Political Geography

Papers
(The TQCC of Political Geography is 9. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Troubling the politics of island relation: The Comoros in between, on the edge, and as microcosm553
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice127
African Union defense demand and spatial spillovers99
Unpacking land-associated assemblages ‘from below’: Smallholders' land access strategies at the commercial tree-crop frontier95
Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization85
Review essay76
Editorial Board73
The deeping rural-urban divide in U.S. Presidential politics: Presidential votes in Iowa, 2008–202063
‘Waging word wars’: The ‘emotionscape’ of the United Nations Security Council and the Russian war in Ukraine58
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground58
Volumising territorial sovereignty: Atmospheric sciences, climate, and the vertical dimension in 20th century China46
Local voting at local elections revisited: ‘Friends and neighbors voting’ at mayoral elections in rural Poland43
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”39
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market38
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip38
De-centering the urban waterscape via patterns, relations and traces of drinking water quality in Kaolack, Senegal38
Corporate contentious politics: Palm oil companies and land conflicts in Indonesia35
Grateful reckonings with the political geographies of resistance; a response34
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia34
The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality'34
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US34
Challenging the ‘absent state’: Neoliberal extractivist governance and state effects in the northwest Peruvian Amazon33
Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark32
Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand32
Worlding decolonisation: Rediscovering federalist and pluralist geographies of more-than-national liberation32
Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks31
Populist ecologies of Bitcoin31
Staking claims: Hybrid governance and state-making on the North Kosovo frontier30
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’29
Look who perpetrates violence and where: Explaining variation in forced migration29
Editorial Board29
Debating diaspora: Securitization framework and the Turkish state's making of dissent abroad29
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand29
Concerning community, with Lynn Staeheli28
Editorial Board28
To forty more years of Political Geography28
The everyday art of resistance: Interpreting "resistancescapes" against urban violence in Palestine28
Minority gentrification: Re-evaluation of class and ethno-nationalism intersectionality26
Rain, rain, voter go away? New evidence on rainfall and voter turnout from the universe of North Carolina voters during the 2012–2020 presidential elections26
Editorial Board26
Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India26
Psychoanalytic political ecology25
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya25
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities24
The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests24
A proxy geopolitics of poppies, peasants, and national sovereignty: Turkey’s rhetorical resistance to America’s war on drugs24
Commoning in the Anthropocene: Exploring the political possibility of caring with in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece24
Gaza: The first full-scale AI war?23
Domestic drone futures23
Can the borderland speak? Entangled territoriality in the foothills of Northeast India23
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life22
“Staying is complicated, Not staying, however, is unthinkable”: A critical review of Indigenous presence in “natural” parks as a critique of colonial place making for conservation and leisure22
Climates of control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines20
Assembling governance in São Paulo's "Cracolândia"20
Between colonising waters and extracting forest fronts: Entangled eco-frontiers in the Usumacinta River Basin20
Exception beyond the sovereign state: Makhmour refugee camp between statism and autonomy20
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl20
The political geographies of AI and the manosphere20
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies20
Tipping point urbanism: A study of the painting and fading of the macromural La Mariposa in governing self-built settlements in Bogotá20
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi19
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting: How comparativists misunderstood Canadian scholars on local candidates19
Collaborations: Joint plenary editorial introduction19
Green national paradox? How the far right turned Sweden from a (reputed) pioneer of climate mitigation to an obstructor18
Pastoralism and conservation: The politics and notions of environmental justice under the grazing ban policy in Inner Mongolia, China18
WITHDRAWN: Making spaces for debate in the digital age18
Who you gonna call? Theorising everyday security practices in urban spaces with multiple security actors – The case of Beirut's Southern Suburbs18
Jurisdictional imaginaries as contested geographies: A metaphor analysis of reference cases about Canada's Impact Assessment Act18
Interpreting Title IX: A feminist legal geography of sexual assault prevention on U.S. college campuses17
The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico17
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’16
Contradictory populist ecologies: Pro-peasant propaganda and land grabbing in rural Hungary16
The ethnic-spatial conservation fix: Contradictory tensions between restitution and enclosure within communally owned protected areas in South Africa16
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits16
Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance16
Editorial Board16
How and why does demographic decline lead to support for populist parties? The case of the Czech Republic16
The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring16
The making of a hydrofrontier: Geopolitics, securitization and ‘green’ energy imaginaries in India's eastern borderlands16
Embodied geopolitics and negotiations of belongings from Turkey to Athens after 201616
Reclaiming sovereignty over the body: Post-2022 Russian migration between bio-, thanato- and necropolitics15
Keeping migrants at the margins. Governing through ambiguity and the politics of discretion in the post-2015 EUropean migration and border regime15
Asserting Europe's technological sovereignty amid American platform finance: Countering financial sector dependence on Big Tech?15
Bloody, hairy, and hormonal: An intimate geopolitics of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)15
All maritime crimes are local: Understanding the causal link between illegal fishing and maritime piracy15
Place-based resentment in an egalitarian welfare state15
Showerheads, coffee machines and the everyday political geographies of the green backlash15
Feminist geopolitics of creativity: A study of women practicing Islamic and traditional visual arts in Istanbul15
