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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Reclaiming the city one plot at a time? DIY garden projects, radical democracy, and the politics of spatial appropriation	29
Ban the (plastic) bag? Explaining variation in the implementation of plastic bag bans in Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda	27
Criminalizing solidarity: Search and rescue in a neo-colonial sea	26
Reframing refugee crisis: A “European crisis of migration” or a “crisis of protection”?	23
Rethinking the biopolitical: Borders, refugees, mobilities…	21
Rethinking urban environmental and infrastructural governance in the everyday: Perspectives from and of the global South	18
The fantasmatic narrative of ‘sustainable development’. A political analysis of the 2030 Global Development Agenda	18
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint	17
“Wait for a permanent contract”: The temporal politics of (in)fertility as an early career researcher	16
Aversive racism and community-instigated policing: The spatial politics of Nextdoor	15
Noxious deindustrialization: Experiences of precarity and pollution in Scotland’s petrochemical capital	13
Left behind in perception of air pollution? A hidden form of spatial injustice in China	12
Critical political geographies of slow violence and resistance	12
The declining appeal of mega-events in entrepreneurial cities: From Los Angeles 1984 to Los Angeles 2028	12
Infrastructure governance in the post-networked city: State-led, high-tech sanitation in Addis Ababa’s condominium housing	12
Retrofitting an emergency approach to the climate crisis: A study of two climate emergency declarations in Aotearoa New Zealand	11
Conflict, consent, dissensus: The unfinished as challenge to politics and planning	11
Conjuring a cooler world? Imaginaries of Improvement in Blockchain Climate Finance Experiments	10
Toward the commoning of governance	10
Shanghai municipal investment corporation: Extending government power through financialization under state entrepreneurialism	10
Introduction: Anti-politics, austerity and spaces of politicisation	10
Smart as (un)democratic? The making of a smart city imaginary in Kolkata, India	10
Introducing the YIMBYs: Renters, housing, and supply-side politics in Los Angeles	9
Aid micropolitics: Everyday southern resistance to racialized and geographical assumptions of expertise	9
Pragmatic state rescaling: The dynamics and diversity of state space in Indonesian megaproject planning and governance	8

WITHDRAWN – Administrative Duplicate Publication: Critical political geographies of slow violence and resistance	8
The prefigurative politics of social movements and their processual production of space: The case of the indignados movement	8
Rhythmanalysis: Rethinking the politics of everyday negotiations in ordinary public spaces	8
Participatory governance in China: ‘Informal public participation’ through neighbourhood mobilisation	8
Building a better host city? Reforming and contesting the Olympics in Paris 2024	8
Lockdown and the list: Mexican refugees, asylum denial, and the feminist geopolitics of esperar (waiting/hoping)	7
For political geographies of fertilities	7
Between nation and state: Boundary infrastructures, communities of practice and everyday nation-ness in the Chinese rail system	7
Improvising against the racial state in Atlanta: Reimagining agency in environmental justice	7
Consensus and entrepreneurship: The contrasting local and national politics of UK air pollution	7
Intersectionality and climate policy-making: The inclusion of social difference by three Swedish government agencies	7
Incompatible with life: Embodied borders, migrant fertility, and the UK’s ‘hostile environment’	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
Epidermal politics: Control, violence and dissent at the biometric border	6
Easier said than done? Involving citizens in the smart city	6
The making of low-carbon urbanism: Climate change, discursive strategy, and rhetorical decarbonization in Chinese cities	6
Beyond the success/failure of travelling urban models: Exploring the politics of time and performance in Cape Town’s East City	6
A close look at the EU–Turkey deal: The language of border externalisation	6
Staying with the trouble of collegiality, professionalism and care: Fertilities in academia	6
The time and place of social mixing: Everyday rhythms of long-term residents and newcomers in a Dutch neighborhood	6
“Land imaginaries” in Western Canada: (financial) neoliberalism, agrarianism, and the contemporary politics of agricultural land	6
Institutional capacity development within the national urban policy formation process – Participants’ views	6
Urban speculation for survival: Adaptations and negotiations in Forest City, Malaysia	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
Resistance is in the air: From post-politics to the politics of expertise	6
Who will man the rigs when we go?” transnational demographic fever dreams between Qatar and Texas	5
Spatial shifts in migration governance: Public-private alliances in Swedish immigration administration	5
Mothers, babies, and abortion at the border: Contradictory U.S. policies, or targeting fertility?	5
“We just need the developer to develop”: Entrepreneurialism, financialization and urban redevelopment in Lexington, Kentucky	5
From towers to walls: Trump’s border wall as entrepreneurial performance	5
