OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Territory Politics Governance is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Municipal institutions and local policy responses to immigrants: policies towards day labourers in California	34
Planning smart, working hard: unveiling the ‘hidden’ labour behind digital connectivity in Tanzanian agriculture	32
Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance	24
Mobilising in a (former)-red subculture industrial district: the case of the No-Keu permanent assembly	24
Location-specific citizenship: state visions of spatial selectivity in the cities of Beijing and Suzhou	22
Territorial strategies of forestry and agricultural corporations in Uruguay – the Southern Cone region of Latin America	22
Politicising and depoliticising metropolitan governance in France: the case of Bordeaux Métropole	21
Navigating governance tensions in alternative food networks through a hybrid governance approach	19
Spaces of (in-)security and intervention: spatial competition and the politics of regional organizations in the Sahel	19
The development of public policies for the sustainable governance of Vicugna vicugna	18
Made in the USA? The paradiplomatic strategies of California and Illinois to the EU	16
The Russian invasion of Ukraine: implications for politics, territory and governance	15
Regional industrial synergy and industry chain stability as state spatial strategies: reimagining China’s city-region governance	15
Intergovernmental bargaining in multilevel autocracies: the case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia	14
Correction	14
A ‘fateful compromise’? Transnational religious organizations and regional governance in Africa	13
Can decentralization help address poverty and social exclusion in Europe?	13
Technodiplomatic processes of territorialization: negotiating Chinese sovereignty through infrastructure in semi-colonial Tianjin, 1901–08	13
The production of territories seen from a materialist perspective: milieus in the politics of territorialization	12
Multiscalar strategies in right-wing populism: a comparison of West European parties in borderlands	12
Beyond entrepreneurialism: revealing multiple logics of suburban housing development politics in the global city	11
Spatial reason of the state: the role of space in protest repression in Turkey	11
From goats to Gold Stars: trajectories of consumption, bureaucracy and territory in the Nepal-China borderlands	10
New imagined geographies into old geobodies: problems and prospects for China and Taiwan in the South China Sea	10
Territorial differences, development trends and influencing factors of judicial transparency in China	10

Conceptualising patron-client relations in secessionist conflict. A research agenda	9
Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space	9
Externalization through ‘awareness-raising’: the border spectacle of EU migration information campaigns in Niger	9
The challenge of integrating subnational governments in multilevel climate governance: the case of Mexico	9
Territorializing polar heritage: cultural heritage as a means to exercise symbolic sovereignty in Antarctica	9
Euroregions as political actors: managing border policies in the time of Covid-19 in Polish borderlands	9
Democratic food governance capacity at the local level: the cases of Livorno and Pisa	9
Data centres on the Moon and other tales: a volumetric and elemental analysis of the coloniality of digital infrastructures	8
The role and place of ‘military territoriality’ in the Clausewitzian conception of war	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
Frontrunners but different games? Comparing Catalan and Basque paradiplomacy towards the EU	8
Patron-client relations in secessionist conflict: introducing the special issue	8
The moral economy of localism in England: neighbourhood planning as neoliberal ‘apprentice piece’	8
Capacity in motion: comparative COVID-19 governance in India and South Africa	7
Israel’s international mobilities regime: visa restrictions for educators and medics in Palestine	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
Discontent in the ‘peripheries’: an investigation of the rise of populism in Italy	7
Editorial board 2024	7
Beyond the BRI: the volumetric presence of China in Nepal	7
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
A new direction or the same old road? Assessing refugee housing and integration policy governance in Berlin post-2016	6
Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism	6
Easier signed than done: natural resource sharing in the shadow of conflict on the Korean peninsula	6
Territory, Politics, Governance	6
Regional ambassadors or state agents? Representing Welsh interests in the British Parliament and Cabinet	6
Coordination games and regional economic transitions	6
Peripheral elites and central political institutions: a complex relationship	6
Indigenous peoples and paradiplomacy: confronting the state-centric order from Latin American transborder spaces	6
Between cooperation and conflict: explaining strategies of regional paradiplomacy towards the EU in regions inside, outside and in transition (1992–2022)	6
Porous borders and the emergence of hybrid sovereignties	5
Federalism, political leadership and the Covid-19 pandemic: explaining Canada’s tale of two federations	5
When rivers move borders: territoriality, citizenship and the environment in South Asia	5
Places that matter and places that don’t: territorial revenge and counter-revenge in Poland	5
Territorial change, urbanization and development of football clubs in China	5
Scaling up from everyday concerns to territorial politics and constitutional debate: deliberation among women in the Irish border area	5
The Biafra Lobby: international civil society patronage in the Biafran secession conflict, 1967–70	5
Does recognition matter? Exploring patron penetration of de-facto state structures	5
The problematic decentring of migration policy studies	5
Framing Syrian refugees in Turkish politics: a qualitative analysis on party group speeches	5
Re-territorialization and the governance of ocean frontiers in Indonesia	5
State actors, human rights violations and informal livelihoods during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria	5
Unpacking the multispatial configurations of metagoverning tourism development: a longitudinal application of the TPSNE framework	5
From Nagorno-Karabakh to Taiwan: measuring patron-client relations of de facto states	5
Negotiating counterstrategies against the far right in Cottbus, Germany: shifting relations of the state and civil society	5
Rethinking self-determination: colonial and relational geographies in Asia	5
Embracing complexity in ‘Southern’ migration governance	5

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