Political Geography

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Geography 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.)
ArticleCitations
Water shutoffs, social reproduction, and the carceral state: Policing life's work through the weaponization of water361
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Housing movements: From solidaristic discourse to solidaristic fields77
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What we Don't see: Uncovering intercommunal violence through remote sensing65
Uneven development and the anti-politics machine: Algorithmic violence and market-based neighborhood rankings64
Cabling and un-cabling Palestine/Israel: Toward a theory of cumulative infrastructural injustice64
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Volumising territorial sovereignty: Atmospheric sciences, climate, and the vertical dimension in 20th century China56
The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality'54
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study53
Temporal geographies of premature death: Caste, law, and infrastructure in Swachh Bharat53
Emotional healing as part of environmental and climate justice processes: Frameworks and community-based experiences in times of environmental suffering42
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice41
‘Where #freedom and #patriotism live:’ Linking digital media to far-right geographies40
From bad to worse? How protest can foster armed conflict in autocracies37
People in PowerPoint Pixels: Competing justice claims and scalar politics in water development planning37
A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009–202236
Mapping the spatial politics of Australian settler colonialism35
Violent or non-violent action? Wartime civilian resistance in Colombia and Mozambique35
The civic legacies of disaster for youth political agency33
Subjects supposed to know, believe, and enjoy: The geopolitics of ideological transference in the Swedish begging question33
Re-framing popular governance in Brazil: Re-insurgent and entrepreneurial arrangements in the urban peripheries32
The green, green grass of the nation. A new far-right ecology in Spain31
The limits of control: Technological agency, urban terrain, strategy and the state in the 2014 Gaza War30
Finding home in a paper – Revisiting “The construction of national identity through the production of ritual and spectacle: An analysis of National Day parades in Singapore”29
Grateful reckonings with the political geographies of resistance; a response27
African Union defense demand and spatial spillovers27
Unpacking land-associated assemblages ‘from below’: Smallholders' land access strategies at the commercial tree-crop frontier26
A place for pastoral power: From the “government of souls” to “global struggles for souls”26
Troubling the politics of island relation: The Comoros in between, on the edge, and as microcosm26
Conjuncture and repair: A response to ‘relational repair: Black life beyond injury’ by Jovan Scott Lewis26
Party affiliation and the legacy of HOLC redlining maps25
Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries24
The war in Ukraine, open source investigation and the potential for “digital fieldwork” in geopolitics23
Review essay23
Challenging the ‘absent state’: Neoliberal extractivist governance and state effects in the northwest Peruvian Amazon23
The sociospatial ecology of deaths during police interactions in the United States, 2016–202023
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Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground21
Theorizing the subterranean mode of production21
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip21
Babelic organisations and the interpreters of geopolitical knowledge production21
The deeping rural-urban divide in U.S. Presidential politics: Presidential votes in Iowa, 2008–202021
Spatializing the political ecologies of the future20
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Borderlands of the local state20
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Labor, energy, and ecosocialist futures19
Climate change imaginaries: Representing and contesting sea level rise in Fairbourne, North Wales19
Youth citizenship after Lynn Staeheli19
Critically reflecting on the PolGRG Book Prize19
Virtual Forum Introduction: The Geographies of Political Geography: Celebrating the Journal's 40-Year Anniversary19
‘Pandemopolitics’ in Serbia: The resurgence of nationalism?19
Resisting climate coloniality in the academy19
Corrupting climate change institutions from the inside Systemic Collusion in the Peruvian Forest Governance19
In the Shadow of the Tower: Spatial proximity to mosques, visible diversity, and support for the radical right18
The Geo-imaginaries of potential in Mexico's Burgos Basin18
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China17
The politics of just transition: Authoritarian environmentalism and implementation flexibility in forest conservation17
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey17
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market17
Relations outside of injury: Black ecologies, Indigenous geographies, and repair17
