OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environment and Planning D-Society & Space is 2. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home	65
An urban political ecology of empire: Indigenous resistance in Guåhan	39
Anticipation by redress: Transforming African mega-infrastructure futures	38
The smart grid archipelago: Infrastructures of networked (dis)connectivity in Amman	34
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance	30
After zombies: Notes on labor union and municipal renewal	26
Ecofascism and the politics of de/territorialization	24
Circular movements: Migratory citizenships in anticolonial Athens	22
Ventography and the spatial politics of wind	22
The Kings ain't playin’ no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento	21
Plastic monsters: Abjection, worms, the Cthulhic, and the black single-use plastic bag	18
Livestreamed land: Scams and certainty in Myanmar’s digital land market	17
Could commodities themselves speak? An introduction to the agnotology of the spectacle	16
Beyond borders: The spatial politics of urban fragmentation in Jakarta	16
‘Accumulation by appropriation’: The integration of recyclable-waste collector cooperatives in Salvador, Brazil, and the right to the city	15
Speculation on infrastructural ecology: Pigeons, Gaza, and internet access	15
A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation	15
Between energy and politics: Ruin, renewal, and the contours of state power in post-apartheid South Africa	15
The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation	15
Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation: The liminality of land administration platforms in Kenya	14
Temporalities of infrastructure: An ethnographic study of rural road building, spectral mining, and good living	14
Automating gentrification: Landlord technologies and housing justice organizing in New York City homes	13
Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law	13
Latency, uncertainty, contagion: Epistemologies of risk-as-reform in crime forecasting software	12
Zany beetroot: architecture, autopoiesis, and the spatial formations of late capital	12

Spaceport Cornwall: Scaling environmentally responsible space futures in South West England	12
Border and im/mobility entanglements in the Mediterranean: Introduction to the special issue	12
Exposing the private, engaging in the public. Asylum seekers, intimate publics and normative performances of public participation	12
Cemetery as archive: A critical legal geography of two chronotopes	11
The politics of deautomation: Being disaffected by platform capitalism	11
The quick response border: Pandemic biopolitics, affective complicities and flexible technologies	11
Land grabbing through unlivability: Necro-scapes and slow violence in the expansion of conservation regimes in Tanzania	11
“You cannot really live (or die) here” – Ongoing struggles over Muslim cemeteries in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957–2020	10
Bordering public institutions through the routinization of borderwork and datafication: Internalized immigration regimes within UK health care and higher education	10
Sustaining empire: Conservation by ruination at Kalama Atoll	10
Under pressure: Catching the pulse of a Cuban crisis	10
When do forests matter?	10
The entangled geographies of responsibility: Contested policy narratives of migration governance along the Balkan Route	9
Desirable futures: Time as possibility, practice, politics	9
An Alaska tax story: Tribal sovereignty, settler colonialism, and the Indigenous tax space	9
Earthmoving for the extraterrestrial	9
Fuelling the developmental state: Governing through differential mobilities in Ethiopia	8
Unseeing urban divides in Luanda and Maputo	8
Axolotl soup: Hydrocoloniality, contested foodscapes, and plural values of nature	8
Threats and ambivalence in land formalization: The case of settler-colonial land regime in East Jerusalem/al-Quds	8
Street Salafism: Contingency and urbanity as religious creed	7
Concluding comment: Ecofascism—who needs it?	7
‘Rescuing Europe’ and ‘balancing powers’: A postcolonial critique of European digital sovereignty	7
Wasting and wanting: An extractive supply chain approach to outer space geographies	7
The inheritance and repetition of colonial practices of dispossession	7
Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China–Myanmar Economic Corridor	7
Cities after planning	7
On delivery waiting: The entanglement of gig and border temporalities in platform cities	7
Living and dying in the shadow of coal: Relocating social death and its contestations in Lephalale	6
Jumping scale in the Black Atlantic: Critical visuality in the archives of slavery	6
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore’s labour-migration regime	6
The goat speech: Ecofascism in Palestine-Israel	6
Going deep: Excavation, collaboration and imagination at the Kola Superdeep Borehole	6
Money, slavery, myth	6
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point	6
Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography	6
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies	6
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp	6
Austerity without deficits: The global political economy of Norway’s fiscal paradox	5
From cruel optimism to foreclosed futures: The emotional and temporal dimensions of enduring precarity among young adults in Barcelona	5
Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political	5
What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging	5
Pasturing dairy infrastructures in Northeastern Turkey: Pasture-cheesemaking, dairy technosciences and the Kars Kaşar Cheese	5
Beyond the hype: Digital transformations in global land, housing, and property	5
The work of landlord technology: The fictions of frictionless property management	5
Electromagnetic economies of worth: Repurposing a radio dish and debating technoscientific modernity at the equator	5
Weathering Saharan dust beyond the Spanish Mediterranean Basin: An interdisciplinary dialogue	5
