OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
West African women in the diaspora: Narratives of other spaces, other selves West African women in the diaspora: Narratives of other spaces, other selves , by Rose A. Sa	14
Further Travels in “Becoming-Aboriginal”: TheCountryof Oodnadatta, the Importance of Aboriginal Tourism, and the Critical Need for Ecosophy	9
In the Mind, In the Body, In the World: Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece	8
The Art of Ignoring Facts	7
Where Is the Place to Call Home? The Diasporic Writings of Hmong Americans	6
An Investigation of Exploitation and Labour Within Memes Production: A Case Study of South African Student Meme Pages	6
Coloniality and the Mbuya Nehanda Statue: A Decolonial Analysis of Twitter Users’ Comments	6
COVID19, “we are in this Together or are we” a Decolonial Crisis of Locating the Missing People in the Post-Human, South Africa	5
The Routledge handbook of arts and global development	5
Archival F(r)ictions: A Queer Vocabulary for a Live art Pedagogy	5
The Emergence of the South African Metropolis: Cities and Identities in the Twentieth Century	5
The art of Making Public: Mapping Networks of Art Mediation	5
A Woman Warrior in Alternative Voices: Analysing English and French Translations of the Chinese Classic Mulan Ci (<木蘭辭> “The Ballad of Mulan”)	5
Between Representation and Reality: Zhao Chuan’s World Factory as Social Theatre	4
China’s Image in the GCC Mainstream English Newspapers: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis	4
People Living with HIV/AIDS are Nothing to be Afraid of : A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of HIV/AIDS Stigmas and Mythologies in One Selected IsiXhosa Short Story	3
The Decolonial Turn in Khoisan Studies: Opportunities, Pitfalls, and new Directions in Longstanding Debates Concerning Southern Africa’s Indigenous People	3
Violence, Memory and Resistance in Selected Highlanders FC Supporters’ Songs	3
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage	2
Drawing Sovereignty: The Museum Work of Sámi Artist Ánddir Ivvár Ivvár/Iver Jåks	2
New Perspectives on Geography of Media	2
Phenomenology as Experiential Translation: Towards a Semiotic Typology of Descriptive and Expressive Ways of Making Sense of Experience	2
“Awe , Masekinders!”: Kullid Identities from Eden Park, Johannesburg in the Work of Bougaard	2
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology	2
Amy Tan’s Thing-Narrative in The Valley of Amazement	2

Cultural Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies	2
Idiophones or Palettes? An Analysis of Flat Bone and Shale Implements from Matjes River Site, Southern Cape of South Africa	2
Analysing the Character Types and Power Relationships in Metaverse-Themed Movies from the Perspective of Discipline and Anti-discipline	2
Speculative Documentarian Practices—An Expanding Materialist Turn Towards Uncertainty	2
Engaging Pedagogy Through the Arts	2
Humanistic Responsibilities in the Upsurge of “Metaverse”	2
Queer TV China: televisual and fannish imaginaries of gender, sexuality, and Chineseness	2
Martial Dance: Stage Wushu as a Performing Art	2
The Global Origins of Psychology: Neurology, Language and Culture in the Ancient World	2
Cross Cultural Temporal Tendencies between Monochronic and Polychronic Materialisation in the films A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and The Uninvited (2009)	2
Editing My Mother’s Laughter : An Interview	2
From Myth of the Other to Self-Reflection: A Semiotic Journey of Sun Wukong’s Imagery in Global Reinterpretation and Chinese Evolution	1
Emic and etic perspectives on Khoisan revivalism: a response to Bam, Coetzee, Gordon, and Øvernes. Khoisan Consciousness: An Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid C	1
Infinite Mirror: Critical Reflections on Wayne Barker’s Strategies of Appropriation	1
A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books	1
A treatise on the Garden of Jiangnan — A Study on the Art of Chinese Classical Garden	1
Art Gallery Education Between Translation and Dialogism: Artwork, Learning and Pedagogy	1
Review of Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam	1
Autoethnographic Reflections from the Satire Performance of Jenkin’s Woolworths (2017): The Making and Remaking of White Middle-class English-speaking Habitus	1
The Most Influential Elements of the Chinese Traditional Music Culture before the Ming Dynasty in Southeast Asia	1
Will the Metaverse Revolutionize the Narrative?	1
Soft Power as Cultural Referencing: Making Sense of Startimes’ Export of Hello Mr. Right to Africa	1
African cinema in a global age	1
Contemporary Asian popular culture, Vol. 2: cultural dynamics and global impact	1
The Female Body, Christianity, and Colonial Modernity: Representation of Foot-bound Women in Alicia Little’s Travelogues	1
Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-Shaping of Ideological Discourse Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-Shaping of Ideological Discourse	1
Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture	1
China’s School Textbook Replacement and Curriculum Reform in the New Era of Globalization	1
Inter-objectivity and the Birth of New Materialism: How to Understand “Objects” in a Metaverse	1
In Between Two Screens: Trauma, Memory, and Subjectivity in Gülsün Karamustafa’s Work	1
Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation	1
On Making Ethical Choices in Ethnographic Research into (Young) People’s Mediated Intimacy: A Research Note	1
Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies: Power, Privilege and Inequality in a Time of Neoliberal Conservatism	1
Ideological Mediation: Metaphor Shifts in Translating the Communist Party of China’s Centenary Speech	1
Cross-cultural Exchange of Heritage in Museums: A Study of Dunhuang Art in the Hong Kong Heritage Museum from the Perspective of Cultural Translation	1
‘Performing’ Nature: Ecology and the Arts in South Asia	1
A Mythological Approach to Exploring the Origins of Chinese Civilization A Mythological Approach to Exploring the Origins of Chinese Civilization , by Shuxian Ye, Singap	1
To Restrict or to Ban? A Critical Intertextual Analysis of Online Comments on Fireworks Regulations in China	1
Translation as Metamorphosis in the Animated Poetry-Film	1
Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City	1
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sexuality	1
Applying Reflective Writing as a Participatory Methodology for “Speaking-Up” about Gender-Based Violence in South Africa	1
“Heed the Mute Language of Nature”: An Ecosemiotic Approach to Urban Wildlife Photography as Translation of Solastalgia	1
Small is Beautiful: Japanese Aesthetic Consciousness in the Animated Adaptation of The Borrowers	1
Author Motivations for Self-Publishing Trade Books in South Africa	1
“The Dam Wall Broke”: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Method Analysis of Writing on the First Decade of Democracy in the South African Art World	1
Reviewing Culture Online: Post-Institutional Cultural Critique across Platforms	1
Wayward Feeling — Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa	1
Fuel for Perpetuating Struggle: Analysis of an Oromo Resistance Song	1
Unfulfilled Future Perfect? Comics as a Site of Liberty in Post-Mao China	1

Vandalism as a Mode of Visual Sovereignty: A New Definition and Complications Arising	1
Between Cultural Engineering, Media Sensationalism & Memetic Propaganda: A Curious Case of Erratic Obituaries for Late American Secretary	1
Digital Virtuality and Autopoiesis: the transformation from world elements of literature and arts to metaverse	1
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern and Premodern China: Global Networks, Mediation, and Intertextuality Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern and Premodern China: Global Networks, Mediat	1