OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Dialogues in Human 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The lingering exceptionalism of global China	104
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures	87
Hurricane season grammars: On speaking across Black geographies/Atlantics/ecologies	76
The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	73
Geographies of super-philanthropy: Disaggregating the global philanthropic complex	52
Dancing on the head of a needle? ‘Disciplining’ energy justice scholarship	51
The city of homosocial breadwinners ChowdhuryRomit, City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2023; 205 pp. $27.95 (pap	47
Struggling over new asset geographies	41
Beyond informality: Expanding the scope of Southern smart urbanism	38
State property, venture capital and the urbanisation of state capitalism	35
Glitch epistemology and the question of (artificial) intelligence: Perceptions, encounters, subjectivities	33
The freedom to forget	31
Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’	29
Planetary rural thinking in digital geographies	28
Of spaces and freedoms, used and misused	26
Heirs to a future yet to come: Thoughts on colonial debts	25
Social reproduction, precarity, and the ‘new asset geographies’	20
Critical geography, Islam, and the possibility of engaging the more-than-critical	19
Witches as glitches: A response to Leszczynski and Elwood	19
Erratum to The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	19
Transforming dispositions towards automation	18
Mountains matter	17
Follow the thing: Air rights	17
Cosmopolitics of Mt. Merapi Adam Bobbette, The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java , Duke University Press, 2023. $26.50 (paperback price) ISBN 978-1-4780-2505	17
Dignity, mega-projects, and the problem of scale	16

Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A conversation	15
Decolonial leaps in more-than-human geographies	14
Academic hoaxing, decolonial politics, and epistemic pluriversality	14
Muslim peripheries: A world regional perspective	13
What to do with being/feeling ‘out of it’? Three options for health geographers	13
Towards ‘a progressive sense of thick time’ and the future of geographical thinking	13
Desire’s misrecognitions, or the promise of mutable attachments	13
On postcapitalist repair	12
Coloniality in the colony: A response	12
Mine/Machine	12
Philanthropy’s invention of the ‘underclass’	12
Finding ‘new’ geographies in dedications, acknowledgements, and citations	11
Form, genre, voice, and authority in human geography: A speculative genealogy	11
Smart cities and their settings in the Global South: Informality as a marker	11
Situated digital involuntary: Intersectional digital freedom and agency	10
Is this the humanism we have been looking for?	10
Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant	9
Seven thoughts on seven ethics	9
Taking ‘fallen-below’ seriously: Spacing, placing, and scaling foundational liveability	9
Automation and environmental dispositions	9
The state of water	9
Reclaiming planetary consciousness	8
Young people and life-course inequalities: The role of families and housing	8
A sexuality pivot: Thinking through solidarity, geographies of sexuality, and a world in transition	8
Place-based approaches to develop the foundations and diversities of energy geographies	8
Legalizing war/militarizing law	8
The urban dialectic: Between distant time and thick time	8
Reorienting GIScience for a data-intensive society	8
Beyond the decolonial: Critical Muslim geographies	8
State-led venture capital as capitalist state-led ventures	8
Beyond binaries? Spatial possibilities in Southeast Asia	7
World-ending flatness	7
An introduction to a non-fascist geography	7
Governing with care, reciprocity, and relationality: Recognising the connectivity of human and more-than-human wellbeing and the process of decolonisation	7
Urban state venturism: On state-led venture capital investments in the urban process of capital accumulation	7
Critical computation on a geographical register	7
Emplacing the disposition toward automation	6
Why study the history of exploration?	6
Uncanny frontiers: Amazon in outer space	6
Energy geographies, interconnections, and embeddedness	6
Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies	6
Diversifying the compact city: A renewed agenda for geographical research	6
Reclaiming public space as educational space	6
The survey sciences in thin air	6
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India	6
Where is Liberland? Ideology and power beyond territory	6
Sharpening the needle: A critical engagement with the call to ‘discipline energy justice’	6
Worlding the geographies of homelessness: Informality, precarity, and theory from the Global South	6
What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning	6
Clarifying rupture: An authors’ reply	6

Revisiting ‘infrastructures of social reproduction’	6
Time and being awkward	6
Making margins visible	6
