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

Article	Citations
Gratitude and greetings as editors depart and others arrive	26
Erratum to “Toward the communing of governance”	23
The political economy of healthcare access and Chicagoland health-oriented non-profit organizations	21
Everyday urban peace: Experiences from a marginalised neighbourhood in Cali, Colombia	20
When cities broke into the global stage: 20 years since the publication of ‘Cities and Climate Change’	18
Geographies of revolution: Prefiguration and spaces of alterity in Latin American radicalism	18
Brazilian housing movements and the right to the city	16
Geek saviours to the rescue? Primitive accumulation, astropropriation, and exoimperialism in NewSpace entrepreneurship	16
“We have the right to breathe clean air” – Mobilising communities in the fight for good air quality	15
The declining appeal of mega-events in entrepreneurial cities: From Los Angeles 1984 to Los Angeles 2028	15
“Can’t Mandy cure?!” Examining practices of cultural resistance within the Gypsy-Traveller community	15
The struggle against post-truth politics has always been about white supremacy: Lessons from the informational praxis of SNCC	14
“I choose fish”: Understanding informal civil society in Vietnam through environmental grievances and actions	13
Displaceable! Precarious urban citizenship in Israel/Palestine	13
Decentralisation advocacy and inter-government coordination: A local government association perspective	13
Blood, sweat and tears: On the corporeality of deportation	12
Intimate witnessing: Volunteer testimonies of everyday border violence	12
The twinning of the Global East: Notes from South Korea-Vietnam sister cities	12
Cramp, choke and disperse: The economy of migrants’ confinement in the UK	11
The power of representation: Re-theorizing China’s land development as a state-led strategic discursive–material nexus	11
‘Mainstreaming’ Meets ‘Choice and Control’: Unsettling Neoliberal Imaginaries of Service Choice	11
Solutions in search of a problem: Opening policy windows for Business Improvement Districts in the Nordic countries	11
Spatial politics and struggle for hegemony: The role of Komala in the revolutionary movement of Iranian Kurdistan	10
Architecture, tactics and mobility – Appropriating space at a transport hub in Shanghai	10
Assemblages, cosmopolitics and controversies: Capturing the territorial and knowledge dimensions of infrastructural politics in Lebanon	9

