OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Marketisation policies in the neoliberal era: How culture and governance structures affect the introduction of market principles in local care policies	21
Digitalizing sewage: The politics of producing, sharing, and operationalizing data from wastewater-based surveillance	21
Militarized urbanism in the cold war era: The resettlement of the refugees in Khan Younis	17
The making of low-carbon urbanism: Climate change, discursive strategy, and rhetorical decarbonization in Chinese cities	17
Geographies of revolution: Prefiguration and spaces of alterity in Latin American radicalism	14
The fantasmatic narrative of ‘sustainable development’. A political analysis of the 2030 Global Development Agenda	13
Understanding variation in national climate change adaptation: Securitization in focus	13
“People expect you to choose”: Postcolonial hybridity in complex geographies of scaled diaspora identities	13
Governing the rural futures: Anxiety machine, anticipatory actions and rural affective politics	13
The urban politicization of fossil fuel infrastructure: Mediatization and resistance in energy landscapes	12
Bureaucratic and benign? The violent continuum of Home Office reporting in the UK	12
I had no idea that Europe had internal borders: Migrants’ ‘secondary movements’ before the EU internal border regime	12
A participatory local governance approach to social innovation: A case study of Seongbuk-gu, South Korea	12
The politics and spaces of public-private partnerships in humanitarian tech innovations	12
Contested mobilities in the maritory: Implications of boundary formation in a nomadic space	11
Shadows of the shadow state: Grassroots, refugee-led organizations within a multi-scalar and contested resettlement institutional domain	11
“I choose fish”: Understanding informal civil society in Vietnam through environmental grievances and actions	10
When cities broke into the global stage: 20 years since the publication of ‘Cities and Climate Change’	10
The Panopticon reloaded: A critical analysis of performance management systems in the trans-European transport network policy	10
Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability	10
Securing financial returns in politically uncertain worlds: Finance and urban water politics in Brazil	10
Expanding the politics of measurement in sustainable finance: Reconceptualizing environmental, social and governance information as infrastructure	10
Blood, sweat and tears: On the corporeality of deportation	9
Geographical storylines and the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Narrative power and narrative taboos, a (difficult) conversation	9
The political economy of healthcare access and Chicagoland health-oriented non-profit organizations	9

Geek saviours to the rescue? Primitive accumulation, astropropriation, and exoimperialism in NewSpace entrepreneurship	9
Gratitude and greetings as editors depart and others arrive	8
Serial adapters? Local government chief officers and the navigation of space and time	8
“Recovering” the political: Unpacking the implications of (de)politicization for the transformative capacities of urban experiments	8
“Land imaginaries” in Western Canada: (financial) neoliberalism, agrarianism, and the contemporary politics of agricultural land	8
Exploring transterranean activism as a research site beyond local protest sites	8
Capturing planning: Politics of land based accumulation in Tehran	8
Situated dynamics of environmental governance in Swedish smart energy experimentation: Tentativeness, demonstration, upscaling	8
The decoupling effect and shifting assemblages of English regionalism: Economic governance, politics and firm-state relations	8
The border spectacle during the pandemic: A bottom-up political economy of media within the American border regime	7
Enacting the border multiple in the post-welfare state: Registration of foreign-born persons in Finland	7
Intimate witnessing: Volunteer testimonies of everyday border violence	7
The declining appeal of mega-events in entrepreneurial cities: From Los Angeles 1984 to Los Angeles 2028	7
Becoming knowledgeable stakeholders: Enacting political and epistemic authority in a Swedish strategic urban planning project	7
How wars don’t end: A response to Gerard Toal’s analysis of ceasefire negotiations in Ukraine	7
Detention, death, and deportation: (Re)bordering Brazilian migrants under Bolsonarism and the pandemic	6
The struggle against post-truth politics has always been about white supremacy: Lessons from the informational praxis of SNCC	6
Erratum to “Toward the communing of governance”	6
Left behind in perception of air pollution? A hidden form of spatial injustice in China	5
Decentralisation advocacy and inter-government coordination: A local government association perspective	5
Towards a hotel geopolitics of detention: Hidden spaces and landscapes of carcerality	5
De-politicising and re-politicising transport infrastructure futures	5
Border hotels: Spaces of detention and quarantine	5
Death and denial in the city: Making sense of London Bridge and Grenfell	5
Settlement types, territorial discourse and the symbolic production of the ‘post-industrial town’	5
