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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Ventography and the spatial politics of wind	37
Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home	36
Urban Social Hauntings: Disappearing Gravestone Murals in Gentrifying Brooklyn	35
‘A war of houses and a war of land’: Gentrification, post-politics and resistance in authoritarian Cambodia	33
Anticipation by redress: Transforming African mega-infrastructure futures	29
(Tiny) spaces of hope: Reclaiming, maintaining, and reframing housing in the tiny house movement	29
Proactive state geographies: Geocoded intelligence in London’s ‘suburban shanty towns’	28
Becoming fugitive: Prison breaks and the space of punishment	26
Homeless shelters and the blues	26
Wasting and wanting: An extractive supply chain approach to outer space geographies	23
The (in)visible face of global infrastructures: An exploration of logistics and informality from the ground up*	20
The case for doing less in our peer reviews	20
Guerrilla farms: Practicing food sovereignty in Assam	19
Blackfoot legal traditions, treaty-making, and non-territorial forms of settler jurisdiction? Niitsitapi oral histories of Treaty 7	19
Street Salafism: Contingency and urbanity as religious creed	19
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies	15
Retrofit: Aerial cable cars and the reengineering of urban peripheries	15
Sparks from the friction of terrain: Transport animals, borderlands, and the territorial imagination in China	15
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance	15
Capture land as abolition geography: The mutuality of placemaking and flight	14
After zombies: Notes on labor union and municipal renewal	14
Dwelling as politics: An emancipatory praxis of/through care and space in everyday life	14
“This place is no better than a jail”: The geographies of surrogate houses in India	13
Repair and the 2014 Mount Polley Mine disaster: Antirelationality, constraint, and legacies of socio-ecological disruption in settler colonial British Columbia	13
Restoration otherwise: Towards alternative coastal ecologies	13

Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China–Myanmar Economic Corridor	12
The inheritance and repetition of colonial practices of dispossession	11
Cities after planning	11
Automated office infrastructures and the valuation of work	11
On cosmic injustices: Critical thinking, outer space, green values, and capitalist ideologies in a planetary age	10
The smart grid archipelago: Infrastructures of networked (dis)connectivity in Amman	10
The racial environmental state and abolition geography in California’s Central Valley	10
Experiments in peripheral urbanization: Building and unbuilding commons in urban India	9
On delivery waiting: The entanglement of gig and border temporalities in platform cities	9
Circular movements: Migratory citizenships in anticolonial Athens	9
Refusing to relinquish: How settler Canada uses race, property, and jurisdiction to undermine urban Indigenous land reclamation	9
Perceptions of atmosphere: Air, waste, and narratives of life and work in Mumbai	9
Apportioned city: Gendered delineations of asylum, work and violence in Cape Town	8
Warehousing asylum seekers: The logistification of reception	8
Livestreamed land: Scams and certainty in Myanmar’s digital land market	8
Growing Black food on sacred land: Using Black liberation theology to imagine an alternative Black agrarian future	8
Peripheral humanitarianism: Ephemerality, experimentation, and effects of refugee provisioning in Paris	8
Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert	8
Plastic monsters: Abjection, worms, the Cthulhic, and the black single-use plastic bag	7
Deepening counter institutions: Property, lands, relations, and the economic future of the Tŝilhqot’in	7
Domesticating logistical futures: A grounded account of failure	7
Money, slavery, myth	7
Fintech ‘frontiers’ and the platformed motorcycle: Emergent infrastructures of value creation in African cities	7
Subalternity as displacement: Memoirs of homelessness and the struggle to be heard	7
Weight loss, cure, and temporality in the “Diet Capital of the World”: Disciplining fatness in Durham, North Carolina	7
“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	7
‘An Epic Tale of England’: Atmospheric authentication of nationalist narratives	7
Awakening from the sleep-walking society: Crisis, detachment and the real in prepper awakening narratives	7
Unplanned links, unanticipated outcomes: Urban refugees in Halba (Lebanon)	7
Blue lines and blues infrastructures: Notes on water, race, and space	6
Could commodities themselves speak? An introduction to the agnotology of the spectacle	6
Migration control entangled with local histories: The case of Greek–Turkish regime of bordering	6
Carceral domesticity as containment of troubled families in Santiago, Chile	6
Territorializing the air: Border-crossing air pollution and the geopolitics of atmospheric science in East Asia	6
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point	6
Psychic geographies of queer multiculturalism: Reading Fanon, settler colonialism and race in queer space	6
Dispossession as depotentiation	6
The Kings ain't playin’ no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento	6
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore’s labour-migration regime	6
Assembling traces of border violence. Counter-mapping as counter-archiving	6
From securitisation to martialisation: Logistics of humanitarian protection in Brazil’s Amazon	5
Civilizing swamps in California: Formations of race, nature, and property in the nineteenth century U.S. West	5
Colonial laws, postcolonial infrastructures: Land acquisition, urban informality, and politics of infrastructural development in Pakistan	5
