OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space 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
Intimate witnessing: Volunteer testimonies of everyday border violence	25
“Can’t Mandy cure?!” Examining practices of cultural resistance within the Gypsy-Traveller community	23
Brazilian housing movements and the right to the city	23
The twinning of the Global East: Notes from South Korea-Vietnam sister cities	20
Displaceable! Precarious urban citizenship in Israel/Palestine	20
“We have the right to breathe clean air” – Mobilising communities in the fight for good air quality	19
Geek saviours to the rescue? Primitive accumulation, astropropriation, and exoimperialism in NewSpace entrepreneurship	18
The struggle against post-truth politics has always been about white supremacy: Lessons from the informational praxis of SNCC	17
Decentralisation advocacy and inter-government coordination: A local government association perspective	17
When cities broke into the global stage: 20 years since the publication of ‘Cities and Climate Change’	16
Gratitude and greetings as editors depart and others arrive	15
Blood, sweat and tears: On the corporeality of deportation	14
Everyday urban peace: Experiences from a marginalised neighbourhood in Cali, Colombia	14
“I choose fish”: Understanding informal civil society in Vietnam through environmental grievances and actions	13
Erratum to “Toward the communing of governance”	12
Cramp, choke and disperse: The economy of migrants’ confinement in the UK	12
Bridgeheads of EU border externalisation? NGOs/CSOs and migration in Libya	12
The political economy of healthcare access and Chicagoland health-oriented non-profit organizations	12
Architecture, tactics and mobility – Appropriating space at a transport hub in Shanghai	12
Spatial politics and struggle for hegemony: The role of Komala in the revolutionary movement of Iranian Kurdistan	11
‘Mainstreaming’ Meets ‘Choice and Control’: Unsettling Neoliberal Imaginaries of Service Choice	11
The perfect (shit)storm: Discourses around the proposal to introduce a ‘climate passport’ in Germany	11
Planning and designing universal access to social services. A pioneering local program on welfare spaces in Italy	10
The power of representation: Re-theorizing China’s land development as a state-led strategic discursive–material nexus	10
Solutions in search of a problem: Opening policy windows for Business Improvement Districts in the Nordic countries	10

‘Where is the new constitution?’ Activist art and the politics of space in Iceland	10
Assemblages, cosmopolitics and controversies: Capturing the territorial and knowledge dimensions of infrastructural politics in Lebanon	10
Politicizing the “unknown”: Territorial narratives, shared spatial imaginaries, and Bermuda’s oceans	9
The moral and strategic clarity of supporting Ukraine’s self-defense: Why accepting Russian colonialism should remain a taboo	9
Ambivalent states: Paradoxes of subjection in the Jordanian south	9
Off-grid: Trading infrastructure for atmosphere in Bucharest, Romania	9
‘Never mind extraction, ownership still belongs to ‘us’’: A spatial critique to subsoil public property in Colombia	9
Displaced in place: Tracing displaceability in a housing strategy for a Bedouin community in Israel	9
Beyond resilience? State failure, mutual aid and local action	8
National sovereignty across city networks: Singapore and the diplomacy of a global city-state	8
The eviction room: How Carolina Maria de Jesus can help us analyze migration, segregation, and the politics of citizenship in the city	8
Insurgent climate adaptation in Santiago de Cali: Resisting and reshaping flood-risk resettlements	8
Spatializing poverty: Media representations and perceptions of poverty in Lille, France	8
Grounding legal geography: Conversations on law, space, and power across disparate geographies	8
Towards a platformization of politics? Fragmentation, digitalization, and new geographies of the political party	7
The place of the public notary: How the engine of the capitalist state operates through material and legal arrangements	7
“Sentir su camino”: (Im)mobilities in the return of Venezuelan migrant women during the pandemic in Ecuador	7
Mixed signals: Understanding the democratic work of narratives in pro-immigrant protests across local policy environments	7
“The Worker's Party sold out the street vendors”: Revanchist populism and the crisis of labor in Belo Horizonte, Brazil	7
Chronicle of a “crisis” foretold: Asylum seekers and the case of Roxham Road on the Canada-US border	7
Planning stories: When a small place faces ‘green’ mega-projects	7
The “designed surprise”: Rethinking the temporality of affect in policying the street	7
Technoscientific imaging and the territorialization of ocean depth	7
Coercive geographies: Biopower, spatial politics, and the tourist	6
Corrigendum to “Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability”	6
Epidermal politics: Control, violence and dissent at the biometric border	6
The politics of co-implementation and their potential in shaping egalitarian cities	6
