OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning D-Society & Space is 7. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance	64
Proactive state geographies: Geocoded intelligence in London’s ‘suburban shanty towns’	38
Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home	35
Ventography and the spatial politics of wind	34
The smart grid archipelago: Infrastructures of networked (dis)connectivity in Amman	30
Anticipation by redress: Transforming African mega-infrastructure futures	29
After zombies: Notes on labor union and municipal renewal	28
Plastic monsters: Abjection, worms, the Cthulhic, and the black single-use plastic bag	27
An urban political ecology of empire: Indigenous resistance in Guåhan	27
Livestreamed land: Scams and certainty in Myanmar’s digital land market	23
Could commodities themselves speak? An introduction to the agnotology of the spectacle	23
Circular movements: Migratory citizenships in anticolonial Athens	20
The Kings ain't playin’ no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento	20
The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife	20
The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation	19
Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law	18
‘Accumulation by appropriation’: The integration of recyclable-waste collector cooperatives in Salvador, Brazil, and the right to the city	17
Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation: The liminality of land administration platforms in Kenya	17
Between energy and politics: Ruin, renewal, and the contours of state power in post-apartheid South Africa	16
A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation	16
Beyond repair: Staying with breakdown at the interstices	15
Automating gentrification: Landlord technologies and housing justice organizing in New York City homes	15
Spaceport Cornwall: Scaling environmentally responsible space futures in South West England	14
Speculation on infrastructural ecology: Pigeons, Gaza, and internet access	14
Victim, broker, activist, fixer: Surviving dispossession in working class Lahore	13

Zany beetroot: architecture, autopoiesis, and the spatial formations of late capital	13
The quick response border: Pandemic biopolitics, affective complicities and flexible technologies	13
Border and im/mobility entanglements in the Mediterranean: Introduction to the special issue	12
Cemetery as archive: A critical legal geography of two chronotopes	11
Exposing the private, engaging in the public. Asylum seekers, intimate publics and normative performances of public participation	11
The politics of deautomation: Being disaffected by platform capitalism	11
Under pressure: Catching the pulse of a Cuban crisis	10
Bordering public institutions through the routinization of borderwork and datafication: Internalized immigration regimes within UK health care and higher education	10
Latency, uncertainty, contagion: Epistemologies of risk-as-reform in crime forecasting software	10
Sustaining empire: Conservation by ruination at Kalama Atoll	10
“You cannot really live (or die) here” – Ongoing struggles over Muslim cemeteries in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957–2020	10
Apparatuses of observation and occupation: Settler colonialism and space science in Hawai'i	10
Unseeing urban divides in Luanda and Maputo	9
The entangled geographies of responsibility: Contested policy narratives of migration governance along the Balkan Route	9
Earthmoving for the extraterrestrial	9
Street Salafism: Contingency and urbanity as religious creed	9
Fuelling the developmental state: Governing through differential mobilities in Ethiopia	9
An Alaska tax story: Tribal sovereignty, settler colonialism, and the Indigenous tax space	9
The inheritance and repetition of colonial practices of dispossession	9
Desirable futures: Time as possibility, practice, politics	9
Threats and ambivalence in land formalization: The case of settler-colonial land regime in East Jerusalem/al-Quds	9
Wasting and wanting: An extractive supply chain approach to outer space geographies	8
Cities after planning	8
Living and dying in the shadow of coal: Relocating social death and its contestations in Lephalale	8
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore’s labour-migration regime	8
On delivery waiting: The entanglement of gig and border temporalities in platform cities	8
The racial environmental state and abolition geography in California’s Central Valley	8
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point	8
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies	8
Logistical turbulence: Between valorization and violence along the China–Myanmar Economic Corridor	8
Money, slavery, myth	8
Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography	7
The place of the dead, the time of dictatorship: Nostalgia, sovereignty, and the corpse of Ferdinand Marcos	7
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp	7
Jumping scale in the Black Atlantic: Critical visuality in the archives of slavery	7
Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political	7
Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert	7
Going deep: Excavation, collaboration and imagination at the Kola Superdeep Borehole	7
Kaam: Youth, religiosity, and the cultural production of work in a North Indian Madrasa	7