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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Brazilian housing movements and the right to the city	25
“We have the right to breathe clean air” – Mobilising communities in the fight for good air quality	24
“I choose fish”: Understanding informal civil society in Vietnam through environmental grievances and actions	24
“Can’t Mandy cure?!” Examining practices of cultural resistance within the Gypsy-Traveller community	24
Erratum to “Toward the communing of governance”	21
When cities broke into the global stage: 20 years since the publication of ‘Cities and Climate Change’	20
The political economy of healthcare access and Chicagoland health-oriented non-profit organizations	19
Blood, sweat and tears: On the corporeality of deportation	18
Gratitude and greetings as editors depart and others arrive	18
Everyday urban peace: Experiences from a marginalised neighbourhood in Cali, Colombia	16
Intimate witnessing: Volunteer testimonies of everyday border violence	16
Displaceable! Precarious urban citizenship in Israel/Palestine	15
Decentralisation advocacy and inter-government coordination: A local government association perspective	14
Geek saviours to the rescue? Primitive accumulation, astropropriation, and exoimperialism in NewSpace entrepreneurship	14
The struggle against post-truth politics has always been about white supremacy: Lessons from the informational praxis of SNCC	13
The twinning of the Global East: Notes from South Korea-Vietnam sister cities	13
Solutions in search of a problem: Opening policy windows for Business Improvement Districts in the Nordic countries	12
Assemblages, cosmopolitics and controversies: Capturing the territorial and knowledge dimensions of infrastructural politics in Lebanon	12
Architecture, tactics and mobility – Appropriating space at a transport hub in Shanghai	11
The power of representation: Re-theorizing China’s land development as a state-led strategic discursive–material nexus	11
Spatial politics and struggle for hegemony: The role of Komala in the revolutionary movement of Iranian Kurdistan	11
The perfect (shit)storm: Discourses around the proposal to introduce a ‘climate passport’ in Germany	10
Bridgeheads of EU border externalisation? NGOs/CSOs and migration in Libya	10
‘Mainstreaming’ Meets ‘Choice and Control’: Unsettling Neoliberal Imaginaries of Service Choice	10
Cramp, choke and disperse: The economy of migrants’ confinement in the UK	10

Discursive vehicles and the making of infrastructures: Learning from Delhi and Québec	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
‘Where is the new constitution?’ Activist art and the politics of space in Iceland	9
Ambivalent states: Paradoxes of subjection in the Jordanian south	9
Planning and designing universal access to social services. A pioneering local program on welfare spaces in Italy	9
Politicizing the “unknown”: Territorial narratives, shared spatial imaginaries, and Bermuda’s oceans	9
Insurgent climate adaptation in Santiago de Cali: Resisting and reshaping flood-risk resettlements	8
The eviction room: How Carolina Maria de Jesus can help us analyze migration, segregation, and the politics of citizenship in the city	8
National sovereignty across city networks: Singapore and the diplomacy of a global city-state	8
Beyond resilience? State failure, mutual aid and local action	8
The moral and strategic clarity of supporting Ukraine’s self-defense: Why accepting Russian colonialism should remain a taboo	8
Displaced in place: Tracing displaceability in a housing strategy for a Bedouin community in Israel	8
Grounding legal geography: Conversations on law, space, and power across disparate geographies	8
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
Technoscientific imaging and the territorialization of ocean depth	7
Spatializing poverty: Media representations and perceptions of poverty in Lille, France	7
New energy vehicles and the political geoecology of China’s Ecological Civilisation	7
Chronicle of a “crisis” foretold: Asylum seekers and the case of Roxham Road on the Canada-US border	7
Towards a platformization of politics? Fragmentation, digitalization, and new geographies of the political party	7
The “designed surprise”: Rethinking the temporality of affect in policying the street	7
“Sentir su camino”: (Im)mobilities in the return of Venezuelan migrant women during the pandemic in Ecuador	7
Coercive geographies: Biopower, spatial politics, and the tourist	6
Technology of detachment: The promise of renewable energy and its contentious reality in the south of Colombia	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
Epidermal politics: Control, violence and dissent at the biometric border	6
