Maria Kaïka

6.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
77 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Maria Kaïka is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Maria Kaïka has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 16 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in Maria Kaïka's work include Water Governance and Infrastructure (15 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (13 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (9 papers). Maria Kaïka is often cited by papers focused on Water Governance and Infrastructure (15 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (13 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (9 papers). Maria Kaïka collaborates with scholars based in Slovakia, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Maria Kaïka's co-authors include E Swyngedouw, Sophie Watson, Nik Heynen, Gary Bridge, Melissa García‐Lamarca, Ben Page, Irina Velicu, Roger Keil, Federico Caprotti and Nikki Luke and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology and Society, Urban Studies and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Maria Kaïka

65 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the ... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2006 2000 2017 2020 100 200 300 400 500
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. In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism
    2006 565 citations Maria Kaïka, E Swyngedouw et al. profile →
  2. Fetishizing the modern city: the phantasmagoria of urban technological networks
    2000 331 citations Maria Kaïka, E Swyngedouw profile →
  3. ‘Don’t call me resilient again!’: the New Urban Agenda as immunology … or … what happens when communities refuse to be vaccinated with ‘smart cities’ and indicators
    2017 305 citations Maria Kaïka profile →
  4. Moving urban political ecology beyond the ‘urbanization of nature’
    2020 102 citations Maria Kaïka et al. profile →

Peers

Maria Kaïka
Matthew Gandy United Kingdom
Karen Bakker Canada
Nik Heynen United States
Alex Loftus United Kingdom
David E. Booher United States
Henrik Ernstson Sweden
Michele Acuto Australia
Farhana Sultana United States
Frances Cleaver United Kingdom
Leila M. Harris Canada
Matthew Gandy United Kingdom
Maria Kaïka
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Countries citing papers authored by Maria Kaïka

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Fields of papers citing papers by Maria Kaïka

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maria Kaïka

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Maria Kaïka. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Maria Kaïka 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 Maria Kaïka. Maria Kaïka is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Kaïka, Maria, et al.. (2024). From austericide to recommoning: counter-imaginaries for democratizing water governance. Ecology and Society. 29(4).
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Kaïka, Maria, et al.. (2024). Class Meets Land. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 3 indexed citations
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Kaïka, Maria, et al.. (2024). Class Meets Land.
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Kaïka, Maria, et al.. (2023). Recommoning water: Crossing thresholds under citizen-driven remunicipalisation. Urban Studies. 60(16). 3294–3311. 4 indexed citations
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Kaïka, Maria, et al.. (2023). The Second Displacement of Refugees: Urban Regeneration Against Commoning Practices in Belgrade's Waterfront. Antipode. 56(1). 328–352. 1 indexed citations
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Kaïka, Maria, et al.. (2023). A performing arts centre for whom? Rethinking the architect as negotiator of urban imaginaries. Urban Studies. 61(2). 350–369. 1 indexed citations
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Kaïka, Maria, et al.. (2021). The Political Ecology of Austerity. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 2 indexed citations
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García‐Lamarca, Melissa & Maria Kaïka. (2016). ‘Mortgaged lives’: the biopolitics of debt and housing financialisation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 41(3). 313–327. 186 indexed citations
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Kaïka, Maria, et al.. (2015). Class Meets Land: The Social Mobilization of Land as Catalyst for Urban Change. Antipode. 47(3). 708–729. 22 indexed citations
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Kaïka, Maria, et al.. (2014). Kaika, M. and L. Karaliotas (2014). "The spatialization of democratic politics: Insights from indignant squares." European Urban and Regional Studies DOI: 10.1177/0969776414528928.. European Urban and Regional Studies. 2 indexed citations
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Swyngedouw, E & Maria Kaïka. (2014). L’ecologia política urbana. Grans promeses, aturades… i nous inicis?. Documents d Anàlisi Geogràfica. 60(3). 459–481. 25 indexed citations
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Swyngedouw, E & Maria Kaïka. (2014). Urban Political Ecology. Great Promises, Deadlock… and New Beginnings?. Documents d Anàlisi Geogràfica. 60(3). 459–481. 66 indexed citations
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Kaïka, Maria. (2010). Architecture and crisis: re-inventing the icon, re-imag(in)ing London and re-branding the City. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 35(4). 453–474. 104 indexed citations
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Swyngedouw, E & Maria Kaïka. (2006). ?Glocal? Urban Modernities: Exploring the Cracks in the Mirror. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 1 indexed citations
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Kaïka, Maria. (2005). Interrogating the Geographies of the Familiar. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 3 indexed citations
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Kaïka, Maria. (2004). City of Flows: Modernity, Nature, and the City. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 415 indexed citations
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Page, Ben & Maria Kaïka. (2003). The EU Water Framework Directive: part 2. Policy innovation and the shifting choreography of governance. European Environment. 13(6). 328–343. 72 indexed citations
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Kaïka, Maria. (2003). The Water Framework Directive: A New Directive for a Changing Social, Political and Economic European Framework. European Planning Studies. 11(3). 299–316. 221 indexed citations

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