The impossible energy trinity: Energy security, sustainability, and sovereignty in cross-border electricity systems15
The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective14
A spatial interaction model of vote dispersion14
Global China in the American heartland: Chinese investment, populist coalitions, and the new red scare14
Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq14
Interpreting NIMBY as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps’ siting: A comparative case study in two Greek regions14
Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence14
In the camp but not of the camp. The forced incorporation of Bangladeshi host communities in Rohingya refugee camps14
Violent environments and the low-carbon energy transition: Cautionary tales from Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea14
On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations14
Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography14
Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]14
Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities14
Local and indigenous knowledge systems on nature-based solutions: Addressing Green Colonialism in Mangrove restoration of the Indian Sundarbans14
The railway panopticon: State formation, carceral power, and everyday policing in the late-nineteenth-century train station13
Surplus precaritization: Supply chain capitalism and the geoeconomics of hope in Myanmar's borderlands13
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum13
Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic13
Being-in-family and being-in-community: Ontological (in)securities, diaspora youth agencies, and the Rwandan emigration state13
Is green hydrogen really colonial? A commentary on Tunn et al. 202513
Frontier ecologies: Israel's settler colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan13
Tringapore – Singapore in geopolitical comics12
Institutional knowledge and perceived rural representation12
Editorial Board12
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations12
The 2020 vote and beyond: Old situations, new complications12
Neoliberalizing state spaces in postwar Western Europe: The emergence of a new integrative regime of sovereignty12
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania12
Three stages of civil society development in the Global East: Lessons from Montenegro, 1989–202012
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals12
Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration ‘crisis’ on BBC Radio 412
Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries11
Geopolitical assemblages and disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, India11
Editorial Board11
Political ecologies of the Green New Deal: Critiques, contentions and radical appropriations11
The violence of space and spaces of violence: Peace as violence in unequal and divided spaces11
Editorial Board11
Placing the city in Lynn Staeheli's scholarship11
The geography of intent: The bodily implications of border surveillance technologies11
Space to think? Chinese think tanks and the uneven development of party-state power11
Resistance and the moral problems of scholarly refusal11
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment11
Necrosettlements: Life-threatening housing, necropolitics and the poor's deadly living in Mumbai11
Babelic organisations and the interpreters of geopolitical knowledge production11
A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009–202211
Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis11
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea11
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states10
The green, green grass of the nation. A new far-right ecology in Spain10
The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives10
Woman, Life, Freedom: Decoding the feminist uprising in Iran10
The politics of discretion: Authority and influence in asylum dispersal10
Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change10
Gatekeeping beyond the state: The mombasa port development program and the emergence of the gatekeeper city10
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China10
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach10
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions: A decolonial perspective from the Garo Indigenous community in Bangladesh10
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis10
Pseudo-landed water people: Experiences of informality in Tai O village, Hong Kong10
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey10
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study10
Regional immunity complexes: A plurospherical and autoimmunological reimagining of regional security10
Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar10
Where do we go? Explaining democratic capital location preferences10
Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones10
Wars in refuge: Locating Syrians’ intimate knowledges of violence across time and space10
Housing and populist ecologies9
Caravan politics in the depoliticised city: Applying and opposing exceptional measures for Dutch Traveller, Sinti, and Roma caravan sites9
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization9
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers9
Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin9
Urban atmospheres of terror9
Review forum9
Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita9
Fast and slow violence and the survival work of the stateless: The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia9
Towards hydrosocial autonomy within modernity. A long-term analysis (1850–1980) of socio-material fracturing of flood protection infrastructures in an Alpine valley9
Duality and dual use in Israel's war on Gaza9
Environment and integration on the edge of Europe9
Captive calculations and benevolent abandonment: Ransom piracy and the carceral occupation of hostage ships along the coast of Somalia9
The politics of tears9
Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China9
Creating a new climate transition politics? Reflections on a Real Deal for Australia9
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid9
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar9
Migrant struggles in the Darién Gap-Tapón: Rethinking a more-than-human border9
Editorial Board9
The Sea in Sea Rescue: Conceptualising solidarity with maritime migrants9
Technology and the construction of oceanic space: Bathymetry and the Arctic continental shelf dispute9
Watching North Korea from the sky: Remote sensing and documenting human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea9
Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-199
The nature conservation-geopolitics complex: Bridging between conservation geopolitics and peace park discourses9
Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform9
Revisiting “For ethnography in political geography”9
The more things change, the more they remain the same9
Scientific nationalism and museums of the future in Germany and the UAE9
The most important memorial is the ongoing labour of justice9
Changing geographies of voter turnout: Michigan and the urban/rural divide9
When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting?9
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