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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
‘You’ll be very far from this place’: Temporal and spatial aspirations at Bridge International Academies in Kenya	14
Defying national homogeneity: Hidden acts ofZainichiKorean resistance in Japan	9
Fostering sustainability through environmentally friendly coffee production and alternative trade: The case of Café Orgánico de Marcala (COMSA), Honduras	9
Incidental sustainability? Notes from a thrift store in Germany	8
‘It’s up to the market to decide’: Revealing and concealing power in the sustainable tea supply chain	7
Mobility cause lawyering: Contesting regimes of (im)mobility in the Canary Islands migration route to Europe	7
‘Occupying’ the womb: Disrupted kinship futures and sovereign logics in sexual violence during wars	6
In search of a caring state: Migrations of Afghans from Iran to Germany	6
Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana	5
Breaking the Contract: Digital Nomads and the State	5
Moving forward – staying put: Social science postgraduates’ Covid-19 (im)mobilities	5
Staging joyful spectacles: Exploring the temporalities of positive affect in child-focused NGO programmes	4
From ‘beasts of burden’ to ‘backbone of society’: The fiscal forging of a new Bolivian middle class	4
Lithium scale-making and extractivist counter-futurities in Bolivia	4
Bridging anthropological theory: Accumulating and containing wealth in World of Warcraft landscapes	4
Makeshift activism and the afterlives of refugee welcome in Covid-19 Italy	3
The perils of utopia: Between ‘ethical static’ and moral perfectionism in Iran	3
Power and precariousness in the expert hierarchies of the US hydrocarbon industry	3
The politics of percentage: Informating justice in the US clean energy rush	3
The village bank of a Lisu community: Indigenous belief, economic practices, and environmental conservation in Southwest China	3
Nun of the river: The material and spiritual economies of small hydropower in rural Tanzania	2
Desiring the state: Social welfare and kinship in post-socialist Tanzania	2
Lifeline Ferries: Existential dimensions of ‘essential’ mobility	2
Actually existing post-socialism: Producing ideological others in eastern Germany	2
Global tourism and local ethnicity: Reconfiguring racial and ethnic relations in central Laos	2

A cosmopolitan bubble? Constructions of locality at an international school in China	2
How to think about people who don’t want to be studied: Further reflections on studying up	2
Moving around the Synagogue: Responses to COVID Restrictions on Movement for Ritual Purposes in a Liberal Jewish Community	2
Introduction: Contesting the moral worlds, scales, and epistemics of energy transitions	2
Kinship and the politics of responsibility: An introduction	2
Problem solving as selective blindness	2
‘New’ but ‘Squeezed’: Middle Class and Mortgaged Homeownership in Croatia	2
Elusive adulthood and surplus life-time in Spain	2
When diversity becomes a resource: Managing alterity and everyday cosmopolitanisms in Carlo Pisacane, a primary school in Rome	2
The time of post-socialism: On the future of an anthropological concept	2
Who alone can ‘see’? Christian humanitarianism, aspect-perception and political critique	1
Entangled navigations: Intergenerational care relations in neoliberal eduscapes in Benin	1
Making valuable energy: Public forums, municipal futures, and infrastructural pathways	1
Rich man, poor man, middleman, thing: Distributing power	1
Concerning distributive labour: Exploring the pragmatics of globalised interdependence	1
The aftermath of gendered violence: Kinship and affect in post-genocide Rwanda	1
Engineering the middle classes: State institutions and the aspirations of citizenship	1
Audit as confession: The instrumentalisation of ethics for management control	1
We, the receptors: Planning and the politicization of local opposition to fracking in Britain	1
The others’ others: When taking our natives seriously is not enough	1
Making others (un)equal: The social ethics of Scandinavian enclaving in Maputo, Mozambique	1
Afterword: Kill the petrostate	1
The anthropology of post-socialism: Theoretical legacies and conceptual futures – An introduction	1
Navigating Covid-induced (im)mobilities: Human agency during travel restrictions and uncertainties	1
‘Creature of statute’: Legal bureaucracy and the performance of professionalism in Johannesburg	1
Liminal states: Propertied citizenship and gendered kin work in middle-class Kolkata families	1
‘We work for the Devil’: Oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier	1
Introduction: Seeding change – the importance of small sustainable projects and activities	1