OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
What can co-creation do for the citizens? Applying co-creation for the promotion of participation in cities	33
Ban the (plastic) bag? Explaining variation in the implementation of plastic bag bans in Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda	26
Introduction: Research agendas raised by the Belt and Road Initiative	25
Reclaiming the city one plot at a time? DIY garden projects, radical democracy, and the politics of spatial appropriation	24
From right to good, and to asset: The state-led financialisation of the social rented housing in Italy	24
The revenge of the village? The geography of right-wing populist electoral success, anti-politics, and austerity in Germany	23
Criminalizing solidarity: Search and rescue in a neo-colonial sea	21
Rethinking the biopolitical: Borders, refugees, mobilities…	19
Reframing refugee crisis: A “European crisis of migration” or a “crisis of protection”?	17
Beyond experiments: Embedding outcomes in climate governance	16
Rethinking urban environmental and infrastructural governance in the everyday: Perspectives from and of the global South	16
“Wait for a permanent contract”: The temporal politics of (in)fertility as an early career researcher	15
Irregular migration, borders, and the moral geographies of migration management	15
The hybrid governance of environmental transnational municipal networks: Lessons from 100 Resilient Cities	14
Do no harm? The impact of policy on migration scholarship	14
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint	13
The fantasmatic narrative of ‘sustainable development’. A political analysis of the 2030 Global Development Agenda	12
Aversive racism and community-instigated policing: The spatial politics of Nextdoor	11
Infrastructure governance in the post-networked city: State-led, high-tech sanitation in Addis Ababa’s condominium housing	11
Producing a Chinese hydrosocial territory: A river of clean water flows north from Danjiangkou	11
Conflict, consent, dissensus: The unfinished as challenge to politics and planning	10
Bordering through recalibration: Exploring the temporality of the German “Ausbildungsduldung”	10
Left behind in perception of air pollution? A hidden form of spatial injustice in China	10
The borderization of waiting: Negotiating borders and migration in the 2011 Syrian civil conflict	9
Pipe dreams? Practices of everyday governance of heterogeneous configurations of water supply in Baruipur, a small town in India	9

Sexual(ities that) progress: Introduction	9
Introduction: Anti-politics, austerity and spaces of politicisation	9
Retrofitting an emergency approach to the climate crisis: A study of two climate emergency declarations in Aotearoa New Zealand	9
Hybrid contractual landscapes of governance: Generation of fragmented regimes of public accountability through urban regeneration	9
Biopolitics of migration: An assemblage approach	9
Noxious deindustrialization: Experiences of precarity and pollution in Scotland’s petrochemical capital	8
Breathing in the polyrhythmic city: A spatiotemporal, rhythmanalytic account of urban air pollution and its inequalities	8
Introducing the YIMBYs: Renters, housing, and supply-side politics in Los Angeles	8
The popular sovereignty continuum: Civil and political society in contemporary South Africa	8
Detachment, disaffection, and other ambivalent affects	8
Contracting-out care: The socio-spatial politics of nursing home care at the intersection of British Columbia’s labor, land, and capital markets	7
Hidden geographies of the ‘Mediterranean migration crisis’	7
Critical political geographies of slow violence and resistance	7
Critical political geographies of slow violence and resistance	7
Spaces of Islamophobia and spaces of inequality in Greater Paris	7
Toward the commoning of governance	7
Negotiating the boundaries of China’s Belt and Road Initiative	7
Urban governance dispositifs: cohering diverse ecologies of urban energy governance	7
Roads to China and infrastructural relations in Nepal	7
Incompatible with life: Embodied borders, migrant fertility, and the UK’s ‘hostile environment’	7
Rhythmanalysis: Rethinking the politics of everyday negotiations in ordinary public spaces	7
The role of the media in staging air pollution: The controversy on extreme air pollution along Oxford Street and other debates on poor air quality in London	6
Smart as (un)democratic? The making of a smart city imaginary in Kolkata, India	6
Improvising against the racial state in Atlanta: Reimagining agency in environmental justice	6
Introduction	6
Belts and roads every- and nowhere: Conceptualizing infrastructural corridorization in the Indian Ocean	6
Between nation and state: Boundary infrastructures, communities of practice and everyday nation-ness in the Chinese rail system	6
Navigating Sino-Thai ‘rocky’ bilateral ties: The geopolitics of riverine trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion	6
