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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The COVID-19 pandemic: territorial, political and governance dimensions of the crisis	118
Beyond the nation-state: territory, solidarity and welfare in a multiscalar Europe	24
Does India have subnational welfare regimes? The role of state governments in shaping social policy	18
The role of cities in good governance for food security: lessons from Madrid’s urban food strategy	18
Externalization through ‘awareness-raising’: the border spectacle of EU migration information campaigns in Niger	18
Governing ‘places that don’t matter’: agonistic spatial planning practices in Finnish peripheral regions	15
State actors, human rights violations and informal livelihoods during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria	15
Ad-hocratic immigration governance: how states secure their power over immigration through intentional ambiguity	14
Food regime transformations and structural rebounding: Brazilian state–agribusiness relations	14
Euroregions as political actors: managing border policies in the time of Covid-19 in Polish borderlands	14
The city as actor in UN frameworks: formalizing ‘urban agency’ in the international system?	14
Framing Syrian refugees in Turkish politics: a qualitative analysis on party group speeches	13
Seeing like a business: rethinking the role of business in regional development, planning and governance	13
Governing uneven development: the Northern Powerhouse as a ‘state spatial strategy’	13
Policy learning to reduce inequalities: the search for a coherent Scottish gender mainstreaming policy in a multilevel UK	13
The politicization and framing of migration in West Africa: transition to democracy as a game changer?	12
Power, persuasion and preservation: exacting times in the World Heritage Committee	11
Territorial governance and Smart Specialisation: empowering the sub-national level in EU regional policy	11
Rethinking urban adaptation as a scalar geopolitics of climate governance: climate policy in the devolved territories of the UK	11
Real estate investment and urban density: exploring the polycentric urban region using a topological lens	11
Between a rock and a hard place: mayors, migration challenges and multilevel political dynamics	10
Sharing heritage? Politics and territoriality in UNESCO’s heritage lists	10
New perspectives on old inequalities: Italy’s north–south divide	9
Polycentric urbanization as enclave urbanization: a research agenda with illustrations from the Yangtze River Delta Region (YRDR), China	9
Turning rights into ballots: Mexican external voting from the US	9

Localism, governmentality and failing technologies: the case of Neighbourhood Planning in England	9
Understanding borders through dynamic processes: capturing relational motion from south-west China’s radiation centre	9
Grasping the nettle: the central–local constraints on local government funding in England	9
State-guided city regionalism: the development of metro transit in the city region of Nanjing	9
Inequalities, territorial politics, nationalism	9
Inequality and voting in Italy’s regions	9
Bridging across difference in contemporary (urban) social movements: territory as a catalyst	9
Red territory: forging infrastructural power	8
The geopolitics of China’s Arctic tourism resources	8
Authoritarian neoliberalization of water governance: the case of China’s South–North Water Transfer Project	8
Hong Kong – a model on the rocks?	8
How different multilevel and multi-actor arrangements impact policy implementation: evidence from EU regional policy	8
Evaluating regional spatial imaginaries: the Oxford–Cambridge Arc	8
Embracing complexity in ‘Southern’ migration governance	8
Territorial self-governance and proportional representation: reducing the risk of territory-centred intrastate violence	8
Neoliberal commensuration and new enclosures of the commons: mining and market–environmentalism governmentalities	7
Megaprojects, mirages and miracles: territorializing the Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and state restructuring in contemporary India	7
Urbanizing Tibet: differential inclusion and colonial governance in the People’s Republic of China	7
Contesting sovereignty and borders: Northern Ireland, devolution and the Union	7
Subaltern learnings: climate resilience and human security in the Caribbean	7
Using critical geopolitical discourse to examine China’s engagement in Arctic affairs	7
The politics of unilateral secession in the European Union: the case of Catalonia	7
Brexit geographies of transnational education: uncertainty, ‘global Britain’ and European (re-)integration	6
The role of local political leadership in the reception of forced migrants: evidence from Greece	6
New Public Management Reform ideas and the remaking of the Italian and Danish health systems	6
Preserving order: narrating resilience as threat in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp	6
Mutations of the emerging new globalization in the post-COVID-19 era: beyond Rodrik’s trilemma	6
Federalism, political leadership and the Covid-19 pandemic: explaining Canada’s tale of two federations	6
Can pro-equity hybrid governance shape an egalitarian city? Lessons from post-Katrina New Orleans	6
Health policy and federalism in India	6
Urban experimentation and smart cities: a Foucauldian and autonomist approach	6
Multiscalar strategies in right-wing populism: a comparison of West European parties in borderlands	6
Governance in post-conflict scenarios: assessing models of community-based governance in the departments of Caquetá and Cesar (Colombia)	6
‘Tuscans are different’: the cognitive dimension of local asylum policymaking during the 2015 European ‘refugee crisis’	6
Depoliticization and (re)politicization tactics in refugee governance in Lebanon: comparing Western and Gulf donors’ interventions	5
Infrastructures and b/ordering: how Chinese projects are ordering China–Myanmar border spaces	5
Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space	5
Politics of adjustment: rural mayors and the accommodation of refugees	5
Burden, benefit, gift or duty? Dutch mayors’ framing of the multilevel governance of asylum in rural localities and cities in Zeeland	5
Politicizing the polycentric urban region: bridge connection negotiations in the Pearl River Delta, China	5
Creating new states: the strategic use of referendums in secession movements	5
The co-constitution of regional politics and massive infrastructures in the Transaqua water project	5
Borders and guns: does violent repression impact border violence?	5
Between two unions: UK devolution, European integration and Brexit	5
Labouring under a delusion? Scotland’s national questions and the crisis of the Scottish Labour Party	5
Contemporary governance of urban mega-projects: a case study of the Belgrade waterfront	5
Relational and reputational resources in the governance of top-down asylum seekers’ reception in Italian rural areas	5
Nativist with(out) a cause: a geographical analysis of the populist radical right in the 2017 and 2021 Czech parliamentary elections	5
Beyond displacement: territorialization in the port city of Buenaventura, Colombia	5
Governing polycentric urban regions	5

Struggles on the Port of Granadilla: defending the right to nature	5
Mobility planning in cross-border metropolitan regions: the European and North American experiences	5
Relational regulation and Chinese real estate investment in London: moving beyond the territorial trap	5
Affective terrains of Assyrian heritage under Daesh	5