OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Defying national homogeneity: Hidden acts ofZainichiKorean resistance in Japan	39
Mobility cause lawyering: Contesting regimes of (im)mobility in the Canary Islands migration route to Europe	16
Fostering sustainability through environmentally friendly coffee production and alternative trade: The case of Café Orgánico de Marcala (COMSA), Honduras	13
Imagine air: Global commons, ‘ecological civilization’, and citizen visions beyond carbon markets in China	11
On value and the commons	8
‘Creature of statute’: Legal bureaucracy and the performance of professionalism in Johannesburg	7
Navigating Covid-induced (im)mobilities: Human agency during travel restrictions and uncertainties	7
Who alone can ‘see’? Christian humanitarianism, aspect-perception and political critique	7
We, the receptors: Planning and the politicization of local opposition to fracking in Britain	6
‘We work for the Devil’: Oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier	6
Crafting and maintaining socio-ecological commons: Notes from a city of ruins	5
Missing power: Nostalgia and disillusionment among Southern California water engineers	5
Gaseous politics: contradictions and moral frontiers of the energy transition in Ghana	5
Afterword: The middle class and the capitalist state	5
In search of a caring state: Migrations of Afghans from Iran to Germany	4
Shifting terms: Development discourses and moral imaginaries in Indian state service provision	4
Bridging anthropological theory: Accumulating and containing wealth in World of Warcraft landscapes	4
Sensing indigeneity: A sensory ethnography of the presence of the past among newly identifying indigenous people in South Africa	4
Social reproduction, interrupted? Motherly labour, educational aspirations, and the work for another life	4
Nun of the river: The material and spiritual economies of small hydropower in rural Tanzania	3
Makeshift activism and the afterlives of refugee welcome in Covid-19 Italy	3
Kinship and the politics of responsibility: An introduction	3
‘You’ll be very far from this place’: Temporal and spatial aspirations at Bridge International Academies in Kenya	3
How to think about people who don’t want to be studied: Further reflections on studying up	2
‘Love is not tourism’: Navigating immobility through (migrant) resistance	2

Introduction: Reconfiguring essential and existential (im)mobilities	2
Challenging the dominant work ethic: Work, naps, and productivity of location-independent workers	2
The politics of dispossession and compensation in the eastern Indian coal belt	2
The others’ others: When taking our natives seriously is not enough	2
Introduction: Ethnographies of power and the powerful	2
Mining the Sun: Coal-to-solar transitions and energetic place-making in Appalachia	2
An anthropology of the social contract: The political power of an idea	2
Introduction: Contesting the moral worlds, scales, and epistemics of energy transitions	2
‘You feel it in your bones’: Mobility, animacy, and the everyday violence of incarceration in the American southwest	2
Looking for the authentic other: Cosmopolitan ethos and orientalism in French migrants’ experiences in Abu Dhabi	2
A feral science? Dangers and disruptions between DIYbio and the FBI	2
When diversity becomes a resource: Managing alterity and everyday cosmopolitanisms in Carlo Pisacane, a primary school in Rome	2
‘It’s up to the market to decide’: Revealing and concealing power in the sustainable tea supply chain	1
Engineering the middle classes: State institutions and the aspirations of citizenship	1
Making valuable energy: Public forums, municipal futures, and infrastructural pathways	1
Infrastructure, feral waters and power relations in rural Romania	1
‘A vision for the future’: Professional ethos as boundary work in Mozambique’s public sector	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
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
‘The Girls are Alright’: Beauty work and neoliberal regimes of responsibility among young women in Urban India	1
Lifeline Ferries: Existential dimensions of ‘essential’ mobility	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
‘of evident invisibles’: Ethnography as intermediation	1
Scales of disaster: Intimate social contracts on the margins of the postcolonial state	1
A decolonial anthropology: You can dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools	0
The politics of percentage: Informating justice in the US clean energy rush	0
