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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen	33
The familiar strange of sociological fiction	32
Owing the daughter-in-law: Bridewealth and the dynamics of intergenerational care in rural China	30
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste	23
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities	22
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies	21
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 2022	20
Financing elite education: Economic capital and the maintenance of class power in English private schools	20
Neoliberal multiculturalism and ethnic entrepreneurial self: A transnational perspective on ethnicity in China	20
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting	19
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?	18
Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability	17
Translating ‘Understanding’/ understanding translation: A reflexive approach	16
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’	16
Dystopian fiction, postcolonialism and non-human biography: Sociological speculatives and crisis complexity	15
Who counts in poverty research?	15
You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey	14
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats: (Mis)interpellation and subject positions in the face of citizenship revocation in Norway	14
Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes	14
Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making: Indigenous and feminist ecological reflections on the Listening Guide and the Live Methods Manifesto	14
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care	14
Rejecting resistance: Everyday resistance and harmony in Chinese hip-hop	14
Not coming out as affective care: LGBTQ+ individuals navigating the feeling landscape of intergenerational relationships	13
‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community	13
Varieties of alternativeness: Relational practices in collaborative housing in Vienna	13

Freedom and unfreedom in au pairing: Probing unfree labour from the perspective of social reproduction	12
Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’	12
From godkin to oddkin: Love, friendship and kin making beyond the human family	12
Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure	12
Creating a safer space: Being safe and doing safety in queer and feminist punk scenes*	12
Navigating cultural intimacies: Long-lasting friendships in the Scottish South Asian diasporas	11
Higher education and social recognition: On the moral dimension of pupils’ aspirations and choices in Chile	11
Introduction to Live Methods Revisited: The roots and conjuncture of Live Methods	11
The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments	11
Racialised mobilities in China	11
Becoming ‘working’ women: Formations of gender, class and caste in urban India	11
Foot notes: Retracing the steps towards diagnosis	11
Waiting for Tindaya: Modern ruins and indigenous futures in Fuerteventura	10
Children’s food, care and the practices of da pei in urban China	10
From Chateau Latour to Chateau Bourdieu: The sociology of wine between empire, class, ethnicity and gender (or, the oenologic of practice)	10
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal	10
An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism	10
The private life approach to the rise of neo-familism in China	10
Pluriversal intersectionality, critique and utopia	10
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence	9
Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda	9
What’s love got to do with it? Live methods and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention	9
Family strains, negative emotions and juvenile delinquency	9
Racialised terminologies and the BAME problematic: A perspective from football’s British South Asian senior leaders and executives	9
Some stories, more scenes	9
Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies	9
Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated’ citizens in post-Brexit Britain	9
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’	9
The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’	9
Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances	8
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism	8
Rifted subjects, fractured Earth: ‘Progress’ as learning to live on a self-transforming planet	8
Fiction in Goffman	8
Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism: Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s–1980s)	8
‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities	8
Following diversity through the university: On knowing and embodying a problem	7
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s	7
Sociologically unspeakable? The ethics of ethnography and live methods	7
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map	7
Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis	7
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID	7
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: Understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture	7
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk	7
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum	7
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload	7
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure	7
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement	7
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK	7
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
‘When we put our thoughts and ideas together, policy makers are listening to us’: Hope-work and the potential of participatory research	7

Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism	6
Organising for Change one year later – Response to the critics	6
The lines of descent of the present crisis	6
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’	6
Queering Southern Italy: Towards a conceptualisation of ‘Meridian Sexualities’	6
Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’	6
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future	6
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally: A toolkit	5
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy	5
Citizenship and discomfort: Wearing (clothing) as an embodied act of citizenship	5
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK	5
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment	5
Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society	5
Theorizing autonomy in the platform economy: A study of food delivery gig workers in Latvia	5
In search of unbordered homelands: Exploring the role of music in building affective internationalist politics of solidarity	5
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement	5
Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception: What’s the right age to know your donor relatives?	5
Dark waters, dark waters	5
The ‘where’ of EU social science collaborations: How epistemic inequalities and geopolitical power asymmetries persist in research about Europe	5
Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England	5
Non-binary embodiment and bodily discomfort: Body as social signum	5
The politics of the urban green: Class, morality and attachments to place	5
Claiming deservingness: The durability of social security claimant discourses during the Covid-19 pandemic	5
Afterword: Affective histories and class transmission	5
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state	5
Learning the post-Fordist feeling rules: Young women’s work orientations and negotiations of the work ethic	5
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal	5
The digital writing of human rights narratives: Failure, recognition, and the unruly inscriptions of database infrastructures	5
Disjunctive writing in the urban skinscape: Bodies, borders and the physiology of attention in a Rio de Janeiro favela	5
Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940	5
Tilting relationalities: Exploring the world through possible futures of agriculture	5