Political Geography

Papers
(The TQCC of Political Geography is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
De-centering the urban waterscape via patterns, relations and traces of drinking water quality in Kaolack, Senegal456
The Geo-imaginaries of potential in Mexico's Burgos Basin93
Grateful reckonings with the political geographies of resistance; a response81
Editorial Board80
The deeping rural-urban divide in U.S. Presidential politics: Presidential votes in Iowa, 2008–202066
Spatializing the political ecologies of the future55
Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization53
Territory and lithium extraction: The Great Land of Lipez and the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia47
African Union defense demand and spatial spillovers47
A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US45
‘Waging word wars’: The ‘emotionscape’ of the United Nations Security Council and the Russian war in Ukraine41
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice37
Review essay36
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip35
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
The blatant phenomenon of 'election-driven legalization of informality'33
Unpacking land-associated assemblages ‘from below’: Smallholders' land access strategies at the commercial tree-crop frontier33
Volumising territorial sovereignty: Atmospheric sciences, climate, and the vertical dimension in 20th century China31
Caviar matter(s): The material politics of the European caviar grey market31
Contested subterranean territory: Gold mining and competing claims to Indonesia’s underground30
Challenging the ‘absent state’: Neoliberal extractivist governance and state effects in the northwest Peruvian Amazon30
Local voting at local elections revisited: ‘Friends and neighbors voting’ at mayoral elections in rural Poland29
Corporate contentious politics: Palm oil companies and land conflicts in Indonesia29
Troubling the politics of island relation: The Comoros in between, on the edge, and as microcosm29
Psychoanalytic political ecology27
The right to repairable energy: A political ecology of off-grid solar repair in Zambia27
“Let us create space”: Reclaiming peace and security in a Kenyan Somali community26
Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: A post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand26
Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities26
Debating diaspora: Securitization framework and the Turkish state's making of dissent abroad26
Staking claims: Hybrid governance and state-making on the North Kosovo frontier26
The everyday art of resistance: Interpreting "resistancescapes" against urban violence in Palestine25
Minority gentrification: Re-evaluation of class and ethno-nationalism intersectionality24
Editorial Board24
Belonging to the nation: Negotiating narratives of national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand24
Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark24
Editorial Board23
Land tenure transformation: The case of community conservancies in northern Kenya23
Editorial Board23
To forty more years of Political Geography23
Domestic drone futures23
Worlding decolonisation: Rediscovering federalist and pluralist geographies of more-than-national liberation22
Concerning community, with Lynn Staeheli22
Stay or leave? US-listed Chinese companies under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of global financial networks22
Rain, rain, voter go away? New evidence on rainfall and voter turnout from the universe of North Carolina voters during the 2012–2020 presidential elections22
A proxy geopolitics of poppies, peasants, and national sovereignty: Turkey’s rhetorical resistance to America’s war on drugs21
Revisiting ‘Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar’21
Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India20
Look who perpetrates violence and where: Explaining variation in forced migration19
Populist ecologies of Bitcoin19
Gaza: The first full-scale AI war?19
Commoning in the Anthropocene: Exploring the political possibility of caring with in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece19
Tipping point urbanism: A study of the painting and fading of the macromural La Mariposa in governing self-built settlements in Bogotá19
The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests19
Between colonising waters and extracting forest fronts: Entangled eco-frontiers in the Usumacinta River Basin18
Jurisdictional imaginaries as contested geographies: A metaphor analysis of reference cases about Canada's Impact Assessment Act18
Exception beyond the sovereign state: Makhmour refugee camp between statism and autonomy18
False friends in studying friends-and-neighbors voting: How comparativists misunderstood Canadian scholars on local candidates18
Assembling governance in São Paulo's "Cracolândia"18
Collaborations: Joint plenary editorial introduction18
Housing in the face of crisis: The influence of Israel's 2011 protest on housing policy18
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl17
Climates of control: Violent adaptation and climate change in the Philippines16
Who you gonna call? Theorising everyday security practices in urban spaces with multiple security actors – The case of Beirut's Southern Suburbs16
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi16
Green national paradox? How the far right turned Sweden from a (reputed) pioneer of climate mitigation to an obstructor16
Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies16
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life15
Editorial Board15
“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 leisure15
Pastoralism and conservation: The politics and notions of environmental justice under the grazing ban policy in Inner Mongolia, China15
Can the borderland speak? Entangled territoriality in the foothills of Northeast India15
WITHDRAWN: Making spaces for debate in the digital age15
Place-based resentment in an egalitarian welfare state14
Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance14
Contradictory populist ecologies: Pro-peasant propaganda and land grabbing in rural Hungary14
Bloody, hairy, and hormonal: An intimate geopolitics of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)14
The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico14
The ethnic-spatial conservation fix: Contradictory tensions between restitution and enclosure within communally owned protected areas in South Africa14
Interpreting Title IX: A feminist legal geography of sexual assault prevention on U.S. college campuses14
Keeping migrants at the margins. Governing through ambiguity and the politics of discretion in the post-2015 EUropean migration and border regime14
The metropolitanization of Israel's settlement policy: The colonization of the West Bank as a strategy of spatial restructuring14
Embodied geopolitics and negotiations of belongings from Turkey to Athens after 201614
Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits14
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’14
Is green hydrogen really colonial? A commentary on Tunn et al. 202513
Asserting Europe's technological sovereignty amid American platform finance: Countering financial sector dependence on Big Tech?13
All maritime crimes are local: Understanding the causal link between illegal fishing and maritime piracy13
Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq13
