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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Uneven benefits? Territorial divides in perceptions of devolution in Scotland and Wales	34
Territorial strategies of forestry and agricultural corporations in Uruguay – the Southern Cone region of Latin America	27
Politicising and depoliticising metropolitan governance in France: the case of Bordeaux Métropole	23
Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance	22
Navigating governance tensions in alternative food networks through a hybrid governance approach	21
Urban sustainability: a spatial justice critique	20
Planning smart, working hard: unveiling the ‘hidden’ labour behind digital connectivity in Tanzanian agriculture	19
Neopatrimonialism and authoritarian decentralisation: the case of Kazakhstan	19
Mobilising in a (former)-red subculture industrial district: the case of the No-Keu permanent assembly	18
China’s fisheries policy fragmentation: struggling against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the Yellow Sea	17
Regional industrial synergy and industry chain stability as state spatial strategies: reimagining China’s city-region governance	16
Spaces of (in-)security and intervention: spatial competition and the politics of regional organizations in the Sahel	16
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	15
Infrastructural contact zones: innovation in urban interstices	15
Income, place and perceptions of fiscal fairness: evidence from Australian federalism	14
Beyond entrepreneurialism: revealing multiple logics of suburban housing development politics in the global city	13
From goats to Gold Stars: trajectories of consumption, bureaucracy and territory in the Nepal-China borderlands	13
Can decentralization help address poverty and social exclusion in Europe?	12
Multiscalar strategies in right-wing populism: a comparison of West European parties in borderlands	11
River protection movements in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia: rethinking locality and collective identity	11
The production of territories seen from a materialist perspective: milieus in the politics of territorialization	11
A ‘fateful compromise’? Transnational religious organizations and regional governance in Africa	11
Networks of resistance: material agency and political infrastructure in digitally-mediated public space	11
Climate mobility between adaptation and control? Contested agendas in IGAD–Germany cooperation in Africa	11

The challenge of integrating subnational governments in multilevel climate governance: the case of Mexico	10
Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space	10
Territorial differences, development trends and influencing factors of judicial transparency in China	10
Conceptualising patron-client relations in secessionist conflict. A research agenda	10
Democratic food governance capacity at the local level: the cases of Livorno and Pisa	10
Frontrunners but different games? Comparing Catalan and Basque paradiplomacy towards the EU	9
Patron-client relations in secessionist conflict: introducing the special issue	9
Sovereignty on the move: gold, financial capital and a neoliberal state in India	9
The moral community of redistribution: interregional fiscal grievances in working-class urban Catalonia	9
Beyond the BRI: the volumetric presence of China in Nepal	8
The moral economy of localism in England: neighbourhood planning as neoliberal ‘apprentice piece’	8
Water, territory and power in the 2014 water crisis in the state of São Paulo	8
Data centres on the Moon and other tales: a volumetric and elemental analysis of the coloniality of digital infrastructures	8
New dog, old tricks: strategic moderation after failed secession in the Catalan nationalist right	8
Territorializing polar heritage: cultural heritage as a means to exercise symbolic sovereignty in Antarctica	8
Networked security at the edge of northern Europe – cooperation between state and non-state actors in rural Finland security management	7
Multidirectional migrant trajectories crisscrossing Italy: from Trieste to Central and Northern Europe – and back	7
From home to planet. Grounding planetary futures in Frankfurt’s technopolitical landscape of water scarcity	7
Governing through care: faith-based social service provision in rural Hungary	7
Maintaining sovereignty at the margins: internal migration governance in Okinawa	7
Editorial board 2024	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
Capacity in motion: comparative COVID-19 governance in India and South Africa	7
Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism	7
When rivers move borders: territoriality, citizenship and the environment in South Asia	6
Territory, Politics, Governance	6
Deconstructing sovereignty: (non-)life, territorial power and the everyday ecologies of hybrid governance	6
Easier signed than done: natural resource sharing in the shadow of conflict on the Korean peninsula	6
Ontological security of landlocked states and China’s Belt and Road Initiative	6
Between cooperation and conflict: explaining strategies of regional paradiplomacy towards the EU in regions inside, outside and in transition (1992–2022)	6
Coordination games and regional economic transitions	6
A new direction or the same old road? Assessing refugee housing and integration policy governance in Berlin post-2016	6
Correction	6
Peripheral elites and central political institutions: a complex relationship	6
Israel’s international mobilities regime: visa restrictions for educators and medics in Palestine	6
Hegemonic extractivism: mining, groundwater and the closure of alternatives in Morocco	5
Theorising belonging along the identity-border-order axes of North Cyprus	5
Unpacking the multispatial configurations of metagoverning tourism development: a longitudinal application of the TPSNE framework	5
Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa	5
Theorising migrant lives: homing, everyday bordering and the migrant struggle for ontological security	5
Federalism, political leadership and the Covid-19 pandemic: explaining Canada’s tale of two federations	5
Does recognition matter? Exploring patron penetration of de-facto state structures	5
Regional ambassadors or state agents? Representing Welsh interests in the British Parliament and Cabinet	5
Negotiating counterstrategies against the far right in Cottbus, Germany: shifting relations of the state and civil society	5
From Nagorno-Karabakh to Taiwan: measuring patron-client relations of de facto states	5