Revisiting the urban home: A critical approach	5
We have never owned ‘Us’: A philosophical critique of nationalist b/ordering and othering ideologies	5
Introduction: Anti-politics, austerity and spaces of politicisation	5
A photo-journalistic exploration of COVID, refugees, and Brisbane’s polymorphic border	5
The politics of co-implementation and their potential in shaping egalitarian cities	5
Towards a care perspective on waste: A new direction in discard studies	5
Lockdown and the intimate: Entanglements of terror, virus, and militarism	5
Toward the commoning of governance	5
Brazilian housing movements and the right to the city	5
Everyday urban peace: Experiences from a marginalised neighbourhood in Cali, Colombia	5
Territorial dynamics in organizing resistance: The assistants’ solidarity movement in two universities	5
Aid micropolitics: Everyday southern resistance to racialized and geographical assumptions of expertise	5
Contested geographies of trafficking borders	5
Environmental (in)justice and the post-political	5
“Aid, trade and investment”: Water operator partnerships and the Dutch water sector	4
The urban political never sleeps: A framework for tracing emergent counter-responses to depoliticisation	4
Architecture, tactics and mobility – Appropriating space at a transport hub in Shanghai	4
Dakar has lost its lungs: What the spatialised inequalities of waste can tell us about climate (im)mobilities	4
Discursive politics and policy (im)mobility: Metro-TOD policies in India	4
City regions and decent work: Politics, pluralism and policy making in Greater Manchester	4
Urban infrastructure and migrant citizenships: Notes towards migrant-state relations in the urban peripheries	4
Without a right to remain: Property’s limits on Portland’s self-governing houseless encampments	4
Strategy and dynamics in sub-regional governance and planning: Lessons from Eastern England 2010 to 2020	4
Unfolding dispositifs: Attempts at digital business education in North Korea	4
Architectures of discretion: Autohoteles and the fortified enclaves of Guatemala city	4

Cross-border division of labor and China’s border control upon Myanmar migrants	4
Small hydropower, slow violence, and gendered struggles in Northwest Vietnam	4
Affective politics and neoliberal subjectivities in ‘left behind’ places: Counter-narrating regional decline within/from Finland’s ‘Capital of Pessimism’	4
Solutions in search of a problem: Opening policy windows for Business Improvement Districts in the Nordic countries	4
Theorizing the spatiality of ICT-mediated transnational repression: Evidence from China’s repression of Uyghurs in Turkiye	3
The afterlives of urban megaprojects: Grounding policy models and recirculating knowledge through domestic networks	3
The power of representation: Re-theorizing China’s land development as a state-led strategic discursive–material nexus	3
Cramp, choke and disperse: The economy of migrants’ confinement in the UK	3
Spatial politics and struggle for hegemony: The role of Komala in the revolutionary movement of Iranian Kurdistan	3
The politics of living-with-difference: Local perception of diversity and coexistence around participatory place-making in a multiethnic neighbourhood	3
“Rude and in Defiance of Authority”: Arizona Anti-Mexican American Studies Legislation and the Discursive Positioning of the “Rude” Student of Color	3
Legitimacy and space in the use of technologies for environmental and social governance: The cases of human trafficking and COVID-19 contact tracing	3
‘Mainstreaming’ Meets ‘Choice and Control’: Unsettling Neoliberal Imaginaries of Service Choice	3
Pathogenic proliferations: Salmon aquaculture, industrial viruses, and toxic geographies of settler-colonialism	3
Corrigendum to “Authoritarian environmentalism 2.0: An incremental transition of environmental governance in China”	3
Visualising quarantine: Spacetimes of chartered aircraft and mandatory hotels	3
Infrastructures of dissensus: repartitioning the sensible and articulating the political through the occupation of Greece’s public broadcasting service	3
State-led stigmatisation of place and the politics of the exception	3
Ignoring people: The micro-politics of misrecognition in participatory governance	3
Uncertain living: Pestering displaceability in a neighbourhood regeneration process	3
Geopolitics and genocide: The Gambia vs. Myanmar at the International Court of Justice	3
Re-writing history, re-inscribing the city: Thailand and delusions of democracy	3
Rethinking environmental justice: capability building, public knowledge and the struggle against traffic-related air pollution	3
Environmental struggles and insularity: The right to nature in Mallorca and Tenerife	3
The perfect (shit)storm: Discourses around the proposal to introduce a ‘climate passport’ in Germany	3
Electoral politics, gentrification, and strategic use of contested place identities in Toronto’s Portuguese neighbourhood	3
Resistance is in the air: From post-politics to the politics of expertise	3
A tale of two crises: The emergence of an eco-Keynesian coalition in Swedish transport decarbonisation discourse	3