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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Care and Scale: Decorrelative Ethics in Algorithmic Recommendation	44
Labors of Love: On the Political Economies and Ethics of Bovine Politics in Himalayan India	26
Necropolitics versus Biopolitics: Spatialization, White Privilege, and Visibility during a Pandemic	24
The Right to the Remainder: Gleaning in the Fuel Economies of East Africa’s Northern Corridor	20
Toward an Affective Sense of Life: Artificial Intelligence, Animacy, and Amusement at a Robot Pet Memorial Service in Japan	19
Be Kind: Negotiating Ethical Proximities in Aotearoa/New Zealand during COVID-19	17
Time at Its Margins: Cattle Smuggling across the India-Bangladesh Border	17
Life before Vegetables: Nutrition, Cash, and Subjunctive Health in Samoa	16
Critical Security and Anthropology from the Middle East	13
From Desire to Endurance: Hanging on in a Spanish Village	12
The Pandemic Imaginerie: Infectious Bodies and Military-Police Theater in Australia	10
Trust without Confidence: Moving Medicine with Dirty Hands	9
Orders of Protection	9
Black Feminist Citational Praxis and Disciplinary Belonging	9
Animate Earth, Settler Ruins: Mound Landscapes and Decolonial Futures in the Native South	9
Structures of Resentment: On Feeling—and Being—Left Behind by Health Care Reform	9
Proxemics, COVID-19, and the Ethics of Care in South Africa	8
“L’enfer, c’est les autres”: Proximity as an Ethical Problem during COVID-19	7
The Work of Disaster: Building Back Otherwise in Post-Earthquake Nepal	7
On Waiting Willfully in Urban Uganda: Toward an Anthropology of Pace	7
Masculinity, Migration, and Forced Conscription in the Syrian War	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
Sovereignty in Drag: On Fakes, Foreclosure, and Unbecoming States	7
Birthing from Within: Nature, Technology, and Self-Making in Silicon Valley Childbearing	6

Biopolitical Paternalism and Its Maternal Supplements: Kinship Correlates of Community Mental Health Governance in China	6
Beyond Compassionate Aid: Precarious Bureaucrats and Dutiful Asylum Seekers in Italy	6
Underlayers of Citizenship: Queer Objects, Intimate Exposures, and the Rescue Rush in Kenya	5
The City Otherwise: The Deferred Emergency of Occupation in Inner-City Johannesburg	4
Citation, Erasure, and Violence: A Memoir	4
The Multiply Produced Film: Collaboration, Ethnography, and Feminist Epistemology	4
#CiteBlackWomen	4
Vengeful Animals, Involuntary Mourning, and the Ethics of Ndyuka Autonomy	4
Immigrant Sensibilities in Tech Worlds: Sensing Hate, Capturing Dissensus	4
Weedy Finance: Weather Insurance and Parametric Life on Unstable Grounds	4
Nested (In)Securities: Commodity and Currency Circuits in an Iran under Sanctions	4
Exhuming Dead Persons: Forensic Science and the Making of Post-fascist Publics in Spain	4
Refusing the God Trick: Engaging Black Women’s Knowledge	4
The Fish Is in the Water and the Water Is in the Fish: Symbiosis in a Nuclear Whale Fall	3
A Wild Boar Chase: Ecology of Harm and Half-Life Politics in Coastal Fukushima	3
The Long Turning: A Palestinian Refugee in Belgium	3
Citing Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition	3
Suspending Nuclearity	3
Making Kin from Gold: Dowry, Gender, and Indian Labor Migration to the Gulf	3
Work without Labor: Life in the Surround of a Rural Prison Town	3
Why Do “Good” Pictures Matter in Anthropology?	3
Citation as Ceremony: #SayHerName, #CiteBlackWomen, and the Practice of Reparative Enunciation	3
The Bioeconomy and the Birth of a “New Anthropology”	3
Banking on Digital Money: Swedish Cashlessness and the Fraying Currency Tether	3
Embodied Urbanisms: Corruption and the Ecologies of Eating and Excreting in India's Real Estate Economies	3
Life Extempore: Trials of Ruination in the Twilight Zone of Soviet Industry	3
Bioeconomy and Migrants’ Lives in Libya	3
From Hoping to Expecting: Cochlear Implantation and Habilitation in India	2
Speculative Undergrounds	2
Fright and the Fraying of Community	2
Governing by Proximity: State Performance and Migrant Citizenship on the India-Pakistan Border	2
Magendo: Arbitrage and Ambiguity on an East African Frontier	2
A Racial-Religious Imagination: Syriac Christians, Iconic Bodies, and the Sensory Politics of Ethical Difference in the Netherlands	2
The Spy Who Came In from the South	2
“Masking” Makeup: Cosmetics and Constructions of Race in Rio de Janeiro	2
Legal Care and Friction in Family Detention	2
The Bioeconomics of Domesticating Zoonoses	2
Mobile Livings: On the Bioeconomies of Mobility	2
Air Pressure: Temporal Hierarchies in Nepali Aviation	2
Life in Traffic: Riddling Field Notes on the Political Economy of “Sex” and Nature	2
The End of Intimacy	2
Infrastructural Decay	1
The Substitute and the Excuse	1
Voices of Sorrow and Joy	1
Security against the State in Revolutionary Yemen	1
The Immune Home: Domestic Enclaves, Diffuse Protections	1
Place, Time, and Affect: Changing Landscapes around a New Guinea Mining Area	1
Not Built to Last: Military Occupation and Ruination under Settler Colonialism	1
Utopias of Oil	1
The Dying Home: “Bad Deaths” and Spatial Inscriptions of Mourning in a Favela	1

Human Routers	1
Vital Labors: Transacting Oocytes across Borders in the Post-Soviet Space	1
Corporations and States	1
“Life is a Gamble”	1
The Limits of Corporate Chains and Brand Management: “Loyalty” and the Efficacy of Vernacular Markets in the Andes	1
Of Feral and Obedient Cows	1
When Ethics Can't Be Found: Evaluative Gaps in Ordinary Life	1
"Jurisprudential Massage": Legal Fictions, Sectarian Citizenship, and the Epistemics of Dissent in Post-socialist China	1
EU-Driven Border Control in Niger: From Migrants to Gold, Drugs, and Rare Animals	1
Multiscale Home: Shifting Landscapes and Living-in-Movement in Haiti	1