OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Territory Politics Governance is 2. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating governance tensions in alternative food networks through a hybrid governance approach	42
Municipal institutions and local policy responses to immigrants: policies towards day labourers in California	27
Spaces of (in-)security and intervention: spatial competition and the politics of regional organizations in the Sahel	26
Neopatrimonialism and authoritarian decentralisation: the case of Kazakhstan	25
Uneven benefits? Territorial divides in perceptions of devolution in Scotland and Wales	24
Mobilising in a (former)-red subculture industrial district: the case of the No-Keu permanent assembly	24
Politicising and depoliticising metropolitan governance in France: the case of Bordeaux Métropole	24
Planning smart, working hard: unveiling the ‘hidden’ labour behind digital connectivity in Tanzanian agriculture	18
Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance	17
Urban sustainability: a spatial justice critique	17
Intergovernmental bargaining in multilevel autocracies: the case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia	16
Territorial strategies of forestry and agricultural corporations in Uruguay – the Southern Cone region of Latin America	16
Regional industrial synergy and industry chain stability as state spatial strategies: reimagining China’s city-region governance	15
Made in the USA? The paradiplomatic strategies of California and Illinois to the EU	15
The Russian invasion of Ukraine: implications for politics, territory and governance	14
Correction	14
From goats to Gold Stars: trajectories of consumption, bureaucracy and territory in the Nepal-China borderlands	13
Spatial reason of the state: the role of space in protest repression in Turkey	13
Multiscalar strategies in right-wing populism: a comparison of West European parties in borderlands	13
A ‘fateful compromise’? Transnational religious organizations and regional governance in Africa	12
Beyond entrepreneurialism: revealing multiple logics of suburban housing development politics in the global city	12
Can decentralization help address poverty and social exclusion in Europe?	11
The production of territories seen from a materialist perspective: milieus in the politics of territorialization	11
Technodiplomatic processes of territorialization: negotiating Chinese sovereignty through infrastructure in semi-colonial Tianjin, 1901–08	11
The challenge of integrating subnational governments in multilevel climate governance: the case of Mexico	10

Territorial differences, development trends and influencing factors of judicial transparency in China	10
Networks of resistance: material agency and political infrastructure in digitally-mediated public space	9
New imagined geographies into old geobodies: problems and prospects for China and Taiwan in the South China Sea	9
Democratic food governance capacity at the local level: the cases of Livorno and Pisa	9
Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space	9
Patron-client relations in secessionist conflict: introducing the special issue	9
Euroregions as political actors: managing border policies in the time of Covid-19 in Polish borderlands	9
Conceptualising patron-client relations in secessionist conflict. A research agenda	9
Beyond the BRI: the volumetric presence of China in Nepal	9
The moral economy of localism in England: neighbourhood planning as neoliberal ‘apprentice piece’	8
The moral community of redistribution: interregional fiscal grievances in working-class urban Catalonia	8
Sovereignty on the move: gold, financial capital and a neoliberal state in India	8
The role and place of ‘military territoriality’ in the Clausewitzian conception of war	8
Frontrunners but different games? Comparing Catalan and Basque paradiplomacy towards the EU	8
Territorializing polar heritage: cultural heritage as a means to exercise symbolic sovereignty in Antarctica	8
Israel’s international mobilities regime: visa restrictions for educators and medics in Palestine	7
Capacity in motion: comparative COVID-19 governance in India and South Africa	7
Networked security at the edge of northern Europe – cooperation between state and non-state actors in rural Finland security management	7
Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism	7
Data centres on the Moon and other tales: a volumetric and elemental analysis of the coloniality of digital infrastructures	7
Editorial board 2024	7
Discontent in the ‘peripheries’: an investigation of the rise of populism in Italy	7
Coordination games and regional economic transitions	7
Between a rock and a hard place: mayors, migration challenges and multilevel political dynamics	7
Governing infrastructure, development and inequality around deindustrialized US cities	7
The effects of marginalisation in areas of high political centralisation	7
