OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Geek saviours to the rescue? Primitive accumulation, astropropriation, and exoimperialism in NewSpace entrepreneurship	25
Decentralisation advocacy and inter-government coordination: A local government association perspective	22
Brazilian housing movements and the right to the city	22
When cities broke into the global stage: 20 years since the publication of ‘Cities and Climate Change’	17
Blood, sweat and tears: On the corporeality of deportation	14
The political economy of healthcare access and Chicagoland health-oriented non-profit organizations	14
Geographies of revolution: Prefiguration and spaces of alterity in Latin American radicalism	14
The struggle against post-truth politics has always been about white supremacy: Lessons from the informational praxis of SNCC	13
Erratum to “Toward the communing of governance”	13
Intimate witnessing: Volunteer testimonies of everyday border violence	13
Gratitude and greetings as editors depart and others arrive	13
“I choose fish”: Understanding informal civil society in Vietnam through environmental grievances and actions	12
The declining appeal of mega-events in entrepreneurial cities: From Los Angeles 1984 to Los Angeles 2028	12
Everyday urban peace: Experiences from a marginalised neighbourhood in Cali, Colombia	12
Bridgeheads of EU border externalisation? NGOs/CSOs and migration in Libya	11
Solutions in search of a problem: Opening policy windows for Business Improvement Districts in the Nordic countries	11
The perfect (shit)storm: Discourses around the proposal to introduce a ‘climate passport’ in Germany	11
The power of representation: Re-theorizing China’s land development as a state-led strategic discursive–material nexus	11
Discursive politics and policy (im)mobility: Metro-TOD policies in India	11
Architecture, tactics and mobility – Appropriating space at a transport hub in Shanghai	11
Spatial politics and struggle for hegemony: The role of Komala in the revolutionary movement of Iranian Kurdistan	11
Assemblages, cosmopolitics and controversies: Capturing the territorial and knowledge dimensions of infrastructural politics in Lebanon	10
Rethinking environmental justice: capability building, public knowledge and the struggle against traffic-related air pollution	10
Cramp, choke and disperse: The economy of migrants’ confinement in the UK	10
Spatial shifts in migration governance: Public-private alliances in Swedish immigration administration	9

‘Mainstreaming’ Meets ‘Choice and Control’: Unsettling Neoliberal Imaginaries of Service Choice	9
Beyond resilience? State failure, mutual aid and local action	8
Stewardship practice and the performance of citizenship: Greening tree-pits in the streets of Berlin	8
Insurgent climate adaptation in Santiago de Cali: Resisting and reshaping flood-risk resettlements	8
Ambivalent states: Paradoxes of subjection in the Jordanian south	8
Off-grid: Trading infrastructure for atmosphere in Bucharest, Romania	8
Grounding legal geography: Conversations on law, space, and power across disparate geographies	8
The moral and strategic clarity of supporting Ukraine’s self-defense: Why accepting Russian colonialism should remain a taboo	8
The eviction room: How Carolina Maria de Jesus can help us analyze migration, segregation, and the politics of citizenship in the city	8
Politicizing the “unknown”: Territorial narratives, shared spatial imaginaries, and Bermuda’s oceans	7
Networked insurgence and an anti-electoral democracy: Bangkok space 2014–2020	7
Spatializing poverty: Media representations and perceptions of poverty in Lille, France	7
‘Where is the new constitution?’ Activist art and the politics of space in Iceland	7
Fracking and epistemic injustice: A feminist critique of knowledge formation	6
‘Never mind extraction, ownership still belongs to ‘us’’: A spatial critique to subsoil public property in Colombia	6
“Sentir su camino”: (Im)mobilities in the return of Venezuelan migrant women during the pandemic in Ecuador	6
National sovereignty across city networks: Singapore and the diplomacy of a global city-state	6
The political geographies of strategic partnerships: City deals and non-deals	6
The place of the public notary: How the engine of the capitalist state operates through material and legal arrangements	6
Planning and designing universal access to social services. A pioneering local program on welfare spaces in Italy	6
“The Worker's Party sold out the street vendors”: Revanchist populism and the crisis of labor in Belo Horizonte, Brazil	6
Urban planners as boundary spanners: Steering perceptions of asylum seeker accommodations in Germany	5
Corrigendum to “Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability”	5
New energy vehicles and the political geoecology of China’s Ecological Civilisation	5
Improving public housing policies that target low-income households: The value of adding proximity to discretion	5
Coercive geographies: Biopower, spatial politics, and the tourist	5
Marielle’s seeds: Contesting the emotional life of corruption talk in Bolsonaro’s Brazil	5
Technology of detachment: The promise of renewable energy and its contentious reality in the south of Colombia	5
