OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Review is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
TERF wars: An introduction	112
Sex wars and (trans) gender panics: Identity and body politics in contemporary UK feminism	57
A critical commentary on ‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria’	48
The toilet debate: Stalling trans possibilities and defending ‘women’s protected spaces’	34
Brexit as heredity redux: Imperialism, biomedicine and the NHS in Britain	29
Care and affective relations: Social justice and sociology	28
Dis-mantling stigma: Parenting disabled children in an age of ‘neoliberal-ableism’	27
Race and racism in Poland: Theorising and contextualising ‘Polish-centrism’	26
Towards an adventurous institutional politics: The prefigurative ‘as if’ and the reposing of what’s real	25
Whose feminism is it anyway? The unspoken racism of the trans inclusion debate	22
More than ‘canaries in the gender coal mine’: A transfeminist approach to research on detransition	22
‘Neoliberal feminism’: Legitimising the gendered moral project of austerity	18
The ‘Boomer remover’: Intergenerational discounting, the coronavirus and climate change	17
Autogynephilia: A scientific review, feminist analysis, and alternative ‘embodiment fantasies’ model	17
A selfish generation? ‘Baby boomers’, values, and the provision of childcare for grandchildren	16
‘Under attack’: Responsibility, crisis and survival anxiety amongst manager-academics in UK universities	16
The coronavirus and the temporal order of capitalism: Sociological observations and the wisdom of a children’s book	16
Social movements as agents of change: Fighting intersectional food inequalities, building food as webs of life	15
Millennial ‘YIMBYs’ and boomer ‘NIMBYs’: Generational views on housing affordability in the United States	15
Habitus in the context of transnationalization: From ‘transnational habitus’ to a configuration of dispositions and fields	14
(Un)making illegality: Border control, racialized bodies and differential regimes of illegality in Morocco	14
Afterword: TERF wars in the time of COVID-19	13
Responsibility, resilience and symbolic power	13
‘The student experience’ and the remaking of contemporary studenthood: A critical intervention	13
Punk is just a state of mind: Exploring what punk means to older punk women	13

Feminism will be trans-inclusive or it will not be: Why do two cis-hetero woman educators support transfeminism?	12
Problematizing a popular panacea: A critical examination of the (continued) use of ‘social generations’ in youth sociology	12
The ontological woman: A history of deauthentication, dehumanization, and violence	11
The conviviality of the overpoliced, detained and expelled: Refusing race and salvaging the human at the borders of Britain	11
Exploring the racial habitus through John’s story: On race, class and adaptation	11
Food in transition: The place of food in the theories of transition	11
Philanthrocapitalism as wealth management strategy: Philanthropy, inheritance and succession planning among the global elite	11
Situating class in workplace and community environmentalism: Working-class environmentalism and deindustrialisation in Porto Marghera, Venice	11
The role of asylum in processes of urban gentrification	11
Feminised concern or feminist care? Reclaiming gender normativities in zero waste living	10
Clutter in domestic spaces: Material vibrancy, and competing moralities	10
Imposed volunteering: Gender and caring responsibilities during the COVID-19 lockdown	10
A new middle-class fraction with a distinct subjectivity: Tech workers and the transformation of the entrepreneurial self	10
Framing stigma as an avoidable social harm that widens inequality	9
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
Affective labour and class distinction in the night-time economy	8
Painting with data: Alternative aesthetics of qualitative research	8
Reconceptualising Judith Butler’s theory of ‘grievability’ in relation to the UK’s ‘war on obesity’: Personal responsibility, biopolitics and disposability	8
Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework: Scouring away the crisis?	8
Independence and relationality in notions of adulthood across generations, gender and social class	8
Surveilling the marginalised: How manual, embodied and territorialised surveillance persists in the age of ‘dataveillance’	8
Ways to care: Forms and possibilities of compassion within UK food banks	7
Open-ended transitions to adulthood: Metaphorical thinking for times of stasis	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
Kindred spirits: Doing family through craft entrepreneurship	7
Enacting efficient care within a context of rationalisation	7
Food for social change in Peru: Narrative and performance of the culinary nation	7
Nobody becomes stigmatised ‘all at once’: An interactionist account of stigma on a modernist council estate	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 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
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK	6
After progress: Experiments in the revaluation of values	6
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state	6
Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability	6
COVID labour: Making a ‘livable’ life under lockdown	6
Time structures in ethnomethodological and conversation analysis studies of practical activity	5
Immigrants, inclusion, and the role of hard work: Exploring anti-immigrant attitudes among young people in Britain	5
Sex work abolitionism and hegemonic feminisms: Implications for gender-diverse sex workers and migrants from Brazil	5
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally: A toolkit	5
Strategies of public intellectual engagement	5
Situating decolonial strategies within methodologies-in/as-practices: A critical appraisal	5
Nation building and social change in the United Arab Emirates through the invention of Emirati cuisine	5
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment	5
Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Re-animalising wellbeing: Multispecies justice after development	5
The neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia and its ethnicity problem	5

Exploring legacies of the baby boomers in the twenty-first century	5
The idea of community and its practice: Tensions, disruptions and hope in Glasgow’s urban growing projects	5
The future of data ownership: An uncommon research agenda	5
Getting ‘creative’ under capitalism: An analysis of creativity as a dominant keyword	4
Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated’ citizens in post-Brexit Britain	4
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy	4
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal	4
Commensality: Networks of personal, family, and community social transformation	4
Border regimes and temporal sequestration: An autoethnography of waiting	4
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement	4
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste	4
Displaying family at a women’s refuge	4
Cultures of risk: On generative uncertainty and intergenerational memory in post-Yugoslav migrant narratives	4
Ecological uncivilisation: Precarious world-making after progress	4
Citizen science and social movements: A case of participatory monitoring of genetically modified crops in Japan	4
Social reproduction, labour and austerity: Carrying the future	4
Enacting community health: Obesity prevention policies as situated caring	4
Attitudes towards Australia’s baby boomers and intergenerational equity	4
Raising children in hostile worlds in Santiago de Chile: Optimism and ‘hyper-agentic’ mothers	4
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism	4
Quiet politics: Queer organizing in corporate Singapore	4
The value of the serious leisure perspective in understanding cultural capital embodiment in festival settings	4
The EU and the social sciences: A fragile relationship	4
Food consumption, habitus and the embodiment of social change: Making class and doing gender in urban Vietnam	4
COVID-19, young people and the futures of work: Rethinking global grammars of enterprise	4
Dynasties in the making: Family wealth and inheritance for the first-generation ultra-wealthy and their wealth managers	4
Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure	4
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: ‘To stand in the gap’ as a feminist approach	4
The whistleblower hero in cinematic dramatization	4