OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Territory Politics Governance is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Uneven benefits? Territorial divides in perceptions of devolution in Scotland and Wales	34
Territorial strategies of forestry and agricultural corporations in Uruguay – the Southern Cone region of Latin America	27
Politicising and depoliticising metropolitan governance in France: the case of Bordeaux Métropole	23
Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance	22
Navigating governance tensions in alternative food networks through a hybrid governance approach	21
Urban sustainability: a spatial justice critique	20
Planning smart, working hard: unveiling the ‘hidden’ labour behind digital connectivity in Tanzanian agriculture	19
Neopatrimonialism and authoritarian decentralisation: the case of Kazakhstan	19
Mobilising in a (former)-red subculture industrial district: the case of the No-Keu permanent assembly	18
China’s fisheries policy fragmentation: struggling against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the Yellow Sea	17
Spaces of (in-)security and intervention: spatial competition and the politics of regional organizations in the Sahel	16
Regional industrial synergy and industry chain stability as state spatial strategies: reimagining China’s city-region governance	16
The Russian invasion of Ukraine: implications for politics, territory and governance	15
Infrastructural contact zones: innovation in urban interstices	15
Made in the USA? The paradiplomatic strategies of California and Illinois to the EU	15
Income, place and perceptions of fiscal fairness: evidence from Australian federalism	14
From goats to Gold Stars: trajectories of consumption, bureaucracy and territory in the Nepal-China borderlands	13
Beyond entrepreneurialism: revealing multiple logics of suburban housing development politics in the global city	13
Can decentralization help address poverty and social exclusion in Europe?	12
The production of territories seen from a materialist perspective: milieus in the politics of territorialization	11
A ‘fateful compromise’? Transnational religious organizations and regional governance in Africa	11
Networks of resistance: material agency and political infrastructure in digitally-mediated public space	11
Climate mobility between adaptation and control? Contested agendas in IGAD–Germany cooperation in Africa	11
Multiscalar strategies in right-wing populism: a comparison of West European parties in borderlands	11
River protection movements in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia: rethinking locality and collective identity	11

Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space	10
Territorial differences, development trends and influencing factors of judicial transparency in China	10
Conceptualising patron-client relations in secessionist conflict. A research agenda	10
Democratic food governance capacity at the local level: the cases of Livorno and Pisa	10
The challenge of integrating subnational governments in multilevel climate governance: the case of Mexico	10
Frontrunners but different games? Comparing Catalan and Basque paradiplomacy towards the EU	9
Patron-client relations in secessionist conflict: introducing the special issue	9
Sovereignty on the move: gold, financial capital and a neoliberal state in India	9
The moral community of redistribution: interregional fiscal grievances in working-class urban Catalonia	9
The moral economy of localism in England: neighbourhood planning as neoliberal ‘apprentice piece’	8
Water, territory and power in the 2014 water crisis in the state of São Paulo	8
Data centres on the Moon and other tales: a volumetric and elemental analysis of the coloniality of digital infrastructures	8
New dog, old tricks: strategic moderation after failed secession in the Catalan nationalist right	8
Territorializing polar heritage: cultural heritage as a means to exercise symbolic sovereignty in Antarctica	8
Beyond the BRI: the volumetric presence of China in Nepal	8
Maintaining sovereignty at the margins: internal migration governance in Okinawa	7
Editorial board 2024	7
The effects of marginalisation in areas of high political centralisation	7
Discontent in the ‘peripheries’: an investigation of the rise of populism in Italy	7
Capacity in motion: comparative COVID-19 governance in India and South Africa	7
Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism	7
Networked security at the edge of northern Europe – cooperation between state and non-state actors in rural Finland security management	7
Multidirectional migrant trajectories crisscrossing Italy: from Trieste to Central and Northern Europe – and back	7
From home to planet. Grounding planetary futures in Frankfurt’s technopolitical landscape of water scarcity	7
Governing through care: faith-based social service provision in rural Hungary	7
Easier signed than done: natural resource sharing in the shadow of conflict on the Korean peninsula	6
Ontological security of landlocked states and China’s Belt and Road Initiative	6
Between cooperation and conflict: explaining strategies of regional paradiplomacy towards the EU in regions inside, outside and in transition (1992–2022)	6
Coordination games and regional economic transitions	6
A new direction or the same old road? Assessing refugee housing and integration policy governance in Berlin post-2016	6
Correction	6
Peripheral elites and central political institutions: a complex relationship	6
Israel’s international mobilities regime: visa restrictions for educators and medics in Palestine	6
When rivers move borders: territoriality, citizenship and the environment in South Asia	6
Territory, Politics, Governance	6
Deconstructing sovereignty: (non-)life, territorial power and the everyday ecologies of hybrid governance	6
Theorising belonging along the identity-border-order axes of North Cyprus	5
Unpacking the multispatial configurations of metagoverning tourism development: a longitudinal application of the TPSNE framework	5
Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa	5
Theorising migrant lives: homing, everyday bordering and the migrant struggle for ontological security	5
Federalism, political leadership and the Covid-19 pandemic: explaining Canada’s tale of two federations	5
Does recognition matter? Exploring patron penetration of de-facto state structures	5
Regional ambassadors or state agents? Representing Welsh interests in the British Parliament and Cabinet	5
Negotiating counterstrategies against the far right in Cottbus, Germany: shifting relations of the state and civil society	5