Peripheral elites and central political institutions: a complex relationship	7
Easier signed than done: natural resource sharing in the shadow of conflict on the Korean peninsula	6
When rivers move borders: territoriality, citizenship and the environment in South Asia	6
Does recognition matter? Exploring patron penetration of de-facto state structures	6
A new direction or the same old road? Assessing refugee housing and integration policy governance in Berlin post-2016	6
Capital mobility and centre–state relations: unpacking the spatial configuration of real estate investment in Iskandar Malaysia	6
Deconstructing sovereignty: (non-)life, territorial power and the everyday ecologies of hybrid governance	6
Between cooperation and conflict: explaining strategies of regional paradiplomacy towards the EU in regions inside, outside and in transition (1992–2022)	6
Federalism, political leadership and the Covid-19 pandemic: explaining Canada’s tale of two federations	6
Territory, Politics, Governance	6
Indigenous peoples and paradiplomacy: confronting the state-centric order from Latin American transborder spaces	6
Regional ambassadors or state agents? Representing Welsh interests in the British Parliament and Cabinet	6
Theorising migrant lives: homing, everyday bordering and the migrant struggle for ontological security	6
Places that matter and places that don’t: territorial revenge and counter-revenge in Poland	5
The problematic decentring of migration policy studies	5
Negotiating counterstrategies against the far right in Cottbus, Germany: shifting relations of the state and civil society	5
Framing Syrian refugees in Turkish politics: a qualitative analysis on party group speeches	5
Governing polycentric urban regions	5
Rethinking self-determination: colonial and relational geographies in Asia	5
From Nagorno-Karabakh to Taiwan: measuring patron-client relations of de facto states	5
Embracing complexity in ‘Southern’ migration governance	5
‘It would be smart to discuss this on telegram’: China’s digital territorialization project and its spatial effects on contentious politics	5
Unpacking the multispatial configurations of metagoverning tourism development: a longitudinal application of the TPSNE framework	5
The Biafra Lobby: international civil society patronage in the Biafran secession conflict, 1967–70	5

Porous borders and the emergence of hybrid sovereignties	5
Scaling up from everyday concerns to territorial politics and constitutional debate: deliberation among women in the Irish border area	5
Governmental strategies for municipal amalgamations: evidence from 24 European countries	4
Urban commons and the local state: co-production between enhancement and co-optation	4
The RSA Awards 2024 Territory, Politics, Governance	4
Just a strategic move? Exploring good reasons for self-determination referendums through the case of East Timor	4
Re-territorialization and the governance of ocean frontiers in Indonesia	4
Flexible compliance : utility and legitimacy in Jerusalem	4
Territory, ecological transition and the changing governance of ports	4
The material politics of labour in Africa: A commentary	4
Securitise the volume: epistemic territorialisation and the geopolitics of China’s Arctic research	4
The territorial politics of nation branding: marketing education in the UK and Scotland	4
The political economy of territorial integration referendums	4
Making the island. Islandness, carcerality and unstable containment at the southern Spanish border	4
Data-driven public health in times of pandemic: towards deep spatialisation	4
The settler-rights backlash: understanding liberal challenges to Indigenous self-determination	4
Rails through rangelands: redefining infrastructure frontiers and patronage in Kenya’s Maasai land	4
Subcontracted capitalism and the polemical verification of rights: a Rancièrian interpretation of the politics of transnational private governance in Nike’s global produ	4
Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: working with apprehension	4
Beyond exception: the Irish border and the limits of cosmopolitan nationalism	4
Volumetric, embodied and geologic geopolitics of the seabed: offshore tin mining in Indonesia	4
Industrial policy, multilevel governance and regional development: the case of the UK semiconductor industry	3
Working with water: a dialogue on care, infrastructure and labour	3
Settler colonial regulation of bigamous marriage across the Israeli/Palestinian border	3
Governing diversity: a comparative analysis of pragmatic diversity regimes in city centres	3
Autonomy of Indigenous peoples in the Federation of Malaysia: a tale of three institutional settings	3
Local development policy in a societal crisis: municipal–industry dialogues in Sweden during Covid-19	3
When do ethnic majorities share power? The politics of de-majoritarian constitutional reforms in Pakistan and Sri Lanka	3
