David Featherstone

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
67 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

David Featherstone is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, David Featherstone has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 21 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 11 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in David Featherstone's work include Political and Economic history of UK and US (11 papers), Labor Movements and Unions (9 papers) and Urban Planning and Governance (9 papers). David Featherstone is often cited by papers focused on Political and Economic history of UK and US (11 papers), Labor Movements and Unions (9 papers) and Urban Planning and Governance (9 papers). David Featherstone collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and Canada. David Featherstone's co-authors include Danny MacKinnon, Paul Chatterton, Paul Routledge, Kendra Strauss, Anthony Ince, Andrew Cumbers, Johanna Waters, Richard Phillips, Jenny Pickerill and Kevin Ward and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Progress in Human Geography and Geoforum.

In The Last Decade

David Featherstone

60 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Progressive localism and the construction of political al... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2012 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives
    2012 215 citations David Featherstone, Anthony Ince et al. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers profile →
  2. Solidarity
    2012 214 citations David Featherstone Zed Books profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Featherstone United Kingdom 22 1.1k 527 401 227 221 67 1.9k
Joe Painter United Kingdom 21 927 0.9× 697 1.3× 387 1.0× 164 0.7× 213 1.0× 47 1.8k
Jenny Pickerill United Kingdom 22 866 0.8× 397 0.8× 333 0.8× 135 0.6× 321 1.5× 72 1.9k
Gillian Hart United States 26 1.5k 1.4× 819 1.6× 455 1.1× 247 1.1× 118 0.5× 59 2.8k
Mike Davis United States 14 1.4k 1.3× 554 1.1× 1.0k 2.5× 268 1.2× 171 0.8× 48 3.0k
Leonie Sandercock Canada 22 1.1k 1.0× 289 0.5× 1.0k 2.5× 229 1.0× 178 0.8× 56 2.3k
Helga Leitner United States 18 1.3k 1.2× 385 0.7× 377 0.9× 124 0.5× 209 0.9× 23 1.8k
Ronan Paddison United Kingdom 20 1.1k 1.0× 468 0.9× 1.1k 2.8× 176 0.8× 193 0.9× 62 2.4k
Nina Laurie United Kingdom 24 797 0.7× 487 0.9× 212 0.5× 93 0.4× 133 0.6× 64 1.6k
Faranak Miraftab United States 20 786 0.7× 501 1.0× 947 2.4× 272 1.2× 61 0.3× 42 1.9k
Stefan Kipfer Canada 17 708 0.7× 355 0.7× 519 1.3× 186 0.8× 113 0.5× 35 1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Featherstone

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All Works

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Forkert, Kirsten, et al.. (2023). Solidarity against the odds: trade union activism in a hostile environment. Soundings. 82(82). 27–46. 1 indexed citations
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Featherstone, David. (2019). Reading subaltern studies politically: Histories From below, spatial relations and subalternity. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam).
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Penny, Joe, Clive Barnett, Crystal Legacy, et al.. (2019). Promises of the political: insurgent cities in a post-political environment. Urban Geography. 41(2). 312–329. 31 indexed citations
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Featherstone, David. (2019). Special issue introduction: maritime networks and transnational spaces. Global Networks. 19(4). 447–457. 4 indexed citations
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Featherstone, David. (2017). Anti-colonialism and the contested spaces of communist internationalism. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 2 indexed citations
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Featherstone, David. (2017). Reading Andy Pike’s origination. Dialogues in Human Geography. 7(1). 99–100. 1 indexed citations
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Hall, Stuart, et al.. (2016). Stuart Hall:: Selected Political Writings. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 3 indexed citations
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Featherstone, David, Kendra Strauss, & Danny MacKinnon. (2015). In, against and beyond neo-liberalism: The “crisis” and alternative political futures. Space and Polity. 19(1). 1–11. 19 indexed citations
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Ince, Anthony, David Featherstone, Andrew Cumbers, Danny MacKinnon, & Kendra Strauss. (2014). British Jobs for British Workers? Negotiating Work, Nation, and Globalisation through the Lindsey Oil Refinery Disputes. Antipode. 47(1). 139–157. 38 indexed citations
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Featherstone, David. (2013). ‘We Will Have Equality and Liberty in Ireland’: The Contested Geographies of Irish Democratic Political Cultures in the 1790s. 41. 120–136. 5 indexed citations
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Davies, Andrew & David Featherstone. (2013). Networking resistances: the contested spatialities of transnational social movement organising. 67(10). 940–5. 1 indexed citations
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Featherstone, David, Anthony Ince, Danny MacKinnon, Kendra Strauss, & Andrew Cumbers. (2012). Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 37(2). 177–182. 215 indexed citations breakdown →
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Featherstone, David. (2012). Solidarity. Zed Books. 214 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chatterton, Paul, David Featherstone, & Paul Routledge. (2012). Articulating Climate Justice in Copenhagen: Antagonism, the Commons, and Solidarity. Antipode. 45(3). 602–620. 197 indexed citations
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Featherstone, David. (2007). Skills for Heterogeneous Associations: The Whiteboys, Collective Experimentation, and Subaltern Political Ecologies. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 25(2). 284–306. 15 indexed citations
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Chatterton, Paul & David Featherstone. (2006). Intervention: Elsevier, critical geography and the arms trade. Political Geography. 26(1). 3–7. 23 indexed citations
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Featherstone, David. (2005). Atlantic networks, antagonisms and the formation of subaltern political identities. Social & Cultural Geography. 6(3). 387–404. 18 indexed citations
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