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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 2022	47
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities	41
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen	40
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?	33
Neoliberal multiculturalism and ethnic entrepreneurial self: A transnational perspective on ethnicity in China	30
Framing optimism sociologically: Temporal complexity, collective affect, and cultures of optimism	29
Owing the daughter-in-law: Bridewealth and the dynamics of intergenerational care in rural China	27
Digital hate, health and safety, and the labour politics of public academia: ‘Universities don’t value this sort of work at all’	27
Sociological imagination, feminist politics and their limits in accounts of UK menopause experts	22
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting	22
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste	22
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies	21
Who counts in poverty research?	20
Revisiting Manufacturing Consent with Paul Thompson	20
Translating ‘Understanding’/ understanding translation: A reflexive approach	19
War frames and societal transformations in Ukraine: Reframing a wartime nation	19
Dystopian fiction, postcolonialism and non-human biography: Sociological speculatives and crisis complexity	18
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care	18
The Sociology of Hype: Worthwashing at the Heart of Capitalism	17
Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making: Indigenous and feminist ecological reflections on the Listening Guide and the Live Methods Manifesto	17
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’	16
Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes	15
Freedom and unfreedom in au pairing: Probing unfree labour from the perspective of social reproduction	14
Higher education and social recognition: On the moral dimension of pupils’ aspirations and choices in Chile	14

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
Not coming out as affective care: LGBTQ+ individuals navigating the feeling landscape of intergenerational relationships	14
Reimagining menopause on screen in Menopause: The Movie	14
Menopause and the paradoxes of self-help	14
Navigating cultural intimacies: Long-lasting friendships in the Scottish South Asian diasporas	13
Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’	13
Becoming ‘working’ women: Formations of gender, class and caste in urban India	13
From godkin to oddkin: Love, friendship and kin making beyond the human family	13
Varieties of alternativeness: Relational practices in collaborative housing in Vienna	13
Creating a safer space: Being safe and doing safety in queer and feminist punk scenes*	13
The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments	12
Children’s food, care and the practices of da pei in urban China	12
‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community	12
Doing a favour or doing one’s job? A relational work perspective on precarious commitment in the digital games industry	12
The private life approach to the rise of neo-familism in China	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
Racialised mobilities in China	11
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal	11
Introduction to Live Methods Revisited: The roots and conjuncture of Live Methods	11
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’	11
Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis	10
Racialised terminologies and the BAME problematic: A perspective from football’s British South Asian senior leaders and executives	10
Family strains, negative emotions and juvenile delinquency	10
The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’	10
‘When we put our thoughts and ideas together, policy makers are listening to us’: Hope-work and the potential of participatory research	10
Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda	10
Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies	10
Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism: Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s–1980s)	10
Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances	10
From Chateau Latour to Chateau Bourdieu: The sociology of wine between empire, class, ethnicity and gender (or, the oenologic of practice )	10
‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities	10
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum	10
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Feminist expertise and the political work of building alternative futures	9
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map	9
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK	9
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: Understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture	9
The lines of descent of the present crisis	9
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s	9
Sociologically unspeakable? The ethics of ethnography and live methods	9
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure	8
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism	8
Organising for Change one year later – Response to the critics	8
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID	8
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload	8
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal	8
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement	8
Queering Southern Italy: Towards a conceptualisation of ‘Meridian Sexualities’	8
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’	8

Theorizing autonomy in the platform economy: A study of food delivery gig workers in Latvia	7
Afterword: Affective histories and class transmission	7
Countering anti-Asian violence in a Parisian banlieue: Defensive familism	7
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy	7
Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940	7
Non-binary embodiment and bodily discomfort: Body as social signum	7
Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England	7
Navigating ambiguity within neighbour-based organisations in Mexico City: From proximity to protest	7
Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society	7
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment	7
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future	7
Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’	7
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK	7
War frames: Insights from Eastern Europe and East Asia	7