Kaam: Youth, religiosity, and the cultural production of work in a North Indian Madrasa	5
Keeping out by keeping alive: Refugee rentierism, racialized containment and the humanitarian-development nexus in transit states	5
Away from the border and into the frontier: The paradoxical geographies of US immigration law	5

Accommodation for profit, not for refugees: Racial capitalism and the logics of Berlin’s refugee accommodation market	5
Negotiating access to contested urban spaces: Street traders’ resistance against exclusionary practices in Harare, Zimbabwe	5
Painting an inclusive enclosure: Post-racial public art as compensatory cultural strategy in Pittsburgh	5
‘An aerial slum’: Race, air pollution and the affective atmospheres of urban modernity	4
Homeless shelters and the blues	4
Planning in nature's metropolis: Metabolic municipalism and ecological planning in Barcelona	4
Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor	4
Land, reconfigured: Defying the laws of physics, upholding the rules of the market in the metaverse	4
The haunting of the wolf: Nature, nationalism, and violent inheritance	4
Narratives of labour as infrastructure and the automative imagination	4
“Everything we do matters”: Contesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in rural Iowa through insurgent planning	4
Convivial atmotechnics: Animating atmospheres of togetherness and indeterminacy in Kingston and Abidjan	4
“This place is no better than a jail”: The geographies of surrogate houses in India	4
As if there was a border. Bordering through excision in Melilla and the Canary Islands	4
Volumetric Mediation of the Subterranean Mine: Geologic Intimacy in a Taiwan Coal Village	4
The wall as ecology	4
Estranged companions: Bed bugs, biologies, and affective histories	4
Popular logistics for collective unpredictabilities in pandemic Madrid	4
Consequential theory, consequential geography	4
Urban Social Hauntings: Disappearing Gravestone Murals in Gentrifying Brooklyn	4
Learning the city through urban agriculture	4
Planetary media: Decolonizing the space industry through Indigenous ownership	4
Dependency, sovereignty, and “underdevelopment:” tribes in the energy transition	4
Planning context: Flexible plans and mayoral authority in French urban planning	4
COPtimization and the operational banality of policing's technocratic drive	3
Weight loss, cure, and temporality in the “Diet Capital of the World”: Disciplining fatness in Durham, North Carolina	3
“The People’s Park is bigger, more freely located, more beautiful and – Our own park”: Workers, parks, and the spaces of class struggle in turn of the century Norrköping, Sweden	3
Other antiracist geographies: Decentred locations of defiant activism, and Second Abolitions	3
Eco-fascism or the everyday churn of late capitalism	3
Contentious plots: Staking durable claims to ethnic belonging in Nairobi	3
Deepening counter institutions: Property, lands, relations, and the economic future of the Tŝilhqot’in	3
Blue lines and blues infrastructures: Notes on water, race, and space	3
Infrastructural politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Pasts, presents, futures	3
“History can’t be written without us in the center”: Colonial trauma, the cartographic body, and decolonizing methodologies in urban planning	3
Mining normalcy: Lithium and its spectral forms	3
Comfort in chaos: A sensory account of climate change denial	3
Thresholds	3
A ghost town called Singapore: The politics of geographic storytelling, from the “wild heart of Saugatuck” to “Singapore Dunes, LLC”	3
“El Chamizal is ours forever:” Rumor, time, and the law in El Paso’s settler society	3
Capture land as abolition geography: The mutuality of placemaking and flight	3
Flexible sovereignty and contested legality: The overseas employment and legal struggles of Chinese workers	3
Urbanizing social reproduction: (Re)thinking the politics of care in capitalist urban development	3
Entangled lives: Land, property and guardianship in a changing Dakar	2
The affective topologies of the climate crisis: On the spatial intensities of the climate political protests in Lützerath, Germany	2
Counterfactual future-thinking	2
Dromoelimination: Accelerating settler colonialism in Palestine	2
The good, the bad and the tenant: Rental platforms renewing racial capitalism in the post-apartheid housing market	2
Contingent autonomy: Robotic encounters in an uncertain world	2
Corrigendum to Spaceport Cornwall: Scaling environmentally responsible space futures in South West England	2
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S.	2
Trauma apps and the making of the ‘smart’ refugee	2
Troubled waters and no bridges: The ecofascisms of an imagined global middle class	2
Points of persuasion: Truth spots in future city development	2
Value extraction through refugee carcerality: Data, labour and financialised accommodation	2
Space technologies for development? Practicing sovereignty, beyond inclusion	2
Living with hate relationships: Familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment	2
Alluvial gold exploitation along the Quito River: Dredgers and the operations of racial capitalism through social reproduction	2
The case for doing less in our peer reviews	2
Modernism in the present tense: “Dangerous” Scandinavian suburbs and their hereafters	2
Against abstraction: Reclaiming and reorienting to embodied collective knowledges of solidarity	2
Geographies of missing data: Spatializing counterdata production against feminicide	2
(Re)mediation as flourishing: Digital assemblages of care and the everyday biopolitics of claiming asylum	2
On the iron cage: Infrastructural worlding in Mandate Palestine	2
Crucial roles of ‘life's work’ amidst public housing renewal in Ottawa and New York City	2
Urban orientalism and the informal city in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2
Autonomy within entanglements: Illegalised migrants, the EU border regime, and the political economy of Nouadhibou, Mauritania	2
(Tiny) spaces of hope: Reclaiming, maintaining, and reframing housing in the tiny house movement	2