OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space is 11. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Governing through ESG and the green spirit of asset manager capitalism	92
The university and the city: Spaces of risk, decolonisation, and civic disruption	85
Winners of the Ashby Prizes	72
Unravelling neighbourhood change: Decomposing the effects of residential mobility and incumbent change on credit access in California	66
Platformed distinction work: Rethinking the migration and integration of food delivery workers in China	64
The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism	63
Uneven and combined development in anthropology	47
Becoming ‘farazat’: Re-examining feminisation from a Tunis used clothes sorting factory	41
The political: A view from Jakarta’s kampungs	41
The uneven geography of real estate investment by Mainland Chinese state-owned and private enterprises in the U.S.: Local market conditions, migration, and ethnic networks	38
The multiple-theories problem: The case of spatial industrial clustering	38
Reformulating theories of ‘accumulation by dispossession’: ‘Contested accumulations through displacement’ in postcolonial Punjab, Pakistan	36
The landlord state goes abroad: The remaking of the Norwegian ‘Energy Nation’ as a global rentier	35
Reorienting new state capitalism to food and agriculture	34
Institutional conformity, entrepreneurial governance and local contingency: Problematizing central-local dynamics in localizing China's low-income housing policy	33
The geometry of (anti)imperialism in food regime analysis	32
Patterns of opportunity spaces and agency across regional contexts: Conditions and drivers for change	31
The making of migrants’ wageless life: Exploiting by debasing	30
Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure	30
From homes to assets: Transcalar territorial networks and the financialization of build to rent in Greater Manchester	29
Introduction: Critical approaches to rentiership	28
The horizontal governance of environmental upgrading: Lessons from the Prosecco and Valpolicella wine value chains in Italy	28
More-than-human economies of writing	27
Whither hydrocarbons? The rescaling of global oil and gas markets amidst COVID-19 and a contested transition	27
Adaptable state-controlled market actors: Underwriters and investors in the market of local government bonds in China	26

Racialized downgrading and upgrading: Dis/articulation and the Fijian kava commodity chain	26
The blockchain challenge for Sweden's housing and mortgage markets	25
A vicious cycle: Fiscal intervention, pension underfunding, and instability in (re)making racialized geographies	25
Grasping transformative regional development – Exploring intersections between industrial paths and sustainability transitions	25
Understanding social class in place: Responding to supergentrification in Aspen, Colorado	24
Theories of capitalism and coloniality in world systems analysis, the Dar es Salaam School of history and the New Indian Labour History	24
Does capitalism drive towards the commodification of everything?	24
Summer suburbanization in Moscow Region: Investigation with nighttime lights satellite imagery	24
“Cowboy up”: Gender, labor, and workforce housing in Colorado ski country	24
Global destruction networks and hybrid e-waste economies: Practices and embeddedness in Guiyu, China	23
Extended state infrastructure power in an age of networked competition: The cases of Thailand and Taiwan	23
Crops, claims and the politics of risk in India’s agricultural insurance programme	22
The firm-territory nexus in a fragmented economy: Scales of global value and wealth chain entanglement	22
Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development	21
On the need for caution in using ‘big data’ for built environment research: A response to Chng et al. (2024)	21
Refusing relocation: Urban street vendors and the problem of the neoliberal device	21
Introduction: Uneven development and social difference in capitalism	21
The economic returns of decentralisation: Government quality and the role of space	20
Multiple binds and forbidden pleasures: Writing as poaching at French universities	20
‘We’re just an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’: Strategies and (a)politics of change in Berlin's community food spaces	19
Racial capitalism, coloniality and the financialization of Caribbean remittances	19
Balancing equity-based goals with market-driven forces in land development: The case of density bonusing in Toronto	19
Uncertainty in the drylands: Rethinking in/formal insurance from pastoral East Africa	19
The ontological politics of kosher food: Between strict orthodoxy and global markets	19
Curating an ‘educational environment’: Commercial libraries, new entrepreneurs and shifting geographies of education in India	19
The spectral scientists of corridor B: Neoliberalization and its ghosts in higher education	19
Dilemmas of 21st century land value capture: Examining Henry George’s legacy in a new Gilded Age	18
A double-edged sword: The conditional properties of elite network ties in the financial sector	18
