OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Human Geography is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
First conversation	30
Giving full play to the state-led regulation in the market economy	15
Capitalist urbanization in the post-neoliberal and de-globalizing world economy: A minor critical engagement with VIP-Urbanism literature	15
Oil extraction and Indigenous women: Examining the necropolitics of the settler state in the Bakken region	14
Marxism as a tool for uncovering hegemonic discourses on nature	14
Reviewer Acknowledgment	14
Book Review: From the inside out: The fight for environmental justice within government agencies by Jill Harrison	11
Geographies of nationalism	10
Handloom weavers’ landscape of India: An interpretation of their identity and existence	8
Re-examining the links between women's work and household power dynamics: Insights from rural and urban Ghana	8
Book Review: Interrogating Ecocide: Welcome to the Political Economy of Existences	8
Book Review: Advanced Introduction to Marxism and Human Geography	8
CRISPR futures: Rethinking the politics of genome editing	7
Socioecological topologies of student debt in the United States	7
Black intimacies with food sovereignty and land in the midst of gentrification in Saint Paul’s historic Rondo	7
CUSMA, a capitalist adventurism? Marxist analysis of class inequities in the Canada-United States-Mexico agreement	6
Making space for healthcare delivery by drone in Ghana: A case study	6
The question of ‘sustainable’ technology: From socio-ecological fixes to transformations	5
Thinking as an Engelsian	5
The spatial antecedents for drone governance in Afghanistan	5
From Jamestown to Bethlehem: Local connections of geopolitical violence	5
Capitalist crisis and the geography of the clothing industry	5
Land use and development: The early work of Phil O’Keefe	5
Divergent temporalities and belonging: The temporal–spatial paradox of digital nomadism	4
The Politics of Entrepreneurial Embedded ‘VIP Urbanism’ in Bengaluru: Elite Practices and Agency Problem	4

Veiled futures? Debt burdens, the Belt Road Initiative, and official Chinese lending after coronavirus	4
Applying friction to the flooded zone: An examination of current work by the protest artist collective CityLoup	4
The political economy of bordering and the reproduction of borders in the case of Frontex	4
Mahsa Amini's killing, state violence, and moral policing in Iran	4
Remembering Phil O’Keefe	3
Marxism and the logics of dis/integration	3
Antinomies of space and nature or an open totality? Neil Smith and Henri Lefebvre on nature and society	3
What is Marxist geography today, or what is left of Marxist geography?	3
“If we rebuild the kitchen, we rebuild the heart”: Post-relief transformational politics in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico	3
“A thorn in their throat” planning for settler colonial removal in hizma	3
Rentier capitalism in question	3
Agrarian futures and normative practices: A case study of small-scale ecological farming	3
Global food insecurity as a crisis of social reproduction for the classes of labour	3
Subjective destitution, love, and rebellion in pandemic times: Theorizing with Hot Skull	3
The unsustainable life of British Universities	3
Art for re-existence: Casa Pueblo's decolonial landscape interventions toward an energy insurrection	3
Different approach, same focus: How China is shaping the future of its African cooperation through education	3
Re-purposing the built environment of urban China: Residential eldercare and David Harvey's capital switching in a new era	3
From personal responsibility to an eco-socialist state: Political economy, popular discourses and the climate crisis	2
Relocating occupation: A critical environmental justice analysis of the US military migration from Okinawa to Guåhan	2
The politics of internet shutdowns in Jammu and Kashmir	2
Germany then and now: Guilt, white supremacy and sustaining genocide, from the far-right to the radical left	2
The labor of strikes: Unions, workers, and the 2023 US strike wave	2
Communication: Marxism, deproletarianisation, geographers and non-geographers	2
Communicating Friedrich Engels's return to Manchester: Arts and cultural event, history lesson, or call to action?	2
Repression breeds resistance: A call for a methodology of radical solidarity and love to respond to the prison industrial complex and academia's eugenic tendencies	2
Thinking across agrarian class hierarchies in guest worker programs: Limitations to worker and farmer collective strategies	2
The Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal: Potential impacts and implications	2
Marxist geography: A personal journey	2
“Demystifying the Global ‘Just Transition’—On Power Struggles and Electric Mountains”	2
Donald Trump and Hostess CupCakes: Distinguishing the persisting sources of Trump's popular support, 2015–2025	2
Antimonumentos and other aesthetic interventions amidst generalized violence: Seeds in the “political subsoil” of central Mexico	2
Social movements’ struggles under new municipalism: Confronting the neoliberal Parque Pümpin megaproject in Valparaíso city	2
CPEC this and CPEC that: Spatial dialectics of state power and resistance in Balochistan	2
Occupying the past: The carceral archaeology of the Israel antiquities authority	2
Mike Davis: Planetarity and environmentalisms: the invention of new environmental histories from the Ecology of Fear to Victorian Holocausts	2
Reviewer Acknowledgment	2
A review of postdevelopment energies: From eco-modernity toward technological maturity	2
Populism and the commons in the Anthropocene: Exploring a fitting political strategy for our epoch	1
Illegal luxuritecture: How the super-rich in Hong Kong land grab and unlawfully expand their luxury living spaces	1
Edward W. Soja's Radical Spatial Perspective	1
Rethinking geography's explanations of contemporary imperialism after the US occupation of Afghanistan	1
Contesting elite capture: Repositioning insurgent planning for mass movements	1
Phil, Neil, the Production of Nature and me	1
Intellectual lessons from Dr Aleida Guevara (Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara's daughter) and a special meeting with Aleida March (Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara's wife) – Conversations on education, revolution, and soci	1
Landlord opposition to rent control and the politics of class monopoly rent	1
Daron Acemoğlu's or Paul Baran's prize? A critique of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics	1
Cross-class alliances and the rise of electric vehicles in Dublin	1
‘Settler’ and ‘internal’ colonialism in ‘Canada’: Reconciling competing conceptual approaches to Canadian Colonialism in the North	1
Toward critical demography 2.0	1

Poor miners and empty e-wallets: Latin American experiences with cryptocurrencies in crisis	1
The citizen’s uprising in Sri Lanka: A watershed moment against racial capitalism	1
The ideology of intersectionality: Historical materialist observations	1
Feeding lines: Standing up in the neoliberal charitable food regime	1
Powering the pluriverse: Possibilities and limits to decolonial energy transitions in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico	1
Philanthrocapitalism, Neoliberalism, and the University	1
Community Renewable Energy Ecologies (CREE): Rhizomatic renewable energy development and experimental–experiential emancipation	1
A politics of conviction: The refusal of colonial carcerality in Palestinian graffiti	1
Black Geographies unveiled: A critical review	1
Reanimating Marxist state theory: On the material force of capital's silent power	1
Economics and politics under Modi government: A synoptic view	1
Far-right transnationalism, digital affordances, and the specter of a new geopolitics	1
Marxism, methods, and hen’s teeth	1
The language of intractability and the Gaza War: Conflating anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is historically problematic and misses how much contemporary Israel has become a role model for ethno-nationa	1
The poverty of power in the Green Keynesian turn	1
Miner threat: Premature death to prefigurative politics for unearthing solar-grade silica	1
Capital switching, economic crisis, and land rent: Examining discontinuation of Swedish municipal site leasehold in the 1980s	1
Interrogating “light but tight” model of education: Saffron neoliberalism and India's new education policy	1
Geographies of artificial intelligence: Labor, surveillance, and activism	1
The 2007/08 capitalist crisis evolution in Greece: A geographical political economy perspective	1
Building a World-ship: A decolonial approach to just energy transitions	1
Alpha territorialisation in Milan: Framing a research agenda	1
Fictions of the market: The shelter component of the consumer price index in theory and practice	1
Luxury Venice: The spread of touristification processes as alpha territorialisation	1
Territoriality and the politics of ancestrality: Meaning, scope, and depth of Indigenous struggles in the North of Chile	1