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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Brazilian housing movements and the right to the city	28
“We have the right to breathe clean air” – Mobilising communities in the fight for good air quality	27
“Can’t Mandy cure?!” Examining practices of cultural resistance within the Gypsy-Traveller community	26
Erratum to “Toward the communing of governance”	26
The political economy of healthcare access and Chicagoland health-oriented non-profit organizations	22
Gratitude and greetings as editors depart and others arrive	21
Intimate witnessing: Volunteer testimonies of everyday border violence	21
Displaceable! Precarious urban citizenship in Israel/Palestine	20
Decentralisation advocacy and inter-government coordination: A local government association perspective	19
The twinning of the Global East: Notes from South Korea-Vietnam sister cities	16
The struggle against post-truth politics has always been about white supremacy: Lessons from the informational praxis of SNCC	16
Geek saviours to the rescue? Primitive accumulation, astropropriation, and exoimperialism in NewSpace entrepreneurship	16
“I choose fish”: Understanding informal civil society in Vietnam through environmental grievances and actions	15
When cities broke into the global stage: 20 years since the publication of ‘Cities and Climate Change’	14
Everyday urban peace: Experiences from a marginalised neighbourhood in Cali, Colombia	14
Spatial politics and struggle for hegemony: The role of Komala in the revolutionary movement of Iranian Kurdistan	12
Cramp, choke and disperse: The economy of migrants’ confinement in the UK	12
The power of representation: Re-theorizing China’s land development as a state-led strategic discursive–material nexus	12
‘Mainstreaming’ Meets ‘Choice and Control’: Unsettling Neoliberal Imaginaries of Service Choice	12
Blood, sweat and tears: On the corporeality of deportation	12
Architecture, tactics and mobility – Appropriating space at a transport hub in Shanghai	12
Bridgeheads of EU border externalisation? NGOs/CSOs and migration in Libya	12
The perfect (shit)storm: Discourses around the proposal to introduce a ‘climate passport’ in Germany	11
Assemblages, cosmopolitics and controversies: Capturing the territorial and knowledge dimensions of infrastructural politics in Lebanon	11
Solutions in search of a problem: Opening policy windows for Business Improvement Districts in the Nordic countries	11

Planning and designing universal access to social services. A pioneering local program on welfare spaces in Italy	10
Beyond resilience? State failure, mutual aid and local action	10
‘Where is the new constitution?’ Activist art and the politics of space in Iceland	9
Displaced in place: Tracing displaceability in a housing strategy for a Bedouin community in Israel	9
Insurgent climate adaptation in Santiago de Cali: Resisting and reshaping flood-risk resettlements	9
Grounding legal geography: Conversations on law, space, and power across disparate geographies	9
The moral and strategic clarity of supporting Ukraine’s self-defense: Why accepting Russian colonialism should remain a taboo	9
Off-grid: Trading infrastructure for atmosphere in Bucharest, Romania	9
Ambivalent states: Paradoxes of subjection in the Jordanian south	8
Spatializing poverty: Media representations and perceptions of poverty in Lille, France	8
National sovereignty across city networks: Singapore and the diplomacy of a global city-state	8
Politicizing the “unknown”: Territorial narratives, shared spatial imaginaries, and Bermuda’s oceans	8
The eviction room: How Carolina Maria de Jesus can help us analyze migration, segregation, and the politics of citizenship in the city	8
Discursive vehicles and the making of infrastructures: Learning from Delhi and Québec	8
‘Never mind extraction, ownership still belongs to ‘us’’: A spatial critique to subsoil public property in Colombia	8
Planning stories: When a small place faces ‘green’ mega-projects	7
Corrigendum to “Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability”	7
Towards a platformization of politics? Fragmentation, digitalization, and new geographies of the political party	7
New energy vehicles and the political geoecology of China’s Ecological Civilisation	7
“Sentir su camino”: (Im)mobilities in the return of Venezuelan migrant women during the pandemic in Ecuador	7
“The Worker's Party sold out the street vendors”: Revanchist populism and the crisis of labor in Belo Horizonte, Brazil	7
The “designed surprise”: Rethinking the temporality of affect in policying the street	7
Epidermal politics: Control, violence and dissent at the biometric border	7
Technoscientific imaging and the territorialization of ocean depth	6
A pluriversal environmental governance? Ontological differences and knowledge co-production in scientific panels	6
Marielle’s seeds: Contesting the emotional life of corruption talk in Bolsonaro’s Brazil	6
Coercive geographies: Biopower, spatial politics, and the tourist	6
Technologies of culture: Cinematic infrastructures of caste in Kochi	6
