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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating governance tensions in alternative food networks through a hybrid governance approach	40
Municipal institutions and local policy responses to immigrants: policies towards day labourers in California	26
Spaces of (in-)security and intervention: spatial competition and the politics of regional organizations in the Sahel	25
Planning smart, working hard: unveiling the ‘hidden’ labour behind digital connectivity in Tanzanian agriculture	24
Neopatrimonialism and authoritarian decentralisation: the case of Kazakhstan	24
Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance	23
Politicising and depoliticising metropolitan governance in France: the case of Bordeaux Métropole	22
Mobilising in a (former)-red subculture industrial district: the case of the No-Keu permanent assembly	20
Uneven benefits? Territorial divides in perceptions of devolution in Scotland and Wales	18
Intergovernmental bargaining in multilevel autocracies: the case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia	16
Territorial strategies of forestry and agricultural corporations in Uruguay – the Southern Cone region of Latin America	16
Made in the USA? The paradiplomatic strategies of California and Illinois to the EU	15
The Russian invasion of Ukraine: implications for politics, territory and governance	14
Regional industrial synergy and industry chain stability as state spatial strategies: reimagining China’s city-region governance	14
Correction	14
Multiscalar strategies in right-wing populism: a comparison of West European parties in borderlands	13
Spatial reason of the state: the role of space in protest repression in Turkey	13
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	12
A ‘fateful compromise’? Transnational religious organizations and regional governance in Africa	12
Technodiplomatic processes of territorialization: negotiating Chinese sovereignty through infrastructure in semi-colonial Tianjin, 1901–08	11
The production of territories seen from a materialist perspective: milieus in the politics of territorialization	11
Can decentralization help address poverty and social exclusion in Europe?	11
Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space	10
Conceptualising patron-client relations in secessionist conflict. A research agenda	10

Territorial differences, development trends and influencing factors of judicial transparency in China	10
New imagined geographies into old geobodies: problems and prospects for China and Taiwan in the South China Sea	10
Democratic food governance capacity at the local level: the cases of Livorno and Pisa	9
Beyond the BRI: the volumetric presence of China in Nepal	9
The moral community of redistribution: interregional fiscal grievances in working-class urban Catalonia	9
Euroregions as political actors: managing border policies in the time of Covid-19 in Polish borderlands	9
Patron-client relations in secessionist conflict: introducing the special issue	9
The challenge of integrating subnational governments in multilevel climate governance: the case of Mexico	9
Networks of resistance: material agency and political infrastructure in digitally-mediated public space	9
Data centres on the Moon and other tales: a volumetric and elemental analysis of the coloniality of digital infrastructures	9
The effects of marginalisation in areas of high political centralisation	8
Between a rock and a hard place: mayors, migration challenges and multilevel political dynamics	8
The role and place of ‘military territoriality’ in the Clausewitzian conception of war	8
Israel’s international mobilities regime: visa restrictions for educators and medics in Palestine	8
The moral economy of localism in England: neighbourhood planning as neoliberal ‘apprentice piece’	8
Frontrunners but different games? Comparing Catalan and Basque paradiplomacy towards the EU	8
Editorial board 2024	8
Territorializing polar heritage: cultural heritage as a means to exercise symbolic sovereignty in Antarctica	8
Sovereignty on the move: gold, financial capital and a neoliberal state in India	8
Coordination games and regional economic transitions	7
Territory, Politics, Governance	7
Discontent in the ‘peripheries’: an investigation of the rise of populism in Italy	7
Capital mobility and centre–state relations: unpacking the spatial configuration of real estate investment in Iskandar Malaysia	7
Peripheral elites and central political institutions: a complex relationship	7
Governing infrastructure, development and inequality around deindustrialized US cities	7
Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism	7
Between cooperation and conflict: explaining strategies of regional paradiplomacy towards the EU in regions inside, outside and in transition (1992–2022)	7
