Mary Lawhon

2.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
60 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Mary Lawhon is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Mary Lawhon has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 22 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 21 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in Mary Lawhon's work include Water Governance and Infrastructure (18 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (15 papers) and Urban and Rural Development Challenges (13 papers). Mary Lawhon is often cited by papers focused on Water Governance and Infrastructure (18 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (15 papers) and Urban and Rural Development Challenges (13 papers). Mary Lawhon collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and United Kingdom. Mary Lawhon's co-authors include James T. Murphy, Henrik Ernstson, Jonathan Silver, Joseph R. Pierce, Shuaib Lwasa, Yaffa Truelove, David Nilsson, Nate Millington, Tyler McCreary and Zarina Patel and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Urban Studies and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Mary Lawhon

58 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Socio-technical regimes and sustainability transitions 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2013 2017 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. Socio-technical regimes and sustainability transitions
    2011 426 citations Mary Lawhon, James T. Murphy Progress in Human Geography profile →
  2. Provincializing Urban Political Ecology: Towards a Situated UPE Through African Urbanism
    2013 271 citations Mary Lawhon, Jonathan Silver et al. profile →
  3. Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations
    2017 262 citations Mary Lawhon, Jonathan Silver et al. profile →

Peers

Mary Lawhon
Jonathan Silver United Kingdom
Alex Loftus United Kingdom
Seth Schindler United Kingdom
Federico Demaria Spain
Etienne Nel South Africa
Franklin Obeng‐Odoom Australia
Richard Grant United States
Anna Davies Ireland
Sun Sheng Han Australia
Ambe J. Njoh United States
Jonathan Silver United Kingdom
Mary Lawhon
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Countries citing papers authored by Mary Lawhon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mary Lawhon

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mary Lawhon

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vij, Sumit, et al.. (2024). Infrastructure Imaginaries, Past, Present, and Future: Living with the Urban Flood in Guwahati, India. Journal of Urban Technology. 31(4-5). 219–240.
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Lawhon, Mary, et al.. (2024). African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?. Urban Geography. 45(4). 528–534.
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Lawhon, Mary, Alexander Follmann, Boris Braun, et al.. (2023). Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south. Futures. 154. 103270–103270. 15 indexed citations
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Lawhon, Mary & Tyler McCreary. (2023). Making UBI radical: On the potential for a universal basic income to underwrite transformative and anti-kyriarchal change. Economy and Society. 52(2). 349–372. 6 indexed citations
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Lawhon, Mary, et al.. (2022). What counts as infrastructural labour? Community action as waste work in South Africa. Area Development and Policy. 9(1). 24–44. 9 indexed citations
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Lawhon, Mary, et al.. (2021). Power, politics and a poo pump: Contestation over legitimacy, access and benefits of sanitation technology in Kampala. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 42(3). 415–430. 15 indexed citations
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Lawhon, Mary, et al.. (2018). Placing race: On the resonance of place with black geographies. Progress in Human Geography. 43(6). 1001–1019. 57 indexed citations
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Pierce, Joseph R., Mary Lawhon, & Tyler McCreary. (2018). From precarious work to obsolete labour? Implications of technological disemployment for geographical scholarship. Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography. 101(2). 84–101. 18 indexed citations
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Lawhon, Mary, et al.. (2016). Scale and the construction of environmental imaginaries in local news. South African Geographical Journal. 100(1). 1–21. 7 indexed citations
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Lawhon, Mary, et al.. (2016). Assessing local discourses on water in a South African newspaper. Local Environment. 22(2). 240–255. 7 indexed citations
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Lawhon, Mary, et al.. (2014). Reporting on Rhinos: Analysis of the Newspaper Coverage of Rhino Paoching. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Lawhon, Mary & Clare Herrick. (2013). Alcohol Control in the News: The Politics of Media Representations of Alcohol Policy in South Africa: Table 1. Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law. 38(5). 987–1021. 18 indexed citations
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Lawhon, Mary. (2012). Contesting power, trust and legitimacy in the South African e-waste transition. Policy Sciences. 45(1). 69–86. 21 indexed citations
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Lawhon, Mary & Clare Herrick. (2012). Shebeens in the news : contesting alcohol control policies in the western cape, South Africa. OpenDocs (Institute of Development Studies). 4 indexed citations
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Lawhon, Mary. (2011). Environmental issues in the South African media : a case study of the Natal Witness.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations
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Murphy, James T. & Mary Lawhon. (2011). Market intermediaries and rural people in Bolivia's forest products sector: Are trusting partnerships possible?. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 32(2). 203–219. 5 indexed citations
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Lawhon, Mary & James T. Murphy. (2011). Socio-technical regimes and sustainability transitions. Progress in Human Geography. 36(3). 354–378. 426 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lawhon, Mary, et al.. (1988). Plays About the Theatre in England, 1737-1800 Or, the Self Conscious Stage from Foote to Sheridan. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 5 indexed citations

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