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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corporate contentious politics: Palm oil companies and land conflicts in Indonesia396
De-centering the urban waterscape via patterns, relations and traces of drinking water quality in Kaolack, Senegal74
Grateful reckonings with the political geographies of resistance; a response73
Editorial Board71
The deeping rural-urban divide in U.S. Presidential politics: Presidential votes in Iowa, 2008–202064
Spatializing the political ecologies of the future59
Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization58
‘Waging word wars’: The ‘emotionscape’ of the United Nations Security Council and the Russian war in Ukraine56
The Geo-imaginaries of potential in Mexico's Burgos Basin55
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice50
Review essay48
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US42
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip42
Challenging the ‘absent state’: Neoliberal extractivist governance and state effects in the northwest Peruvian Amazon41
African Union defense demand and spatial spillovers40
Troubling the politics of island relation: The Comoros in between, on the edge, and as microcosm39
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia35
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”35
Unpacking land-associated assemblages ‘from below’: Smallholders' land access strategies at the commercial tree-crop frontier34
The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality'33
Territory and lithium extraction: The Great Land of Lipez and the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia31
Volumising territorial sovereignty: Atmospheric sciences, climate, and the vertical dimension in 20th century China30
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground29
Local voting at local elections revisited: ‘Friends and neighbors voting’ at mayoral elections in rural Poland29
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market29
Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand28
Can civic nationalism reduce corruption? Transnational and translocal insights from Solomon Islands28
Psychoanalytic political ecology28
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand27
“Let us create space”: Reclaiming peace and security in a Kenyan Somali community27
Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks27
The everyday art of resistance: Interpreting "resistancescapes" against urban violence in Palestine26
Harnessing the sending state: Pragmatic improvisations and negotiated memberships of the Chinese diaspora in Laos26
Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark24
To forty more years of Political Geography24
Editorial Board24
Editorial Board24
Editorial Board24
Populist ecologies of Bitcoin23
Concerning community, with Lynn Staeheli23
Rain, rain, voter go away? New evidence on rainfall and voter turnout from the universe of North Carolina voters during the 2012–2020 presidential elections23
Staking claims: Hybrid governance and state-making on the North Kosovo frontier23
Worlding decolonisation: Rediscovering federalist and pluralist geographies of more-than-national liberation23
A proxy geopolitics of poppies, peasants, and national sovereignty: Turkey’s rhetorical resistance to America’s war on drugs22
Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India22
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’22
Look who perpetrates violence and where: Explaining variation in forced migration21
Debating diaspora: Securitization framework and the Turkish state's making of dissent abroad21
Minority gentrification: Re-evaluation of class and ethno-nationalism intersectionality21
The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests21
Commoning in the Anthropocene: Exploring the political possibility of caring with in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece20
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya20
Exception beyond the sovereign state: Makhmour refugee camp between statism and autonomy19
Who you gonna call? Theorising everyday security practices in urban spaces with multiple security actors – The case of Beirut's Southern Suburbs19
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities19
Gaza: The first full-scale AI war?19
Domestic drone futures19
Climates of control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines18
Between colonising waters and extracting forest fronts: Entangled eco-frontiers in the Usumacinta River Basin18
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting: How comparativists misunderstood Canadian scholars on local candidates18
Collaborations: Joint plenary editorial introduction17
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl17
Housing in the face of crisis: The influence of Israel's 2011 protest on housing policy17
WITHDRAWN: Making spaces for debate in the digital age16
Jurisdictional imaginaries as contested geographies: A metaphor analysis of reference cases about Canada's Impact Assessment Act16
Assembling governance in São Paulo's "Cracolândia"16
Pastoralism and conservation: The politics and notions of environmental justice under the grazing ban policy in Inner Mongolia, China16
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi15
Bloody, hairy, and hormonal: An intimate geopolitics of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)15
Tipping point urbanism: A study of the painting and fading of the macromural La Mariposa in governing self-built settlements in Bogotá15
All maritime crimes are local: Understanding the causal link between illegal fishing and maritime piracy15
Embodied geopolitics and negotiations of belongings from Turkey to Athens after 201615
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies15
Editorial Board15
Place-based resentment in an egalitarian welfare state15
Keeping migrants at the margins. Governing through ambiguity and the politics of discretion in the post-2015 EUropean migration and border regime14
The ambivalent relations behind civil society’s engagement in the “grey zones” of migration and integration governance: Case studies from Belgium14
Interpreting Title IX: A feminist legal geography of sexual assault prevention on U.S. college campuses14
The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico14
How and why does demographic decline lead to support for populist parties? The case of the Czech Republic14
Asserting Europe's technological sovereignty amid American platform finance: Countering financial sector dependence on Big Tech?14
