Upland Geopolitics
The Story So Far
Short impact summary
Upland Geopolitics (2022), published by University of Washington Press, has been cited 17 times — enough that OpenAlex puts it in the top 10% of works in its field and year. Beyond that, it is used in teaching.
Full narrative
Upland Geopolitics by Michael B. Dwyer was published by University of Washington Press in 2022. Conceptually, the work connects to Geopolitics, Geography, Political science, Politics and Law. The book was recognised: ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Anthropology.
OpenAlex records 17 citations. That places it in the top 10% of works in its field and year of publication. Citations peaked in 2025 with 15 citing works. Notable citing venues include The Journal of Peasant Studies, Globalizations and Development and Change. The citing works include 16 journal articles and 1 book. They come from 12 countries, led by the United States, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
In teaching, it is discussed in 2 recorded lectures. It has been downloaded 88 times via Ubiquity Press.
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Access Availability
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780295750507
- OA status: Gold
- OA source: DOAB
- OA basis: DOAB record found for this title
- OA evidence chain: DOAB → Publisher-claimed → ACLS/Arcadia rule → OpenAlex/Crossref
- Landing page: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780295750507
- DOAB: https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/91653
Reader reception Books
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- 🏆 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Anthropology
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Who is citing this work? OpenAlex
Analysis of 17 citing works. 100.0% come from the Top 10 institutions. See the full list on OpenAlex →
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (5)
- International Institute of Social Studies (4)
- University of Cambridge (2)
- Indiana University (2)
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1)
- Leiden University (1)
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1)
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (1)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (1)
- University of British Columbia (1)
- Universidad de Los Andes (1)
- Universitas Gadjah Mada (1)
- The University of Melbourne (1)
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (1)
- Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (1)
- Indiana University Bloomington (1)
- Agricultural Research Center (1)
- Dublin City University (1)
- China Agricultural University (1)
- Trinity College (1)
- University of Montana (1)
- Villanova University (1)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1)
- University of Amsterdam (1)
- Universidad del Rosario (1)
- Sergio Coronado (2)
- Angela Serrano (2)
- Pamela D. McElwee (1)
- Hilary Oliva Faxon (1)
- Michael B. Dwyer (1)
- Miles Kenney‐Lazar (1)
- Juliet N. Lu (1)
- Rocío del Pilar Peña Huertas (1)
- Nathan Badenoch (1)
- Jampel Dell’Angelo (1)
- Ian G. Baird (1)
- Arnim Scheidel (1)
- Yunan Xu (1)
- Itayosara Rojas Herrera (1)
- Paul‐David Lutz (1)
- Sai Sam Kham (1)
- Xiangming Chen (1)
- D. Fajardo (1)
- Annie Shattuck (1)
- Bayu Dardias Kurniadi (1)
- Danik Song (1)
- Ward Berenschot (1)
- Saturnino M. Borras (1)
- Ruth Hall (1)
- Diana Ojeda (1)
- Dianto Bachriadi (1)
- Diana Suhardiman (1)
- Danny Marks (1)
- Julio Arias Vanegas (1)
- Saturnino M. Borras (1)
- Lamphay Inthakoun (1)
- T.H. Ho (1)
- Doi Ra (1)
- Hilma Safitri (1)
- Rizki Maulana Hakim (1)
- Sylvia Kay (1)
- VALDEMAR JOAO WESZ (1)
- Eang Vuthy (1)
Open Science Signals PRISM
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Open Peer Review PRISM
- Status: No explicit PRISM review record returned
- Interpretation: neutral signal — this does not mean the book had no peer review; only that PRISM returned no explicit title-level review metadata.
- Publisher context: University of Washington Press
Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption
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Video Lectures & Presentations YouTube Transcripts
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Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush - Book Talk with Michael B. Dwyer UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs"...Discussed in video...."AI Academic Confidence: 90%
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Book Talk - Upland Geopolitics: Grounding the Global Land Rush in Postwar Laos SOAS University of London"...Discussed in video...."AI Academic Confidence: 100%
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Authors
- Michael B. Dwyer First Corresponding ORCID
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Citations OpenAlex
| Year | Title | Venue | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Land Rush in Contemporary Paraguay: Agricultural Commodity Frontier, State and Illegality | Development and Change | 10.1111/dech.70072 |
| 2026 | Hidden Smoke: Air Pollution, Agrarian Change, and Governance Gaps in Luang Prabang, Laos | Critical Asian Studies | 10.1080/14672715.2026.2659068 |
| 2025 | Zone, city, border, corridor: Recombined territoriality, infrastructural coupling, and geoeconomic regionalization across the China‐Laos nexus and beyond | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography | 10.1111/sjtg.70044 |
| 2025 | The spectacular global land rush: its character, extent and consequences | Globalizations | 10.1080/14747731.2025.2585580 |
| 2025 | After the land rush: land and social life in Cambodia | Globalizations | 10.1080/14747731.2025.2583305 |
| 2025 | The spectacular commodity and land rush in Myanmar: its extent and consequences | Globalizations | 10.1080/14747731.2025.2571382 |
| 2025 | Land grabbing, land dispossession, land rush: what can we learn from Colombia? | The Journal of Peasant Studies | 10.1080/03066150.2025.2554822 |
| 2025 | The ‘return’ of land grabbing? | The Journal of Peasant Studies | 10.1080/03066150.2025.2557012 |
| 2025 | The politics of paper landscapes: making sense of ‘bad’ numbers in the global land rush | The Journal of Peasant Studies | 10.1080/03066150.2025.2549906 |
| 2025 | Sustainable Development and the Environment in Southeast Asia | Cambridge University Press eBooks | 10.1017/9781108855334 |
| 2025 | Militarized borderlands: Resistant ecologies and refugee networks at the margins of states | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space | 10.1177/25148486251353632 |
| 2025 | Dispossession by archive: contemporary land grabbing through colonial land deeds in Indonesia | The Journal of Peasant Studies | 10.1080/03066150.2025.2517711 |
| 2025 | Global land rush and local resistance: political struggles in ‘failed’ land deals | Globalizations | 10.1080/14747731.2025.2514420 |
| 2025 | ‘We are all Pana here, but there are no real Pana left’ : language in cultural adaptation in the Laos-China border area | Asian Ethnicity | 10.1080/14631369.2025.2476770 |
| 2025 | Environmental precarity, the state and contract farming in the Mekong Delta | The Journal of Peasant Studies | 10.1080/03066150.2025.2460207 |
| 2025 | The persistence of swidden cultivation and upland autonomy in Laos | The Journal of Peasant Studies | 10.1080/03066150.2024.2440539 |
| 2025 | Revolutions of Rice – Agrarian Acceleration and Modernist Metanarratives among ‘Indigenous’ Peasants in Laos | Anthropological Forum | 10.1080/00664677.2025.2496676 |
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