OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space is 10. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The university and the city: Spaces of risk, decolonisation, and civic disruption	94
Winners of the Ashby Prizes	74
Governing through ESG and the green spirit of asset manager capitalism	73
The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism	71
Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia	69
Uneven and combined state capitalism	58
Platformed distinction work: Rethinking the migration and integration of food delivery workers in China	57
Uneven and combined development in anthropology	56
Reorienting new state capitalism to food and agriculture	54
The political: A view from Jakarta’s kampungs	39
Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure	35
Institutional conformity, entrepreneurial governance and local contingency: Problematizing central-local dynamics in localizing China's low-income housing policy	35
The multiple-theories problem: The case of spatial industrial clustering	34
The landlord state goes abroad: The remaking of the Norwegian ‘Energy Nation’ as a global rentier	33
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	32
Reformulating theories of ‘accumulation by dispossession’: ‘Contested accumulations through displacement’ in postcolonial Punjab, Pakistan	32
Becoming ‘farazat’: Re-examining feminisation from a Tunis used clothes sorting factory	32
The geometry of (anti)imperialism in food regime analysis	31
Patterns of opportunity spaces and agency across regional contexts: Conditions and drivers for change	31
Racialized downgrading and upgrading: Dis/articulation and the Fijian kava commodity chain	30
Adaptable state-controlled market actors: Underwriters and investors in the market of local government bonds in China	29
The horizontal governance of environmental upgrading: Lessons from the Prosecco and Valpolicella wine value chains in Italy	29
A win-win situation? Urban regeneration and the paradox of homeowner displacement	28
From homes to assets: Transcalar territorial networks and the financialization of build to rent in Greater Manchester	28
More-than-human economies of writing	26

Whither hydrocarbons? The rescaling of global oil and gas markets amidst COVID-19 and a contested transition	26
Introduction: Critical approaches to rentiership	26
The blockchain challenge for Sweden's housing and mortgage markets	25
Grasping transformative regional development – Exploring intersections between industrial paths and sustainability transitions	25
A vicious cycle: Fiscal intervention, pension underfunding, and instability in (re)making racialized geographies	24
The firm-territory nexus in a fragmented economy: Scales of global value and wealth chain entanglement	24
Introduction: Uneven development and social difference in capitalism	23
Multiple binds and forbidden pleasures: Writing as poaching at French universities	23
Summer suburbanization in Moscow Region: Investigation with nighttime lights satellite imagery	23
Extended state infrastructure power in an age of networked competition: The cases of Thailand and Taiwan	22
“Cowboy up”: Gender, labor, and workforce housing in Colorado ski country	22
Theories of capitalism and coloniality in world systems analysis, the Dar es Salaam School of history and the New Indian Labour History	22
Balancing equity-based goals with market-driven forces in land development: The case of density bonusing in Toronto	21
Understanding social class in place: Responding to supergentrification in Aspen, Colorado	21
Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development	21
Does capitalism drive towards the commodification of everything?	21
The economic returns of decentralisation: Government quality and the role of space	21
Visualising global currents of international students between 1999 and 2018	20
On the need for caution in using ‘big data’ for built environment research: A response to Chng et al. (2024)	19
Global destruction networks and hybrid e-waste economies: Practices and embeddedness in Guiyu, China	19
Refusing relocation: Urban street vendors and the problem of the neoliberal device	19
The ontological politics of kosher food: Between strict orthodoxy and global markets	18
Racial capitalism, coloniality and the financialization of Caribbean remittances	18
Uncertainty in the drylands: Rethinking in/formal insurance from pastoral East Africa	18
‘We’re just an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’: Strategies and (a)politics of change in Berlin's community food spaces	17
“They had already sold”: Uncovering relations among the local state, the market and the public in the case of municipal housing privatization in Rosengård, Sweden	17
Multiple entrepreneurial ecosystems? Worker cooperative development in Toronto and Montréal	17
The spectral scientists of corridor B: Neoliberalization and its ghosts in higher education	17
A double-edged sword: The conditional properties of elite network ties in the financial sector	17
Corrigendum	17
Dilemmas of 21st century land value capture: Examining Henry George’s legacy in a new Gilded Age	17
Curating an ‘educational environment’: Commercial libraries, new entrepreneurs, and shifting geographies of education in India	17
