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Papers

(The median citation count of Critique of Anthropology is 0. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fostering sustainability through environmentally friendly coffee production and alternative trade: The case of Café Orgánico de Marcala (COMSA), Honduras	63
Mobility cause lawyering: Contesting regimes of (im)mobility in the Canary Islands migration route to Europe	29
Imagine air: Global commons, ‘ecological civilization’, and citizen visions beyond carbon markets in China	14
Afterword: An illiberal anthropology of difference	13
Navigating Covid-induced (im)mobilities: Human agency during travel restrictions and uncertainties	10
We, the receptors: Planning and the politicization of local opposition to fracking in Britain	7
Palestinian women on demonic grounds: Holocaust museums, religious difference, and the struggle for citizenship in Germany	7
Peronist bodies: The populist and antipopulist semiotics of protest	7
On value and the commons	7
‘Creature of statute’: Legal bureaucracy and the performance of professionalism in Johannesburg	7
On being-with: Critical reflections on Heideggerian ethics in anthropological discourse	6
‘We work for the Devil’: Oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier	6
Afterword: The middle class and the capitalist state	5
Gaseous politics: contradictions and moral frontiers of the energy transition in Ghana	5
Crafting and maintaining socio-ecological commons: Notes from a city of ruins	5
Sensing indigeneity: A sensory ethnography of the presence of the past among newly identifying indigenous people in South Africa	4
Shifting terms: Development discourses and moral imaginaries in Indian state service provision	4
Makeshift activism and the afterlives of refugee welcome in Covid-19 Italy	3
In search of a caring state: Migrations of Afghans from Iran to Germany	3
Credit labour: Navigating household debt in Southern Europe	3
The reconfiguration of mestizaje and whiteness in the diaspora	3
Born ‘mixed’ in the USA: An emic/etic review	3
Bridging anthropological theory: Accumulating and containing wealth in World of Warcraft landscapes	3
Social reproduction, interrupted? Motherly labour, educational aspirations, and the work for another life	3
Introduction: Encounters with difference	3

Introduction: Contesting the moral worlds, scales, and epistemics of energy transitions	2
The past in the present: The Russian exodus to Georgia and the temporalities of misfitting	2
(Re)visiting the ‘-lands’: Conservationland and its multilevel bureaucrats in international biodiversity conferences	2
Introduction: Reconfiguring essential and existential (im)mobilities	2
Nun of the river: The material and spiritual economies of small hydropower in rural Tanzania	2
The others’ others: When taking our natives seriously is not enough	2
Disenfranchisement and poverty in the post-settlement phase of Māori claims	2
A feral science? Dangers and disruptions between DIYbio and the FBI	2
‘You feel it in your bones’: Mobility, animacy, and the everyday violence of incarceration in the American southwest	2
Kinship and the politics of responsibility: An introduction	2
Disrupting whiteness: Exclusion and belonging in the Dutch academy, from a mixed-race perspective	2
An anthropology of the social contract: The political power of an idea	2
‘Love is not tourism’: Navigating immobility through (migrant) resistance	2
‘Majengo is a golden place’: Making the ‘same’ and ‘different’ in urban Kenya	1
Lithium scale-making and extractivist counter-futurities in Bolivia	1
Desiring the state: Social welfare and kinship in post-socialist Tanzania	1
‘New’ but ‘Squeezed’: Middle Class and Mortgaged Homeownership in Croatia	1
‘of evident invisibles’: Ethnography as intermediation	1
Real dystopias: Over-commoning and elite capture in Austria	1
The bending of space-time in anthropology: An anti-heuristic proposal	1
Scales of disaster: Intimate social contracts on the margins of the postcolonial state	1
Mining the Sun: Coal-to-solar transitions and energetic place-making in Appalachia	1
‘Significant indeterminacy’ in Mexico’s racial identities: Vernacular dynamics of race identification in the era of the ideology of mestizaje (1940s–1950s)	1
Lifeline Ferries: Existential dimensions of ‘essential’ mobility	1
The aftermath of gendered violence: Kinship and affect in post-genocide Rwanda	1
Ambivalent refusals: Epistemological limits in postcolonial ethnography	1
Dead bodies on edge: Misfitting graves and awkward repair on the Georgian – Turkish border	1
Does being Indigenous imply being religious? Anthropology, heritage, and historiography in Mexico	1
Challenging the dominant work ethic: Work, naps, and productivity of location-independent workers	1
Making valuable energy: Public forums, municipal futures, and infrastructural pathways	1
Engineering the middle classes: State institutions and the aspirations of citizenship	1
Moving around the Synagogue: Responses to COVID Restrictions on Movement for Ritual Purposes in a Liberal Jewish Community	1
Distributed agency: Care, human needs, and distributive struggles in Portugal	1
A decolonial anthropology: You can dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools	1
‘The Girls are Alright’: Beauty work and neoliberal regimes of responsibility among young women in Urban India	1
Psychedelic assemblages	0
Mixed-race thought – making and unmaking (mixed) race	0
“All great warriors have long hair”: Tourism and shifting Indigenous masculinities in Napo, Ecuador	0
The village bank of a Lisu community: Indigenous belief, economic practices, and environmental conservation in Southwest China	0
‘Occupying’ the womb: Disrupted kinship futures and sovereign logics in sexual violence during wars	0
Incidental sustainability? Notes from a thrift store in Germany	0
Blood, ancestral spirits and witches: Rethinking descent in contemporary South Africa	0
Misfits in the Polish Carpathians: Pastoralism, property, and spatial justice beyond redistribution	0
Introduction: Seeding change – the importance of small sustainable projects and activities	0
The value of dignity: Health insurance, ethics and court cases in Brazil	0
The politics of percentage: Informating justice in the US clean energy rush	0
Living kindness: Re-imagining kinship for a more humane future	0
‘We were not emotional enough’: Cultural liberalism and social contract imaginaries in the Colombian peace process	0
Socialist fragments East and West: Towards a comparative anthropology of global (post-)socialism	0
Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain	0