The deep interface of the effectuated voluminous territories: gates, smooth and striated spaces, and the royal science in the Air Silk Road	3
The neoliberal roots of regional embitterment: reproducing ‘left behind’ places through inter-place competition	3
Negotiating nationalism: regional politics in Italy during the health crisis	3
Dynamic legitimacy in territorial conflicts	3
Dual polity, dual careers? The dynamic interaction of political careers and territorial order in the devolved United Kingdom	3
Authoritarian governance and rural urbanisation in China	3
Selling seasteading: rhetoric, accumulation, and appropriation of space in French Polynesia	3
Relations, territories, and politics of infrastructural regionalism	3
Conflicted translations: an analysis of the bus rapid transit policy adoption process in Cape Town	3
Paradiplomacy and the European Union’s trade treaty negotiations: the role of Wallonia and Brussels	3
Negotiating the global–urban: consumer flows in two Hong Kong retail sites	3
The politics of World Heritage Sites: city planning, bird shit architecture and European impunity	3
The impact of Chinese history on perceptions of the Law of the Sea in the South China Sea	3
Looking through a territorial lens: militarization and local fishers’ everyday livelihoods in Okinawa	3
Dr Klaus Detterbeck	2
The paradoxical (post-)politics of scale: exploring authoritarian state environmental policymaking in Brunei	2
All good in the neighbourhood? Exploring the role of local conditions for political trust and corruption perceptions within a minority context	2
Grounding border city regionalism in contemporary China: evidence from Ruili and Mengla in Yunnan province	2
Chinese investments in global port infrastructures: the Belt and Road Initiative as variegated logistical fixes	2
From genplan to master plan: the changing urban planning paradigm in Russia	2
10th anniversary ofTerritory, Politics, Governance: achievements and prospects	2
A proposed framework for an appropriate governance system to develop smart cities in India	2
Policing the Macedonian name: how the Greek governments protect a territorial name	2
National standards or territorial autonomy? Public opinion and the politics of fiscal federalism for healthcare in Canada	2
Vote your region or your income? Decomposing variance in redistributive voting	2
The judicialization of territorial politics in Italy	2
Territorial consolidation after rebel victory: when does civil war recur?	2
Navigating turbulent waters: associative clientelism and the rise and decline of Riffian elites in Morocco	2
The role of public sector policy in sustainable energy efficiency: an application of dynamic modelling	2
Debris of sovereignty: discards and territorial domination in a popular neighbourhood of Lagos, Nigeria	2
How local unions are rethinking their relationship with(in) the city: the case of a place-based mobilization in Bordeaux	2
A typology of resistance: the ‘hot potato’ of European return in West Africa	2
Metropolitanization, civic capacity and metropolitan governance: Ireland in the metropolitan century	2
How different multilevel and multi-actor arrangements impact policy implementation: evidence from EU regional policy	2
Connecting place and multilevel governance for urban river restoration	2
Capturing dissent: forensic photography of graffiti in the late German Democratic Republic	2
Variegated city-region governance: centralised design, localised implementation and asymmetric integration in China’s Greater Bay Area	2
A region runs through it: representation, mediation and partnership in regional water infrastructure governance	2
Social structures of urban governance: strategic spatial planning in Addis Ababa	2
Urban governance and civic capital: analysis of an evolving concept	2
The roles of South Korean cities in politics of memory towards Japan	2
Ethnic minority belonging in a multilevel political community: the role of exclusionary experiences and welcoming provincial contexts in Canada	2
Imperial forms of territorialisation and the emergence of middle-scale farms in the Nacala Development Corridor in Mozambique	2
The role of historical legacies in the process of decentralisation in Russia: compliant activism in the context of the crises of the 2020s	2
Regional approaches to cross-border integration: the cases of Saarland and Brandenburg	2
Peripheral activism: understanding the influence of California and Texas on the American Union	2
Digital routes and borders in the Middle East: the geopolitical underpinnings of Internet connectivity	2
Minecraft as a technology of postwar urban ordering: the situated-portable epistemic nexus of urban peacebuilding in Pristina	2
Territory, Politics, Governance	2
Irreconcilable sovereignties? Brexit and Scottish self-government	2
Renaming municipalities: territorial identities and community participation between mayors and the central state	2
Black-necked crane as border object: interspecies politics in Himalayan borderlands	2