Capacity in motion: comparative COVID-19 governance in India and South Africa	7
Easier signed than done: natural resource sharing in the shadow of conflict on the Korean peninsula	6
A new direction or the same old road? Assessing refugee housing and integration policy governance in Berlin post-2016	6
Federalism, political leadership and the Covid-19 pandemic: explaining Canada’s tale of two federations	6
The problematic decentring of migration policy studies	6
Deconstructing sovereignty: (non-)life, territorial power and the everyday ecologies of hybrid governance	6
Regional ambassadors or state agents? Representing Welsh interests in the British Parliament and Cabinet	6
From Nagorno-Karabakh to Taiwan: measuring patron-client relations of de facto states	6
Indigenous peoples and paradiplomacy: confronting the state-centric order from Latin American transborder spaces	6
When rivers move borders: territoriality, citizenship and the environment in South Asia	6
Does recognition matter? Exploring patron penetration of de-facto state structures	6
The Biafra Lobby: international civil society patronage in the Biafran secession conflict, 1967–70	6
Negotiating counterstrategies against the far right in Cottbus, Germany: shifting relations of the state and civil society	5
Places that matter and places that don’t: territorial revenge and counter-revenge in Poland	5
The politicization and framing of migration in West Africa: transition to democracy as a game changer?	5
The political economy of territorial integration referendums	5
Porous borders and the emergence of hybrid sovereignties	5
Framing Syrian refugees in Turkish politics: a qualitative analysis on party group speeches	5
Governing polycentric urban regions	5
Scaling up from everyday concerns to territorial politics and constitutional debate: deliberation among women in the Irish border area	5
Embracing complexity in ‘Southern’ migration governance	5
Rethinking self-determination: colonial and relational geographies in Asia	5
Unpacking the multispatial configurations of metagoverning tourism development: a longitudinal application of the TPSNE framework	5

‘It would be smart to discuss this on telegram’: China’s digital territorialization project and its spatial effects on contentious politics	5
Working with water: a dialogue on care, infrastructure and labour	4
Subcontracted capitalism and the polemical verification of rights: a Rancièrian interpretation of the politics of transnational private governance in Nike’s global produ	4
Beyond exception: the Irish border and the limits of cosmopolitan nationalism	4
Data-driven public health in times of pandemic: towards deep spatialisation	4
Rails through rangelands: redefining infrastructure frontiers and patronage in Kenya’s Maasai land	4
Territory, ecological transition and the changing governance of ports	4
Securitise the volume: epistemic territorialisation and the geopolitics of China’s Arctic research	4
Governmental strategies for municipal amalgamations: evidence from 24 European countries	4
The territorial politics of nation branding: marketing education in the UK and Scotland	4
Flexible compliance : utility and legitimacy in Jerusalem	4
Volumetric, embodied and geologic geopolitics of the seabed: offshore tin mining in Indonesia	4
The settler-rights backlash: understanding liberal challenges to Indigenous self-determination	4
The RSA Awards 2024 Territory, Politics, Governance	4
Conflicted translations: an analysis of the bus rapid transit policy adoption process in Cape Town	4
Making the island. Islandness, carcerality and unstable containment at the southern Spanish border	4
Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: working with apprehension	4
Re-territorialization and the governance of ocean frontiers in Indonesia	4
Urban commons and the local state: co-production between enhancement and co-optation	4
The impact of Chinese history on perceptions of the Law of the Sea in the South China Sea	3
The deep interface of the effectuated voluminous territories: gates, smooth and striated spaces, and the royal science in the Air Silk Road	3
Industrial policy, multilevel governance and regional development: the case of the UK semiconductor industry	3
Negotiating nationalism: regional politics in Italy during the health crisis	3
Dual polity, dual careers? The dynamic interaction of political careers and territorial order in the devolved United Kingdom	3
Governing diversity: a comparative analysis of pragmatic diversity regimes in city centres	3
Autonomy of Indigenous peoples in the Federation of Malaysia: a tale of three institutional settings	3
When do ethnic majorities share power? The politics of de-majoritarian constitutional reforms in Pakistan and Sri Lanka	3
Negotiating the global–urban: consumer flows in two Hong Kong retail sites	3
