OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Critique of Anthropology 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Dynamics of wilful blindness: An introduction	16
Canine counterinsurgency in Indian-occupied Kashmir	15
Breaking the Contract: Digital Nomads and the State	15
An anthropology of the social contract: The political power of an idea	11
Waiting for a deus ex machina: ‘Sustainable extractives’ in a 2°C world	11
Invisible children? Non-recognition, humanitarian blindness and other forms of ignorance in Sabah, Malaysia	9
The politics ofkarameh:Palestinian burial rites under the gun	8
Between the devil and the deep blue sea: Objectivity and political responsibility in the litigation of theExxon Valdezoil spill	8
Concrete violence, indifference and future-making in Mozambique	7
Occupations in context – The cultural logics of occupation, settler violence, and resistance	7
Communities of care: Public donations, development assistance, and independent philanthropy in the Wa State of Myanmar	7
Blinded by the slide show: Ignorance and the commodification of expertise	7
On the banality of wilful blindness: Ignorance and affect in extractive encounters	7
‘I volunteer at home too!’ Gendering affective citizenship	6
The grid of indefinite incarceration: Everyday legality and paperwork warfare in Indian-controlled Kashmir	6
The politics of dispossession and compensation in the eastern Indian coal belt	6
How to think about people who don’t want to be studied: Further reflections on studying up	6
Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain	5
Scales of disaster: Intimate social contracts on the margins of the postcolonial state	5
Cosmopolitan enclaves: An introduction	5
Introduction: Ethnographies of power and the powerful	5
‘We were not emotional enough’: Cultural liberalism and social contract imaginaries in the Colombian peace process	4
The time of post-socialism: On the future of an anthropological concept	4
The anthropology of post-socialism: Theoretical legacies and conceptual futures – An introduction	4
The politics of hopeful citizenship: Women, counterinsurgency and the state in eastern India	4

Looking for the authentic other: Cosmopolitan ethos and orientalism in French migrants’ experiences in Abu Dhabi	3
‘Creature of statute’: Legal bureaucracy and the performance of professionalism in Johannesburg	3
Turning a blind eye: The complicit trespassing of ‘Chinese walls’ in financial institutions in New York	3
‘It’s up to the market to decide’: Revealing and concealing power in the sustainable tea supply chain	3
Post-socialism as an experience of distancing and dispossession in rural and transnational Estonia	3
Elusive adulthood and surplus life-time in Spain	3
Staging joyful spectacles: Exploring the temporalities of positive affect in child-focused NGO programmes	3
Entangled navigations: Intergenerational care relations in neoliberal eduscapes in Benin	2
Audit as confession: The instrumentalisation of ethics for management control	2
Transcending enclosures by bus: Public transit protests, frame mobility, and the many facets of colonial occupation	2
Postcolonial social drama: The case of Brazilian dentists in Portugal	2
Engineering gender, engineering the Jordanian State: Beyond the salvage ethnography of middle-class housewifery in the Middle East	2
Kinship and the politics of responsibility: An introduction	2
Power and precariousness in the expert hierarchies of the US hydrocarbon industry	2
Extending the reach of ‘post-socialism’: A commentary	2
Liminal states: Propertied citizenship and gendered kin work in middle-class Kolkata families	2
‘New’ but ‘Squeezed’: Middle Class and Mortgaged Homeownership in Croatia	2
Engineering the middle classes: State institutions and the aspirations of citizenship	2
‘The Girls are Alright’: Beauty work and neoliberal regimes of responsibility among young women in Urban India	2
The aftermath of gendered violence: Kinship and affect in post-genocide Rwanda	2
Missing power: Nostalgia and disillusionment among Southern California water engineers	1
Frontiers of cosmopolitanism: Educational enclaves and the extractive roots of international schools	1
Socialist fragments East and West: Towards a comparative anthropology of global (post-)socialism	1
In search of a caring state: Migrations of Afghans from Iran to Germany	1
Actually existing post-socialism: Producing ideological others in eastern Germany	1
Shifting terms: Development discourses and moral imaginaries in Indian state service provision	1
Power in a minor key: Rethinking anthropological accounts of power alongside London’s community organisers	1
Gender and the politics of maternalisms: Kinship-based imaginaries, responsibility and care in Australian refugee advocacy	1
Making others (un)equal: The social ethics of Scandinavian enclaving in Maputo, Mozambique	1
Bridging anthropological theory: Accumulating and containing wealth in World of Warcraft landscapes	1
A cosmopolitan bubble? Constructions of locality at an international school in China	1
‘A vision for the future’: Professional ethos as boundary work in Mozambique’s public sector	1
Living kindness: Re-imagining kinship for a more humane future	1
Current demands in the Nepali electricity sector: For a social reproduction theory of infrastructure	1
Desiring the state: Social welfare and kinship in post-socialist Tanzania	1
‘You’ll be very far from this place’: Temporal and spatial aspirations at Bridge International Academies in Kenya	1
From ‘beasts of burden’ to ‘backbone of society’: The fiscal forging of a new Bolivian middle class	1