OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Review is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
TERF wars: An introduction	121
Sex wars and (trans) gender panics: Identity and body politics in contemporary UK feminism	60
A critical commentary on ‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria’	53
The toilet debate: Stalling trans possibilities and defending ‘women’s protected spaces’	34
Care and affective relations: Social justice and sociology	29
Brexit as heredity redux: Imperialism, biomedicine and the NHS in Britain	29
Dis-mantling stigma: Parenting disabled children in an age of ‘neoliberal-ableism’	27
Race and racism in Poland: Theorising and contextualising ‘Polish-centrism’	26
Whose feminism is it anyway? The unspoken racism of the trans inclusion debate	24
More than ‘canaries in the gender coal mine’: A transfeminist approach to research on detransition	23
Autogynephilia: A scientific review, feminist analysis, and alternative ‘embodiment fantasies’ model	20
‘Neoliberal feminism’: Legitimising the gendered moral project of austerity	19
Punk is just a state of mind: Exploring what punk means to older punk women	19
Habitus in the context of transnationalization: From ‘transnational habitus’ to a configuration of dispositions and fields	17
The ‘Boomer remover’: Intergenerational discounting, the coronavirus and climate change	17
The coronavirus and the temporal order of capitalism: Sociological observations and the wisdom of a children’s book	17
Social movements as agents of change: Fighting intersectional food inequalities, building food as webs of life	17
‘Under attack’: Responsibility, crisis and survival anxiety amongst manager-academics in UK universities	16
A selfish generation? ‘Baby boomers’, values, and the provision of childcare for grandchildren	16
(Un)making illegality: Border control, racialized bodies and differential regimes of illegality in Morocco	15
Feminism will be trans-inclusive or it will not be: Why do two cis-hetero woman educators support transfeminism?	14
Afterword: TERF wars in the time of COVID-19	14
‘The student experience’ and the remaking of contemporary studenthood: A critical intervention	14
Responsibility, resilience and symbolic power	13
The conviviality of the overpoliced, detained and expelled: Refusing race and salvaging the human at the borders of Britain	12

Situating class in workplace and community environmentalism: Working-class environmentalism and deindustrialisation in Porto Marghera, Venice	12
Problematizing a popular panacea: A critical examination of the (continued) use of ‘social generations’ in youth sociology	12
Clutter in domestic spaces: Material vibrancy, and competing moralities	11
The ontological woman: A history of deauthentication, dehumanization, and violence	11
Exploring the racial habitus through John’s story: On race, class and adaptation	11
A new middle-class fraction with a distinct subjectivity: Tech workers and the transformation of the entrepreneurial self	11
Philanthrocapitalism as wealth management strategy: Philanthropy, inheritance and succession planning among the global elite	11
The role of asylum in processes of urban gentrification	11
Food in transition: The place of food in the theories of transition	11
Imposed volunteering: Gender and caring responsibilities during the COVID-19 lockdown	10
Feminised concern or feminist care? Reclaiming gender normativities in zero waste living	10
Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework: Scouring away the crisis?	9
Affective labour and class distinction in the night-time economy	9
Framing stigma as an avoidable social harm that widens inequality	9
Painting with data: Alternative aesthetics of qualitative research	8
Surveilling the marginalised: How manual, embodied and territorialised surveillance persists in the age of ‘dataveillance’	8
Independence and relationality in notions of adulthood across generations, gender and social class	8
Reconceptualising Judith Butler’s theory of ‘grievability’ in relation to the UK’s ‘war on obesity’: Personal responsibility, biopolitics and disposability	8
Postcolonial sociology as a remedy for global diffusion theory	8
Counter-talk as symbolic boundary drawing: Challenging legitimate cultural practices in individual and focus group interviews in the lower regions of social space	8
After progress: Experiments in the revaluation of values	7
Food for social change in Peru: Narrative and performance of the culinary nation	7
The coloniality of distinction: Class, race and whiteness among post-crisis Italian migrants	7
Political intersectionality and disability activism: Approaching and understanding difference and unity	7
Open-ended transitions to adulthood: Metaphorical thinking for times of stasis	7
Enacting efficient care within a context of rationalisation	7
Ways to care: Forms and possibilities of compassion within UK food banks	7
The idea of community and its practice: Tensions, disruptions and hope in Glasgow’s urban growing projects	6
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state	6
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK	6
Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability	6
COVID labour: Making a ‘livable’ life under lockdown	6
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment	6
Nobody becomes stigmatised ‘all at once’: An interactionist account of stigma on a modernist council estate	6
The future of data ownership: An uncommon research agenda	6
The Safe Standing movement: Vectors in the post-Hillsborough timescape of English football	6
Reaching in: Meaning-making, receiving context and inequalities in refugees’ support networks	6
Body pedagogics, transactionalism and vélo identities: Becoming a cyclist in motorised societies	6
Ugly progress: W. E. B. Du Bois’s sociology of the future	6
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement	5
Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Re-animalising wellbeing: Multispecies justice after development	5
Time structures in ethnomethodological and conversation analysis studies of practical activity	5
Ecological uncivilisation: Precarious world-making after progress	5
Exploring legacies of the baby boomers in the twenty-first century	5
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally: A toolkit	5
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: ‘To stand in the gap’ as a feminist approach	5
Situating decolonial strategies within methodologies-in/as-practices: A critical appraisal	5
The neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia and its ethnicity problem	5
Sex work abolitionism and hegemonic feminisms: Implications for gender-diverse sex workers and migrants from Brazil	5

Food consumption, habitus and the embodiment of social change: Making class and doing gender in urban Vietnam	5
Strategies of public intellectual engagement	5
Displaying family at a women’s refuge	5
Nation building and social change in the United Arab Emirates through the invention of Emirati cuisine	5