| Governing water insecurity: Navigating indigenous water rights and regulatory politics in settler colonial states NJ Wilson, T Montoya, R Arseneault, A Curley Water International 46 (6), 783-801, 2021 | 83 | 2021 |
| Unsettling Indian water settlements: The little Colorado river, the San Juan River, and colonial enclosures A Curley Antipode 53 (3), 705-723, 2021 | 83 | 2021 |
| A failed green future: Navajo Green Jobs and energy “transition” in the Navajo Nation A Curley Geoforum 88, 57-65, 2018 | 80 | 2018 |
| Infrastructures as colonial beachheads: The Central Arizona Project and the taking of Navajo resources A Curley Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 39 (3), 387-404, 2021 | 76 | 2021 |
| “Our winters’ rights”: Challenging colonial water laws A Curley Global Environmental Politics 19 (3), 57-76, 2019 | 76 | 2019 |
| T’áá hwó ají t’éego and the Moral Economy of Navajo Coal Workers A Curley Annals of the American Association of Geographers 109 (1), 71-86, 2019 | 55 | 2019 |
| K’e, Hozhó, and non-governmental politics on the Navajo Nation: Ontologies of difference manifest in Environmental Activism DE Powell, A Curley Anthropological Quarterly 81 (30), 109-138, 2008 | 55 | 2008 |
| Decolonisation is a political project: Overcoming impasses between indigenous sovereignty and abolition A Curley, P Gupta, L Lookabaugh, C Neubert, S Smith Antipode 54 (4), 1043-1062, 2022 | 50 | 2022 |
| Resources is just another word for colonialism A Curley The Routledge handbook of critical resource geography, 79-90, 2021 | 44 | 2021 |
| Against colonial grounds: Geography on Indigenous lands A Curley, S Smith Dialogues in Human Geography 10 (1), 37-40, 2020 | 44 | 2020 |
| Carbon sovereignty: Coal, development, and energy transition in the Navajo Nation A Curley University of Arizona Press, 2023 | 39 | 2023 |
| Already existing dystopias: Tribal sovereignty, extraction, and decolonizing the Anthropocene A Curley, M Lister Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State, 251-262, 2020 | 35 | 2020 |
| Indigenous youth and decolonial futures: Energy and environmentalism among the Diné in the Navajo Nation and the Lepchas of Sikkim, India MD Gergan, A Curley Antipode 55 (3), 749-769, 2023 | 22 | 2023 |
| Beyond environmentalism:# NoDAPL as assertion of tribal sovereignty A Curley Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the# NODAPL movement, 158-165, 2019 | 20 | 2019 |
| The cene scene: Who gets to theorize global time and how do we center indigenous and black futurities? A Curley, S Smith Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 7 (1), 166-188, 2024 | 17 | 2024 |
| Dams and tribal land loss in the United States H Randell, A Curley Environmental Research Letters 18 (9), 094001, 2023 | 13 | 2023 |
| The Origin of Legibility: Rethinking Colonialism and Resistance among the Navajo People, 1868-1937 A Curley Diné perspectives: Revitalizing and reclaiming Navajo thought, 129-50, 2014 | 12 | 2014 |
| Addressing food-energy-water insecurities of the Navajo Nation through university community collaboration K Chief, R Arnold, A Curley, J Hoover, M Kacira, V Karanikola, ... Water Resources IMPACT 23 (1), 31-33, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| Navajo nation constitutional feasibility and government reform project R Yazzie, M Benally, A Curley, N Alex, J Singer, A Crotty Diné Policy Institute, 1-71, 2008 | 7 | 2008 |
| Dóó nal yea dah: considering the logic of the Diné Natural Resource Protection Act of 2005 and the Desert Rock power plant project A Curley Diné Policy Institute, February, 2008 | 7 | 2008 |