OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Review is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The familiar strange of sociological fiction	39
Digital hate, health and safety, and the labour politics of public academia: ‘Universities don’t value this sort of work at all’	39
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies	39
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 2022	38
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities	30
Owing the daughter-in-law: Bridewealth and the dynamics of intergenerational care in rural China	27
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen	25
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting	25
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?	22
Neoliberal multiculturalism and ethnic entrepreneurial self: A transnational perspective on ethnicity in China	21
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste	20
Framing optimism sociologically: Temporal complexity, collective affect, and cultures of optimism	20
Revisiting Manufacturing Consent with Paul Thompson	19
Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes	19
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats: (Mis)interpellation and subject positions in the face of citizenship revocation in Norway	18
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’	18
Rejecting resistance: Everyday resistance and harmony in Chinese hip-hop	18
Who counts in poverty research?	18
Translating ‘Understanding’/ understanding translation: A reflexive approach	17
Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making: Indigenous and feminist ecological reflections on the Listening Guide and the Live Methods Manifesto	16
Dystopian fiction, postcolonialism and non-human biography: Sociological speculatives and crisis complexity	16
War frames and societal transformations in Ukraine: Reframing a wartime nation	16
Freedom and unfreedom in au pairing: Probing unfree labour from the perspective of social reproduction	15
You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey	15
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care	15

The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments	14
Not coming out as affective care: LGBTQ+ individuals navigating the feeling landscape of intergenerational relationships	14
Creating a safer space: Being safe and doing safety in queer and feminist punk scenes*	14
Varieties of alternativeness: Relational practices in collaborative housing in Vienna	14
From godkin to oddkin: Love, friendship and kin making beyond the human family	14
‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community	13
Doing a favour or doing one’s job? A relational work perspective on precarious commitment in the digital games industry	13
Navigating cultural intimacies: Long-lasting friendships in the Scottish South Asian diasporas	13
Becoming ‘working’ women: Formations of gender, class and caste in urban India	13
Higher education and social recognition: On the moral dimension of pupils’ aspirations and choices in Chile	13
Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’	13
An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism	12
Foot notes: Retracing the steps towards diagnosis	12
Introduction to Live Methods Revisited: The roots and conjuncture of Live Methods	12
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal	12
Children’s food, care and the practices of da pei in urban China	12
Racialised mobilities in China	12
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’	11
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence	11
Family strains, negative emotions and juvenile delinquency	11
Some stories, more scenes	11
From Chateau Latour to Chateau Bourdieu: The sociology of wine between empire, class, ethnicity and gender (or, the oenologic of practice )	11
What’s love got to do with it? Live methods and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention	11
The private life approach to the rise of neo-familism in China	11
Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies	10
Racialised terminologies and the BAME problematic: A perspective from football’s British South Asian senior leaders and executives	10
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism	10
Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda	10
Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances	9
‘When we put our thoughts and ideas together, policy makers are listening to us’: Hope-work and the potential of participatory research	9
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk	9
Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis	9
The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’	9
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum	9
The lines of descent of the present crisis	9
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Fiction in Goffman	9
Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism: Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s–1980s)	9
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map	9
Following diversity through the university: On knowing and embodying a problem	9
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement	9
‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities	9
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK	8
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure	8
Sociologically unspeakable? The ethics of ethnography and live methods	8
Organising for Change one year later – Response to the critics	8
Dark waters, dark waters	8
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload	8
Feminist expertise and the political work of building alternative futures	8
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID	8

Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy	8
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s	8
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: Understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture	8
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’	8
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism	8
Countering anti-Asian violence in a Parisian banlieue: Defensive familism	7
Theorizing autonomy in the platform economy: A study of food delivery gig workers in Latvia	7
Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England	7
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future	7
War frames: Insights from Eastern Europe and East Asia	7
Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940	7
Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’	7
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal	7
Queering Southern Italy: Towards a conceptualisation of ‘Meridian Sexualities’	7
Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society	7
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK	7