OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
From the Fringe to the Fore: An Algorithmic Ethnography of the Far-Right Conspiracy Theory Group QAnon	19
Being a Deliveroo Rider: Practices of Platform Labor in Nijmegen and Berlin	14
Distributing Reflexivity through Co-laborative Ethnography	14
Understanding the Quiet Times: The Role of Periods of “Nothing Much Happening” in Police Work	12
Vulnerable Research: Competencies for Trauma and Justice-Informed Ethnography	12
Filtering Touch: An Ethnography of Dirt, Danger, and Industrial Robots	11
Generation V: Millennial Vegans in Israel	11
“Are You Married?”: Gender and Faith in Political Ethnographic Research	11
Security Culture: Surveillance and Responsibilization in a Prisoner Reentry Organization	10
Making Food Manageable – Packaging as a Code of Practice for Work Practices at the Supermarket	10
Sensoriality, Social Interaction, and “Doing sensing” in Physical–Cultural Ethnographies	10
Material Practices of Ethnographic Presence	9
Practices of Ethnographic Research: Introduction to the Special Issue	8
Considering Silences in Narrative Inquiry: An Intergenerational Story of a Sami Family	8
Punishing Fieldwork: Penal Domination and Prison Ethnography	7
Street Art Commodification and (An)aesthetic Policies on the Outskirts of Lisbon	7
Implicating Ourselves Through Our Research: A Duoethnography of Researcher Reflexivity	7
Leaving Gangs in Cape Town: Disengagement as Role Exit	7
“How Will You Give Back?”: On Becoming aCompañeraas a Feminist Methodology from the Cracks	7
Digital Migrating and Storyworlding with Women We Love: A Feminist Ethnography	7
Mothers and Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Negotiating Motherhood within Smart Working	6
Surveillance, Radicalization, and Prison Change Self-Analysis of an Ethnographic Survey Under Tension	6
Performing Gender and Political Recognition: Israeli Reform Jewish Life-cycle Rituals	5
Talking Shit, Egos, and Tough Skin: Humor Among Elite Black Men	5
Gender and Legitimacy in Personal Service Occupations: The Case of End-of-Life Doulas and Death Midwives	5

Video Analysis and Ethnographic Knowledge: An Empirical Study of Video Analysis Practices	5
(De)constructing Refugee Vulnerability: Overcoming Institutional Barriers to Ethnographic Research With Refugee Communities	5
Gendered Governmentalities and Neoliberal Logics: Latina, Immigrant Women in Healthcare and Social Services	5
“Pocketing” Research Data? Ethnographic Data Production as Material Theorizing	5
“A Program, Not the Projects”: Reentry in the Post-Public Housing Era	5
Social Media Representations of Law Enforcement within Four Diverse Chicago Neighborhoods	4
Practices of Writing in Ethnographic Work	4
“Like Stitches to a Wound”: Fashioning Taste in and Through Garment Mending Practices	4
Interaction Rituals and Sexual Commerce in Thailand’s Erotic Bars	4
Glocalizing Women’s Empowerment: Feminist Contestation and NGO Activism in Iran	4
Negotiating Social Diversity in Residential Care for Older Persons	4
“We All Play Pretty Much the Same, Except. . .”: Gender-Integrated Quidditch and the Persistence of Essentialist Ideology	4
“When I Least Expected It”: an Autoethnography of Reporting Workplace Sexual Harassment and Compassionate Bystanders”	4
A Confessional Representation of Ethnographic Fieldwork in an Academy Sport Setting	4
Ethnographic Gameness: Theorizing Extra-methodological Fieldwork Practices in a Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs	4
“‘No Tough Guys Here?’: Hybrid Masculinity in a Boxing Gym”	3
From Nativeness to Strangeness and Back: Ascribed Ethnicity, Body Work, and Contextual Insiderness	3
Institutional Ethnography and the Materiality of Affect: Affective Circuits as Indicators of Other Possibilities	3
The American Ghetto, Gangster, and Respect on the Streets of Copenhagen: Media(tion)s between Structure and Street Culture	3
Constructing Authentic Spectatorship at an Esports Bar	3
Claiming and Reclaiming Settings, Objects, and Situations: A Microethnographic Study of the Sociomaterial Practices of Everyday Life at Swedish Youth Homes	3
Assemblage Thinking in Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach	3
Why Should We Care What Extremists Think? The Contribution of Emic Perspectives to Understanding the “right-wing extremist” Mind-Set	3
Walk a Mile in My Shoes! An Autoethnographical Perspective of Urban Walkability in Galway	3
Uncoupled: American Widows in Times of Uncertainty and Ambiguous Norms	3
Pedagogies of Sport in Youth Detention: Withholding, Developing, or Just “Busying the Youth”?	3
“We Offer Nuffle a Sausage Sacrifice on Game Day”. Blood Bowl Players’ World-building Rituals through the Lens of Theory of Sociocultual Viability	3
On Refrigerators and Rage: Secrecy and Pacification in the Florida Restaurant Industry	2
The Anatomy of a Battle Jacket: A Multimodal Ethnographic Perspective	2
Strategic Boredom: The Experience and Dynamics of Boredom in Refugee Camp. A Mediterranean Case	2
The Power to be Ethical: Controlling Moral Assemblages in Border Militias	2
Facing the Storm: Our First Annual Faculty of Color Writing Retreat as a Microcosm for Being a Black Woman in the Academy	2
“You Kind of Find Yourself Helpless”: Teens’ Identity Constructions and Responses to Childhood Trauma	2
Back to the Sicilian Landing Sites: Exploring a Borderland through a Refugee Gaze	2
Inside Happiness Groups: Everyday Happiness, Self-Awareness, and Resistance	2
“We Do This at Dancing Rabbit”: Recruitment and Collective Identity Processes in the Ecovillage	2
Everyday Ritual and Ethnographic Practice: Two Cases Showing the Importance of Embodiment and Reflexivity	2
Weed Central: Cannabis Specialists and Polydrug Vendors in Mexico City	2
Bodies as Arenas of Experimentation: Experiencing Novel Ways of Running	2