The desert, the border, and the city: Staging a spectacle on the Chile-Peru border16
Floods, communal conflict and the role of local state institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa16
Territory and lithium extraction: The Great Land of Lipez and the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia16
Unsettling time(s): Reconstituting the when of urban radical politics15
A harbour in the country, a city in the sea: Infrastructural conduits, territorial inversions and the slippages of sovereignty in Sino-Sri Lankan development narratives15
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states15
Local voting at local elections revisited: ‘Friends and neighbors voting’ at mayoral elections in rural Poland15
Unpacking climate services: Knowledge politics, beneficent humanitarianism and the realpolitik of risk management in China15
Green resilience: Securing life through vegetal being15
The politics of mourning in conservation conflicts: The (un)grievability of life and less-than-human geographies15
‘Waging word wars’: The ‘emotionscape’ of the United Nations Security Council and the Russian war in Ukraine14
Infrastructural clashes: Induced scarcity and governing refugees through depletion14
An urban political ecology of populism14
Grabbing the commons: Forest rights, capital and legal struggle in the Carpathian Mountains14
Corporate contentious politics: Palm oil companies and land conflicts in Indonesia14
From conflict to coexistence: Reaffirming belonging and property rights through the ‘sons of village’ discourse in post-conflict Kenya14
Resistances in the “Resilient City”: Rise and fall of a disputed concept in New Orleans and Medellin13
Containing the intertidal island: Negotiating island onto-epistemological visibility and plurality13
Going back to school: Engaging veterans’ memories of the Malvinas war in secondary schools in Santa Fe, Argentina13
Ripe for better post-war governance? The impact of the 2016 peace agreement on the reestablishment of health services in Colombia13
Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization13
Gatekeeping beyond the state: The mombasa port development program and the emergence of the gatekeeper city13
Safe spaces in the city: Security, scale and masculinity during the Geneva Summit13
Beyond the contours of Zionist sovereignty: Decolonisation in Palestine's Unity Intifada13
Toward a (co)relational border? Order, care, and chaos at Nordic borders13
Questioning rural populism12
The geopolitics of fear: Pro-refugee resistance to Europe's racial security12
Geopolitical assemblages and disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, India12
Chinese environmental activism and the environmental politics of rumors12
Discrete geometry for electoral geography12
The Battle of the Camel: Revolution, transition and tourism in Cairo12
Regionmaking and conceptual development in South China: Perceiving islands, the Pearl River Delta, and the Greater Bay Area12
De-centering the urban waterscape via patterns, relations and traces of drinking water quality in Kaolack, Senegal12
A geography of repoliticisation: Popularising alternative housing models in Oslo11
Transmission and territory: Urban bordering during COVID-1911
Inner Mongolian poetry and song as a form of resistance11
The case for socialist modernism11
Geography, pluriverse and ‘Southern Thought’: Engaging with decoloniality from the Mediterranean11
Beyond anti-urban sentiment: Rural consciousness and affect toward undocumented immigrants11
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US11
The Game: Or, ‘the making of migration’ along the Balkan Route11
Explaining strategic disinterment: Forensics and the reconstruction of the missing in Cyprus11
Resilience, responsibility and state abandon: The changing role of the government in emergencies11
Unpacking administrative rank: Intercity competition and the remaking of local state space in China11
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia11
Placing the city in Lynn Staeheli's scholarship11
Informal sovereignties and multiple Muslim feminisms: Feminist geo-legality in Sri Lanka11
Decolonizing cartography and ontological conflict: Counter-mapping in Colombia and “cartographies otherwise”11
Navigating political opportunity structures: Street traders’ associations and collective action in politically volatile urban environments11
The enduring coloniality of ecological modernization: Wind energy development in occupied Western Sahara and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights11
Regulating the global illicit economy: Singapore's role in United States' spatial financial surveillance11
The Mediterranean as a carceral seascape10
Revolutionary resistance against full autocratization. Actors and strategies of resistance after the 2021 military coup in Myanmar10
Food practices, queer social reproduction and the geographies of LGBTQ+ activism10
Mean Streets: Power, ideology and the politics of memory10
When climate justice goes wrong: Maladaptation and deep co-production in transformative environmental science and policy10
Making modern water: The content, actors, and processes of embedding the Mahaweli Development Project in Sri Lanka (1963–2010)10
