam	4
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India	4
Fissured thought for fractured times: Reflections on geography, ecology and the state	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
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
Comrade Santos	4
The imperial in a global history of science of the British empire	4
Spacing sovereign debt	4
When the call comes from inside the house	4
Navigating macro and micro across urban assemblages	4
Toward a poetics of the abyss: Suspending wor(l)ds	4
Moralization as class war	4
The world as abject: On less-than-human geographies	4
The public library and the futures of social infrastructure	3
The Indo-Pacific: In what sense a region?	3
The fragmented sovereignty of the ummah: A response to Sidaway's manifesto	3
Making sense of foreign investment screening through sectoral analysis	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
Testing practices for testing times: Exploring Indigenous-led governance	3
The problem of the urban–rural binary in geography and political ecology	3
To whom does geography owe a future? Lessons from urban studies	3
Extending gestures and global city-making: Analyzing extending urbanization at multiple scales	3
Re-labeling the underclass	3
Postcapitalist practices and human, economic, and cultural geographies	3
Affective infrastructures and political organisation	3
Towards a right to the rural?	3
Montage space: Extra scenes	3
Cosmohistories and pluriversal dialogues: The future of the history of geography	3
What is the place of abandonment in planetary rural geographies?	3
Territorial futures: On belonging, caste, and pedagogy	3
The point is to change it: Locating community geography and praxis in a neoliberalizing academia	3
Pivoting toward solidarity: Black studies, Black feminism, and performance in geographical scholarship on sexuality	3
Black livingness and insurgent ecological politics: Thinking across Black geographies / Atlantics / ecologies	3
Unresolved tensions in green transitions: Retraining and the question of ‘how’?	3
Crafting scholarly alliances for multispecies justice	3
Social experiments and the praxis of geographical knowledge production: Emerging architectural practices in urban and regional China	3
Who controls the infrastructure of social reproduction? Finance, reproduction, and resistance in educational landscapes	3
Assets and assemblage in the global countryside	3
Re-imagining the ‘fields’ of fieldwork	3
Identifying the revolutionary agent in the radical project of autogestion	3
Taking forward sexuality-based solidarities in a geopolitical world in transition	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
Moving towards a critical perspective on automation: Theories of technology, labour, and capitalism	3
Geographies of alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness through the lens of participatory video	3
Making space for new voices and emerging conversations	3
Common problems or different questions: A critique of ‘assetization’	3
Feeling out of it: Displacement, disengagement and dispossession in experiences of brain fog	3
A global foreclosure of youth futures: Austerity as a shared process	3
On colonial exceptionality, neoliberal coloniality, and legal interruptions	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
‘Revolution of space’, autogestion, and appropriation of nature in Henri Lefebvre’s political and revolutionary project	3