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This paper explores the structures of the critical literature on resilience by mapping the ways in which critical trajectories developed and travelled across thematic communities. We use bibliometric analysis to examine 49 years of scholarship on resilience from international relations, geography, political ecology, and other social science disciplines that foremost focused on questions of power, inequality, and social justice. As a result, this paper delves into the composition of different types of critique mobilised in resilience scholarship and identifies the interdependencies between modes of critical thought and their degree of interdisciplinary connectivity.

The idea of territory as a bounded, state-centric enclosure has been recently confronted with the help of decolonial insights. This paper attempts to overcome the resultant dichotomies between the statist and organic readings of territory by demonstrating how the making of the Russian state has been contingent on decolonial narratives and territorial imaginaries that have far exceeded the notions of the state as such. The Russian political geographic traditions have historically allowed for the coexistence of multiple and heterogeneous conceptions of territory, which were varyingly assembled to fit specific geo-political intentions. This paper delineates three ontological origins of the Russian territory that have consequently played key part in shaping the Russian territorial politics: (i) the ontology of commoning, deriving inspiration from communal land use and the collective autonomy of the peasant society, (ii) the ontology of assembling, grounded in the anthropogeographical imaginary of the 'borderless' Eurasian landmass and its nomadic livelihoods, and (iii) the ontology of peopling, grounded in the taxonomies of modernization and rational distribution of human subjects. Scrutinizing the interplay of these ontologies extends the understanding of the porosity and plurality of the concept of territory and offers insights into the roots of Russia's own geo-political worldviews and their coloniality.