OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cultural 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Care and Scale: Decorrelative Ethics in Algorithmic Recommendation	53
Necropolitics versus Biopolitics: Spatialization, White Privilege, and Visibility during a Pandemic	28
Labors of Love: On the Political Economies and Ethics of Bovine Politics in Himalayan India	26
Toward an Affective Sense of Life: Artificial Intelligence, Animacy, and Amusement at a Robot Pet Memorial Service in Japan	22
Time at Its Margins: Cattle Smuggling across the India-Bangladesh Border	20
Be Kind: Negotiating Ethical Proximities in Aotearoa/New Zealand during COVID-19	19
Life before Vegetables: Nutrition, Cash, and Subjunctive Health in Samoa	16
Bioeconomy and Migrants’ Lives in Libya	15
From Desire to Endurance: Hanging on in a Spanish Village	13
Proxemics, COVID-19, and the Ethics of Care in South Africa	11
Animate Earth, Settler Ruins: Mound Landscapes and Decolonial Futures in the Native South	10
The Pandemic Imaginerie: Infectious Bodies and Military-Police Theater in Australia	10
Beyond Compassionate Aid: Precarious Bureaucrats and Dutiful Asylum Seekers in Italy	9
Orders of Protection	9
Black Feminist Citational Praxis and Disciplinary Belonging	9
Sovereignty in Drag: On Fakes, Foreclosure, and Unbecoming States	8
Birthing from Within: Nature, Technology, and Self-Making in Silicon Valley Childbearing	8
On Waiting Willfully in Urban Uganda: Toward an Anthropology of Pace	7
Plants, Pathogens, and the Politics of Care: Xylella fastidiosa and the Intra-active Breakdown of Mallorca’s Almond Ecology	7
Oikography: Ethnographies of House-ing in Critical Times	7
Banking on Digital Money: Swedish Cashlessness and the Fraying Currency Tether	7
“L’enfer, c’est les autres”: Proximity as an Ethical Problem during COVID-19	7
Citing Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition	6
Underlayers of Citizenship: Queer Objects, Intimate Exposures, and the Rescue Rush in Kenya	6
Weedy Finance: Weather Insurance and Parametric Life on Unstable Grounds	6

Vengeful Animals, Involuntary Mourning, and the Ethics of Ndyuka Autonomy	6
Citation, Erasure, and Violence: A Memoir	5
The Bioeconomy and the Birth of a “New Anthropology”	5
#CiteBlackWomen	5
Why Do “Good” Pictures Matter in Anthropology?	4
Fright and the Fraying of Community	4
A Wild Boar Chase: Ecology of Harm and Half-Life Politics in Coastal Fukushima	4
Citation as Ceremony: #SayHerName, #CiteBlackWomen, and the Practice of Reparative Enunciation	4
Suspending Nuclearity	4
Refusing the God Trick: Engaging Black Women’s Knowledge	4
Air Pressure: Temporal Hierarchies in Nepali Aviation	4
The Multiply Produced Film: Collaboration, Ethnography, and Feminist Epistemology	4
Life Extempore: Trials of Ruination in the Twilight Zone of Soviet Industry	3
Mobile Livings: On the Bioeconomies of Mobility	3
The End of Intimacy	3
From Hoping to Expecting: Cochlear Implantation and Habilitation in India	3
Life in Traffic: Riddling Field Notes on the Political Economy of “Sex” and Nature	3
The Fish Is in the Water and the Water Is in the Fish: Symbiosis in a Nuclear Whale Fall	3
Embodied Urbanisms: Corruption and the Ecologies of Eating and Excreting in India's Real Estate Economies	3
Governing by Proximity: State Performance and Migrant Citizenship on the India-Pakistan Border	3
Work without Labor: Life in the Surround of a Rural Prison Town	3
The Limits of Corporate Chains and Brand Management: “Loyalty” and the Efficacy of Vernacular Markets in the Andes	2
Speculative Undergrounds	2
Predatory Fleas, Sterile Flies, and the Settlers	2
Legal Care and Friction in Family Detention	2
Utopias of Oil	2
Of Feral and Obedient Cows	2
“Masking” Makeup: Cosmetics and Constructions of Race in Rio de Janeiro	2
Conjugated Universalism	2
The Substitute and the Excuse	2
Magendo: Arbitrage and Ambiguity on an East African Frontier	2
The Bioeconomics of Domesticating Zoonoses	2
A Racial-Religious Imagination: Syriac Christians, Iconic Bodies, and the Sensory Politics of Ethical Difference in the Netherlands	2
Corporations and States	2
Bumpy Roads, Dusty Air: Gadbad and the Sensate Ecologies of Driving Work in Contemporary Mumbai	2
Not Built to Last: Military Occupation and Ruination under Settler Colonialism	2
Sustaining Containability	1
EU-Driven Border Control in Niger: From Migrants to Gold, Drugs, and Rare Animals	1
Pedagogies of Prohibition: Time, Education, and the War on Drugs in Rio de Janeiro’s Zona Norte	1
Circulating Objects, Changing Scales	1
Ontological Collateral: The Entanglement of “Cancer Pain” and “Chronic Non-Cancer Pain” in Thailand	1
Place, Time, and Affect: Changing Landscapes around a New Guinea Mining Area	1
The Dying Home: “Bad Deaths” and Spatial Inscriptions of Mourning in a Favela	1
"Jurisprudential Massage": Legal Fictions, Sectarian Citizenship, and the Epistemics of Dissent in Post-socialist China	1
“As if I Were an Illegal”	1
Malicious Game	1
Multiscale Home: Shifting Landscapes and Living-in-Movement in Haiti	1
The Promise of Fog Capture	1
Spectacle, Value, and Basic Income; Or, Labor and the “Maddening State”	1
When Ethics Can't Be Found: Evaluative Gaps in Ordinary Life	1

Human Routers	1
Vital Labors: Transacting Oocytes across Borders in the Post-Soviet Space	1
The Immune Home: Domestic Enclaves, Diffuse Protections	1
“Life is a Gamble”	1
Infrastructural Decay	1
Voices of Sorrow and Joy	1