The imperial in a global history of science of the British empire	5
‘Foreclosed future’ in between continuity and innovation in youth’ futures research	5
Between ontologies and practices: How to deal with democratic theory?	5
The world as abject: On less-than-human geographies	5
Comrade Santos	5
Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary	5
Spacing sovereign debt	5
Navigating macro and micro across urban assemblages	5
Fissured thought for fractured times: Reflections on geography, ecology and the state	5
When the call comes from inside the house	5
Critical Muslim geographies through a critical geography of Islamophobia	5
Geomorphic eugenics and the engineering of surplus territory	5
Putting ‘rupture’ to work at the Three Gorges Dam	5
Encounters with For a New Geography	5
Awkward encounters of planning and repair: Healing the city under the weight of ‘new Kigali’	5
Haunted worlds, unknowable futures Petrus Liu, The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus , Durham: Duke University Press,	5
The modalities and politics of crisis urbanism: A new reparative conjuncture?	5
Moralization as class war	4
The Indo-Pacific: In what sense a region?	4
Extending dialogues on the urban	4
Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies	4
What is the place of abandonment in planetary rural geographies?	4
Crafting scholarly alliances for multispecies justice	4
Territorial futures: On belonging, caste, and pedagogy	4
Challenging opacity, embracing fuzziness: Geographical thought and praxis in a post-truth age	4
The fragmented sovereignty of the ummah : A response to Sidaway's manifesto	4
Limit(ation)s, sustainability, and the future of climate migration	4
Foundational liveability, the 15-min city and the limits to place-based policy	4
The plural economies of the Latin American City TuckerJennifer L.. Outlaw Capital: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development. University of Georgia Press, 2023; 274 pp. $29.95 (paperb	4
Cosmohistories and pluriversal dialogues: The future of the history of geography	4
Toward a poetics of the abyss: Suspending wor(l)ds	4
Making sense of foreign investment screening through sectoral analysis	4
Re-labeling the underclass	4
Not waving but drowning	4
On colonial exceptionality, neoliberal coloniality, and legal interruptions	4
The politics of academic deception: A conjunctural analysis	4
Planetary rural geographies: Towards a research agenda	3
Distant time: A response	3
Re-imagining the ‘fields’ of fieldwork	3
Feeling out of it: Displacement, disengagement and dispossession in experiences of brain fog	3
To whom does geography owe a future? Lessons from urban studies	3
Gaia and the repositioning of the state territoriality: A dialogue with critical geopolitical ecology	3
Assets and assemblage in the global countryside	3
Taking forward sexuality-based solidarities in a geopolitical world in transition	3
The point is to change it: Locating community geography and praxis in a neoliberalizing academia	3
The public library and the futures of social infrastructure	3
On the question of Islam and the more-than-world city	3
Testing practices for testing times: Exploring Indigenous-led governance	3
Planting flags in water	3
Who controls the infrastructure of social reproduction? Finance, reproduction, and resistance in educational landscapes	3
Towards a right to the rural?	3
‘Sinews’ in Sinews	3
A global foreclosure of youth futures: Austerity as a shared process	3
Geographies of alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness through the lens of participatory video	3
Montage space: Extra scenes	3
Common problems or different questions: A critique of ‘assetization’	3
Extending gestures and global city-making: Analyzing extending urbanization at multiple scales	3
Unresolved tensions in green transitions: Retraining and the question of ‘how’?	3
For a geography of difference and dialogues: Brazilian geography for the twenty-first century	3
Black livingness and insurgent ecological politics: Thinking across Black geographies / Atlantics / ecologies	3
Notes on bewilderment, suspension, and urban life at the extensions	3
The problem of the urban–rural binary in geography and political ecology	3
All theories are wrong but some are useful Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Theory and Explanation in Geography , Chichester: Wiley, 2023; 226 pp. $39.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-	3
Postcapitalist practices and human, economic, and cultural geographies	3
Affective infrastructures and political organisation	3
‘Revolution of space’, autogestion, and appropriation of nature in Henri Lefebvre’s political and revolutionary project	3
Identifying the revolutionary agent in the radical project of autogestion	3
Moving towards a critical perspective on automation: Theories of technology, labour, and capitalism	3
Pivoting toward solidarity: Black studies, Black feminism, and performance in geographical scholarship on sexuality	3