Visualising rural access index and not served rural population in Africa	17
A borderland analytic: Thinking uneven development from the U.S.–Mexico borderlands	17
Alone and lonely. The economic cost of solitude for regions in Europe	16
Who owns and controls global capital? Uneven geographies of asset manager capitalism	15
Real estate valuations, heritage branding and the construction of the world’s most expensive city	15
Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies	15
Immaterial animals and financialized forests: Asset manager capitalism, ESG integration and the politics of livestock	14
Writing economies and economies of writing	14
At the territorial roots of global processes: Heterogeneous modes of regional involvement in Global Value Chains	14
Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: ‘Digitally organised informality’, migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India	14
Contested values of development: Experiencing commodification of livelihoods through displacement and resettlement in Mozambique	14
Re-framing a semi-periphery: The making of Lisbon as a global real estate market	14
Remaking the socio-spatial fix: Actors, time and crisis in two iron ore towns	14
Firm decline and the mobility of US inventors, 1976–2015	14
Affective life of financial loss: Detaching from lost investments in the wake of the gig economy	14
‘Commodification of everything’ arguments in the social sciences: Variants, specification, evaluation, critique	14
Rethinking job loss in an age of assetisation: Lessons from the study of precarious older workers	14
Measuring mass displacement of urban renewal in Shenzhen, China: Using longitudinal mobile phone trajectory data	13

From policy to institution: Implementing land reform in Dar es Salaam’s unplanned settlements	13
The fragility of public-private labour governance in times of crisis: The Sri Lankan apparel industry in post-pandemic times	13
The law, financial subordination and the empire of capital: On Shaina Potts’ Judicial Territory	13
The fragile ‘art’ of multi-apping: Resilience and snapping in the gig economy	13
The proximity and dynamics of intercity technology transfers in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area: Evidence from patent transfer networks	12
State Capitalism and Spanish port development along the Maritime Silk Road	12
Background check: Spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser's expanded conception of capitalism	12
Decolonising polycrisis: Southern perspectives on interlocking crises	12
Geographies of devaluation: Spatialities of the German coal exit	12
An economy in the making: Negotiating capitalist and beyond-capitalist ontologies and relations in makerspaces	11
Towards a pragmatist economic geography	11
The geoeconomics of globalization 2.0	11
The company is here to do goodness to us: Imaginaries of development, whiteness, and patronage in Sierra Leone's agribusiness investment deals	11
Doing economics differently	11
Territorial stigmatization and housing commodification under racial neoliberalism: The case of Denmark's ‘ghettos’	11
Mobile workers, contingent labour: Migration, the gig economy and the multiplication of labour	11
Winners of the Ashby prizes	11
The ontological politics of freshness: Qualities of food and sustainability governance	11
Multiple logics in financialisation? Moving to carbon sustainability in build-to-rent development	10
An abundance of caution for a ‘stagnation nation’? Financial services policy development in post-growth Britain	10
Land, values, and valuation work: Moral imaginaries of land markets in England and Germany	10
Territorial development in Bavaria between spatial justice and austere federalism: A historical-materialist policy analysis of Bavarian regional development politics and policies, 2008–2018	10
Power couples, cities, and wages	10
The state as a market maker: The rise (and fall) of Brazilian securitization in the 21st century	10
Writing geography: Teaching research writing and storytelling in the discipline	10
Social reproduction and public finance: A comparative study of TIF in California and Chicago	10
Inclusive growth, public transit infrastructure investments and neighbourhood trajectories of inequality in Montreal	10
The expansion of China’s market margins: Navigating contingencies and conjunctures	10
Rethinking Polanyi's double movement through participatory justice: Land use planning in Puerto Rico	10
Encompassing the everyday: Grounded responses to the geoeconomic	10
Negotiating the Wild West: Variegated neoliberalisation of the Swedish labour migration regime and the wild berry migration industry	10
Speeding up, slowing down, losing grip: On digital media metronomes and timespace friction in the platformised temporalities of fashion design	10
Transnationalizing intrapreneurship of Chinese private investment in Africa	10
A very British state capitalism: Variegation, political connections and bailouts during the COVID-19 crisis	10
Global locational inequality: Assessing unequal exchange effects	10
Microgeographies of assetisation: Realising value of households and residents in co-living housing	10
The drunkard’s intention lies not on the wine: Reinterpreting culture-led urban redevelopment in China amidst profound regime changes	10