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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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Defying national homogeneity: Hidden acts ofZainichiKorean resistance in Japan	46
Mobility cause lawyering: Contesting regimes of (im)mobility in the Canary Islands migration route to Europe	17
Fostering sustainability through environmentally friendly coffee production and alternative trade: The case of Café Orgánico de Marcala (COMSA), Honduras	14
Imagine air: Global commons, ‘ecological civilization’, and citizen visions beyond carbon markets in China	12
On value and the commons	8
‘Creature of statute’: Legal bureaucracy and the performance of professionalism in Johannesburg	8
Navigating Covid-induced (im)mobilities: Human agency during travel restrictions and uncertainties	8
‘We work for the Devil’: Oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier	7
We, the receptors: Planning and the politicization of local opposition to fracking in Britain	7
Gaseous politics: contradictions and moral frontiers of the energy transition in Ghana	6
Missing power: Nostalgia and disillusionment among Southern California water engineers	6
Crafting and maintaining socio-ecological commons: Notes from a city of ruins	6
Afterword: The middle class and the capitalist state	6
Sensing indigeneity: A sensory ethnography of the presence of the past among newly identifying indigenous people in South Africa	6
Shifting terms: Development discourses and moral imaginaries in Indian state service provision	5
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	4
The reconfiguration of mestizaje and whiteness in the diaspora	4
In search of a caring state: Migrations of Afghans from Iran to Germany	4
Social reproduction, interrupted? Motherly labour, educational aspirations, and the work for another life	4
‘You’ll be very far from this place’: Temporal and spatial aspirations at Bridge International Academies in Kenya	3
Introduction: Contesting the moral worlds, scales, and epistemics of energy transitions	3
Kinship and the politics of responsibility: An introduction	3
Nun of the river: The material and spiritual economies of small hydropower in rural Tanzania	3
How to think about people who don’t want to be studied: Further reflections on studying up	3

The others’ others: When taking our natives seriously is not enough	2
Disrupting whiteness: Exclusion and belonging in the Dutch academy, from a mixed-race perspective	2
The politics of dispossession and compensation in the eastern Indian coal belt	2
Challenging the dominant work ethic: Work, naps, and productivity of location-independent workers	2
Lithium scale-making and extractivist counter-futurities in Bolivia	2
‘You feel it in your bones’: Mobility, animacy, and the everyday violence of incarceration in the American southwest	2
Introduction: Ethnographies of power and the powerful	2
A feral science? Dangers and disruptions between DIYbio and the FBI	2
An anthropology of the social contract: The political power of an idea	2
Mining the Sun: Coal-to-solar transitions and energetic place-making in Appalachia	2
Born ‘mixed’ in the USA: An emic/etic review	2
‘Love is not tourism’: Navigating immobility through (migrant) resistance	2
Looking for the authentic other: Cosmopolitan ethos and orientalism in French migrants’ experiences in Abu Dhabi	2
Introduction: Reconfiguring essential and existential (im)mobilities	2
When diversity becomes a resource: Managing alterity and everyday cosmopolitanisms in Carlo Pisacane, a primary school in Rome	2
‘Significant indeterminacy’ in Mexico’s racial identities: Vernacular dynamics of race identification in the era of the ideology of mestizaje (1940s–1950s)	1
Moving around the Synagogue: Responses to COVID Restrictions on Movement for Ritual Purposes in a Liberal Jewish Community	1
The aftermath of gendered violence: Kinship and affect in post-genocide Rwanda	1
Does being Indigenous imply being religious? Anthropology, heritage, and historiography in Mexico	1
Power in a minor key: Rethinking anthropological accounts of power alongside London’s community organisers	1
Ambivalent refusals: Epistemological limits in postcolonial ethnography	1
‘New’ but ‘Squeezed’: Middle Class and Mortgaged Homeownership in Croatia	1
Making valuable energy: Public forums, municipal futures, and infrastructural pathways	1
Engineering the middle classes: State institutions and the aspirations of citizenship	1
A decolonial anthropology: You can dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools	1
‘of evident invisibles’: Ethnography as intermediation	1
Scales of disaster: Intimate social contracts on the margins of the postcolonial state	1
‘It’s up to the market to decide’: Revealing and concealing power in the sustainable tea supply chain	1
Desiring the state: Social welfare and kinship in post-socialist Tanzania	1
Lifeline Ferries: Existential dimensions of ‘essential’ mobility	1
Infrastructure, feral waters and power relations in rural Romania	1
‘The Girls are Alright’: Beauty work and neoliberal regimes of responsibility among young women in Urban India	1
‘A vision for the future’: Professional ethos as boundary work in Mozambique’s public sector	1