OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social & Cultural Geography is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
The radical bookstore: counterspace for social movements	106
Mapping the moral geographies of education: character, citizenship and values	28
Socio-spatial experiences of living with cancer: new landscapes of a geographer-patient	22
Why ‘cultures of care’?	21
The Feel of Algorithms	20
Digital and non-digital representations as actors in the enactment of selfhood and community on the Appalachian Trail	19
The Unsettling Outdoors: Environmental Estrangement in Everyday Life, by Russell Hitchings. London: Wiley, RGS-IBG Book Series 2021 176 pp., $51.95 paperback (ISBN: 978-1-119-54915-4); $124.95 hardbac	19
The institutionalization of parkour: blurring the boundaries of tight and loose spaces	18
Pandemic-induced deathscapes: end-of-life, funerary and bereavement challenges for British-Bangladeshi Muslims	17
The politics of dating apps: gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in Urban China	15
Animated lands: studies in territoriology	14
Editors note	13
Some popular cultural geographies, starring Cyrille Regis, Delia Derbyshire, an Ewok, Mickey Mouse, Napalm Death, the Sylvanian families, and anonymous hate mail…	13
Urban belonging as place-based affect	13
‘They tell us to keep our distance, but we sleep five people in one tent’: The opportunistic governance of displaced people in Calais during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Queer Latinx Worldmakings: geographies of food, love and familia in prison	12
‘We love it here and there’: Turkish Alevi older migrants’ belonging to places	12
Deadly intersections: living and dying with non-humans in everyday life	12
Feminist city: claiming space in a man-made world	11
Threshold Modernisms: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London	11
For a Liberatory Politics of Home	11
‘Plantation memories: episodes of everyday racism’ (Memórias da Plantação: episódios de racismo quotidiano’/ trad. Nuno Quintas); rev. cient. Júlia Correia; rev. linguística João Berhan	11
Inhabiting auteur architecture: tracing the residents’ experience of Álvaro Siza’s Bouça housing estate	10
‘Am I Being Unreasonable’ to use Mumsnet to explore historical geographies of childhood in domestic spaces?	10
Glasgow’s contested LGBT pride spaces: examining dimensions of variegated homonormativities	10

Cultures of labour: aspiration, developmental futures and the materiality of memory after Chinese economic reform	10
Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourses from the perspective of COVID-19	10
Urban living and the search for new societal metaphors: Insights from Brussels participatory arts practices	9
Wastelands to Wetlands: questioning wellbeing futures in urban greening	9
Wild places: interstices of queer and trans* possibility in suburban Toronto	9
Twenty-eight injections, two visits, one meeting: cultivating new skills for injecting medicine for rheumatoid arthritis	9
Linguistic sound walks: setting out ways to explore the relationship between linguistic soundscapes and experiences of social diversity	8
Urban surfaces, graffiti, and the right to the city	8
Writing subjectivity without subjecthood: the machinic unconscious of Nathalie Sarraute’s Tropisms	8
Intricate critical turn: changing geographical knowledge production in an authoritarian context	8
Growing up, moving out, going on: Im/mobilities and youth transitions in the un/making of friendships	7
Problematising density: COVID-19, the crowd, and urban life	7
Building emotional-political communities to address gendered violence against women and girls during COVID-19 in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro	7
‘All my friends here are ghosts’: everyday geo-legalities in a rural poultry town	7
Towards a culture of care for ethical review: connections and frictions in institutional and individual practices of social research ethics	7
‘Now there’s just a different feel’: spatiotemporal commitments & commercial racialization as markers of rural belonging	7
Bedding into bags: the life histories of materials, makers and the time of making in a case study of fabric upcycling	7
Home SOS: Gender, Violence, and Survival in Crisis Ordinary Cambodia	6
Kerbs and curbs, desire and damage: an affirmative account of children’s play and being well during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Is the terrain still vague ? Reconsidering indeterminate spaces	6
The transition to parenthood in urban space: continuity and disruption of embodied experience and spatial practice	6
Vegetal intimacies in science	6
Reconstructing culture: seasonal labour migration and the cultural geographies of social change in rural western India	6
Therapeutic landscapes during the COVID-19 pandemic: increased and intensified interactions with nature	6
Disappearance, emergence, and appearance: garbage and the politics of placemaking in Cartagena, Colombia	6
The ‘Mirrored Ceiling’: Young undergraduate student women’s expectations of gendered career opportunities and constraints	6
