OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning D-Society & Space is 6. 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
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
Guerrilla farms: Practicing food sovereignty in Assam	19
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
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies	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
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
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
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