OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Studies in Society and History is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Colony and Empire, Colonialism and Imperialism: A Meaningful Distinction?	14
The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Making History in a Tight Corner	13
Burying “Zik of Africa”: The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis	11
Subterranean Properties: India's Political Ecology of Coal, 1870–1975	7
Freeport and the States: Politics of Corporations and Contemporary Colonialism in West Papua	7
Hegemonic Muslim Masculinities and Their Others: Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia	6
The Sufi and the Sickle: Theorizing Mystical Marxism in Rural Pakistan	6
Making Reliable Persons: Managing Descent and Genealogical Computation in Pakistan	5
Reconnecting Language and Materiality in Christian Reading: A Comparative Analysis of Two Groups of Protestant Women	5
The Plantation's Outsides: The Work of Settlement in Kalimpong, India	5
The Things They Carried (and Kept): RevisitingOstalgiein the Global South	5
Can Muslims Drink? Rumi Vodka, Persianate Ideals, and the Anthropology of Islam	4
The Evolution of Social Darwinism in China, 1895–1930	4
“Tomorrow belongs to us”: Pathways to Activism in Italian Far-Right Youth Communities	4
The Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies	4
Hindu: A History	4
Ceremony, Medicine, Caffeinated Tea: Unearthing the Forgotten Faces of the North American Stimulant Yaupon (Ilex vomitoria)	3
Naming Others: Translation and Subject Constitution in the Central Highlands of Angola (1926–1961)	3
Indonesia’s Cigarette Culture Wars: Contesting Tobacco Regulations in the Postcolony	3
Reassessing Reification: Ethnicity amidst “Failed” Governmentality in Burma and India	3
Toward Early Modern Archivality: The Perils of History in the Age of Neo-Eurocentrism	3
A Tale of Two Coffee Colonies: Environment and Slavery in Suriname and Saint-Domingue, ca. 1750–1790	3
Francisco Franco Is Back: The Contested Reemergence of a Fascist Moral Exemplar	3
The Very Grounds Underlying Twentieth-Century Authoritarian Regimes: Building Soil Fertility in Italian Libya and the Brazilian Cerrado	3
Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Afterlives of Genocide in Anatolia	3

The Fallen Soldier as Fascist Exemplar: Military Cemeteries and Dead Heroes in Mussolini’s Italy	2
Differences over Difference: Sino-Russian Friendship at Interstate and Interpersonal Scales	2
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran	2
Scientific Ghostwriting in the Amazon? The Role of Experts in the Lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador	2
Slavery and the “American Way of War,” 1607–1861	2
“A question of bank notes, cars, and houses!” Matchmaking and the Moral Economy of Love in Urban China	2
Slavery and Its Transformations: Prolegomena for a Global and Comparative Research Agenda	2
The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate	2
Mapping Urban “Mixing” and Intercommunal Relations in Late Ottoman Jerusalem: A Neighborhood Study	2
Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism	2
When Palestinians Became Human Shields: Counterinsurgency, Racialization, and the Great Revolt (1936–1939)	2
Religious Authority beyond Domination and Discipline: Epistemic Authority and Its Vernacular Uses in the Shi‘i Diaspora	2
Toward a Comparative History of Racial Thought in Africa: Historicism, Barbarism, Autochthony	2
Cultivating “Care”: Colonial Botany and the Moral Lives of Oil Palm at the Twentieth Century’s Turn	2
Ethnic Hatred and Universal Benevolence: Ethnicity and Loyalty in Precolonial Myanmar, and Britain	2
Ordinary Exemplars: Cultivating “the Everyday” in the Birthplace of Fascism	2
“Why don’t I forgive? They didn’t ask for forgiveness!”: Manich Msamah and Tunisia’s Politics of Unforgiveness	2
Prison of the Womb: Gender, Incarceration, and Capitalism on the Gold Coast of West Africa, c. 1500–1957	2
Erosion by Design: Rethinking Innovation, Sea Defense, and Credibility in Guyana	2
Dreams of Development in Mexico and Spain: A Comparative History of Guestworkers and Migration Diplomacy	1
Peaceful Wars and Unlikely Unions: The Azhar Strike of 1909 and the Politics of Comparison in Egypt	1
Building Merit: The Moral Economy of the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Rural, Post-Socialist Eastern Mongolia	1
Editorial Foreword	1
Editorial Foreword	1
Botánica Sephardica	1
Making Sense of “Senseless Violence”: Thoughts on Agrarian Elites and Collective Violence during “Reconstruction” in South Africa and the American South	1
Hitler, for Example: Registers of National Socialist Exemplarity in Contemporary Germany	1
A Slippery Sovereignty: International Law and the Development of British Cochin	1
Indigenous Knowledge and Ontological Difference? Ontological Pluralism, Secular Public Reason, and Knowledge between Indigenous Amazonia and the West	1
Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters: Alaska Natives, Taxation, and Settler Colonialism	1
Megasthenes on the Military Livestock of Chandragupta and the Making of the First Indian Empire	1
The Rise of Islamic Society: Social Change, State Power, and Historical Imagination	1
Putting Neoliberalism in a Place: A Memory Site, Urban Restructuring, and Property’s Entanglements in Chile	1
The Illusion of Abstraction	1
The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy	1
Religion in the Folded City: Origami and the Boundaries of the Chronotope	1
Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa	1
Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits	1
Black Police Power: The Political Moment of the Jamaica Constabulary	1
Blagoustroistvo: Infrastructure, Determinism, (Re-)coloniality, and Social Engineering in Moscow, 1917–2022	1
The Politics of “Greater India,” a Moral Geography: Moveable Antiquities and Charmed Knowledge Networks between Indonesia, India, and the West	1
Typologies of Secularism in China: Religion, Superstition, and Secularization	1
Becoming Armenian: Religious Conversions in the Late Imperial South Caucasus	1
The Environmental Transformation of “Empty Space”: From Desert to Forest in the Landes of Southwestern France	1
The Slippages of Exemplary Action: The Case of Ataman Semenov	1
Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–1565	1
Monarchism with a Human Face: Balkan Queens and the Social Politics of Nursing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	1
Historical Gaps and Non-existent Sources: The Case of the Chaudrie Court in French India	1