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions: A decolonial perspective from the Garo Indigenous community in Bangladesh10
Rural drinking water governance politics in China: Governmentality schemes and negotiations from below10
Bordering dynamics and the geopolitics of cross-border tourism between China and Myanmar10
Are cities ever more cosmopolitan? Studying trends in urban-rural divergence of cultural attitudes10
Reparative infrastructures: Debt, water shutoffs, and the state10
Harnessing the sending state: Pragmatic improvisations and negotiated memberships of the Chinese diaspora in Laos10
Uncovering the drivers of climate gentrification in the Global South: Case study of Tacloban City, Philippines10
The surge of the small donorate in U.S. elections: A view from Texas statewide campaigns9
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis9
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Strategic coupling of administrative rationality and cultural imaginaries in municipal amalgamations9
“There, seated upon the toilet, apparently in the midst of defecation, was the president of the United States”: Toilets and elite politics in the USA and UK9
Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita9
Psychoanalytic political ecology9
Ecological militarization: Engineering territory in the South China Sea9
Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar9
The circulatory panopticon: Real names, rail infrastructure and Foucault's realist turn9
Abject lives: An introduction9
A proxy geopolitics of poppies, peasants, and national sovereignty: Turkey’s rhetorical resistance to America’s war on drugs9
Limits to the Washington Consensus: Boundary struggles and China's transition economy9
What repoliticisation means and requires: Creating the climate for disagreement9
A Geography of Blood Meridian: Primitive accumulation on the frontier of space9
Concerning community, with Lynn Staeheli8
Differentiating the local impact of global drugs and weapons trafficking: How do gangs mediate ‘residual violence’ to sustain Trinidad's homicide boom?8
Conclusion: The precession of geopolitical hyperrealities8
Rain, rain, voter go away? New evidence on rainfall and voter turnout from the universe of North Carolina voters during the 2012–2020 presidential elections8
Jaffa's contested heritage trails: Using city walking tours to study, affirm, and protest the politics of space and memory8
What exactly do REDD+ projects produce? A materialist analysis of carbon offset production from a REDD+ project in Cambodia8
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The more things change, the more they remain the same8
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Rural cocaine elites and resilient clandestine connections in Peru's high Amazonia8
Geographical analysis of political epidemiology: Spatial quantification of simultaneity between politics and pandemics8
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Revisiting “For ethnography in political geography”8
Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform8
Making space for citizenship8
To forty more years of Political Geography8
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar8
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Contested worldmaking from ‘above’ and ‘below’: Bordered spaces and bordered subjects in search of asylum8
National Museum Wales and the scalar bureaucracies of institutional memory work8
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’8
Between recognition and inclusion: Lynn Staeheli's intellectual leadership as feminist and political geographer8
Staking claims: Hybrid governance and state-making on the North Kosovo frontier8
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Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones7
Security implications of climate development in conflict-affected states: Implications of local-level effects of rural hydropower development on farmers in Herat7
Colonising geology: Volcanic politics and geopower7
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Minority gentrification: Re-evaluation of class and ethno-nationalism intersectionality7
Virtual Forum Introduction: Electoral geographies of the 2020 U.S. presidential race7
Sudden weather disasters as triggers for ethnic protest in autocracies?7
Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks7
Where is the North? Southern ruptures in decolonizing theory7
Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India7
Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China7
Commoning in the Anthropocene: Exploring the political possibility of caring with in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece7
Virtual Forum introduction: Environmental limits, scarcity and degrowth7
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Frontiers’ violence: The interplay of state of exception, frontier habitus, and organized violence7
The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives7
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand7
Wars in refuge: Locating Syrians’ intimate knowledges of violence across time and space7
Reckoning climate apartheid7
Regional immunity complexes: A plurospherical and autoimmunological reimagining of regional security7
