Deborah Cowen

2.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
28 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Deborah Cowen is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Cowen has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in Deborah Cowen's work include Urban Planning and Governance (6 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 papers) and Political and Economic history of UK and US (3 papers). Deborah Cowen is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (6 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 papers) and Political and Economic history of UK and US (3 papers). Deborah Cowen collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Deborah Cowen's co-authors include Neil Smith, Winona LaDuke, Charmaine Chua, Martin Danyluk, Laleh Khalili, Susannah Bunce, Emily Gilbert, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Shiri Pasternak and Tiffany D. Joseph and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Environment and Planning D Society and Space and Antipode.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Cowen

26 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

The Deadly Life of Logistics 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2018 2019 100 200 300 400
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. The Deadly Life of Logistics
    2014 456 citations Deborah Cowen University of Minnesota Press eBooks profile →
  2. Introduction: Turbulent Circulation: Building a Critical Engagement with Logistics
    2018 181 citations Charmaine Chua, Martin Danyluk et al. Environment and Planning D Society and Space profile →
  3. Following the infrastructures of empire: notes on cities, settler colonialism, and method
    2019 126 citations Deborah Cowen profile →

Peers

Deborah Cowen
David Featherstone United Kingdom
Marcus Power United Kingdom
Joe Painter United Kingdom
Vinay Gidwani United States
Hannah Knox United Kingdom
Natalie Koch United States
Penny Harvey United Kingdom
Gustav Visser South Africa
Tim Bunnell Singapore
Andrew Herod United States
David Featherstone United Kingdom
Deborah Cowen
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Countries citing papers authored by Deborah Cowen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Deborah Cowen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Cowen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Deborah Cowen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Deborah Cowen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Deborah Cowen. Deborah Cowen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cowen, Deborah & Emily Gilbert. (2024). War, Citizenship, Territory.
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Cowen, Deborah. (2023). Law as Infrastructure of Colonial Space: Sketches from Turtle Island. AJIL Unbound. 117. 5–10. 1 indexed citations
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Cowen, Deborah, et al.. (2023). Inscribing New Infrastructural Relations into the World. Radical History Review. 2023(147). 13–34. 1 indexed citations
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Pasternak, Shiri, et al.. (2022). Infrastructure, Jurisdiction, Extractivism: Keywords for decolonizing geographies. Political Geography. 101. 102763–102763. 24 indexed citations
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LaDuke, Winona & Deborah Cowen. (2020). Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure. South Atlantic Quarterly. 119(2). 243–268. 99 indexed citations
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Danyluk, Martin, et al.. (2019). Mapping a Many-Headed Hydra: Transnational Infrastructures of Extraction and Resistance. 1 indexed citations
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Chua, Charmaine, Martin Danyluk, Deborah Cowen, & Laleh Khalili. (2018). Introduction: Turbulent Circulation: Building a Critical Engagement with Logistics. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 36(4). 617–629. 181 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cowen, Deborah, Glenda Garelli, & Martina Tazzioli. (2018). Editors’ Interview with Deborah Cowen. South Atlantic Quarterly. 117(2). 397–403. 5 indexed citations
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Mann, Geoff, Charmaine Chua, Anja Kanngieser, Mazen Labban, & Deborah Cowen. (2017). Reading Deborah Cowen's The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade. Political Geography. 61. 263–271. 5 indexed citations
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Cowen, Deborah. (2014). The Deadly Life of Logistics. University of Minnesota Press eBooks. 456 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cowen, Deborah, et al.. (2013). Intimacy and the Everyday. 363–380. 7 indexed citations
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Cowen, Deborah, et al.. (2012). Neil Smith: A Critical Geographer. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 30(6). 947–962. 4 indexed citations
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Cowen, Deborah, et al.. (2011). Surplus Masculinities and Security. Antipode. 43(5). 1516–1541. 30 indexed citations
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Cowen, Deborah. (2010). A Geography of Logistics: Market Authority and the Security of Supply Chains. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 100(3). 600–620. 125 indexed citations
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Hyndman, Jennifer, Deborah Cowen, Natalie Oswin, Rupal Oza, & Audrey Kobayashi. (2010). Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Social & Cultural Geography. 11(4). 399–409. 2 indexed citations
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Cowen, Deborah, et al.. (2010). Dead Malls: Suburban Activism, Local Spaces, Global Logistics. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 35(4). 794–811. 61 indexed citations
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Cowen, Deborah & Emily Gilbert. (2008). The Politics of War, Citizenship, Territory. 9–38. 14 indexed citations
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Cowen, Deborah. (2006). Fighting for “Freedom”: The End of Conscription in the United States and the Neoliberal Project of Citizenship. Citizenship Studies. 10(2). 167–183. 31 indexed citations
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Cowen, Deborah. (2005). Suburban citizenship? The rise of targeting and the eclipse of social rights in Toronto. Social & Cultural Geography. 6(3). 335–356. 24 indexed citations
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Cowen, Deborah. (2005). Welfare Warriors: Towards a Genealogy of the Soldier Citizen in Canada. Antipode. 37(4). 654–678. 23 indexed citations

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