Upland Geopolitics
Social Sciences
Open Access · Hybrid
The Story So Far
Short impact summary
Upland Geopolitics (2022), published by University of Washington Press. Scholarly uptake (strength 0.6). 17 citations — measurable academic uptake.
Full narrative
Upland Geopolitics was published by University of Washington Press in 2022. Conceptually, the work connects to Geopolitics, Geography, Political science, Politics and Law.
OpenAlex records 17 citations. Citations peaked in 2025 with 15 citing works. Notable citing venues include The Journal of Peasant Studies, Globalizations and Cambridge University Press eBooks. Inferred role: Scholarly uptake.
33 recorded downloads via open-access infrastructure.
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17
Total Citations
⭐ Top 10% Cited
2025–2026
33
Downloads (OAPEN)
2022 (Jan–Oct)
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🎓 Academic & Scientific
Scholarly uptake
Moderate
Strong (≥0.80)
Moderate (0.50–0.79)
Emerging (<0.50)
Access Availability
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780295750507
- OA status: Hybrid
- Landing page: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780295750507
- DOAB: https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/91653
Attention landscape Event Data
This work has 0 recorded events globally.
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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. 94.1% come from the Top 10 institutions. Median citing paper cited 0 times itself.
article (16)book (1)
The Journal of Peasant StudiesGlobalizationsDevelopment and Change
United States of America (9)
Netherlands (7)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2)
Australia (1)
Azerbaijan (1)
Belgium (1)
Bolivia, Plurinational State of (1)
Canada (1)
China (1)
Colombia (1)
Spain (1)
Indonesia (1)
Institutional sectors
Education (16)
Archive (1)
Facility (1)
Nonprofit (1)
Other (1)
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (5)
- 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)
- Universitas Gadjah Mada (1)
- The University of Melbourne (1)
- Sergio Coronado (2)
- Angela Serrano (2)
- Pamela McElwee (1)
- Hilary Oliva Faxon (1)
- Michael B. Dwyer (1)
- Miles Kenney‐Lazar (1)
- Juliet Lu (1)
- Rocío del Pilar Peña Huertas (1)
- Nathan Badenoch (1)
- Jampel Dell’Angelo (1)
- Ian G. Baird (1)
- Arnim Scheidel (1)
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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Contributors & affiliations OpenAlex
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Authors
- Michael B. Dwyer First Corresponding ORCID
Concepts & topics OpenAlex
5 specific concepts identified.
Geopolitics
Geography
Political science
Politics
Law
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Citations OpenAlex
17 citing works (most recent first)
| Year | Title | Venue | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sustainable Development and the Environment in Southeast Asia | Cambridge University Press eBooks | 10.1017/9781108855334 |
| 2025 | Land grabbing, land dispossession, land rush: what can we learn from Colombia? | The Journal of Peasant Studies | 10.1080/03066150.2025.2554822 |
| 2025 | Global land rush and local resistance: political struggles in ‘failed’ land deals | Globalizations | 10.1080/14747731.2025.2514420 |
| 2025 | The persistence of swidden cultivation and upland autonomy in Laos | The Journal of Peasant Studies | 10.1080/03066150.2024.2440539 |
| 2025 | Environmental precarity, the state and contract farming in the Mekong Delta | The Journal of Peasant Studies | 10.1080/03066150.2025.2460207 |
| 2025 | Dispossession by archive: contemporary land grabbing through colonial land deeds in Indonesia | The Journal of Peasant Studies | 10.1080/03066150.2025.2517711 |
| 2025 | Militarized borderlands: Resistant ecologies and refugee networks at the margins of states | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space | 10.1177/25148486251353632 |
| 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 | The ‘return’ of land grabbing? | The Journal of Peasant Studies | 10.1080/03066150.2025.2557012 |
| 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 | ‘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 | Revolutions of Rice – Agrarian Acceleration and Modernist Metanarratives among ‘Indigenous’ Peasants in Laos | Anthropological Forum | 10.1080/00664677.2025.2496676 |
| 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 |
| 2026 | Hidden Smoke: Air Pollution, Agrarian Change, and Governance Gaps in Luang Prabang, Laos | Critical Asian Studies | 10.1080/14672715.2026.2659068 |
| 2026 | Land Rush in Contemporary Paraguay: Agricultural Commodity Frontier, State and Illegality | Development and Change | 10.1111/dech.70072 |