Pure and impure risk: Integrating and adapting to landmine danger in Western Sahara’s pasturelands	0
Corrigendum to “Weeping as the Addolorata : Popular devotion at the margins of Europe”	0
State aesthetics and the Other–Nature in disaster memorials	0
Weeping as the Addolorata : Popular devotion at the margins of Europe	0
Corrigendum to “(Re)visiting the ‘-lands’: Conservationland and its multilevel bureaucrats in international biodiversity conferences”	0
Global tourism and local ethnicity: Reconfiguring racial and ethnic relations in central Laos	0
Replacement anxieties: White power speculation and anthropology’s ancestral dramas	0
Socialising resources: State-encouraged commoning and the making of scarce social goods in Shenzhen (China)	0
Moving forward – staying put: Social science postgraduates’ Covid-19 (im)mobilities	0
Problem solving as selective blindness	0
Life polyrhythm: Fear, anger, and gratitude surrounding a Russian military base in post-Soviet Armenia	0
The politics behind avocado production	0
Engineering gender, engineering the Jordanian State: Beyond the salvage ethnography of middle-class housewifery in the Middle East	0
True selves, suspicious lives: Public deceits, hopes of restoration, and existential troubles in misdocumented pasts	0
The value of difference: Encounters between Hindus and Muslims in Karachi, Pakistan	0
In the shadow of the state: Lived pluralism in Ramla	0
Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana	0
Swiss commoners’ struggles for the right balance: Ontologies, identities and responses to market and state pressures	0
‘A vision for the future’: Professional ethos as boundary work in Mozambique’s public sector	0
Gender and the politics of maternalisms: Kinship-based imaginaries, responsibility and care in Australian refugee advocacy	0
Resisting renewable energy transitions: Innovation as a moral trope in the US oil and gas industry	0
Maimonides in Marseille: Mediating Judeoarab difference in Mediterranean France	0
Liminal states: Propertied citizenship and gendered kin work in middle-class Kolkata families	0
The legal life of anthropological theory: Limits to the ideal of being useful	0
Political uncommoning through anti-gender mobilization by radical right-wing online voices	0
The negotiation of religious difference in Euro-Senegalese families	0
The intimate geopolitics of hosting Ukrainian refugees in Lithuanian homes	0
Introduction: Strategic entanglements – un/commoning as relational labour of articulating resource modalities	0
A mixed-race imagination	0
From ‘beasts of burden’ to ‘backbone of society’: The fiscal forging of a new Bolivian middle class	0
The perils of utopia: Between ‘ethical static’ and moral perfectionism in Iran	0
‘South-Working’: Return mobilities and remote work during COVID-19	0
Migrants as subject-citizens: Identity affirmation and domestic concealment among Venezuelans living in Santiago, Chile	0
Afterword	0
Rule by glorification: The imposition of state honours and ‘grateful coerced subjects’ in contemporary Vietnam	0
Entangled navigations: Intergenerational care relations in neoliberal eduscapes in Benin	0
Ecologies of quantification in waste management: Landfilling, e-waste recycling, and car breaking	0
Breaking the Contract: Digital Nomads and the State	0
Elites invoking the commons: The techno-utopias of the Indian national knowledge portals	0
“The economy of trust”? Competing grassroots economics and the mobilization of (mis-)trust in a Catalonian cooperative	0
Misfits: Towards a critical analysis of the in-between	0
British nationalism and encounters with difference: An ethnographic approach to street parties in Thanet	0
Concerning distributive labour: Exploring the pragmatics of globalised interdependence	0
Afterword: Kill the petrostate	0
Monumental events: Imaginaries, materialities, and temporalities in Latvia’s monument removal	0