Linguistic ambivalence amidst suburban diversity: LGBTQ2S municipal ‘social inclusions’ on Vancouver’s periphery	5
State-led stigmatisation of place and the politics of the exception	5
Dealing with violence: Varied reactions from frontline workers acting in highly vulnerable territories	5
Scales of participation and multi-scalar citizenship in EU participatory governance	5
The veil of transparency: Blockchain and sustainability governance in global supply chains	5
Expertise, legitimacy and subjectivity: Three techniques for a will to govern low carbon energy projects in India	5
Spatial justice as a prerequisite for a just transition in rural areas? The case study from the Irish peatlands	5
Exploring the concept of town centre paradigms and how they impact on town centre retail landscapes	4
The political conditions of the rise of real-estate developers in French housing policies	4
‘Utopia’ failed? Social enterprise, everyday practices and the closure of neoliberalism	4
Indigenous participation and knowledge justice in deliberative systems: Flooding and wild creek remediation controversies in Taiwan	4
Power dynamics in collaborative rural planning: The case of Pematang Tengah, Indonesia	4
The urban politicization of fossil fuel infrastructure: Mediatization and resistance in energy landscapes	4
Why are designs for urban governance so often incomplete? A conceptual framework for explaining and harnessing institutional incompleteness	4
People as infrastructure politics in global north cities: Chicago’s South Side	4
Institutional logics and regional policy failure: Air pollution as a wicked problem in East African cities	4
Dispossession by municipalization: Property, pipelines, and divisions of power in settler colonial Canada	4
Politicizing the “unknown”: Territorial narratives, shared spatial imaginaries, and Bermuda’s oceans	4
Shadows of the shadow state: Grassroots, refugee-led organizations within a multi-scalar and contested resettlement institutional domain	4
Exploring the affective dimension of climate adaptation discourse: Political fantasies in German adaptation policy	4

Affective bureaucratic relations: File practices in a European deportation unit and criminal court	4
And then came this number PM2.5: Atmospheric particulate matter, sociotechnical imaginaries, and the politics of air quality data	4
Towards a sensory politics of the Anthropocene: Exploring activist-artistic approaches to politicizing air pollution	4
Differential inclusion through education: Reforms and spatial justice in Finnish education policy	4
The afterlives of urban megaprojects: Grounding policy models and recirculating knowledge through domestic networks	4
Street level bureaucracy in response to environmental pressure. Insights from forestry and urban green space governance in Poland	4
The politics of owing: Accounting, water disconnection, and austerity urbanism in Detroit	3
Philanthropy to the rescue? Detroit’s schools and urban policymaking under austerity	3
Rethinking environmental justice: capability building, public knowledge and the struggle against traffic-related air pollution	3
Contested mobilities in the maritory: Implications of boundary formation in a nomadic space	3
COVID “death pits”: US nursing homes, racial capitalism, and the urgency of antiracist eldercare	3
Stewardship practice and the performance of citizenship: Greening tree-pits in the streets of Berlin	3
Electoral politics, gentrification, and strategic use of contested place identities in Toronto’s Portuguese neighbourhood	3
(In)coherent subjects? The politics of conceptualising resistance in the UK asylum system	3
Geopolitics of security and surveillance in Nepal and Afghanistan: A comparative analysis	3
‘Mainstreaming’ Meets ‘Choice and Control’: Unsettling Neoliberal Imaginaries of Service Choice	3
Just air? Spatial injustice and the politicisation of air pollution	3
Expanding the Southern urban critique: Elite politics, popular politics, and self-governance in the wards of Mandalay	3
‘Seeing like a city’, or ‘seeing like a state’ in a city? Paris, capital of femonationalism	3
Geopolitical priorities, governance gaps, and heritage subjectivities: The perils of heritage-making in the post-disaster reconstruction in Nepal	3
Repoliticising national policy mobilities: Resisting the Americanization of universal healthcare	3
Infrastructures of dissensus: repartitioning the sensible and articulating the political through the occupation of Greece’s public broadcasting service	3
Counter-hegemonic struggle and the framing practices of the anti-nuclear platform in Turkey (2002–2018)	3
Infrastructure in times of exception: Unravelling the discourses, governance reforms and politics in ‘Building Back Better’ from COVID-19	3
Bridgeheads of EU border externalisation? NGOs/CSOs and migration in Libya	3
Towards a care perspective on waste: A new direction in discard studies	3
The political geographies of strategic partnerships: City deals and non-deals	3
Grassroots innovations in ‘extreme’ urban environments. The inclusive recycling movement	3
Spatialising antagonism: A post-foundational analysis of the spatial dynamics of violence in nineteenth century Derry	3
Without a right to remain: Property’s limits on Portland’s self-governing houseless encampments	3
Push and back: The ripple effect of EU border externalisation from Croatia to Iran	3