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits14
The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring14
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’14
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth14
Contradictory populist ecologies: Pro-peasant propaganda and land grabbing in rural Hungary14
Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance14
The ethnic-spatial conservation fix: Contradictory tensions between restitution and enclosure within communally owned protected areas in South Africa14
Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography13
On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations13
Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq13
In the camp but not of the camp. The forced incorporation of Bangladeshi host communities in Rohingya refugee camps13
The railway panopticon: State formation, carceral power, and everyday policing in the late-nineteenth-century train station13
Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence13
Interpreting NIMBY as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps’ siting: A comparative case study in two Greek regions13
Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]13
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum13
The impossible energy trinity: Energy security, sustainability, and sovereignty in cross-border electricity systems13
Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities13
Surplus precaritization: Supply chain capitalism and the geoeconomics of hope in Myanmar's borderlands13
A spatial interaction model of vote dispersion12
Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic12
Geographies of unease: Witchcraft and boundary construction in an African borderland12
The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective12
Global China in the American heartland: Chinese investment, populist coalitions, and the new red scare12
Editorial Board12
Is green hydrogen really colonial? A commentary on Tunn et al. 202512
Editorial Board12
Resistance and the moral problems of scholarly refusal11
Frontier ecologies: Israel's settler colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan11
Tringapore – Singapore in geopolitical comics11
Being-in-family and being-in-community: Ontological (in)securities, diaspora youth agencies, and the Rwandan emigration state11
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals11
Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis11
The 2020 vote and beyond: Old situations, new complications11
Political ecologies of the Green New Deal: Critiques, contentions and radical appropriations11
Neoliberalizing state spaces in postwar Western Europe: The emergence of a new integrative regime of sovereignty11
Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration ‘crisis’ on BBC Radio 411
Institutional knowledge and perceived rural representation11
Necrosettlements: Life-threatening housing, necropolitics and the poor's deadly living in Mumbai11
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea11
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania11
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations11
Three stages of civil society development in the Global East: Lessons from Montenegro, 1989–202011
The violence of space and spaces of violence: Peace as violence in unequal and divided spaces10
Babelic organisations and the interpreters of geopolitical knowledge production10
Editorial Board10
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey10
Decolonizing cartography and ontological conflict: Counter-mapping in Colombia and “cartographies otherwise”10
Gatekeeping beyond the state: The mombasa port development program and the emergence of the gatekeeper city10
Editorial Board10
Geopolitical assemblages and disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, India10
The green, green grass of the nation. A new far-right ecology in Spain10
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment10
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China10
Placing the city in Lynn Staeheli's scholarship10
Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries10
Editorial Board10
A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009–20229
Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin9
The politics of discretion: Authority and influence in asylum dispersal9
Disciplinary geopolitics and the rise of international development studies in China9
The geography of intent: The bodily implications of border surveillance technologies9
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study9
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers9
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization9
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid9
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states9
Regional immunity complexes: A plurospherical and autoimmunological reimagining of regional security9
Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones9
Pseudo-landed water people: Experiences of informality in Tai O village, Hong Kong9
The more things change, the more they remain the same9
Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar8
Review forum8
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar8
The nature conservation-geopolitics complex: Bridging between conservation geopolitics and peace park discourses8
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions: A decolonial perspective from the Garo Indigenous community in Bangladesh8
The geography of truth and lies8
Housing and populist ecologies8
The politics of tears8
Fast and slow violence and the survival work of the stateless: The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia8
When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting?8
Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita8
Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China8
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach8
Wars in refuge: Locating Syrians’ intimate knowledges of violence across time and space8
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis8
Duality and dual use in Israel's war on Gaza8
Transformation is not a metaphor8
Captive calculations and benevolent abandonment: Ransom piracy and the carceral occupation of hostage ships along the coast of Somalia8
Environment and integration on the edge of Europe8
Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform8
Woman, Life, Freedom: Decoding the feminist uprising in Iran8
