OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critique of Anthropology is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Breaking the Contract: Digital Nomads and the State	22
An anthropology of the social contract: The political power of an idea	11
‘I volunteer at home too!’ Gendering affective citizenship	9
How to think about people who don’t want to be studied: Further reflections on studying up	7
Communities of care: Public donations, development assistance, and independent philanthropy in the Wa State of Myanmar	7
Introduction: Ethnographies of power and the powerful	7
Scales of disaster: Intimate social contracts on the margins of the postcolonial state	6
The time of post-socialism: On the future of an anthropological concept	6
The politics of dispossession and compensation in the eastern Indian coal belt	6
Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain	6
‘We were not emotional enough’: Cultural liberalism and social contract imaginaries in the Colombian peace process	5
Cosmopolitan enclaves: An introduction	5
The anthropology of post-socialism: Theoretical legacies and conceptual futures – An introduction	5
Extending the reach of ‘post-socialism’: A commentary	4
‘New’ but ‘Squeezed’: Middle Class and Mortgaged Homeownership in Croatia	4
Post-socialism as an experience of distancing and dispossession in rural and transnational Estonia	4
‘Creature of statute’: Legal bureaucracy and the performance of professionalism in Johannesburg	4
Frontiers of cosmopolitanism: Educational enclaves and the extractive roots of international schools	4
The politics of hopeful citizenship: Women, counterinsurgency and the state in eastern India	4
Elusive adulthood and surplus life-time in Spain	3
Shifting terms: Development discourses and moral imaginaries in Indian state service provision	3
Staging joyful spectacles: Exploring the temporalities of positive affect in child-focused NGO programmes	3
Looking for the authentic other: Cosmopolitan ethos and orientalism in French migrants’ experiences in Abu Dhabi	3
‘It’s up to the market to decide’: Revealing and concealing power in the sustainable tea supply chain	3
Power and precariousness in the expert hierarchies of the US hydrocarbon industry	2

Living kindness: Re-imagining kinship for a more humane future	2
The aftermath of gendered violence: Kinship and affect in post-genocide Rwanda	2
Liminal states: Propertied citizenship and gendered kin work in middle-class Kolkata families	2
Kinship and the politics of responsibility: An introduction	2
Actually existing post-socialism: Producing ideological others in eastern Germany	2
Postcolonial social drama: The case of Brazilian dentists in Portugal	2
‘We work for the Devil’: Oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier	2
Engineering gender, engineering the Jordanian State: Beyond the salvage ethnography of middle-class housewifery in the Middle East	2
Audit as confession: The instrumentalisation of ethics for management control	2
Archives, promises, values: Forensic infrastructures in times of austerity	2
Challenging the dominant work ethic: Work, naps, and productivity of location-independent workers	2
‘The Girls are Alright’: Beauty work and neoliberal regimes of responsibility among young women in Urban India	2
Concerning distributive labour: Exploring the pragmatics of globalised interdependence	2
Entangled navigations: Intergenerational care relations in neoliberal eduscapes in Benin	2
Engineering the middle classes: State institutions and the aspirations of citizenship	2