The railway panopticon: State formation, carceral power, and everyday policing in the late-nineteenth-century train station13
How and why does demographic decline lead to support for populist parties? The case of the Czech Republic13
The impossible energy trinity: Energy security, sustainability, and sovereignty in cross-border electricity systems13
The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective13
The ambivalent relations behind civil society’s engagement in the “grey zones” of migration and integration governance: Case studies from Belgium13
The making of a hydrofrontier: Geopolitics, securitization and ‘green’ energy imaginaries in India's eastern borderlands13
On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations13
Withdrawal notice to ‘Making spaces for debate in the digital age’ [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]12
Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence12
Surplus precaritization: Supply chain capitalism and the geoeconomics of hope in Myanmar's borderlands12
In the camp but not of the camp. The forced incorporation of Bangladeshi host communities in Rohingya refugee camps12
The material politics of slurry: Mobilisations and transformations along the waste–fertiliser continuum12
Global China in the American heartland: Chinese investment, populist coalitions, and the new red scare12
A spatial interaction model of vote dispersion12
Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities12
Local and indigenous knowledge systems on nature-based solutions: Addressing Green Colonialism in Mangrove restoration of the Indian Sundarbans12
Propositions on right-wing populism: Available, excessive, optimistic12
Violent environments and the low-carbon energy transition: Cautionary tales from Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea12
Blue planet, Black lives: Matter, memory, and the temporalities of political geography11
Geographies of unease: Witchcraft and boundary construction in an African borderland11
Political ecologies of the Green New Deal: Critiques, contentions and radical appropriations11
The 2020 vote and beyond: Old situations, new complications11
Three stages of civil society development in the Global East: Lessons from Montenegro, 1989–202011
Interpreting NIMBY as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps’ siting: A comparative case study in two Greek regions11
Neoliberalizing state spaces in postwar Western Europe: The emergence of a new integrative regime of sovereignty11
Institutional knowledge and perceived rural representation11
Tringapore – Singapore in geopolitical comics11
Respiratory negotiations: The elemental biopolitics of medical masks in times of atmospheric crisis11
Being-in-family and being-in-community: Ontological (in)securities, diaspora youth agencies, and the Rwandan emigration state11
Editorial Board11
Producing the military urban(s): Interoperability, space-making, and epistemic distinctions between military services in urban operations11
The violence of space and spaces of violence: Peace as violence in unequal and divided spaces11
Resistance and the moral problems of scholarly refusal11
Frontier ecologies: Israel's settler colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan10
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment10
Editorial Board10
Editorial Board10
Radio geopolitics: Imaginative geographies of Europe's migration ‘crisis’ on BBC Radio 410
Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea10
Necrosettlements: Life-threatening housing, necropolitics and the poor's deadly living in Mumbai10
Editorial Board10
Gatekeeping beyond the state: The mombasa port development program and the emergence of the gatekeeper city10
Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals10
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania10
Babelic organisations and the interpreters of geopolitical knowledge production10
Placing the city in Lynn Staeheli's scholarship10
Borderscape Antarctica: The uncanny geographical imaginaries of Terra Australis Incognita9
Regional immunity complexes: A plurospherical and autoimmunological reimagining of regional security9
The geography of intent: The bodily implications of border surveillance technologies9
The green, green grass of the nation. A new far-right ecology in Spain9
Geopolitics of explaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the challenge of small states9
Review forum9
Temporalities in spatial narratives about war ruins in Mostar9
Environmental attitudes, environmental problems and party choice. A large-N comparative study9
Geopolitical assemblages and disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, India9
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China9
Revisiting “For ethnography in political geography”9
Bakelam: Sea nomads’ knowledge systems and potential building block for living with change9
Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries9
Interpellating ‘the people’ against environmentalists: The authoritarian populist response to environmental mobilizations in Turkey9
A multi-level discourse analysis of Swedish wind power resistance, 2009–20229
The more things change, the more they remain the same9
The nature conservation-geopolitics complex: Bridging between conservation geopolitics and peace park discourses8
Eco-socialism and the political ecology of forest conservation in the Greater Khingan Range, China8
Urban atmospheres of terror8
Transformation is not a metaphor8
Environment and integration on the edge of Europe8
When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting?8
Assessing disability rights in four Asian countries: The perspectives of disabled people on physical, attitudinal and cultural barriers8
Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones8
Where do we go? Explaining democratic capital location preferences8
Indigenous women-led climate crisis solutions: A decolonial perspective from the Garo Indigenous community in Bangladesh8
Intervention: Engaging post-foundational political theory requires an ‘enmeshed’ approach8
Pseudo-landed water people: Experiences of informality in Tai O village, Hong Kong8
European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization8
Captive calculations and benevolent abandonment: Ransom piracy and the carceral occupation of hostage ships along the coast of Somalia8
Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-198
Divergent desires for the just transition in South Africa: An assemblage analysis8
Editorial Board8
Region work – Institutional activism and the implementation of regional reform8
Governmentality and comic propaganda: Mighty Man, the black superhero of apartheid8
Woman, Life, Freedom: Decoding the feminist uprising in Iran8
Towards relational geometries of public participation and hydropower governance in the Lower Mekong River Basin8
The world-making power of borders: Asia-Pacific perspectives8
The politics of discretion: Authority and influence in asylum dispersal8
Wars in refuge: Locating Syrians’ intimate knowledges of violence across time and space8
Changing geographies of voter turnout: Michigan and the urban/rural divide8
The Sea in Sea Rescue: Conceptualising solidarity with maritime migrants8
Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar8
Creating a new climate transition politics? Reflections on a Real Deal for Australia8
Scientific nationalism and museums of the future in Germany and the UAE8
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