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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen	31
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities	30
The familiar strange of sociological fiction	28
Owing the daughter-in-law: Bridewealth and the dynamics of intergenerational care in rural China	28
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste	23
Neoliberal multiculturalism and ethnic entrepreneurial self: A transnational perspective on ethnicity in China	22
Financing elite education: Economic capital and the maintenance of class power in English private schools	21
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?	20
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting	20
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 2022	19
Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability	19
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies	19
Translating ‘Understanding’/ understanding translation: A reflexive approach	18
Rejecting resistance: Everyday resistance and harmony in Chinese hip-hop	17
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’	17
Who counts in poverty research?	16
Dystopian fiction, postcolonialism and non-human biography: Sociological speculatives and crisis complexity	15
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care	15
Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making: Indigenous and feminist ecological reflections on the Listening Guide and the Live Methods Manifesto	14
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats: (Mis)interpellation and subject positions in the face of citizenship revocation in Norway	14
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	13
Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes	13
You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey	13
Not coming out as affective care: LGBTQ+ individuals navigating the feeling landscape of intergenerational relationships	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	12
‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community	12
Becoming ‘working’ women: Formations of gender, class and caste in urban India	12
Higher education and social recognition: On the moral dimension of pupils’ aspirations and choices in Chile	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	11
Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure	11
The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments	11
Introduction to Live Methods Revisited: The roots and conjuncture of Live Methods	10
Foot notes: Retracing the steps towards diagnosis	10
The private life approach to the rise of neo-familism in China	10
Waiting for Tindaya: Modern ruins and indigenous futures in Fuerteventura	10
Pluriversal intersectionality, critique and utopia	10
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal	10
Racialised mobilities in China	10
An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism	10
Children’s food, care and the practices of da pei in urban China	10
Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies	10
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence	9
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’	9
Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda	9
The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’	9
Family strains, negative emotions and juvenile delinquency	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
From Chateau Latour to Chateau Bourdieu: The sociology of wine between empire, class, ethnicity and gender (or, the oenologic of practice)	9
Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated’ citizens in post-Brexit Britain	9
Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism: Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s–1980s)	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
‘When we put our thoughts and ideas together, policy makers are listening to us’: Hope-work and the potential of participatory research	9
Rifted subjects, fractured Earth: ‘Progress’ as learning to live on a self-transforming planet	9
‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities	8
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map	8
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism	8
Fiction in Goffman	8
Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances	8
Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis	7
Following diversity through the university: On knowing and embodying a problem	7
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID	7
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s	7
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK	7
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum	7
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: Understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture	7
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement	7
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload	7
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: ‘To stand in the gap’ as a feminist approach	7
The lines of descent of the present crisis	7
Sociologically unspeakable? The ethics of ethnography and live methods	7

Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’	6
Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England	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
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk	6
The spectral material culture in ordinary life: Re-imagining obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)	6
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future	6
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal	6
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK	6
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure	6
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy	6
Organising for Change one year later – Response to the critics	6
Dark waters, dark waters	6
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment	5
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state	5
Theorizing autonomy in the platform economy: A study of food delivery gig workers in Latvia	5
Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940	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
Citizenship and discomfort: Wearing (clothing) as an embodied act of citizenship	5
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism	5
Non-binary embodiment and bodily discomfort: Body as social signum	5
Disjunctive writing in the urban skinscape: Bodies, borders and the physiology of attention in a Rio de Janeiro favela	5
Afterword: Affective histories and class transmission	5
Learning the post-Fordist feeling rules: Young women’s work orientations and negotiations of the work ethic	5
Tilting relationalities: Exploring the world through possible futures of agriculture	5
Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society	5
The politics of the urban green: Class, morality and attachments to place	5
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement	5
In search of unbordered homelands: Exploring the role of music in building affective internationalist politics of solidarity	5
Claiming deservingness: The durability of social security claimant discourses during the Covid-19 pandemic	5
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally: A toolkit	5