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 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

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
Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space	10
Territorial differences, development trends and influencing factors of judicial transparency in China	10
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
Frontrunners but different games? Comparing Catalan and Basque paradiplomacy towards the EU	9
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
The moral economy of localism in England: neighbourhood planning as neoliberal ‘apprentice piece’	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
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
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
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
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