Levelling Up, affective governance and tensions within ‘pride in place’	6
The heterogeneous politics of infrastructure: Claims of authority in Accra’s drainage	6
Constructing the smart city beyond the state: Exploring the conditions for institutional change in Mexico City	6
Chronicle of a “crisis” foretold: Asylum seekers and the case of Roxham Road on the Canada-US border	6
“The cameras look at us when we be doin’ our dances”: Children’s everyday experience of securitization	6
Technology of detachment: The promise of renewable energy and its contentious reality in the south of Colombia	6
At home in the high-rise: law, time, and place in a vertical city	6
Grab it and change it, it’s yours: Affect, attitude and politics in 1970s Northern Irish punk music	5
Placing the peripheries within Brazil’s rightward turn: Socio-spatial transformation and electoral realignment, 2002–2018	5
Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability	5
Navigating water justice in transforming hydrosocial territories: conflicts between local irrigation and water transfer in Gaoyou Irrigation District, China	5
Territorial variance in the UK’s refugee politics and its consequences: Young Syrian refugees in England and Scotland	5
Performative infrastructures: Populism and the material politics of militarization in contemporary Mexico	5
The light side of urban planning: Queer space in Beersheba between displacement and recognition	5
Becoming knowledgeable stakeholders: Enacting political and epistemic authority in a Swedish strategic urban planning project	5
Public housing in Aotearoa and Austria: A utopian comparison	5
Time and fragmentary politics in Cairo: Rethinking the ‘event’ through Kaya Behkalam’s Augmented Archive	5
Digital diaries and rural democracy: Participatory engagement between depopulated Balkan villages and their diasporas	5
The prefigurative politics of social movements and their processual production of space: The case of the indignados movement	5
Seeing beyond the state: Private sector-led smart city governance in BSD City, Indonesia	5
The charismatic authorization of spiritual geopolitics in revolutionary Iran	5
Understanding variation in national climate change adaptation: Securitization in focus	5

Protest, exit, and border expansion in Cuba in the context of COVID-19	5
Environmental (in)justice and the post-political	5
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
“When the force of public opinion gathers”: From online advocacy to policy engagement on pedestrian safety	4
Geographies of entitled anger: Revanchist populism in Brazil and beyond	4
Repair, maintenance, and ordinary politics: Patronage relations in the Mexico City public markets’ network	4
Orchestrating urban financialisation through urban intermediatory organisations? A case study of Taipei Housing and Urban Regeneration Centre in Taiwan	4
Racialized control policies in the south American border regime: The intensification of “transit migration” in times of COVID-19	4
Smart futures: Temporality and speculative development in the smart city of Pune, India	4
Lockdown and the intimate: Entanglements of terror, virus, and militarism	4
City regions and decent work: Politics, pluralism and policy making in Greater Manchester	4
Infrastructures of health and border control: Ukrainian refugees seeking healthcare in Poland	4
The politics of owing: Accounting, water disconnection, and austerity urbanism in Detroit	4
Building a better host city? Reforming and contesting the Olympics in Paris 2024	4
Chronotopic ruptures: (Dis)assembling Ljubljana’s Avtonomna Tovarna Rog	4
Logistics of unfreedom: The labour trafficking of Venezuelan truck drivers in Brazil	4
The geopolitics of outbound travel: Theorizing outgoing tourism as state strategy	4
Death world economy: Race, meat-processing plants, and COVID-19	4
The interface between politics, ethics and urban planning: The case of land and space barons in Harare, Zimbabwe	4
Corrigendum to “Demystifying the Chinese local state: Planning and contesting urban growth at Hexi New Town, Nanjing”	4
Regional identity-building processes in the in-between spaces of city-regions: Evidence from West Java, Indonesia	4
Departures: Space in the Frankfurt School	4
Theorizing the spatiality of ICT-mediated transnational repression: Evidence from China’s repression of Uyghurs in Turkiye	4
Participatory drainage: Infrastructural citizenship in Montreal’s back alleys	4
Decoy politics: How settler states deflect Indigenous threats	4
Reproductive geopolitics: Governing in/fertile bodies in Mexico’s past and present	4
Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking	4
The invisible middle class: The margins of agency, representation and urban dissent in Cairo	4
Honoring pasts, escaping presents, and dwelling in futures: The Palestine land society village reconstruction competition	4
Everyday dog politics: Street-level bureaucracy and canine urban governance in China	4
Ignoring people: The micro-politics of misrecognition in participatory governance	4
Geopolitics and genocide: The Gambia vs. Myanmar at the International Court of Justice	4