Apocalyptic nothingness: lacks, holes, and the limits of the geographical imagination	6
Children’s prosthetic citizenship as ‘here-and-now’, ‘not-yet’ and ‘not-here’. the case of the mobile preschool	6
Understanding ‘faith’ in faith-based organizations: refugee resettlement work as religious practice	6
When top-down infrastructures fail: spaces and practices of care and community under COVID-19	6
Sonic registers of belonging: British mobile young people in UK higher education	5
Travelling ‘down South’: language, cultural capital and spatiality in Chennai’s information technology sector	5
Lively robots: robotic technologies in COVID-19	5
Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: on decolonising practices and discourses	5
Legal and cultural geographies of displacement: home un making through material belongings	5
Consonant and dissonant sonic ecologies: navigating affective atmospheres on Bourbon Street, New Orleans	5
Communicative patterns and social networks between scientists and technicians in a culture of care: discussing morality across a hierarchy of occupational spaces	5
Retail ruins: the ghosts of post-industrial spectacle	5
Construction as a ‘building event’: exploring the role of project architects and their practices of intermediation during the construction of global architecture	5
Undoing man ual labour: the performative force of female building workers	5
On the technological unconscious: thinking the (a)signifying production of subjects and bodies with sonographic imaging	5
Making space: Investigating the diversity conundrum for British music festivals	5
Towards the geographies of loneliness: interpreting the spaces of loneliness in farming contexts	4
‘Worn out’: debt discipline, hunger, and the gendered contingencies of the COVID-19 pandemic amongst Cambodian garment workers	4
The geographies of sexual violence in education: a photovoice study in and around a South African township secondary school	4
Mapping home, memory and spatial recovery in forced displacement	4
Street-level service journeys: serendipity in outreach work with unstably housed people who use drugs	4
Radio and the anti-geopolitical ear: imaginative geographies of a Syrian family’s migration to Europe on BBC Radio 4	4
A literary geography of the sinthome: the case of Sherlock Holmes and The Stormy Petrels of British Columbia	4
Experiences of ‘sensory space-time compression’ in migrant homemaking	4

# SpendYourSummerInGeorgia : popular geopolitics, grassroots activism and tourism marketing against Russia	4
Unruly domestication: poverty, family, and statecraft in urban Perú	4
The social stone: a story of transformation from ableist to accessible topology	4
Making visible the Chicagoland suburban healthcare landscape of latina women: a qualitative GIS approach	4
Mobile therapeutic ‘home’ territories during the COVID-19 pandemic and moments of being well pedalling	4
Interfacing as embodied practice: journeys between print, screen and beyond	4
“You better stay healthy and postpone any illness until I can be with you”: the multidirectional ‘care ecologies’ of migrant women during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Imagining post-fossil tourism mobilities with Norwegian tourists	3
Philosophy of the Tourist	3
Waste and the city: the crisis of sanitation and the right to citylife	3
Animal-based entertainment industries, animal death and Social Licence to Operate (SLO): an analysis of ‘The Final Race’ and the 2019 Melbourne Cup	3
Towards a research agenda for animal and disability geographies: ableism, speciesism, care, space, and place	3
The prison as a postmilitary landscape	3
Plant-based food politics: veganism, quiet activism and small businesses in Sydney’s foodscapes	3
Young adults’ re-imagining of postsecular spaces in Czechia	3
Getting to Know Noisiness: Moving on Concepts and Debates for (Aero)mobilities and Atmospheres	3
More-than-human urban food growing imaginaries: engaging with the senses	3
Coupling constraints affecting daily mobilities of Swedish families with wheelchair-using children	3
The status of being or the achievement of becoming? Towards better understandings of cars as status symbols	3
Post-return emotions: everyday food practices of overseas returned students in Shanghai	3
Estate regeneration and its discontents: public housing, place and inequality in London	3
The decolonial wor(l)ds of Indigenous women	3
Moving behind the scenes of public space: the differentiation of market traders’ routinized mobilities	3
Visual disability in spatio-temporal assemblages: conceptualizing reference points from a non-pointillist perspective	3
‘We were turned into Jews’: space, subjectivation, and resistance in occupied Paris	3
‘Stuffed if I [still don’t] know’: towards weak methodologies	3
Declaring, scanning, sniffing, searching: unpacking the mobility cultures of Australia’s biosecurity	3
The work that plants do: life, labour and the future of vegetal economies	3
Deathly storytelling in the ecological city: how pigeons became falcon food in Baltimore, Maryland	3
Constructing the geographical imagination: the Dickensian as a discourse	3