A pluriversal environmental governance? Ontological differences and knowledge co-production in scientific panels	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
Grab it and change it, it’s yours: Affect, attitude and politics in 1970s Northern Irish punk music	6
Marielle’s seeds: Contesting the emotional life of corruption talk in Bolsonaro’s Brazil	6
“The Worker's Party sold out the street vendors”: Revanchist populism and the crisis of labor in Belo Horizonte, Brazil	6
The prefigurative politics of social movements and their processual production of space: The case of the indignados movement	6
Constructing the smart city beyond the state: Exploring the conditions for institutional change in Mexico City	6
“The cameras look at us when we be doin’ our dances”: Children’s everyday experience of securitization	6
Placing the peripheries within Brazil’s rightward turn: Socio-spatial transformation and electoral realignment, 2002–2018	6
Planning stories: When a small place faces ‘green’ mega-projects	6
Seeing beyond the state: Private sector-led smart city governance in BSD City, Indonesia	5
Beyond displacement: The role of real-estate valuations in shaping urban displaceability	5
Time and fragmentary politics in Cairo: Rethinking the ‘event’ through Kaya Behkalam’s Augmented Archive	5
Protest, exit, and border expansion in Cuba in the context of COVID-19	5
Territorial variance in the UK’s refugee politics and its consequences: Young Syrian refugees in England and Scotland	5
Becoming knowledgeable stakeholders: Enacting political and epistemic authority in a Swedish strategic urban planning project	5
Understanding variation in national climate change adaptation: Securitization in focus	5
Public housing in Aotearoa and Austria: A utopian comparison	5
City regions and decent work: Politics, pluralism and policy making in Greater Manchester	5
Ignoring people: The micro-politics of misrecognition in participatory governance	5
Navigating water justice in transforming hydrosocial territories: conflicts between local irrigation and water transfer in Gaoyou Irrigation District, China	5

The charismatic authorization of spiritual geopolitics in revolutionary Iran	5
Performative infrastructures: Populism and the material politics of militarization in contemporary Mexico	5
Environmental (in)justice and the post-political	5
Lockdown and the intimate: Entanglements of terror, virus, and militarism	5
Theorizing the spatiality of ICT-mediated transnational repression: Evidence from China’s repression of Uyghurs in Turkiye	5
Infrastructures of health and border control: Ukrainian refugees seeking healthcare in Poland	4
Logistics of unfreedom: The labour trafficking of Venezuelan truck drivers in Brazil	4
Orchestrating urban financialisation through urban intermediatory organisations? A case study of Taipei Housing and Urban Regeneration Centre in Taiwan	4
Building a better host city? Reforming and contesting the Olympics in Paris 2024	4
The politics of owing: Accounting, water disconnection, and austerity urbanism in Detroit	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
Repair, maintenance, and ordinary politics: Patronage relations in the Mexico City public markets’ network	4
Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking	4
The interface between politics, ethics and urban planning: The case of land and space barons in Harare, Zimbabwe	4
The geopolitics of outbound travel: Theorizing outgoing tourism as state strategy	4
Decoy politics: How settler states deflect Indigenous threats	4
Participatory drainage: Infrastructural citizenship in Montreal’s back alleys	4
Border practices and border games	4
Geographies of entitled anger: Revanchist populism in Brazil and beyond	4
Recentralisation in welfare? Measuring and comparing territorial governance change in Spain	4
Honoring pasts, escaping presents, and dwelling in futures: The Palestine land society village reconstruction competition	4
Departures: Space in the Frankfurt School	4
Geopolitics and genocide: The Gambia vs. Myanmar at the International Court of Justice	4
Thinking vulnerability infrastructurally: Interdependence and possibility in Lebanon’s overlapping crises	4
Chronotopic ruptures: (Dis)assembling Ljubljana’s Avtonomna Tovarna Rog	4
“When the force of public opinion gathers”: From online advocacy to policy engagement on pedestrian safety	4
Death world economy: Race, meat-processing plants, and COVID-19	4
The will to security: Law, order, and the shifting terrain of popular struggles	4
Smart futures: Temporality and speculative development in the smart city of Pune, India	4
Corrigendum to “Demystifying the Chinese local state: Planning and contesting urban growth at Hexi New Town, Nanjing”	4