OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Dialogues in Human Geography is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Struggling over new asset geographies	123
Assetization and the ‘new asset geographies’	91
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures	76
Planetary rural thinking in digital geographies	61
Glitch epistemology and the question of (artificial) intelligence: Perceptions, encounters, subjectivities	57
Embodying non-places: The drag of the human in a time of cognitive convenience	43
Dancing on the head of a needle? ‘Disciplining’ energy justice scholarship	41
The city of homosocial breadwinners Romit Chowdhury, City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport . Rutgers University Press, 202	41
The freedom to forget	38
Stencil adventures: Learning from political ecology to advance energy justice	38
Hurricane season grammars: On speaking across Black geographies/Atlantics/ecologies	38
Geographies of super-philanthropy: Disaggregating the global philanthropic complex	35
State property, venture capital and the urbanisation of state capitalism	30
The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	27
Beyond informality: Expanding the scope of Southern smart urbanism	25
The lingering exceptionalism of global China	24
Heirs to a future yet to come: Thoughts on colonial debts	23
Critical geography, Islam, and the possibility of engaging the more-than-critical	22
Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A conversation	21
Transforming dispositions towards automation	20
Follow the thing: Air rights	20
Social reproduction, precarity, and the ‘new asset geographies’	20
Erratum to The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best	17
Witches as glitches: A response to Leszczynski and Elwood	17
Decolonial leaps in more-than-human geographies	17

Dignity, mega-projects, and the problem of scale	17
Of spaces and freedoms, used and misused	17
Academic hoaxing, decolonial politics, and epistemic pluriversality	16
Mountains matter	16
Cosmopolitics of Mt. Merapi Adam Bobbette, The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java , Duke University Press, 2023. $26.50 (paperback price) ISBN	15
Muslim peripheries: A world regional perspective	15
Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant	15
Smart cities and their settings in the Global South: Informality as a marker	14
Form, genre, voice, and authority in human geography: A speculative genealogy	13
Towards ‘a progressive sense of thick time’ and the future of geographical thinking	13
Philanthropy’s invention of the ‘underclass’	13
Coloniality in the colony: A response	12
Automation and environmental dispositions	12
Desire’s misrecognitions, or the promise of mutable attachments	12
Situated digital involuntary: Intersectional digital freedom and agency	11
What to do with being/feeling ‘out of it’? Three options for health geographers	11
Taking ‘fallen-below’ seriously: Spacing, placing, and scaling foundational liveability	11
On postcapitalist repair	11
Topology beyond application: Drawing social and mathematical worlds into rhythm	11
Place-based approaches to develop the foundations and diversities of energy geographies	10
Reclaiming planetary consciousness	10
Reorienting GIScience for a data-intensive society	10
The state of water	10
Beyond the decolonial: Critical Muslim geographies	10
Young people and life-course inequalities: The role of families and housing	9
Urban state venturism: On state-led venture capital investments in the urban process of capital accumulation	9
State-led venture capital as capitalist state-led ventures	9
Critical computation on a geographical register	9
Reclaiming public space as educational space	9
World-ending flatness	9
Seven thoughts on seven ethics	9
Worlding the geographies of homelessness: Informality, precarity, and theory from the Global South	9
A sexuality pivot: Thinking through solidarity, geographies of sexuality, and a world in transition	9
Governing with care, reciprocity, and relationality: Recognising the connectivity of human and more-than-human wellbeing and the process of decolonisation	8
Beyond binaries? Spatial possibilities in Southeast Asia	8
Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary	8
An introduction to a non-fascist geography	8
Emplacing the disposition toward automation	8
The urban dialectic: Between distant time and thick time	8
Energy geographies, interconnections, and embeddedness	8
Legalizing war/militarizing law	8
Diversifying the compact city: A renewed agenda for geographical research	8
Beyond directional care: Theorising mutuality in the geographies of care through the lens of friendship	8
Fissured thought for fractured times: Reflections on geography, ecology and the state	7
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India	7
Uncanny frontiers: Amazon in outer space	7
On education landscapes and learning commons	7
Why study the history of exploration?	7
Putting ‘rupture’ to work at the Three Gorges Dam	7
The imperial in a global history of science of the British empire	7

Revisiting ‘infrastructures of social reproduction’	7
Time and being awkward	7
Where is Liberland? Ideology and power beyond territory	7
Clarifying rupture: An authors’ reply	7
Encounters with For a New Geography	7
Making margins visible	7
Sharpening the needle: A critical engagement with the call to ‘discipline energy justice’	7
What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning	7
Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies	7
The survey sciences in thin air	7
Foundational liveability, the 15-min city and the limits to place-based policy	6
The world as abject: On less-than-human geographies	6
‘Foreclosed future’ in between continuity and innovation in youth’ futures research	6
Geomorphic eugenics and the engineering of surplus territory	6
Awkward encounters of planning and repair: Healing the city under the weight of ‘new Kigali’	6
The plural economies of the Latin American City Jennifer Tucker, Outlaw Capital: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development . University	6
Navigating macro and micro across urban assemblages	6
Haunted worlds, unknowable futures Petrus Liu, The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus , Durham: Duke Un	6
When the call comes from inside the house	6
The developing foundational movement	6
Geographies of subsumption	6
Crisis urbanism in resource-based cities	6
Between ontologies and practices: How to deal with democratic theory?	6
Critical Muslim geographies through a critical geography of Islamophobia	6
From foreclosure to potentiality	6
The modalities and politics of crisis urbanism: A new reparative conjuncture?	6
Territorial futures: On belonging, caste, and pedagogy	5
Challenging opacity, embracing fuzziness: Geographical thought and praxis in a post-truth age	5
Moralization as class war	5
Making sense of foreign investment screening through sectoral analysis	5
Limit(ation)s, sustainability, and the future of climate migration	5
What is the place of abandonment in planetary rural geographies?	5
Toward a poetics of the abyss: Suspending wor(l)ds	5
The Indo-Pacific: In what sense a region?	5
Re-labeling the underclass	5
Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies	5
Extending dialogues on the urban	5
Cosmohistories and pluriversal dialogues: The future of the history of geography	5
The politics of academic deception: A conjunctural analysis	5
Who controls the infrastructure of social reproduction? Finance, reproduction, and resistance in educational landscapes	4
Moving towards a critical perspective on automation: Theories of technology, labour, and capitalism	4
Not waving but drowning	4
Geographies of alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness through the lens of participatory video	4
Rural movements within and against rentier capitalism	4
Gaia and the repositioning of the state territoriality: A dialogue with critical geopolitical ecology	4
To whom does geography owe a future? Lessons from urban studies	4
The fragmented sovereignty of the ummah : A response to Sidaway's manifesto	4
On colonial exceptionality, neoliberal coloniality, and legal interruptions	4
Affective infrastructures and political organisation	4
Common problems or different questions: A critique of ‘assetization’	4
‘Revolution of space’, autogestion, and appropriation of nature in Henri Lefebvre’s political and revolutionary project	4
Identifying the revolutionary agent in the radical project of autogestion	4
Comrade Santos	4
Montage space: Extra scenes	4
The point is to change it: Locating community geography and praxis in a neoliberalizing academia	4
Towards a right to the rural?	4