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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Gratitude and greetings as editors depart and others arrive	24
Erratum to “Toward the communing of governance”	22
Blood, sweat and tears: On the corporeality of deportation	20
The political economy of healthcare access and Chicagoland health-oriented non-profit organizations	20
Everyday urban peace: Experiences from a marginalised neighbourhood in Cali, Colombia	18
The declining appeal of mega-events in entrepreneurial cities: From Los Angeles 1984 to Los Angeles 2028	16
Geographies of revolution: Prefiguration and spaces of alterity in Latin American radicalism	16
Geek saviours to the rescue? Primitive accumulation, astropropriation, and exoimperialism in NewSpace entrepreneurship	15
When cities broke into the global stage: 20 years since the publication of ‘Cities and Climate Change’	15
Brazilian housing movements and the right to the city	14
“We have the right to breathe clean air” – Mobilising communities in the fight for good air quality	14
The struggle against post-truth politics has always been about white supremacy: Lessons from the informational praxis of SNCC	13
“I choose fish”: Understanding informal civil society in Vietnam through environmental grievances and actions	13
“Can’t Mandy cure?!” Examining practices of cultural resistance within the Gypsy-Traveller community	13
Displaceable! Precarious urban citizenship in Israel/Palestine	12
Intimate witnessing: Volunteer testimonies of everyday border violence	12
Decentralisation advocacy and inter-government coordination: A local government association perspective	12
The power of representation: Re-theorizing China’s land development as a state-led strategic discursive–material nexus	11
‘Mainstreaming’ Meets ‘Choice and Control’: Unsettling Neoliberal Imaginaries of Service Choice	11
Solutions in search of a problem: Opening policy windows for Business Improvement Districts in the Nordic countries	11
Cramp, choke and disperse: The economy of migrants’ confinement in the UK	11
Spatial politics and struggle for hegemony: The role of Komala in the revolutionary movement of Iranian Kurdistan	10
Architecture, tactics and mobility – Appropriating space at a transport hub in Shanghai	10
Bridgeheads of EU border externalisation? NGOs/CSOs and migration in Libya	9
Ambivalent states: Paradoxes of subjection in the Jordanian south	9

Insurgent climate adaptation in Santiago de Cali: Resisting and reshaping flood-risk resettlements	9
Off-grid: Trading infrastructure for atmosphere in Bucharest, Romania	9
Assemblages, cosmopolitics and controversies: Capturing the territorial and knowledge dimensions of infrastructural politics in Lebanon	9
The perfect (shit)storm: Discourses around the proposal to introduce a ‘climate passport’ in Germany	9
The eviction room: How Carolina Maria de Jesus can help us analyze migration, segregation, and the politics of citizenship in the city	8
Displaced in place: Tracing displaceability in a housing strategy for a Bedouin community in Israel	8
Stewardship practice and the performance of citizenship: Greening tree-pits in the streets of Berlin	8
Beyond resilience? State failure, mutual aid and local action	8
The moral and strategic clarity of supporting Ukraine’s self-defense: Why accepting Russian colonialism should remain a taboo	8
National sovereignty across city networks: Singapore and the diplomacy of a global city-state	8
The place of the public notary: How the engine of the capitalist state operates through material and legal arrangements	7
Planning and designing universal access to social services. A pioneering local program on welfare spaces in Italy	7
‘Where is the new constitution?’ Activist art and the politics of space in Iceland	7
Spatializing poverty: Media representations and perceptions of poverty in Lille, France	7
‘Never mind extraction, ownership still belongs to ‘us’’: A spatial critique to subsoil public property in Colombia	7
Grounding legal geography: Conversations on law, space, and power across disparate geographies	7
Politicizing the “unknown”: Territorial narratives, shared spatial imaginaries, and Bermuda’s oceans	7
“Sentir su camino”: (Im)mobilities in the return of Venezuelan migrant women during the pandemic in Ecuador	6
COVID “death pits”: US nursing homes, racial capitalism, and the urgency of antiracist eldercare	6
Epidermal politics: Control, violence and dissent at the biometric border	6
The political geographies of strategic partnerships: City deals and non-deals	6