‘We were not emotional enough’: Cultural liberalism and social contract imaginaries in the Colombian peace process	0
Elites invoking the commons: The techno-utopias of the Indian national knowledge portals	0
Rule by glorification: The imposition of state honours and ‘grateful coerced subjects’ in contemporary Vietnam	0
Socialist fragments East and West: Towards a comparative anthropology of global (post-)socialism	0
Global tourism and local ethnicity: Reconfiguring racial and ethnic relations in central Laos	0
Problem solving as selective blindness	0
From ‘beasts of burden’ to ‘backbone of society’: The fiscal forging of a new Bolivian middle class	0
Socialising resources: State-encouraged commoning and the making of scarce social goods in Shenzhen (China)	0
A cosmopolitan bubble? Constructions of locality at an international school in China	0
Dynastic aura: Proximity to the powerful and its promise in corporate South Korea	0
Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain	0
Migrants as subject-citizens: Identity affirmation and domestic concealment among Venezuelans living in Santiago, Chile	0
Actually existing post-socialism: Producing ideological others in eastern Germany	0
Power and precariousness in the expert hierarchies of the US hydrocarbon industry	0
Rich man, poor man, middleman, thing: Distributing power	0
Real dystopias: Over-commoning and elite capture in Austria	0
Entangled navigations: Intergenerational care relations in neoliberal eduscapes in Benin	0
Introduction: Seeding change – the importance of small sustainable projects and activities	0
Afterword: Kill the petrostate	0
Swiss commoners’ struggles for the right balance: Ontologies, identities and responses to market and state pressures	0

Ecologies of quantification in waste management: Landfilling, e-waste recycling, and car breaking	0
Living kindness: Re-imagining kinship for a more humane future	0
Gender and the politics of maternalisms: Kinship-based imaginaries, responsibility and care in Australian refugee advocacy	0
Moving forward – staying put: Social science postgraduates’ Covid-19 (im)mobilities	0
The perils of utopia: Between ‘ethical static’ and moral perfectionism in Iran	0
Incidental sustainability? Notes from a thrift store in Germany	0
Cosmopolitan enclaves: An introduction	0
Current demands in the Nepali electricity sector: For a social reproduction theory of infrastructure	0
‘South-Working’: Return mobilities and remote work during COVID-19	0
“All great warriors have long hair”: Tourism and shifting Indigenous masculinities in Napo, Ecuador	0
“The economy of trust”? Competing grassroots economics and the mobilization of (mis-)trust in a Catalonian cooperative	0
‘Occupying’ the womb: Disrupted kinship futures and sovereign logics in sexual violence during wars	0
Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana	0
Engineering gender, engineering the Jordanian State: Beyond the salvage ethnography of middle-class housewifery in the Middle East	0
Distributed agency: Care, human needs, and distributive struggles in Portugal	0
Breaking the Contract: Digital Nomads and the State	0
Political uncommoning through anti-gender mobilization by radical right-wing online voices	0
Making others (un)equal: The social ethics of Scandinavian enclaving in Maputo, Mozambique	0
The value of dignity: Health insurance, ethics and court cases in Brazil	0
State aesthetics and the Other–Nature in disaster memorials	0
The anthropology of post-socialism: Theoretical legacies and conceptual futures – An introduction	0
The time of post-socialism: On the future of an anthropological concept	0
The village bank of a Lisu community: Indigenous belief, economic practices, and environmental conservation in Southwest China	0
Concerning distributive labour: Exploring the pragmatics of globalised interdependence	0
Liminal states: Propertied citizenship and gendered kin work in middle-class Kolkata families	0
Post-socialism as an experience of distancing and dispossession in rural and transnational Estonia	0
True selves, suspicious lives: Public deceits, hopes of restoration, and existential troubles in misdocumented pasts	0
Frontiers of cosmopolitanism: Educational enclaves and the extractive roots of international schools	0
Introduction: Strategic entanglements – un/commoning as relational labour of articulating resource modalities	0
Audit as confession: The instrumentalisation of ethics for management control	0
Extending the reach of ‘post-socialism’: A commentary	0
Resisting renewable energy transitions: Innovation as a moral trope in the US oil and gas industry	0
Afterword	0