OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Territory Politics Governance 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Territorial strategies of forestry and agricultural corporations in Uruguay – the Southern Cone region of Latin America	36
China’s fisheries policy fragmentation: struggling against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the Yellow Sea	30
Politicising and depoliticising metropolitan governance in France: the case of Bordeaux Métropole	24
Neopatrimonialism and authoritarian decentralisation: the case of Kazakhstan	22
Mobilising in a (former)-red subculture industrial district: the case of the No-Keu permanent assembly	22
Uneven benefits? Territorial divides in perceptions of devolution in Scotland and Wales	21
Correction	20
Planning smart, working hard: unveiling the ‘hidden’ labour behind digital connectivity in Tanzanian agriculture	20
Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance	19
Possessing the Awa: Te Awa Tupua, legal personhood and the continuities of settler/invader colonialism	19
Navigating governance tensions in alternative food networks through a hybrid governance approach	18
Asymmetrical border governance and everyday borderland practices: the Indonesia–Papua New Guinea case	18
Infrastructural contact zones: innovation in urban interstices	15
Made in the USA? The paradiplomatic strategies of California and Illinois to the EU	15
Urban sustainability: a spatial justice critique	15
Regional industrial synergy and industry chain stability as state spatial strategies: reimagining China’s city-region governance	14
Income, place and perceptions of fiscal fairness: evidence from Australian federalism	13
The Russian invasion of Ukraine: implications for politics, territory and governance	13
Rural populists? Questioning the link between anti-environmentalism, populism and science criticism in rural areas	13
A ‘fateful compromise’? Transnational religious organizations and regional governance in Africa	12
From goats to Gold Stars: trajectories of consumption, bureaucracy and territory in the Nepal-China borderlands	12
The production of territories seen from a materialist perspective: milieus in the politics of territorialization	12
River protection movements in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia: rethinking locality and collective identity	11
Beyond entrepreneurialism: revealing multiple logics of suburban housing development politics in the global city	11
Multiscalar strategies in right-wing populism: a comparison of West European parties in borderlands	11

Can decentralization help address poverty and social exclusion in Europe?	11
Urgent waiting: the politics of time on Europe’s Eastern Frontier	11
Territorial differences, development trends and influencing factors of judicial transparency in China	10
Climate mobility between adaptation and control? Contested agendas in IGAD–Germany cooperation in Africa	10
Conceptualising patron-client relations in secessionist conflict. A research agenda	9
The challenge of integrating subnational governments in multilevel climate governance: the case of Mexico	9
Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space	9
New dog, old tricks: strategic moderation after failed secession in the Catalan nationalist right	9
Networks of resistance: material agency and political infrastructure in digitally-mediated public space	9
Everyday informal negotiation of irregular migrants in Mae Sot, Thailand	8
Patron-client relations in secessionist conflict: introducing the special issue	8
The moral community of redistribution: interregional fiscal grievances in working-class urban Catalonia	8
Sovereignty on the move: gold, financial capital and a neoliberal state in India	8
Frontrunners but different games? Comparing Catalan and Basque paradiplomacy towards the EU	8
Water, territory and power in the 2014 water crisis in the state of São Paulo	8
Territorializing polar heritage: cultural heritage as a means to exercise symbolic sovereignty in Antarctica	8
Data centres on the Moon and other tales: a volumetric and elemental analysis of the coloniality of digital infrastructures	8
Beyond the BRI: the volumetric presence of China in Nepal	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
From home to planet. Grounding planetary futures in Frankfurt’s technopolitical landscape of water scarcity	7
Editorial board 2024	7
Maintaining sovereignty at the margins: internal migration governance in Okinawa	7
The effects of marginalisation in areas of high political centralisation	7
The moral economy of localism in England: neighbourhood planning as neoliberal ‘apprentice piece’	7
Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism	7
Multidirectional migrant trajectories crisscrossing Italy: from Trieste to Central and Northern Europe – and back	7
Governing through care: faith-based social service provision in rural Hungary	6
Coordination games and regional economic transitions	6
Cities bound, bounded, boundless: urban metabolic entanglements and planetary boundaries	6
Easier signed than done: natural resource sharing in the shadow of conflict on the Korean peninsula	6
Networked security at the edge of northern Europe – cooperation between state and non-state actors in rural Finland security management	6
Peripheral elites and central political institutions: a complex relationship	6
Turkey’s ports: growth coalitions and infrastructural connectivity	5
Hegemonic extractivism: mining, groundwater and the closure of alternatives in Morocco	5
Does recognition matter? Exploring patron penetration of de-facto state structures	5
Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa	5
Green occupation: low-carbon energy and territorial control in Western Sahara	5
Ontological security of landlocked states and China’s Belt and Road Initiative	5
Correction	5
Regional ambassadors or state agents? Representing Welsh interests in the British Parliament and Cabinet	5
Theorising belonging along the identity-border-order axes of North Cyprus	5
Theorising migrant lives: homing, everyday bordering and the migrant struggle for ontological security	5
Deconstructing sovereignty: (non-)life, territorial power and the everyday ecologies of hybrid governance	5
A new direction or the same old road? Assessing refugee housing and integration policy governance in Berlin post-2016	5
Territory, Politics, Governance	5
Planetary citizenship in a dynamic world: posthuman cosmopolitanism	5
Federalism, political leadership and the Covid-19 pandemic: explaining Canada’s tale of two federations	5
Between cooperation and conflict: explaining strategies of regional paradiplomacy towards the EU in regions inside, outside and in transition (1992–2022)	5
When rivers move borders: territoriality, citizenship and the environment in South Asia	4

From Nagorno-Karabakh to Taiwan: measuring patron-client relations of de facto states	4
Negotiating counterstrategies against the far right in Cottbus, Germany: shifting relations of the state and civil society	4
From kilometres to detachment: examining electoral accountability in amalgamated municipalities	4
Re-territorialization and the governance of ocean frontiers in Indonesia	4
Porous borders and the emergence of hybrid sovereignties	4
Energy normalisation and the additive transition: renewables and fossil integration after the Abraham accords	4
Correction	4
Towards a socioenvironmental state: governing countryside conservation in Hong Kong	4
Rethinking self-determination: colonial and relational geographies in Asia	4
The Biafra Lobby: international civil society patronage in the Biafran secession conflict, 1967–70	4
A spatial analysis of secondary movements and desertification in EU asylum governance	4
Unpacking the multispatial configurations of metagoverning tourism development: a longitudinal application of the TPSNE framework	4
Places that matter and places that don’t: territorial revenge and counter-revenge in Poland	4
Scaling up from everyday concerns to territorial politics and constitutional debate: deliberation among women in the Irish border area	4