OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Territory Politics Governance is 5. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating governance tensions in alternative food networks through a hybrid governance approach	42
Municipal institutions and local policy responses to immigrants: policies towards day labourers in California	27
Spaces of (in-)security and intervention: spatial competition and the politics of regional organizations in the Sahel	26
Neopatrimonialism and authoritarian decentralisation: the case of Kazakhstan	25
Mobilising in a (former)-red subculture industrial district: the case of the No-Keu permanent assembly	24
Politicising and depoliticising metropolitan governance in France: the case of Bordeaux Métropole	24
Uneven benefits? Territorial divides in perceptions of devolution in Scotland and Wales	24
Planning smart, working hard: unveiling the ‘hidden’ labour behind digital connectivity in Tanzanian agriculture	18
Urban sustainability: a spatial justice critique	17
Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance	17
Territorial strategies of forestry and agricultural corporations in Uruguay – the Southern Cone region of Latin America	16
Intergovernmental bargaining in multilevel autocracies: the case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia	16
Regional industrial synergy and industry chain stability as state spatial strategies: reimagining China’s city-region governance	15
Made in the USA? The paradiplomatic strategies of California and Illinois to the EU	15
Correction	14
The Russian invasion of Ukraine: implications for politics, territory and governance	14
Spatial reason of the state: the role of space in protest repression in Turkey	13
Multiscalar strategies in right-wing populism: a comparison of West European parties in borderlands	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
The production of territories seen from a materialist perspective: milieus in the politics of territorialization	11
Technodiplomatic processes of territorialization: negotiating Chinese sovereignty through infrastructure in semi-colonial Tianjin, 1901–08	11
Can decentralization help address poverty and social exclusion in Europe?	11
Territorial differences, development trends and influencing factors of judicial transparency in China	10

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

Framing Syrian refugees in Turkish politics: a qualitative analysis on party group speeches	5
Governing polycentric urban regions	5