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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The lingering exceptionalism of global China	80
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures	77
State property, venture capital and the urbanisation of state capitalism	74
Geographies of super-philanthropy: Disaggregating the global philanthropic complex	55
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	45
Beyond informality: Expanding the scope of Southern smart urbanism	44
Glitch epistemology and the question of (artificial) intelligence: Perceptions, encounters, subjectivities	38
Hurricane season grammars: On speaking across Black geographies/Atlantics/ecologies	36
Dancing on the head of a needle? ‘Disciplining’ energy justice scholarship	32
Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’	29
Planetary rural thinking in digital geographies	28
The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	25
Of spaces and freedoms, used and misused	24
Heirs to a future yet to come: Thoughts on colonial debts	24
Critical geography, Islam, and the possibility of engaging the more-than-critical	23
Social reproduction, precarity, and the ‘new asset geographies’	19
Academic hoaxing, decolonial politics, and epistemic pluriversality	16
Dignity, mega-projects, and the problem of scale	16
Erratum to The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	16
Witches as glitches: A response to Leszczynski and Elwood	16
Transforming dispositions towards automation	16
Mountains matter	14
Decolonial leaps in more-than-human geographies	14
Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A conversation	13

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	13
Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant	12
What to do with being/feeling ‘out of it’? Three options for health geographers	12
Desire’s misrecognitions, or the promise of mutable attachments	12
Is this the humanism we have been looking for?	12
Follow the thing: Air rights	12
Towards ‘a progressive sense of thick time’ and the future of geographical thinking	12
Muslim peripheries: A world regional perspective	11
Philanthropy’s invention of the ‘underclass’	11
Automation and environmental dispositions	10
On postcapitalist repair	10
Of waters and bridges	10
Coloniality in the colony: A response	10
Mine/Machine	9
Reorienting GIScience for a data-intensive society	9
Seven thoughts on seven ethics	9
Finding ‘new’ geographies in dedications, acknowledgements, and citations	9
The state of water	9
Form, genre, voice, and authority in human geography: A speculative genealogy	9
Smart cities and their settings in the Global South: Informality as a marker	9
The radical contribution of what's in between M and M′	9
Beyond the decolonial: Critical Muslim geographies	8
Legalizing war/militarizing law	8
Reclaiming planetary consciousness	8
Place-based approaches to develop the foundations and diversities of energy geographies	8
The urban dialectic: Between distant time and thick time	8
Young people and life-course inequalities: The role of families and housing	8
Worlding the geographies of homelessness: Informality, precarity, and theory from the Global South	8
Urban state venturism: On state-led venture capital investments in the urban process of capital accumulation	7
Governing with care, reciprocity, and relationality: Recognising the connectivity of human and more-than-human wellbeing and the process of decolonisation	7
A sexuality pivot: Thinking through solidarity, geographies of sexuality, and a world in transition	7
Diversifying the compact city: A renewed agenda for geographical research	7
State-led venture capital as capitalist state-led ventures	7
An introduction to a non-fascist geography	6
What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning	6
Clarifying rupture: An authors’ reply	6
World-ending flatness	6
Beyond binaries? Spatial possibilities in Southeast Asia	6
On HIV assemblages, inequalities and subject formation	6
Critical computation on a geographical register	6
Emplacing the disposition toward automation	6
Why study the history of exploration?	6
The survey sciences in thin air	5
Making margins visible	5
Spacing sovereign debt	5
‘Foreclosed future’ in between continuity and innovation in youth’ futures research	5
Geomorphic eugenics and the engineering of surplus territory	5
Putting ‘rupture’ to work at the Three Gorges Dam	5
Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies	5
Where is Liberland? Ideology and power beyond territory	5

Uncanny frontiers: Amazon in outer space	5
The imperial in a global history of science of the British empire	5
Navigating macro and micro across urban assemblages	5
Between ontologies and practices: How to deal with democratic theory?	5
Time and being awkward	5
Revisiting ‘infrastructures of social reproduction’	5
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India	5
Sharpening the needle: A critical engagement with the call to ‘discipline energy justice’	5
Encounters with For a New Geography	5
Book review forum HudaniShakirah, Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 258 pp., $32.50. ISBN: 9780226832722.	5
When the call comes from inside the house	5
Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary	5
Comrade Santos	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
Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies	4
Extending dialogues on the urban	4
Crafting scholarly alliances for multispecies justice	4
Re-labeling the underclass	4
Critical Muslim geographies through a critical geography of Islamophobia	4
Moralization as class war	4
The Indo-Pacific: In what sense a region?	4
The politics of academic deception: A conjunctural analysis	4
Challenging opacity, embracing fuzziness: Geographical thought and praxis in a post-truth age	4
Toward a poetics of the abyss: Suspending wor(l)ds	4
Fissured thought for fractured times: Reflections on geography, ecology and the state	4
Territorial futures: On belonging, caste, and pedagogy	4
Not waving but drowning	4
Making sense of foreign investment screening through sectoral analysis	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
The world as abject: On less-than-human geographies	4
Identifying the revolutionary agent in the radical project of autogestion	3
Limit(ation)s, sustainability, and the future of climate migration	3
The public library and the futures of social infrastructure	3
‘Revolution of space’, autogestion, and appropriation of nature in Henri Lefebvre’s political and revolutionary project	3
Distant time: A response	3
Social experiments and the praxis of geographical knowledge production: Emerging architectural practices in urban and regional China	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
Postcapitalist practices and human, economic, and cultural geographies	3
Unresolved tensions in green transitions: Retraining and the question of ‘how’?	3
Gaia and the repositioning of the state territoriality: A dialogue with critical geopolitical 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
Affective infrastructures and political organisation	3
Assets and assemblage in the global countryside	3
The fragmented sovereignty of the ummah : A response to Sidaway's manifesto	3
Common problems or different questions: A critique of ‘assetization’	3
To whom does geography owe a future? Lessons from urban studies	3
For a geography of difference and dialogues: Brazilian geography for the twenty-first century	3
‘Sinews’ in Sinews	3
Social reproduction, infrastructure, and the everyday	3
Feeling out of it: Displacement, disengagement and dispossession in experiences of brain fog	3
Towards a right to the rural?	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
What is the place of abandonment in planetary rural geographies?	3
On colonial exceptionality, neoliberal coloniality, and legal interruptions	3
Cosmohistories and pluriversal dialogues: The future of the history of geography	3
A global foreclosure of youth futures: Austerity as a shared process	3
Re-imagining the ‘fields’ of fieldwork	3
Testing practices for testing times: Exploring Indigenous-led governance	3
Planting flags in water	3
Black livingness and insurgent ecological politics: Thinking across Black geographies / Atlantics / ecologies	3
Montage space: Extra scenes	3
Extending gestures and global city-making: Analyzing extending urbanization at multiple scales	3
Geographies of alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness through the lens of participatory video	3
Who controls the infrastructure of social reproduction? Finance, reproduction, and resistance in educational landscapes	3
Moving towards a critical perspective on automation: Theories of technology, labour, and capitalism	3