Marielle’s seeds: Contesting the emotional life of corruption talk in Bolsonaro’s Brazil	6
Mixed signals: Understanding the democratic work of narratives in pro-immigrant protests across local policy environments	6
New energy vehicles and the political geoecology of China’s Ecological Civilisation	6
Technoscientific imaging and the territorialization of ocean depth	6
The “designed surprise”: Rethinking the temporality of affect in policying the street	6
Implementation of agrarian reform in North Sumatra, Indonesia: The productiveness of institutional fragmentation	6
Corrigendum to “Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability”	6
Planning stories: When a small place faces ‘green’ mega-projects	6
Chronicle of a “crisis” foretold: Asylum seekers and the case of Roxham Road on the Canada-US border	6
The heterogeneous politics of infrastructure: Claims of authority in Accra’s drainage	6
“The Worker's Party sold out the street vendors”: Revanchist populism and the crisis of labor in Belo Horizonte, Brazil	6
The prefigurative politics of social movements and their processual production of space: The case of the indignados movement	5
Placing the peripheries within Brazil’s rightward turn: Socio-spatial transformation and electoral realignment, 2002–2018	5
Becoming knowledgeable stakeholders: Enacting political and epistemic authority in a Swedish strategic urban planning project	5
Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability	5
The light side of urban planning: Queer space in Beersheba between displacement and recognition	5
Technology of detachment: The promise of renewable energy and its contentious reality in the south of Colombia	5
Grab it and change it, it’s yours: Affect, attitude and politics in 1970s Northern Irish punk music	5
Seeing beyond the state: Private sector-led smart city governance in BSD City, Indonesia	5
Public housing in Aotearoa and Austria: A utopian comparison	5
Performative infrastructures: Populism and the material politics of militarization in contemporary Mexico	5
Toxic violence in marine sacrificial zones: Developing blue justice through marine democracy in Chile	5
Levelling Up, affective governance and tensions within ‘pride in place’	5
Exploring the concept of town centre paradigms and how they impact on town centre retail landscapes	5
Understanding variation in national climate change adaptation: Securitization in focus	5
The politics of co-implementation and their potential in shaping egalitarian cities	5
Seeing like a Zone: Privately deputized sovereignty within Toronto’s Sanctuary City	5
Coercive geographies: Biopower, spatial politics, and the tourist	5
Constructing the smart city beyond the state: Exploring the conditions for institutional change in Mexico City	5

Infrastructures of health and border control: Ukrainian refugees seeking healthcare in Poland	4
The will to security: Law, order, and the shifting terrain of popular struggles	4
Recentralisation in welfare? Measuring and comparing territorial governance change in Spain	4
The geopolitics of outbound travel: Theorizing outgoing tourism as state strategy	4
Territorial variance in the UK’s refugee politics and its consequences: Young Syrian refugees in England and Scotland	4
Just air? Spatial injustice and the politicisation of air pollution	4
Lockdown and the intimate: Entanglements of terror, virus, and militarism	4
Environmental (in)justice and the post-political	4
Repair, maintenance, and ordinary politics: Patronage relations in the Mexico City public markets’ network	4
Racialized control policies in the south American border regime: The intensification of “transit migration” in times of COVID-19	4
The interface between politics, ethics and urban planning: The case of land and space barons in Harare, Zimbabwe	4
Theorizing the spatiality of ICT-mediated transnational repression: Evidence from China’s repression of Uyghurs in Turkiye	4
Protest, exit, and border expansion in Cuba in the context of COVID-19	4
Ignoring people: The micro-politics of misrecognition in participatory governance	4
Honoring pasts, escaping presents, and dwelling in futures: The Palestine land society village reconstruction competition	4
Who will man the rigs when we go?” transnational demographic fever dreams between Qatar and Texas	4
Repoliticising national policy mobilities: Resisting the Americanization of universal healthcare	4
City regions and decent work: Politics, pluralism and policy making in Greater Manchester	4
Geopolitics and genocide: The Gambia vs. Myanmar at the International Court of Justice	4