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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The ‘Boomer remover’: Intergenerational discounting, the coronavirus and climate change	21
Habitus in the context of transnationalization: From ‘transnational habitus’ to a configuration of dispositions and fields	21
Social movements as agents of change: Fighting intersectional food inequalities, building food as webs of life	21
‘Under attack’: Responsibility, crisis and survival anxiety amongst manager-academics in UK universities	21
Imposed volunteering: Gender and caring responsibilities during the COVID-19 lockdown	18
The coronavirus and the temporal order of capitalism: Sociological observations and the wisdom of a children’s book	18
Clutter in domestic spaces: Material vibrancy, and competing moralities	16
Feminised concern or feminist care? Reclaiming gender normativities in zero waste living	15
(Un)making illegality: Border control, racialized bodies and differential regimes of illegality in Morocco	15
Framing stigma as an avoidable social harm that widens inequality	15
Responsibility, resilience and symbolic power	14
Painting with data: Alternative aesthetics of qualitative research	13
A new middle-class fraction with a distinct subjectivity: Tech workers and the transformation of the entrepreneurial self	13
The role of asylum in processes of urban gentrification	13
Food in transition: The place of food in the theories of transition	13
Exploring the racial habitus through John’s story: On race, class and adaptation	13
The conviviality of the overpoliced, detained and expelled: Refusing race and salvaging the human at the borders of Britain	12
Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework: Scouring away the crisis?	12
Situating class in workplace and community environmentalism: Working-class environmentalism and deindustrialisation in Porto Marghera, Venice	12
Quiet politics: Queer organizing in corporate Singapore	11
Affective labour and class distinction in the night-time economy	11
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment	10
Open-ended transitions to adulthood: Metaphorical thinking for times of stasis	10
Situating decolonial strategies within methodologies-in/as-practices: A critical appraisal	9
Reconceptualising Judith Butler’s theory of ‘grievability’ in relation to the UK’s ‘war on obesity’: Personal responsibility, biopolitics and disposability	9

Financing elite education: Economic capital and the maintenance of class power in English private schools	9
The coloniality of distinction: Class, race and whiteness among post-crisis Italian migrants	9
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state	9
Counter-talk as symbolic boundary drawing: Challenging legitimate cultural practices in individual and focus group interviews in the lower regions of social space	9
Dynasties in the making: Family wealth and inheritance for the first-generation ultra-wealthy and their wealth managers	9
After progress: Experiments in the revaluation of values	8
Food for social change in Peru: Narrative and performance of the culinary nation	8
Ways to care: Forms and possibilities of compassion within UK food banks	8
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK	8
Political intersectionality and disability activism: Approaching and understanding difference and unity	8
Re-animalising wellbeing: Multispecies justice after development	8
Fear and loathing in north London: Experiencing estate regeneration as psychosocial degeneration	7
Nation building and social change in the United Arab Emirates through the invention of Emirati cuisine	7
Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
COVID labour: Making a ‘livable’ life under lockdown	7
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal	7
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste	7
Enacting efficient care within a context of rationalisation	7
Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure	7
Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability	7
The idea of community and its practice: Tensions, disruptions and hope in Glasgow’s urban growing projects	6
Black, Brown and Asian cultural workers, creativity and activism: The ambivalence of digital self-branding practices	6
The neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia and its ethnicity problem	6
Ecological uncivilisation: Precarious world-making after progress	6
Coloniality of anti-corruption: Whiteness, disasters, and the US anti-corruption policies in Puerto Rico	6
Body pedagogics, transactionalism and vélo identities: Becoming a cyclist in motorised societies	6
The Safe Standing movement: Vectors in the post-Hillsborough timescape of English football	6
Hospitality work and the sociality of affective labour	6
The value of the serious leisure perspective in understanding cultural capital embodiment in festival settings	6
Pandemic modelling and model citizens: Governing COVID-19 through predictive models, sovereignty and discipline	6
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism	6
The EU and the social sciences: A fragile relationship	6
Algorithmic autobiographies and fictions: A digital method	5
We’ll see things they’ll never see: Sociological reflections on race, neurodiversity and higher education	5
Social reproduction, labour and austerity: Carrying the future	5
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally: A toolkit	5
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement	5
Paradoxes of mindfulness: The specious promises of a contemporary practice	5
Living differently? A feminist-Bourdieusian analysis of the transformative power of basic income	5
Displaying family at a women’s refuge	5
Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated’ citizens in post-Brexit Britain	5
COVID-19, young people and the futures of work: Rethinking global grammars of enterprise	5
Temporal structures of the poor: Social mobility and the struggle for the future in Chile	5
Food consumption, habitus and the embodiment of social change: Making class and doing gender in urban Vietnam	5
The future of data ownership: An uncommon research agenda	5
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: ‘To stand in the gap’ as a feminist approach	5
Time structures in ethnomethodological and conversation analysis studies of practical activity	5
Creating and upholding an elite community: ‘Consecrating exclusion’ in Djursholm, Sweden	5
The spiritual turn and the disenchantment of the world: Max Weber, Peter Berger and the religion–science conflict	5
Exploring legacies of the baby boomers in the twenty-first century	5

Articulations of workplace precarity: Challenging the politics of segmentation in warehouse logistics	5
Rethinking the politics of meditation: Practice, affect and ontology	5
Enacting community health: Obesity prevention policies as situated caring	5