From Nagorno-Karabakh to Taiwan: measuring patron-client relations of de facto states	5
Hegemonic extractivism: mining, groundwater and the closure of alternatives in Morocco	5
Governing polycentric urban regions	4
Scaling up from everyday concerns to territorial politics and constitutional debate: deliberation among women in the Irish border area	4
Porous borders and the emergence of hybrid sovereignties	4
Places that matter and places that don’t: territorial revenge and counter-revenge in Poland	4

Making the island. Islandness, carcerality and unstable containment at the southern Spanish border	4
Governmental strategies for municipal amalgamations: evidence from 24 European countries	4
Beyond exception: the Irish border and the limits of cosmopolitan nationalism	4
Itinerant deathworlds: Spanish border externalisation and the necroborder	4
The political economy of territorial integration referendums	4
Re-territorialization and the governance of ocean frontiers in Indonesia	4
Rethinking self-determination: colonial and relational geographies in Asia	4
Volumetric, embodied and geologic geopolitics of the seabed: offshore tin mining in Indonesia	4
Zeme Olympics and the historical pathways of Naga sovereignty in checkered borderlands	4
Flexible compliance : utility and legitimacy in Jerusalem	4
Urban commons and the local state: co-production between enhancement and co-optation	4
‘It would be smart to discuss this on telegram’: China’s digital territorialization project and its spatial effects on contentious politics	4
Correction	4
Towards a socioenvironmental state: governing countryside conservation in Hong Kong	4
The Biafra Lobby: international civil society patronage in the Biafran secession conflict, 1967–70	4
Data-driven public health in times of pandemic: towards deep spatialisation	4
Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: working with apprehension	4
‘But we are a rich nation!': the persistent extractivist development myth in Algeria and Venezuela	4
Rails through rangelands: redefining infrastructure frontiers and patronage in Kenya’s Maasai land	4
Settler colonial regulation of bigamous marriage across the Israeli/Palestinian border	3
How opposition cities successfully challenge illiberal populist regimes: comparing Istanbul, Budapest and Warsaw	3
Working with water: a dialogue on care, infrastructure and labour	3
The territorial politics of nation branding: marketing education in the UK and Scotland	3
Resource exhaustion and territorial fragility: rethinking hydropower in the Valtellina Valley, Italy	3
Paradiplomacy and the European Union’s trade treaty negotiations: the role of Wallonia and Brussels	3
Just a strategic move? Exploring good reasons for self-determination referendums through the case of East Timor	3
The RSA Awards 2024 Territory, Politics, Governance	3
Subcontracted capitalism and the polemical verification of rights: a Rancièrian interpretation of the politics of transnational private governance in Nike’s global produ	3
Negotiating nationalism: regional politics in Italy during the health crisis	3
Developing rural spatial imaginaries: Lega’s evolving engagement with the Italian countryside	3
Holding up the skies: is Starlink occupying low Earth orbit?	3
The material politics of labour in Africa: A commentary	3
Conflicted translations: an analysis of the bus rapid transit policy adoption process in Cape Town	3
Corruption on the waterfront. Polymorphic bribery in the port of Genoa	3
Securitise the volume: epistemic territorialisation and the geopolitics of China’s Arctic research	3
Dual polity, dual careers? The dynamic interaction of political careers and territorial order in the devolved United Kingdom	2
Ethnic minority belonging in a multilevel political community: the role of exclusionary experiences and welcoming provincial contexts in Canada	2
Territory, Politics, Governance	2
The role of historical legacies in the process of decentralisation in Russia: compliant activism in the context of the crises of the 2020s	2
Policing the Macedonian name: how the Greek governments protect a territorial name	2
Local development policy in a societal crisis: municipal–industry dialogues in Sweden during Covid-19	2
Dr Klaus Detterbeck	2
Governing diversity: a comparative analysis of pragmatic diversity regimes in city centres	2
Casting doubts on the growth machine? Doughnut economics, an ambiguous innovation in Amsterdam governance	2
Industrial policy, multilevel governance and regional development: the case of the UK semiconductor industry	2
Relations, territories, and politics of infrastructural regionalism	2
The politics of World Heritage Sites: city planning, bird shit architecture and European impunity	2
Territorial consolidation after rebel victory: when does civil war recur?	2
Urban governance and civic capital: analysis of an evolving concept	2
The paradoxical (post-)politics of scale: exploring authoritarian state environmental policymaking in Brunei	2
Debris of sovereignty: discards and territorial domination in a popular neighbourhood of Lagos, Nigeria	2
Grounding border city regionalism in contemporary China: evidence from Ruili and Mengla in Yunnan province	2
When do ethnic majorities share power? The politics of de-majoritarian constitutional reforms in Pakistan and Sri Lanka	2
The impact of Chinese history on perceptions of the Law of the Sea in the South China Sea	2
The deep interface of the effectuated voluminous territories: gates, smooth and striated spaces, and the royal science in the Air Silk Road	2
Dynamic legitimacy in territorial conflicts	2
Looking through a territorial lens: militarization and local fishers’ everyday livelihoods in Okinawa	2
Independence pathways and survival prospects: Kosovo and South Sudan	2
A region runs through it: representation, mediation and partnership in regional water infrastructure governance	2
Renaming municipalities: territorial identities and community participation between mayors and the central state	2
All good in the neighbourhood? Exploring the role of local conditions for political trust and corruption perceptions within a minority context	2
The roles of South Korean cities in politics of memory towards Japan	2
Navigating turbulent waters: associative clientelism and the rise and decline of Riffian elites in Morocco	2
Authoritarian governance and rural urbanisation in China	2
Selling seasteading: rhetoric, accumulation, and appropriation of space in French Polynesia	2
The neoliberal roots of regional embitterment: reproducing ‘left behind’ places through inter-place competition	2