Placing the peripheries within Brazil’s rightward turn: Socio-spatial transformation and electoral realignment, 2002–2018	6
Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability	6
Constructing the smart city beyond the state: Exploring the conditions for institutional change in Mexico City	6
Technology of detachment: The promise of renewable energy and its contentious reality in the south of Colombia	6
The heterogeneous politics of infrastructure: Claims of authority in Accra’s drainage	6
Toxic violence in marine sacrificial zones: Developing blue justice through marine democracy in Chile	6
The prefigurative politics of social movements and their processual production of space: The case of the indignados movement	6
Exploring the concept of town centre paradigms and how they impact on town centre retail landscapes	6
The light side of urban planning: Queer space in Beersheba between displacement and recognition	6
Becoming knowledgeable stakeholders: Enacting political and epistemic authority in a Swedish strategic urban planning project	6
Marielle’s seeds: Contesting the emotional life of corruption talk in Bolsonaro’s Brazil	6
Levelling Up, affective governance and tensions within ‘pride in place’	6
New energy vehicles and the political geoecology of China’s Ecological Civilisation	6
A pluriversal environmental governance? Ontological differences and knowledge co-production in scientific panels	6
Grab it and change it, it’s yours: Affect, attitude and politics in 1970s Northern Irish punk music	6
Seeing beyond the state: Private sector-led smart city governance in BSD City, Indonesia	6
Understanding variation in national climate change adaptation: Securitization in focus	6
Public housing in Aotearoa and Austria: A utopian comparison	5
Theorizing the spatiality of ICT-mediated transnational repression: Evidence from China’s repression of Uyghurs in Turkiye	5
Geopolitics and genocide: The Gambia vs. Myanmar at the International Court of Justice	5
Lockdown and the intimate: Entanglements of terror, virus, and militarism	5
The charismatic authorization of spiritual geopolitics in revolutionary Iran	5
Navigating water justice in transforming hydrosocial territories: conflicts between local irrigation and water transfer in Gaoyou Irrigation District, China	5

Environmental (in)justice and the post-political	5
Protest, exit, and border expansion in Cuba in the context of COVID-19	5
Performative infrastructures: Populism and the material politics of militarization in contemporary Mexico	5
Departures: Space in the Frankfurt school	5
Ignoring people: The micro-politics of misrecognition in participatory governance	5
City regions and decent work: Politics, pluralism and policy making in Greater Manchester	5
Time and fragmentary politics in Cairo: Rethinking the ‘event’ through Kaya Behkalam’s Augmented Archive	5
Chronotopic ruptures: (Dis)assembling Ljubljana’s Avtonomna Tovarna Rog	4
Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking	4
Honoring pasts, escaping presents, and dwelling in futures: The Palestine land society village reconstruction competition	4
The politics of owing: Accounting, water disconnection, and austerity urbanism in Detroit	4
The interface between politics, ethics and urban planning: The case of land and space barons in Harare, Zimbabwe	4
Geographies of entitled anger: Revanchist populism in Brazil and beyond	4
Infrastructures of health and border control: Ukrainian refugees seeking healthcare in Poland	4
Building a better host city? Reforming and contesting the Olympics in Paris 2024	4
Problemáticas: Multi-scalar, affective and performative politics of collective action among fishing cooperatives in Mexico	4
Participatory drainage: Infrastructural citizenship in Montreal’s back alleys	4
The geopolitics of outbound travel: Theorizing outgoing tourism as state strategy	4
Decoy politics: How settler states deflect Indigenous threats	4
Territorial variance in the UK’s refugee politics and its consequences: Young Syrian refugees in England and Scotland	4
Death world economy: Race, meat-processing plants, and COVID-19	4
Repair, maintenance, and ordinary politics: Patronage relations in the Mexico City public markets’ network	4
Border practices and border games	4
Thinking vulnerability infrastructurally: Interdependence and possibility in Lebanon’s overlapping crises	4
The will to security: Law, order, and the shifting terrain of popular struggles	4
Recentralisation in welfare? Measuring and comparing territorial governance change in Spain	4
Logistics of unfreedom: The labour trafficking of Venezuelan truck drivers in Brazil	4
Corrigendum to “Demystifying the Chinese local state: Planning and contesting urban growth at Hexi New Town, Nanjing”	4
Reproductive geopolitics: Governing in/fertile bodies in Mexico’s past and present	4
Racialized control policies in the south American border regime: The intensification of “transit migration” in times of COVID-19	4
The life and death of the ‘Baron mall’: The shifting politics of urban regeneration in Valparaiso	4