Debating diaspora: Securitization framework and the Turkish state's making of dissent abroad7
The road (not) taken: The contingencies of infrastructure and sovereignty in the Horn of Africa7
Red outposts in a hostile landscape: People's houses, People's parks and the reconstruction of rural southern Sweden's political geography, 1889–19097
Look who perpetrates violence and where: Explaining variation in forced migration6
Scientific nationalism and museums of the future in Germany and the UAE6
Neoliberalising the divided city6
Populist ecologies of Bitcoin6
Disciplinary geopolitics and the rise of international development studies in China6
‘I felt’: Intimate geographies of sentient diplomacy6
Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin6
The nature conservation-geopolitics complex: Bridging between conservation geopolitics and peace park discourses6
The production of political liminality in Macao6
Urban populist ecologies and Duterte's politics of discipline in Manila's Dolomite Beach6
Woman, Life, Freedom: Decoding the feminist uprising in Iran6
Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark6
Islands as interstitial encrypted geographies: Making (and failing) cryptosecessionist exits6
The everyday art of resistance: Interpreting "resistancescapes" against urban violence in Palestine6
International rivers as border infrastructures: En/forcing borders in South Asia6
Urban atmospheres of terror6
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities6
Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand6
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid6
Do women commemorate women? How gender and ideology affect decisions on naming female streets6
Putting the crisis to work: The real estate sector and London's housing crisis6
Mourners who can not mourn: Argentina's Parque de la Memoria as a spatial threshold of memory6
Perceived fairness of intra-municipal cohesion politics: Does place of residence affect party preferences?6
Digital extraction: Blockchain traceability in mineral supply chains6
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya6
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers6
Peace through the lens of human rights: Mapping spaces of peace in the advocacy of Colombian human rights defenders6
The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests6
“Russian Troops Out! No to NATO expansion!” A pacific geopolitics for a new Europe6
Territorialising the cloud or clouding the territory? Volumetric vulnerabilities and the militarised conjunctures of Singapore’s smart city-state6
Resplendent care-full climate revolutions6
Parched and impatient: Political engagement after drought6
“Let us create space”: Reclaiming peace and security in a Kenyan Somali community6
Can civic nationalism reduce corruption? Transnational and translocal insights from Solomon Islands6
Checkpoints, competing ‘sovereignties’, and everyday life in Iraq6
A new electoral map? Brexit, realignment and the changing geography of party support in England6
Far-right translocalism: Towards a new research agenda6
Unraveling the frontier: A new look at the Inter-Korean border6
Drifting further apart? Europe's trends of urban-rural political polarisation should not be overstated6
The geography of truth and lies6
“The government is confused”: The political utility of institutional ambiguity in Jordan's humanitarian arena6
Can direct democracy deliver an alternative to extractivism? An essay on popular consultations6
Scaling just transitions: Legitimation strategies in coal phase-out commissions in Canada and Germany6
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach6
Refugees and racial capitalism: Meatpacking and the primitive accumulation of labor6
Geographies of precarity and violence in the Kurdish kolberi underground economy5
If the border is not a downstream of technology - Excavating sedimented bordering mechanisms and emergent racisms5
“Their lives don't matter to politicians”: The necropolitical ecology of Thailand's dangerous and unequal roads5
Civil war violence and competing legitimacy claims: Evidence from district level courts cases in Nepal5
Opportunistic obedient resistance: “Taking the state at its word” in resisting state-led inner-city redevelopment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia5
When urban shrinkage goes South. Morocco's extreme management of declining mining towns between paternalism, entrepreneurialism and abandonment5
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Claiming space for decolonial scholarship: Confronting epistemic exclusion in green energy colonialism5
Left-wing nationalist-populist movement and identification: A psycho-political analysis of the “comfort woman” statue movements in South Korea5
Inscribing Ukraine: The symbolic dimensions of Russian reterritorialization through war5
The Russia-Ukraine war as a battle for a bordered land, not borderland5
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting: How comparativists misunderstood Canadian scholars on local candidates5
Climates of control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines5
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi5
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