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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond informality: Expanding the scope of Southern smart urbanism	64
Struggling over new asset geographies	63
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures	60
Planetary rural thinking in digital geographies	43
The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	41
Dancing on the head of a needle? ‘Disciplining’ energy justice scholarship	40
Glitch epistemology and the question of (artificial) intelligence: Perceptions, encounters, subjectivities	35
State property, venture capital and the urbanisation of state capitalism	33
Geographies of super-philanthropy: Disaggregating the global philanthropic complex	33
Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’	26
Of spaces and freedoms, used and misused	24
Follow the thing: Air rights	23
Erratum to The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	21
Transforming dispositions towards automation	20
Critical geography, Islam, and the possibility of engaging the more-than-critical	19
Heirs to a future yet to come: Thoughts on colonial debts	17
Social reproduction, precarity, and the ‘new asset geographies’	15
Mountains matter	15
Decolonial leaps in more-than-human geographies	14
Dignity, mega-projects, and the problem of scale	13
Academic hoaxing, decolonial politics, and epistemic pluriversality	13
Witches as glitches: A response to Leszczynski and Elwood	13
Cosmopolitics of Mt. Merapi	12
Desire’s misrecognitions, or the promise of mutable attachments	11
Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A conversation	11

Automation and environmental dispositions	10
Philanthropy’s invention of the ‘underclass’	10
Mine/Machine	9
Coloniality in the colony: A response	9
On postcapitalist repair	9
Finding ‘new’ geographies in dedications, acknowledgements, and citations	9
Of waters and bridges	9
Muslim peripheries: A world regional perspective	8
Form, genre, voice, and authority in human geography: A speculative genealogy	8
Seven thoughts on seven ethics	8
Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant	8
Towards ‘a progressive sense of thick time’ and the future of geographical thinking	8
Smart cities and their settings in the Global South: Informality as a marker	8
Is this the humanism we have been looking for?	8
The radical contribution of what's in between M and M′	8
The state of water	7
Reclaiming planetary consciousness	7
The ‘post’ as powerful specific vocabulary	7
Beyond the decolonial: Critical Muslim geographies	6
The urban dialectic: Between distant time and thick time	6
Beyond binaries? Spatial possibilities in Southeast Asia	6
Governing with care, reciprocity, and relationality: Recognising the connectivity of human and more-than-human wellbeing and the process of decolonisation	6
State-led venture capital as capitalist state-led ventures	6
World-ending flatness	6
Reorienting GIScience for a data-intensive society	6
Legalizing war/militarizing law	6
A sexuality pivot: Thinking through solidarity, geographies of sexuality, and a world in transition	6
Worlding the geographies of homelessness: Informality, precarity, and theory from the Global South	5
Making margins visible	5
Clarifying rupture: An authors’ reply	5
Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies	5
Urban state venturism: On state-led venture capital investments in the urban process of capital accumulation	5
Where is Liberland? Ideology and power beyond territory	5
On HIV assemblages, inequalities and subject formation	5
What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning	5
Revisiting ‘infrastructures of social reproduction’	5
Emplacing the disposition toward automation	5
Critical computation on a geographical register	5
Why study the history of exploration?	5
The survey sciences in thin air	5
Time and being awkward	5
Diversifying the compact city: A renewed agenda for geographical research	5
The imperial in a global history of science of the British empire	4
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India	4
The world as abject: On less-than-human geographies	4
Encounters with For a New Geography	4
When the call comes from inside the house	4
George Floyd, Minneapolis, and spaces of hope and liberation	4
Uncanny frontiers: Amazon in outer space	4
Putting ‘rupture’ to work at the Three Gorges Dam	4

Between ontologies and practices: How to deal with democratic theory?	4
Navigating macro and micro across urban assemblages	4
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,	4
Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary	4
Geomorphic eugenics and the engineering of surplus territory	4
Spacing sovereign debt	4
Fissured thought for fractured times: Reflections on geography, ecology and the state	4
Critical Muslim geographies through a critical geography of Islamophobia	4
Crafting scholarly alliances for multispecies justice	3
Towards a right to the rural?	3
Challenging opacity, embracing fuzziness: Geographical thought and praxis in a post-truth age	3
The fragmented sovereignty of the ummah: A response to Sidaway's manifesto	3
Common problems or different questions: A critique of ‘assetization’	3
What is the place of abandonment in planetary rural geographies?	3
Re-labeling the underclass	3
Not waving but drowning	3
‘Revolution of space’, autogestion, and appropriation of nature in Henri Lefebvre’s political and revolutionary project	3
Assets and assemblage in the global countryside	3
Taking forward sexuality-based solidarities in a geopolitical world in transition	3
The problem of the urban–rural binary in geography and political ecology	3
Unresolved tensions in green transitions: Retraining and the question of ‘how’?	3
Identifying the revolutionary agent in the radical project of autogestion	3
Cosmohistories and pluriversal dialogues: The future of the history of geography	3
Moving towards a critical perspective on automation: Theories of technology, labour, and capitalism	3
Toward a poetics of the abyss: Suspending wor(l)ds	3
Gaia and the repositioning of the state territoriality: A dialogue with critical geopolitical ecology	3
Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies	3
Moralization as class war	3
Affective infrastructures and political organisation	3
On colonial exceptionality, neoliberal coloniality, and legal interruptions	3
To whom does geography owe a future? Lessons from urban studies	3
Extending gestures and global city-making: Analyzing extending urbanization at multiple scales	3
A global foreclosure of youth futures: Austerity as a shared process	3
The point is to change it: Locating community geography and praxis in a neoliberalizing academia	3
Limit(ation)s, sustainability, and the future of climate migration	3
Making sense of foreign investment screening through sectoral analysis	3
Montage space: Extra scenes	3
The politics of academic deception: A conjunctural analysis	3
Postcapitalist practices and human, economic, and cultural geographies	3
Territorial futures: On belonging, caste, and pedagogy	3
Comrade Santos	3
Extending dialogues on the urban	3
Geographies of alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness through the lens of participatory video	3
Feeling out of it: Displacement, disengagement and dispossession in experiences of brain fog	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
Who controls the infrastructure of social reproduction? Finance, reproduction, and resistance in educational landscapes	3