Just a strategic move? Exploring good reasons for self-determination referendums through the case of East Timor	3
Dynamic legitimacy in territorial conflicts	3
Paradiplomacy and the European Union’s trade treaty negotiations: the role of Wallonia and Brussels	3
Local development policy in a societal crisis: municipal–industry dialogues in Sweden during Covid-19	3
Authoritarian governance and rural urbanisation in China	3
Selling seasteading: rhetoric, accumulation, and appropriation of space in French Polynesia	3
Relations, territories, and politics of infrastructural regionalism	3
Settler colonial regulation of bigamous marriage across the Israeli/Palestinian border	3
The neoliberal roots of regional embitterment: reproducing ‘left behind’ places through inter-place competition	3
Looking through a territorial lens: militarization and local fishers’ everyday livelihoods in Okinawa	3
The politics of World Heritage Sites: city planning, bird shit architecture and European impunity	3
Debris of sovereignty: discards and territorial domination in a popular neighbourhood of Lagos, Nigeria	3
Peripheral activism: understanding the influence of California and Texas on the American Union	2
From genplan to master plan: the changing urban planning paradigm in Russia	2
Capturing dissent: forensic photography of graffiti in the late German Democratic Republic	2
Connecting place and multilevel governance for urban river restoration	2
Territorial consolidation after rebel victory: when does civil war recur?	2
National standards or territorial autonomy? Public opinion and the politics of fiscal federalism for healthcare in Canada	2
Urban governance and civic capital: analysis of an evolving concept	2
Grounding border city regionalism in contemporary China: evidence from Ruili and Mengla in Yunnan province	2
The role of public sector policy in sustainable energy efficiency: an application of dynamic modelling	2
How local unions are rethinking their relationship with(in) the city: the case of a place-based mobilization in Bordeaux	2
Vote your region or your income? Decomposing variance in redistributive voting	2
Embedding payments for ecosystem services within the conservation-development nexus in China's Qingshan Village	2
Metropolitanization, civic capacity and metropolitan governance: Ireland in the metropolitan century	2
A typology of resistance: the ‘hot potato’ of European return in West Africa	2
Black-necked crane as border object: interspecies politics in Himalayan borderlands	2
Renaming municipalities: territorial identities and community participation between mayors and the central state	2
Territory, Politics, Governance	2
Minecraft as a technology of postwar urban ordering: the situated-portable epistemic nexus of urban peacebuilding in Pristina	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
Variegated city-region governance: centralised design, localised implementation and asymmetric integration in China’s Greater Bay Area	2
Ethnic minority belonging in a multilevel political community: the role of exclusionary experiences and welcoming provincial contexts in Canada	2
The roles of South Korean cities in politics of memory towards Japan	2
All good in the neighbourhood? Exploring the role of local conditions for political trust and corruption perceptions within a minority context	2
Policing the Macedonian name: how the Greek governments protect a territorial name	2
Social structures of urban governance: strategic spatial planning in Addis Ababa	2
Territory, hydraulics, biopolitics: internal colonization through urban catchment management in Singapore	2
A proposed framework for an appropriate governance system to develop smart cities in India	2
10th anniversary ofTerritory, Politics, Governance: achievements and prospects	2
How different multilevel and multi-actor arrangements impact policy implementation: evidence from EU regional policy	2
Imperial forms of territorialisation and the emergence of middle-scale farms in the Nacala Development Corridor in Mozambique	2
The judicialization of territorial politics in Italy	2
Chinese investments in global port infrastructures: the Belt and Road Initiative as variegated logistical fixes	2
A region runs through it: representation, mediation and partnership in regional water infrastructure governance	2
Digital routes and borders in the Middle East: the geopolitical underpinnings of Internet connectivity	2
Dr Klaus Detterbeck	2
The paradoxical (post-)politics of scale: exploring authoritarian state environmental policymaking in Brunei	2
Navigating turbulent waters: associative clientelism and the rise and decline of Riffian elites in Morocco	2
Irreconcilable sovereignties? Brexit and Scottish self-government	2
Corporate governmentality: building the empirical and theoretical case	2
Regional approaches to cross-border integration: the cases of Saarland and Brandenburg	2