After eviction, before emergence: Temporal displacements and differentiated futures in Boribana, Abidjan (2019–2022)	5
Living and dying in the shadow of coal: Relocating social death and its contestations in Lephalale	5
A minor theory of direct action politics and performance in New Orleans’ economic justice movement	5
Co-production and Smart Environmentality: Smart Eldercare in Urban China	5
Geocultural power and the digital Silk Roads	5
Infrastructural (im)mobility: Urban maritime development in the Suez Canal Zone and Marseille	5
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp	5

Thresholds	5
Race, space, and social reproduction: The spatial organization of racialized labour in Italian food agriculture	5
Urbanizing social reproduction: (Re)thinking the politics of care in capitalist urban development	4
Racial regimes of property: Introduction to the special issue	4
The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife	4
Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography	4
Autorecovery and everyday disaster in Mexico City’s peripheries	4
“Erasing a mural does not erase reality”: Queer visibility, urban policing, and the double life of a mural in Ecuador	4
Keeping time with digital technologies: From real-time environments to forest futurisms	4
From copper mining to data extractivism? Data worth making at Chile’s Data Observatory Foundation	4
Agricultural infrastructures: Land, race, and statecraft in Turkey	4
“El Chamizal is ours forever:” Rumor, time, and the law in El Paso’s settler society	4
Caring at the edges: Infrastructures of care and repair in urban deprivation	4
Speculation on infrastructural ecology: Pigeons, Gaza, and internet access	4
A ghost town called Singapore: The politics of geographic storytelling, from the “wild heart of Saugatuck” to “Singapore Dunes, LLC”	4
Camps and counterterrorism: Security and the remaking of refuge in Kenya	4
Going deep: Excavation, collaboration and imagination at the Kola Superdeep Borehole	4
Berghain: Space, affect, and sexual disorientation	3
A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation	3
The social lives of rental proptech: Entanglements between capitalist, care and techno-utopian values	3
Living with hate relationships: Familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment	3
Electromagnetic economies of worth: Repurposing a radio dish and debating technoscientific modernity at the equator	3
Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation: The liminality of land administration platforms in Kenya	3
The sedimentation of whiteness as landscape	3
The place of the dead, the time of dictatorship: Nostalgia, sovereignty, and the corpse of Ferdinand Marcos	3
No name in the street: Unknowability, Black women, and missing geographies	3
Austerity without deficits: The global political economy of Norway’s fiscal paradox	3
Introduction: Hope, labour, disconnection	3
“History can’t be written without us in the center”: Colonial trauma, the cartographic body, and decolonizing methodologies in urban planning	3
The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation	3
Carceral domesticities: An introduction	3
Urban specters	3
Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political	3
Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law	3
The work of landlord technology: The fictions of frictionless property management	3
Autonomy of migration in the light of deportation. Ethnographic and theoretical accounts of entangled appropriations of voluntary returns from Morocco	3
Automating gentrification: Landlord technologies and housing justice organizing in New York City homes	3
‘Accumulation by appropriation’: The integration of recyclable-waste collector cooperatives in Salvador, Brazil, and the right to the city	3
Carceral domesticities and the geopolitics of Love Jihad	3
Beyond repair: Staying with breakdown at the interstices	3
The corporate effect: Making capitalist space and peasant dispossession in the Peruvian Andes	3
Kaam: Youth, religiosity, and the cultural production of work in a North Indian Madrasa	2
More than just dying: Black life and futurity in the face of state-sanctioned environmental racism	2
Negotiating access to contested urban spaces: Street traders’ resistance against exclusionary practices in Harare, Zimbabwe	2
What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging	2
Bordered lives and frontier futures: Reproducing “the minor” in contested times	2
Between energy and politics: Ruin, renewal, and the contours of state power in post-apartheid South Africa	2
Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border	2
Neighborhood over nation: Place-based state-making of the middle-class in Mumbai	2
Adverse commoning: Tracing contested legal geographies of the urban commons	2
Infrastructural politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Pasts, presents, futures	2
Spaceport Cornwall: Scaling environmentally responsible space futures in South West England	2
Nowhere land: The evicted space of Black tenants’ rights in Montreal	2
Away from the border and into the frontier: The paradoxical geographies of US immigration law	2
Flexible sovereignty and contested legality: The overseas employment and legal struggles of Chinese workers	2
Beyond the hype: Digital transformations in global land, housing, and property	2
The hopeful labour of begging – Homeless people’s struggles for a better life in Paris	2
Accommodation for profit, not for refugees: Racial capitalism and the logics of Berlin’s refugee accommodation market	2
A broken heart and fear of the bulldozer: Organized abandonment and living with abandon in Hawai‘i	2
The after-lives of no arrival: How Papuans make their lives matter	2
Comfort in chaos: A sensory account of climate change denial	2
World class from within: Aspiration, connection and brokering in the Colombo real estate market	2