Corrigendum	18
A borderland analytic: Thinking uneven development from the U.S.–Mexico borderlands	17
Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: ‘Digitally organised informality’, migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India	17
Writing economies and economies of writing	17
Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies	16
Real estate valuations, heritage branding and the construction of the world’s most expensive city	16
Multiple entrepreneurial ecosystems? Worker cooperative development in Toronto and Montréal	16
Decarbonization debt and energy rents: On the limits of mobilizing private climate finance for housing decarbonization	16
The fragility of public-private labour governance in times of crisis: The Sri Lankan apparel industry in post-pandemic times	16
Who owns and controls global capital? Uneven geographies of asset manager capitalism	16
Alone and lonely. The economic cost of solitude for regions in Europe	16
Rethinking job loss in an age of assetisation: Lessons from the study of precarious older workers	15
Affective life of financial loss: Detaching from lost investments in the wake of the gig economy	15
The law, financial subordination and the empire of capital: On Shaina Potts’ Judicial Territory	15
Remaking the socio-spatial fix: Actors, time and crisis in two iron ore towns	15
Firm decline and the mobility of US inventors, 1976–2015	15
Contested values of development: Experiencing commodification of livelihoods through displacement and resettlement in Mozambique	15
Measuring mass displacement of urban renewal in Shenzhen, China: Using longitudinal mobile phone trajectory data	14
Re-framing a semi-periphery: The making of Lisbon as a global real estate market	14
‘Commodification of everything’ arguments in the social sciences: Variants, specification, evaluation, critique	14
From policy to institution: Implementing land reform in Dar es Salaam’s unplanned settlements	14
At the territorial roots of global processes: Heterogeneous modes of regional involvement in Global Value Chains	14

Immaterial animals and financialized forests: Asset manager capitalism, ESG integration and the politics of livestock	14
Managing overaccumulation: China’s new affordable rental housing programme and its financialization through REITs	13
Municipal structural adjustment: For an institutional analysis of global development finance	13
The geoeconomics of globalization 2.0	13
The proximity and dynamics of intercity technology transfers in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area: Evidence from patent transfer networks	13
Decolonising polycrisis: Southern perspectives on interlocking crises	13
Background check: Spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser's expanded conception of capitalism	13
Mobile workers, contingent labour: Migration, the gig economy and the multiplication of labour	13
Soft space development against territorial-bounded governance logics: The case of Shenzhen-Shanwei Cooperation Zone	13
The fragile ‘art’ of multi-apping: Resilience and snapping in the gig economy	13
State Capitalism and Spanish port development along the Maritime Silk Road	13
Towards a pragmatist economic geography	12
An economy in the making: Negotiating capitalist and beyond-capitalist ontologies and relations in makerspaces	12
The expansion of China’s market margins: Navigating contingencies and conjunctures	12
Geographies of devaluation: Spatialities of the German coal exit	12
Writing geography: Teaching research writing and storytelling in the discipline	12
The drunkard’s intention lies not on the wine: Reinterpreting culture-led urban redevelopment in China amidst profound regime changes	12
Land, values and valuation work: Moral imaginaries of land markets in England and Germany	12
An abundance of caution for a ‘stagnation nation’? Financial services policy development in post-growth Britain	12
Doing economics differently	12
Multiple logics in financialisation? Moving to carbon sustainability in build-to-rent development	12
The ontological politics of freshness: Qualities of food and sustainability governance	12
Territorial stigmatization and housing commodification under racial neoliberalism: The case of Denmark's ‘ghettos’	12
Social reproduction and public finance: A comparative study of TIF in California and Chicago	12
Territorial development in Bavaria between spatial justice and austere federalism: A historical-materialist policy analysis of Bavarian regional development politics and policies, 2008–2018	11
A very British state capitalism: Variegation, political connections and bailouts during the COVID-19 crisis	11
Speeding up, slowing down, losing grip: On digital media metronomes and timespace friction in the platformised temporalities of fashion design	11
The state as a market maker: The rise (and fall) of Brazilian securitization in the 21st century	11
Transnationalizing intrapreneurship of Chinese private investment in Africa	11
Inclusive growth, public transit infrastructure investments and neighbourhood trajectories of inequality in Montreal	11