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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The familiar strange of sociological fiction	26
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting	26
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen	26
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?	25
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 2022	25
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities	23
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies	21
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste	19
Financing elite education: Economic capital and the maintenance of class power in English private schools	17
Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability	17
Food consumption, habitus and the embodiment of social change: Making class and doing gender in urban Vietnam	16
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats: (Mis)interpellation and subject positions in the face of citizenship revocation in Norway	15
Translating ‘Understanding’/ understanding translation: A reflexive approach	14
Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes	13
Work aspirations, intellectual disability and ‘cruelling out’ the mark in the job club	13
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care	13
Citizen science and social movements: A case of participatory monitoring of genetically modified crops in Japan	13
Rejecting resistance: Everyday resistance and harmony in Chinese hip-hop	13
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’	13
Who counts in poverty research?	12
The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments	12
Creating a safer space: Being safe and doing safety in queer and feminist punk scenes*	12
Freedom and unfreedom in au pairing: Probing unfree labour from the perspective of social reproduction	12
Varieties of alternativeness: Relational practices in collaborative housing in Vienna	11
‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community	11

Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure	11
You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey	11
Becoming ‘working’ women: Formations of gender, class and caste in urban India	11
From godkin to oddkin: Love, friendship and kin making beyond the human family	11
Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’	11
Foot notes: Retracing the steps towards diagnosis	10
Racialised mobilities in China	10
Pluriversal intersectionality, critique and utopia	10
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal	9
Waiting for Tindaya: Modern ruins and indigenous futures in Fuerteventura	9
Hoping amidst precarity: Changing modes of hope in the vicissitudes of a Chinese art village	9
Some stories, more scenes	9
An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism	9
From Chateau Latour to Chateau Bourdieu: The sociology of wine between empire, class, ethnicity and gender (or, the oenologic of practice)	8
Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda	8
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’	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
Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated’ citizens in post-Brexit Britain	8
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence	8
Racialised terminologies and the BAME problematic: A perspective from football’s British South Asian senior leaders and executives	8
Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies	7
The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’	7
Rifted subjects, fractured Earth: ‘Progress’ as learning to live on a self-transforming planet	7
Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis	7
Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances	7
‘When we put our thoughts and ideas together, policy makers are listening to us’: Hope-work and the potential of participatory research	7
Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism: Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s–1980s)	7
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map	7
‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities	7
Fiction in Goffman	7
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum	7
The conviviality of the overpoliced, detained and expelled: Refusing race and salvaging the human at the borders of Britain	7
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism	7
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: Understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture	6
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement	6
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk	6
Following diversity through the university: On knowing and embodying a problem	6
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload	6
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: ‘To stand in the gap’ as a feminist approach	6
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK	6
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s	6
The lines of descent of the present crisis	6
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure	6
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID	6
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK	5
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism	5
Dark waters, dark waters	5
Habitus in the context of transnationalization: From ‘transnational habitus’ to a configuration of dispositions and fields	5
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment	5

Afterword: Affective histories and class transmission	5
The politics of the urban green: Class, morality and attachments to place	5
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future	5
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’	5
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal	5
Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940	5
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state	5
Non-binary embodiment and bodily discomfort: Body as social signum	5
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement	5
Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England	5
The spectral material culture in ordinary life: Re-imagining obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)	5
Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’	5
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy	5
Disjunctive writing in the urban skinscape: Bodies, borders and the physiology of attention in a Rio de Janeiro favela	5
Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society	5
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally: A toolkit	5