Galen Murton

791 total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 424 citations indexed

About

Galen Murton is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Galen Murton has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 424 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Galen Murton's work include Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (8 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 papers) and China's Global Influence and Migration (5 papers). Galen Murton is often cited by papers focused on Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (8 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 papers) and China's Global Influence and Migration (5 papers). Galen Murton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Estonia. Galen Murton's co-authors include Austin Lord, Alessandro Rippa, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Tyler Harlan, Robert Beazley, Mary Mostafanezhad, Thomas P. Narins and Michael Eilenberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Geoforum, Political Geography and Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

In The Last Decade

Galen Murton

19 papers receiving 390 citations

Hit Papers

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Views from the ground

2020 109 citations Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Galen Murton et al. Political Geography profile →

Peers

Galen Murton

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Alessandro Rippa Germany

Jamie S. Davidson Singapore

Dennis Rumley Australia

Austin Lord United States

Nicole Fabricant United States

Shaun Lin Singapore

Ben Hillman Australia

Jason Sumich United Kingdom

Didier Péclard Switzerland

Lawrence A. Herzog United States

Alessandro Rippa Germany

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Galen Murton

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Murton, Galen, et al.. (2025). Revisiting the frontier: colonial legacies and lived realities of Himalayan border-worlds. Territory Politics Governance. 13(8). 1059–1067.

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Murton, Galen. (2024). From goats to Gold Stars: trajectories of consumption, bureaucracy and territory in the Nepal-China borderlands. Territory Politics Governance. 13(8). 1129–1149. 1 indexed citations

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Murton, Galen & Thomas P. Narins. (2024). Corridors, chokepoints and the contradictions of the Belt and Road Initiative. Area Development and Policy. 9(4). 445–465. 6 indexed citations

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Murton, Galen. (2023). Beyond the BRI: the volumetric presence of China in Nepal. Territory Politics Governance. 12(1). 72–92. 5 indexed citations

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Murton, Galen. (2021). Power of blank spaces: A critical cartography of China's Belt and Road Initiative. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 62(3). 274–280. 17 indexed citations

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Murton, Galen, et al.. (2021). After Disasters. Transfers. 11(3). 120–130. 1 indexed citations

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Murton, Galen, et al.. (2021). Development Zones in Asian Borderlands. Multilingual Matters (Channel View Publications). 1 indexed citations

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Mostafanezhad, Mary, et al.. (2021). Territorialization on tour: The tourist gaze along the Silk Road Economic Belt in Kashgar, China. Geoforum. 128. 135–147. 23 indexed citations

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Rippa, Alessandro, et al.. (2020). Building Highland Asia in the Twenty-First Century. 6(2). 83–83. 8 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Gustavo de L. T., et al.. (2020). China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Views from the ground. Political Geography. 82. 102225–102225. 109 indexed citations breakdown →

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Murton, Galen. (2020). Roads to China and infrastructural relations in Nepal. Environment and Planning C Politics and Space. 38(5). 840–847. 10 indexed citations

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Murton, Galen. (2019). Facing the fence: The production and performance of a Himalayan border in global contexts. Political Geography. 72. 31–42. 21 indexed citations

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Murton, Galen & Austin Lord. (2019). Trans-Himalayan power corridors: Infrastructural politics and China's Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal. Political Geography. 77. 102100–102100. 81 indexed citations

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Murton, Galen. (2017). Bordering Spaces, Practising Borders: Fences, Roads and Reorientations across a Nepal–China Borderland. South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies. 40(2). 239–255. 9 indexed citations

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Lord, Austin & Galen Murton. (2017). Becoming Rasuwa Relief: Practices of Multiple Engagement in Post-Earthquake Nepal. HIMALAYA. 37(2). 12. 9 indexed citations

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Murton, Galen. (2017). Border Corridors: Mobility, Containment, and Infrastructures of Development Between Nepal and China. CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder). 5 indexed citations

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Murton, Galen. (2016). A Himalayan Border Trilogy: The Political Economies of Transport Infrastructure and Disaster Relief between China and Nepal. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 5 indexed citations

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Murton, Galen. (2016). Making Mountain Places into State Spaces: Infrastructure, Consumption, and Territorial Practice in a Himalayan Borderland. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 107(2). 536–545. 28 indexed citations

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Murton, Galen, Austin Lord, & Robert Beazley. (2016). “A handshake across the Himalayas:” Chinese investment, hydropower development, and state formation in Nepal. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 57(3). 403–432. 58 indexed citations

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Murton, Galen. (2013). Himalayan Highways: STS, the Spatial Fix, and Socio-Cultural Shifts in the Land of Zomia. Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. 12(5-6). 609–621. 7 indexed citations

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