Joel Wainwright

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Joel Wainwright is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel Wainwright has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Joel Wainwright's work include Political Economy and Marxism (19 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers) and Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (7 papers). Joel Wainwright is often cited by papers focused on Political Economy and Marxism (19 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers) and Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (7 papers). Joel Wainwright collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Korea. Joel Wainwright's co-authors include Joe Bryan, Geoff Mann, Morgan Robertson, Seung‐Ook Lee, Kristin L. Mercer, Sook‐Jin Kim, Hugo Perales, Jim Glassman, Kiran Asher and Pádraig Carmody and has published in prestigious journals such as Global Environmental Change, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In The Last Decade

Joel Wainwright

70 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Cartography, territory, property: postcolonial reflection... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 50 100 150 200
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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. Cartography, territory, property: postcolonial reflections on indigenous counter-mapping in Nicaragua and Belize
    2009 244 citations Joel Wainwright et al. Cultural Geographies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joel Wainwright United States 22 594 375 277 251 245 81 1.5k
Sharlene Mollett Canada 15 552 0.9× 217 0.6× 210 0.8× 259 1.0× 162 0.7× 27 1.1k
Juanita Sundberg Canada 19 759 1.3× 372 1.0× 634 2.3× 211 0.8× 337 1.4× 35 1.8k
Amita Baviskar India 17 614 1.0× 511 1.4× 107 0.4× 330 1.3× 144 0.6× 39 1.4k
Diana Ojeda Colombia 19 502 0.8× 267 0.7× 132 0.5× 283 1.1× 207 0.8× 37 1.2k
Harry G. West United Kingdom 16 857 1.4× 480 1.3× 110 0.4× 141 0.6× 172 0.7× 41 1.8k
Scott Prudham Canada 14 532 0.9× 510 1.4× 221 0.8× 317 1.3× 511 2.1× 22 1.7k
Andrew McGregor Australia 25 617 1.0× 180 0.5× 200 0.7× 187 0.7× 594 2.4× 100 1.7k
Mario Blaser Canada 15 494 0.8× 337 0.9× 363 1.3× 122 0.5× 189 0.8× 26 1.5k
Jenny Pickerill United Kingdom 22 866 1.5× 397 1.1× 321 1.2× 113 0.5× 130 0.5× 72 1.9k
Maano Ramutsindela South Africa 17 620 1.0× 230 0.6× 216 0.8× 144 0.6× 485 2.0× 76 1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joel Wainwright

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wainwright, Joel, et al.. (2023). Class processes and agrarian change in southern Belize, 1981–2020. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 50(7). 2851–2871. 1 indexed citations
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Carmody, Pádraig & Joel Wainwright. (2022). Contradiction and restructuring in the Belt and Road Initiative: reflections on China’s pause in the ‘Go world’. Third World Quarterly. 43(12). 2830–2851. 27 indexed citations
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Wainwright, Joel. (2022). Praxis. Rethinking Marxism. 34(1). 41–62. 3 indexed citations
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Wainwright, Joel. (2020). How Not to Think about Climate Change. GeoHumanities. 6(1). 205–214. 3 indexed citations
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Wainwright, Joel. (2019). Capital and Social Difference in Gramsci and Luxemburg. Rethinking Marxism. 31(1). 20–41.
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Mercer, Kristin L. & Joel Wainwright. (2018). Science in ‘the storm’: Reflections on politics and plant sciences today. Human Geography. 11(3). 1–10. 1 indexed citations
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Wainwright, Joel. (2017). What if Marx was an anarchist?. Dialogues in Human Geography. 7(3). 257–262. 1 indexed citations
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Wainwright, Joel. (2016). The Spatial Structure of World History. 4(4). 33–59. 2 indexed citations
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Wainwright, Joel. (2015). ReadingCapitalwithBeing and Time. Rethinking Marxism. 27(2). 160–176. 1 indexed citations
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Gidwani, Vinay & Joel Wainwright. (2014). On capital, not-capital, and development: After Kalyan Sanyal. Economic and political weekly. 49(34). 40–47. 22 indexed citations
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Wainwright, Joel & Geoff Mann. (2014). Climate Change and the Adaptation of the Political. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 105(2). 313–321. 27 indexed citations
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Mercer, Kristin L., Hugo Perales, & Joel Wainwright. (2012). Climate change and the transgenic adaptation strategy: Smallholder livelihoods, climate justice, and maize landraces in Mexico. Global Environmental Change. 22(2). 495–504. 78 indexed citations
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Wainwright, Joel. (2010). Climate Change, Capitalism, and the Challenge of Transdisciplinarity. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 100(4). 983–991. 47 indexed citations
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Lee, Seung‐Ook, Sook‐Jin Kim, & Joel Wainwright. (2010). Mad cow militancy: Neoliberal hegemony and social resistance in South Korea. Political Geography. 29(7). 359–369. 44 indexed citations
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Wainwright, Joel, et al.. (2009). OFFSHORING DISSENT. Critical Asian Studies. 41(3). 403–428. 5 indexed citations
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Mann, Geoff & Joel Wainwright. (2008). Marx Without Guardrails: Geographies of the Grundrisse. Antipode. 40(5). 848–856. 5 indexed citations
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Wainwright, Joel, et al.. (2007). Gene flow from transgenic maize to landraces in Mexico: An analysis. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 123(1-3). 109–115. 44 indexed citations
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Wainwright, Joel & Morgan Robertson. (2003). Territorialization, science and the colonial state: the case of Highway 55 in Minnesota. Cultural Geographies. 10(2). 196–217. 35 indexed citations

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