Bridgeheads of EU border externalisation? NGOs/CSOs and migration in Libya	9
The perfect (shit)storm: Discourses around the proposal to introduce a ‘climate passport’ in Germany	9
Ambivalent states: Paradoxes of subjection in the Jordanian south	9
Insurgent climate adaptation in Santiago de Cali: Resisting and reshaping flood-risk resettlements	9
Off-grid: Trading infrastructure for atmosphere in Bucharest, Romania	9
The eviction room: How Carolina Maria de Jesus can help us analyze migration, segregation, and the politics of citizenship in the city	8
Planning and designing universal access to social services. A pioneering local program on welfare spaces in Italy	8
Stewardship practice and the performance of citizenship: Greening tree-pits in the streets of Berlin	8
‘Where is the new constitution?’ Activist art and the politics of space in Iceland	8
The moral and strategic clarity of supporting Ukraine’s self-defense: Why accepting Russian colonialism should remain a taboo	8
Beyond resilience? State failure, mutual aid and local action	8
‘Never mind extraction, ownership still belongs to ‘us’’: A spatial critique to subsoil public property in Colombia	8
Spatializing poverty: Media representations and perceptions of poverty in Lille, France	7
The place of the public notary: How the engine of the capitalist state operates through material and legal arrangements	7
Corrigendum to “Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability”	7
New energy vehicles and the political geoecology of China’s Ecological Civilisation	7
National sovereignty across city networks: Singapore and the diplomacy of a global city-state	7
Displaced in place: Tracing displaceability in a housing strategy for a Bedouin community in Israel	7
COVID “death pits”: US nursing homes, racial capitalism, and the urgency of antiracist eldercare	7
Politicizing the “unknown”: Territorial narratives, shared spatial imaginaries, and Bermuda’s oceans	7
Grounding legal geography: Conversations on law, space, and power across disparate geographies	7
Mixed signals: Understanding the democratic work of narratives in pro-immigrant protests across local policy environments	7
Planning stories: When a small place faces ‘green’ mega-projects	7
“The Worker's Party sold out the street vendors”: Revanchist populism and the crisis of labor in Belo Horizonte, Brazil	6
Epidermal politics: Control, violence and dissent at the biometric border	6
Implementation of agrarian reform in North Sumatra, Indonesia: The productiveness of institutional fragmentation	6
The heterogeneous politics of infrastructure: Claims of authority in Accra’s drainage	6
“Sentir su camino”: (Im)mobilities in the return of Venezuelan migrant women during the pandemic in Ecuador	6
The political geographies of strategic partnerships: City deals and non-deals	6
Chronicle of a “crisis” foretold: Asylum seekers and the case of Roxham Road on the Canada-US border	6
Coercive geographies: Biopower, spatial politics, and the tourist	6
The prefigurative politics of social movements and their processual production of space: The case of the indignados movement	6
Technoscientific imaging and the territorialization of ocean depth	6
The “designed surprise”: Rethinking the temporality of affect in policying the street	6
Marielle’s seeds: Contesting the emotional life of corruption talk in Bolsonaro’s Brazil	6
Constructing the smart city beyond the state: Exploring the conditions for institutional change in Mexico City	6
Lockdown and the intimate: Entanglements of terror, virus, and militarism	5
Public housing in Aotearoa and Austria: A utopian comparison	5
Placing the peripheries within Brazil’s rightward turn: Socio-spatial transformation and electoral realignment, 2002–2018	5
Toxic violence in marine sacrificial zones: Developing blue justice through marine democracy in Chile	5
Levelling Up, affective governance and tensions within ‘pride in place’	5
Becoming knowledgeable stakeholders: Enacting political and epistemic authority in a Swedish strategic urban planning project	5
Performative infrastructures: Populism and the material politics of militarization in contemporary Mexico	5
Theorizing the spatiality of ICT-mediated transnational repression: Evidence from China’s repression of Uyghurs in Turkiye	5
Exploring the concept of town centre paradigms and how they impact on town centre retail landscapes	5
Grab it and change it, it’s yours: Affect, attitude and politics in 1970s Northern Irish punk music	5
The light side of urban planning: Queer space in Beersheba between displacement and recognition	5
The politics of co-implementation and their potential in shaping egalitarian cities	5
Territorial variance in the UK’s refugee politics and its consequences: Young Syrian refugees in England and Scotland	5
Protest, exit, and border expansion in Cuba in the context of COVID-19	5

Seeing like a Zone: Privately deputized sovereignty within Toronto’s Sanctuary City	5
Seeing beyond the state: Private sector-led smart city governance in BSD City, Indonesia	5
Technology of detachment: The promise of renewable energy and its contentious reality in the south of Colombia	5
Understanding variation in national climate change adaptation: Securitization in focus	5
Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability	5
Infrastructures of health and border control: Ukrainian refugees seeking healthcare in Poland	4
Repoliticising national policy mobilities: Resisting the Americanization of universal healthcare	4
Who will man the rigs when we go?” transnational demographic fever dreams between Qatar and Texas	4
Recentralisation in welfare? Measuring and comparing territorial governance change in Spain	4
Making space for competition: The rationalities of contemporary regional development	4
Racialized control policies in the south American border regime: The intensification of “transit migration” in times of COVID-19	4
Geopolitics and genocide: The Gambia vs. Myanmar at the International Court of Justice	4
The interface between politics, ethics and urban planning: The case of land and space barons in Harare, Zimbabwe	4
Just air? Spatial injustice and the politicisation of air pollution	4
Repair, maintenance, and ordinary politics: Patronage relations in the Mexico City public markets’ network	4
Participatory drainage: Infrastructural citizenship in Montreal’s back alleys	4
The geopolitics of outbound travel: Theorizing outgoing tourism as state strategy	4
Ignoring people: The micro-politics of misrecognition in participatory governance	4
Environmental (in)justice and the post-political	4
Honoring pasts, escaping presents, and dwelling in futures: The Palestine land society village reconstruction competition	4
The will to security: Law, order, and the shifting terrain of popular struggles	4
Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking	4
City regions and decent work: Politics, pluralism and policy making in Greater Manchester	4