Technoscientific imaging and the territorialization of ocean depth	5
Mixed signals: Understanding the democratic work of narratives in pro-immigrant protests across local policy environments	5
Chronicle of a “crisis” foretold: Asylum seekers and the case of Roxham Road on the Canada-US border	5
Toxic violence in marine sacrificial zones: Developing blue justice through marine democracy in Chile	5
The heterogeneous politics of infrastructure: Claims of authority in Accra’s drainage	5
Levelling Up, affective governance and tensions within ‘pride in place’	5
Epidermal politics: Control, violence and dissent at the biometric border	5
Philanthropy to the rescue? Detroit’s schools and urban policymaking under austerity	5
COVID “death pits”: US nursing homes, racial capitalism, and the urgency of antiracist eldercare	5
Smart as (un)democratic? The making of a smart city imaginary in Kolkata, India	5
Implementation of agrarian reform in North Sumatra, Indonesia: The productiveness of institutional fragmentation	5
Becoming knowledgeable stakeholders: Enacting political and epistemic authority in a Swedish strategic urban planning project	4
The prefigurative politics of social movements and their processual production of space: The case of the indignados movement	4
Lockdown and the intimate: Entanglements of terror, virus, and militarism	4
Ignoring people: The micro-politics of misrecognition in participatory governance	4
Understanding variation in national climate change adaptation: Securitization in focus	4
Territorial variance in the UK’s refugee politics and its consequences: Young Syrian refugees in England and Scotland	4
The politics of co-implementation and their potential in shaping egalitarian cities	4
The light side of urban planning: Queer space in Beersheba between displacement and recognition	4
Grab it and change it, it’s yours: Affect, attitude and politics in 1970s Northern Irish punk music	4
Placing the peripheries within Brazil’s rightward turn: Socio-spatial transformation and electoral realignment, 2002–2018	4
City regions and decent work: Politics, pluralism and policy making in Greater Manchester	4

Just air? Spatial injustice and the politicisation of air pollution	4
Theorizing the spatiality of ICT-mediated transnational repression: Evidence from China’s repression of Uyghurs in Turkiye	4
Environmental (in)justice and the post-political	4
“We just need the developer to develop”: Entrepreneurialism, financialization and urban redevelopment in Lexington, Kentucky	4
Exploring the concept of town centre paradigms and how they impact on town centre retail landscapes	4
Constructing the smart city beyond the state: Exploring the conditions for institutional change in Mexico City	4
Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability	4
Racialized control policies in the south American border regime: The intensification of “transit migration” in times of COVID-19	4
Protest, exit, and border expansion in Cuba in the context of COVID-19	4
Geopolitics and genocide: The Gambia vs. Myanmar at the International Court of Justice	4
Seeing like a Zone: Privately deputized sovereignty within Toronto’s Sanctuary City	4
The geopolitics of outbound travel: Theorizing outgoing tourism as state strategy	3
The state of this: Introduction to the special issue	3
Linguistic ambivalence amidst suburban diversity: LGBTQ2S municipal ‘social inclusions’ on Vancouver’s periphery	3
Honoring pasts, escaping presents, and dwelling in futures: The Palestine land society village reconstruction competition	3
Reproductive geopolitics: Governing in/fertile bodies in Mexico’s past and present	3
Death world economy: Race, meat-processing plants, and COVID-19	3
Geographies of entitled anger: Revanchist populism in Brazil and beyond	3
How do cities challenge patterns of demand? Characterising the local governance of climate change in Nordic cities	3
Who will man the rigs when we go?” transnational demographic fever dreams between Qatar and Texas	3
Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking	3
Repoliticising national policy mobilities: Resisting the Americanization of universal healthcare	3
The will to security: Law, order, and the shifting terrain of popular struggles	3
Building a better host city? Reforming and contesting the Olympics in Paris 2024	3
Border practices and border games	3
Making space for competition: The rationalities of contemporary regional development	3
The life and death of the ‘Baron mall’: The shifting politics of urban regeneration in Valparaiso	3
‘Party in the street’: The partisan politics of space	3
The interface between politics, ethics and urban planning: The case of land and space barons in Harare, Zimbabwe	3
Repair, maintenance, and ordinary politics: Patronage relations in the Mexico City public markets’ network	3
Recentralisation in welfare? Measuring and comparing territorial governance change in Spain	3
Decoy politics: How settler states deflect Indigenous threats	3
Introducing the YIMBYs: Renters, housing, and supply-side politics in Los Angeles	3
Problemáticas: Multi-scalar, affective and performative politics of collective action among fishing cooperatives in Mexico	3
For political geographies of fertilities	3