Revisiting “For ethnography in political geography”8
Scientific nationalism and museums of the future in Germany and the UAE8
The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives8
Urban atmospheres of terror8
Technology and the construction of oceanic space: Bathymetry and the Arctic continental shelf dispute8
Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change8
Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-198
Editorial Board8
Russian spatial imaginaries and the invasion of Ukraine: Geopolitics and nationalist fantasies7
Watching North Korea from the sky: Remote sensing and documenting human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea7
Editorial Board7
Leaving home: Using videogames to help students understand forced migration7
Scripting climate futures: The geographical assumptions of climate planning7
Estonia's “Return to Europe”: The relationship between neoliberalism, statelessness, and Westward integration in post-independence Estonia7
The carceral wet: Hollowing out rights for migrants in maritime geographies7
Care, continuity, and meaningful change7
The unequal geographies of climate finance: Climate injustice and dependency in the world system7
Virtual forum introduction: Populist nationalisms and new geographies of exclusion7
The most important memorial is the ongoing labour of justice7
Changing geographies of voter turnout: Michigan and the urban/rural divide7
Towards a multi-scalar and multi-horizon framework of energy injustice: A whole systems analysis of Estonian energy transition7
The evacuation camp as paradoxical space for women7
Caravan politics in the depoliticised city: Applying and opposing exceptional measures for Dutch Traveller, Sinti, and Roma caravan sites7
Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River7
Editorial Board7
“Home has always been at the heart of our self-government”: Housing, home and Indigenous self-determination in Fort Good Hope, Canada7
Blue governmentality: Elemental activism with conservation technologies on plundered seas7
The Sea in Sea Rescue: Conceptualising solidarity with maritime migrants7
Labor resistance and municipal power: Scalar mismatch in the Los Angeles Green New Deal7
Towards hydrosocial autonomy within modernity. A long-term analysis (1850–1980) of socio-material fracturing of flood protection infrastructures in an Alpine valley7
War on two fronts: Gender regimes and the ethnonationalist state in Myanmar and Sri Lanka7
From local turn to space-relational analysis: Participatory peacebuilding in a Colombian borderland7
Rescaling the socialist state: Territorial politics and city-region restructuring in Maoist China7
Corrigendum to “Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change” [Political Geography 92 (2022) 102512]7
Review essay7
Where do regimes rally their supporters? The geographical distribution of pro-war mobilization in Russia 20226
Counter-maps of body-territory: Gender-based violence in Mexico6
On pipelines, readiness and annotative labour: Political geographies of AI and data infrastructures in Africa6
External Europeanization through timber trade agreements: Tracing causality in environmental governance reform6
Intimate bordering: Intimacy, anti-blackness and gender violence in the making of the Dominican border6
Imposing order from the skies? Civil aviation as a precarious site of state sovereignty in Somalia6
Borders on steroids: Open borders in a Covid-19 world?6
Constructing disposable farmworkers: Interrogating narrative and legal contours of the US racial capitalist state6
Prohibition geographies: Afterward to special issue on “Illicit geographies and contested environments”6
Review forum6
Introduction to the virtual forum: Gaza's past, present, and futures6
Temporal geographies of premature death: Caste, law, and infrastructure in Swachh Bharat6
Conjuncture and repair: A response to ‘relational repair: Black life beyond injury’ by Jovan Scott Lewis6
How do governments discursively reconcile plans for expanding oil and gas production with global climate goals? The cases of Colombia and Nigeria6
Explaining strategic disinterment: Forensics and the reconstruction of the missing in Cyprus6
Deportation as a neo-colonial act: how deporting state influence extends beyond the border6
Racial capitalism and spheres of influence: Australian assertions of white possession in the Pacific6
Towards a solid-fluid territory: Sand dredging, volumetric practices, and earthly elements6
Safe spaces in the city: Security, scale and masculinity during the Geneva Summit6
The socio-ecological fix by multi-scalar states: The development of ‘Greenways of Paradise’ in Chengdu6
Spatial variation in populist right voting in Austria, 2013–20176
Cybernetic States: Communication, Control, and State-Space in the Advanced Research Projects Agency6
The unbearable lightness of neoliberalism: Monsters, ghosts, and the poetics of neoliberal infrastructures6
Necropolitics, peacebuilding and racialized violence: The elimination of indigenous leaders in Colombia6
In the Shadow of the Tower: Spatial proximity to mosques, visible diversity, and support for the radical right6
Virtual Forum Introduction: The Geographies of Political Geography: Celebrating the Journal's 40-Year Anniversary6
A place for pastoral power: From the “government of souls” to “global struggles for souls”6
Review essay6
An urban political ecology of populism6
Illiberal peacebuilding in a hybrid regime. Authoritarian strategies for conflict containment in Myanmar6
Urban spatial politics and collective action in revolutionary Cairo: Counter spaces and paradoxes of mobilisation6
Wasla. Tracing the lasting impacts of an entangled colonial history on a Miskitu community6
Questioning rural populism6
Affective borderings: Sovereignty and Tibetan refugee placemaking at the Nepal/China borderlands6
Al Aqsa flood in long histories of Palestinian resistance6
Flex commodities and intertwining world-ecologies: Indonesian palm waste as an environmental fix in the New Zealand dairy industry6
How Narcos work together: Debt, trust and community governance in Bolivia's cocaine supply chain6
The civic legacies of disaster for youth political agency6
Youth citizenship after Lynn Staeheli6
Cabling and un-cabling Palestine/Israel: Toward a theory of cumulative infrastructural injustice6
It's just a watch: Ambiguity, ethics and the politics of representing and reading slow violence6
Critically reflecting on the PolGRG Book Prize6
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