Don Mitchell

3.4k total citations
46 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Don Mitchell is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Don Mitchell has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Urban Studies, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Don Mitchell's work include Urban Planning and Governance (9 papers), American Environmental and Regional History (7 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 papers). Don Mitchell is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (9 papers), American Environmental and Regional History (7 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 papers). Don Mitchell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Don Mitchell's co-authors include Richard B. Walker, Lynn A. Staeheli, Nik Heynen, Mario T. García, Kafui Attoh, Scott Kirsch, Neil Smith, Nancy Cantor, Mark B. Robbins and Neil Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Urban Studies, Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In The Last Decade

Don Mitchell

45 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Don Mitchell United States 20 1.1k 683 491 411 283 46 2.2k
Alison Blunt United Kingdom 20 1.6k 1.4× 463 0.7× 410 0.8× 417 1.0× 275 1.0× 41 2.7k
Leonie Sandercock Canada 22 1.1k 0.9× 1.0k 1.5× 226 0.5× 178 0.4× 289 1.0× 56 2.3k
Deborah G. Martin United States 22 1.0k 0.9× 606 0.9× 265 0.5× 276 0.7× 206 0.7× 52 2.1k
Linda Peake Canada 21 1.1k 1.0× 431 0.6× 193 0.4× 425 1.0× 236 0.8× 49 1.8k
Jenny Pickerill United Kingdom 22 866 0.8× 333 0.5× 151 0.3× 321 0.8× 397 1.4× 72 1.9k
Audrey Kobayashi Canada 24 1.8k 1.6× 272 0.4× 274 0.6× 528 1.3× 270 1.0× 57 2.7k
Helga Leitner United States 18 1.3k 1.1× 377 0.6× 211 0.4× 209 0.5× 385 1.4× 23 1.8k
Katherine Brickell United Kingdom 23 1.2k 1.0× 331 0.5× 350 0.7× 177 0.4× 384 1.4× 77 1.9k
David Conradson United Kingdom 20 1.4k 1.2× 192 0.3× 484 1.0× 331 0.8× 155 0.5× 40 2.3k
Rüth Wilson Gilmore United States 9 1.6k 1.5× 238 0.3× 472 1.0× 324 0.8× 368 1.3× 14 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Don Mitchell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Don Mitchell

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All Works

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Mitchell, Don. (2015). Which Side are You On? From Haymarket to Now. Open Collections. 7(1). 59–68.
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Mitchell, Don. (2011). Homelessness, American Style. Urban Geography. 32(7). 933–956. 40 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don & Nik Heynen. (2009). The Geography of Survival and the Right to the City: Speculations on Surveillance, Legal Innovation, and the Criminalization of Intervention. Urban Geography. 30(6). 611–632. 156 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don. (2007). Work, struggle, death, and geographies of justice: The transformation of landscape in and beyond California's imperial valley. Landscape Research. 32(5). 559–577. 29 indexed citations
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Staeheli, Lynn A. & Don Mitchell. (2006). USA's Destiny? Regulating Space and Creating Community in American Shopping Malls. Urban Studies. 43(5-6). 977–992. 92 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don. (2005). Property Rights, the First Amendment, and Judicial Anti-Urbanism: The Strange Case ofVirginia V. Hicks. Urban Geography. 26(7). 565–586. 26 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don. (2004). Geography in an Age of Extremes: A Blueprint for a Geography of Justice. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 94(4). 764–770. 17 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don. (2002). Cultural landscapes: the dialectical landscape – recent landscape research in human geography. Progress in Human Geography. 26(3). 381–389. 79 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don, Eric Sheppard, Robert M. Wilson, David Prytherch, & Sallie A. Marston. (1999). Reviews: Cultural Geography, Spatial Formations, Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience, Cities for Citizens: Planning and the Rise of Civil Society in a Global Age. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 17(4). 495–504. 2 indexed citations
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Kirsch, Scott & Don Mitchell. (1998). Earth-Moving as the "Measure of Man": Edward Teller, Geographical Engineering, and the Matter of Progress. Social Text. 100–100. 11 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don, et al.. (1998). Spectacular failure, contested success: the Project Chariot bioenvironmental programme. Ecumene. 5(3). 287–302. 2 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don. (1997). The Annihilation of Space by Law: The Roots and Implications of Anti‐Homeless Laws in the United States. Antipode. 29(3). 303–335. 412 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don. (1996). POLITICAL VIOLENCE, ORDER, AND THE LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC SPACE: POWER AND THE PUBLIC FORUM DOCTRINE. Urban Geography. 17(2). 152–178. 48 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don. (1996). INTRODUCTION: PUBLIC SPACE AND THE CITY. Urban Geography. 17(2). 127–131. 59 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don. (1995). There's No Such Thing as Culture: Towards a Reconceptualization of the Idea of Culture in Geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 20(1). 102–102. 255 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don. (1992). Heritage, Landscape, and the Production of Community: Concensus History and its Alturnativesin Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania History A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 59(3). 198–226. 3 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don. (1969). Edward W. Soja, Seeking Spatial Justice (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Left History An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate. 15(1). 3 indexed citations

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