Aid micropolitics: Everyday southern resistance to racialized and geographical assumptions of expertise	6
For political geographies of fertilities	6
The landrush of wind energy, its socio-material workings, and its political consequences: On the entanglement of land and wind assemblages in Denmark	6
The Belt and Road as political technology: Power and economy in Pakistan and Tajikistan	6
Feminist political geographies: Critical reflections, new directions	6
Spectacle, tourism and the performance of everyday geopolitics	5
Lockdown and the list: Mexican refugees, asylum denial, and the feminist geopolitics of esperar (waiting/hoping)	5
Staying with the trouble of collegiality, professionalism and care: Fertilities in academia	5
Easier said than done? Involving citizens in the smart city	5
Mothers, babies, and abortion at the border: Contradictory U.S. policies, or targeting fertility?	5
Killing the joy, feeling the cruelty: Feminist geographies of nationalism in Azerbaijan	5
Blue bioeconomy localities at the margins: Reconnecting Norwegian seaweed farming and Finnish small-scale lake fisheries with blue policies	5
Epidermal politics: Control, violence and dissent at the biometric border	5
Invasion and colonization: Islamophobia and anti-refugee sentiment in West Virginia	5
Linguistic ambivalence amidst suburban diversity: LGBTQ2S municipal ‘social inclusions’ on Vancouver’s periphery	5
The making of low-carbon urbanism: Climate change, discursive strategy, and rhetorical decarbonization in Chinese cities	5
Fenced In	5
The prefigurative politics of social movements and their processual production of space: The case of the indignados movement	5
Conjuring a cooler world? Imaginaries of Improvement in Blockchain Climate Finance Experiments	5
Shanghai municipal investment corporation: Extending government power through financialization under state entrepreneurialism	5
The spaces and politics of affective nationalism	5
Resistance is in the air: From post-politics to the politics of expertise	5

Fragmentation, commodification and responsibilisation in the governing of flood risk mitigation in Sweden	5
Beyond the success/failure of travelling urban models: Exploring the politics of time and performance in Cape Town’s East City	5
Intersectionality and climate policy-making: The inclusion of social difference by three Swedish government agencies	4
After the facts: Producing, using and contesting knowledge in two spatial-environmental conflicts in the Netherlands	4
Dealing with violence: Varied reactions from frontline workers acting in highly vulnerable territories	4
Spatial shifts in migration governance: Public-private alliances in Swedish immigration administration	4
Shadows of the shadow state: Grassroots, refugee-led organizations within a multi-scalar and contested resettlement institutional domain	4
(In)coherent subjects? The politics of conceptualising resistance in the UK asylum system	4
Political dynamics of local government reform in a development context: The case of Turkey	4
Urban speculation for survival: Adaptations and negotiations in Forest City, Malaysia	4
Who will man the rigs when we go?” transnational demographic fever dreams between Qatar and Texas	4
Differential inclusion through education: Reforms and spatial justice in Finnish education policy	4
The time and place of social mixing: Everyday rhythms of long-term residents and newcomers in a Dutch neighborhood	4
“We just need the developer to develop”: Entrepreneurialism, financialization and urban redevelopment in Lexington, Kentucky	4
Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey	4
Scenes of emergency: Dis/re-assembling the promise of the UK emergency state	4
Consensus and entrepreneurship: The contrasting local and national politics of UK air pollution	4
Scales of participation and multi-scalar citizenship in EU participatory governance	4
Towards a sensory politics of the Anthropocene: Exploring activist-artistic approaches to politicizing air pollution	4
Affective nationalisms and race	4
Pragmatic state rescaling: The dynamics and diversity of state space in Indonesian megaproject planning and governance	4
Why are designs for urban governance so often incomplete? A conceptual framework for explaining and harnessing institutional incompleteness	4
State-led stigmatisation of place and the politics of the exception	4
Tracing modes of politics at the United Nations: Spatial scripting, intimidation and subversion at the Forum on Minority Issues	4
The urban politicization of fossil fuel infrastructure: Mediatization and resistance in energy landscapes	4
Postpartum geographies: Intersections of academic labor and care work	4
Building a better host city? Reforming and contesting the Olympics in Paris 2024	4
‘Utopia’ failed? Social enterprise, everyday practices and the closure of neoliberalism	4