Alex Loftus

3.1k total citations
48 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Alex Loftus is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Loftus has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Alex Loftus's work include Water Governance and Infrastructure (25 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 papers) and Political Economy and Marxism (9 papers). Alex Loftus is often cited by papers focused on Water Governance and Infrastructure (25 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 papers) and Political Economy and Marxism (9 papers). Alex Loftus collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Canada. Alex Loftus's co-authors include Michael Ekers, Hug March, Farhana Sultana, David A. McDonald, Thomas Purcell, Vandana Desai, Geoff Mann, Pieter van der Zaag, Giuliana Ferrero and Maria Rusca and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Urban Studies and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Alex Loftus

47 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Loftus United Kingdom	26	1.2k	808	401	349	241	48	2.1k
Mary Lawhon United States	19	726 0.6×	556 0.7×	606 1.5×	201 0.6×	53 0.2×	60	1.9k
Lyla Mehta United Kingdom	26	771 0.7×	981 1.2×	161 0.4×	90 0.3×	418 1.7×	103	2.6k
Kathryn Furlong Canada	18	671 0.6×	487 0.6×	181 0.5×	97 0.3×	203 0.8×	42	1.3k
Etienne Nel South Africa	27	939 0.8×	693 0.9×	769 1.9×	77 0.2×	33 0.1×	154	2.5k
Federico Demaria Spain	19	418 0.4×	862 1.1×	167 0.4×	120 0.3×	75 0.3×	38	2.3k
Michael Goldman United States	15	468 0.4×	565 0.7×	382 1.0×	74 0.2×	51 0.2×	49	1.5k
Graham Haughton United Kingdom	28	1.1k 0.9×	695 0.9×	1.4k 3.5×	150 0.4×	46 0.2×	115	3.3k
Tom Perreault United States	14	664 0.6×	686 0.8×	64 0.2×	155 0.4×	86 0.4×	25	1.7k
Gary Bridge United Kingdom	24	388 0.3×	1.0k 1.3×	1.2k 2.9×	253 0.7×	30 0.1×	48	2.4k
Norman Uphoff United States	17	309 0.3×	568 0.7×	96 0.2×	45 0.1×	77 0.3×	50	2.1k

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Purcell, Thomas, Alex Loftus, & Hug March. (2025). Value-rent-finance in Spain's solar transition. Environment and Planning E Nature and Space. 8(4). 1233–1255. 1 indexed citations

Loftus, Alex, et al.. (2022). Endless modernisation: Power and knowledge in the Green Morocco Plan. Environment and Planning E Nature and Space. 6(1). 87–112. 13 indexed citations

Loftus, Alex, et al.. (2021). (In) segurança hídrica: garantindo o direito à água. GEOUSP Espaço e Tempo (Online). 25(2). 2 indexed citations

Ekers, Michael & Alex Loftus. (2019). On “the Concrete”: Labour, Difference and Method. Antipode. 52(1). 78–100. 7 indexed citations

Purcell, Thomas, Alex Loftus, & Hug March. (2019). Value–rent–finance. Progress in Human Geography. 44(3). 437–456. 60 indexed citations

Loftus, Alex. (2019). Political ecology III: Who are ‘the people’?. Progress in Human Geography. 44(5). 981–990. 18 indexed citations

Loftus, Alex. (2018). Political ecology II: Whither the state?. Progress in Human Geography. 44(1). 139–149. 62 indexed citations

Loftus, Alex. (2017). Political ecology I: Where is political ecology?. Progress in Human Geography. 43(1). 172–182. 49 indexed citations

Loftus, Alex & Hug March. (2017). Integrating what and for whom? Financialisation and the Thames Tideway Tunnel. Urban Studies. 56(11). 2280–2296. 26 indexed citations

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Loftus, Alex, Hug March, & Fiona Nash. (2016). Water infrastructure and the making of financial subjects in the South East of England. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 24 indexed citations

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Brooks, Andrew & Alex Loftus. (2016). Africa's passive revolution: crisis in Malawi. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 41(3). 258–272. 12 indexed citations

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Loftus, Alex. (2014). Water (in)security: securing the right to water. Geographical Journal. 181(4). 350–356. 53 indexed citations

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Loftus, Alex. (2012). Everyday Environmentalism. University of Minnesota Press eBooks. 151 indexed citations

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Loftus, Alex. (2012). Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology. Research Portal (King's College London). 100 indexed citations

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Loftus, Alex. (2011). Thinking relationally about water: review based on Linton's What is water?. Geographical Journal. 177(2). 186–188. 6 indexed citations

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Ekers, Michael, Alex Loftus, & Geoff Mann. (2009). Gramsci Lives!. Geoforum. 40(3). 287–291. 53 indexed citations

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Loftus, Alex. (2008). The Theses on Feuerbach as a political ecology of the possible. Area. 41(2). 157–166. 10 indexed citations

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Loftus, Alex, et al.. (2007). Reworking hegemony in the urban waterscape. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 33(1). 109–126. 61 indexed citations

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Loftus, Alex. (2006). Reification and the Dictatorship of the Water Meter. Antipode. 38(5). 1023–1045. 110 indexed citations

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Loftus, Alex & David A. McDonald. (2001). Of liquid dreams: a political ecology of water privatization in Buenos Aires. Environment and Urbanization. 13(2). 179–199. 4 indexed citations

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