OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Sociology 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
Gender-Based Violence, Twin Pandemic to COVID-19	113
Conspiracy Theories and the Manufacture of Dissent: QAnon, the ‘Big Lie’, Covid-19, and the Rise of Rightwing Propaganda	29
War, Heroes and Sacrifice: Masking Neoliberal Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic	26
Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois	24
The White Right: A Gendered Look at the Links Between “Victim” Ideology and Anti-Black Lives Matter Sentiments in the Era of Trump	21
Does COVID-19 as a Long Wave Turning Point Mean the End of Neoliberalism?	18
“If Only We Are Brave Enough to Be It”: Demanding More from Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts to Support Women Faculty of Color”	16
The Nexus of QAnon and COVID-19: Legitimation Crisis and Epistemic Crisis	16
Building Transversal Solidarities in European Cities: Open Harbours, Safe Communities, Home	14
Impact of COVID-19 on Migrant Labourers of India and China	14
Failing to Plan Is Planning to Fail: Toward an Expanded Notion of Democratically Planned Postcapitalism	14
The Two Faces of the ‘Global Right’: Revolutionary Conservatives and National-Conservatives	13
Berserk!: Anger and the Charismatic Populism of Donald Trump	13
The New Finance Capital: Corporate Governance, Financial Power, and the State	13
Human Rights-inspired Governmentality: COVID-19 through a Human Dignity Perspective	12
Place Attachment and Alienation from Place: Cultural Displacement in Gentrifying Ethnic Enclaves	12
The Perfect Storm: A Subcultural Analysis of the QAnon Movement	12
Capital, Capitalism and Health	11
Politicized Megaprojects and Public Sector Interventions: Mass Consent Under Neoliberal Statism	11
A Class Analysis of the Expansion of COVID-19 in Peru: The Case of Metropolitan Lima	11
QAnon—Religious Roots, Religious Responses	10
On Transversal Solidarity: An Approach to Migration and Multi-Scalar Solidarities	10
Marketisation of Academia and Authoritarian Governments: The Cases of Hungary and Turkey in Critical Perspective	10
Pushed to the Margins: The Crisis Among Tribal Youth in India During COVID-19	9
The Artisan Economy and the New Spirit of Capitalism	9

After a Global Platform Leaves: Understanding the Heterogeneity of Gig Workers through Capital Mobility	9
Politization in Labor Conflict: Analyzing the Demands of Post-Authoritarian Chilean Strikes	9
Women’s Solidarity, Communicative Space, the Gig Economy’s Social Reproduction and Labour Process: The Case of Female Platform Drivers in China	9
Decolonizing Voices From Rojhelat: Gender-Othering, Ethnic Erasure, and the Politics of Intersectionality in Iran	8
Institutions, Occupations and Connectivity: The Embeddedness of Gig Work and Platform-Mediated Labour Market in Hong Kong	8
‘Race might be a unicorn, but its horn could draw blood’: Racialisation, Class and Racism in a Non-Western Context	8
Manufacturing Distress: Race, Redevelopment, and the EB-5 Program in Central Brooklyn	8
A Sociological Analysis of “OK Boomer”	7
The Broken Promise of Human Capital Theory: Social Embeddedness, Graduate Entrepreneurs and Youth Employment in China	7
Reflections on the Decline of Academia: Large Problems and Small Minds	7
One of the Good Ones: Rhetorical Maneuvers of Whiteness	7
‘No South Asian Riders, Please’: The Politics of Visibilisation in Platformed Food Delivery Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong	7
Neoliberal Fatigue: The Effects of Private Refugee Sponsorship on Canadians’ Political Consciousness	7
Towards a Postcolonial Critical Realism	7
From Grievance to Insurrection: Authoritarian Populism Today	6
Work Faster, Harder, Cheaper? Global, Local and Sectoral Co-Configurations of Job Insecurities Among Hong Kong Creative Workers	6
Normalizing and Resisting the New Precarity: A Case Study of the Indonesian Gig Economy	6
Twisted Trajectories, Curious Chronologies: Revisiting the Unfree Labour Debate	6
Law, Code and Exploitation: How Corporations Regulate the Working Conditions of the Digital Proletariat	6
How Race Counts for Latinx Homeownership	6
The Protests in Belarus: Context, Causes and Lessons	6
Cornel West and Marxist Humanism	6
The Toxic Other: The Palestinian Critique and Debates About Race and Racism	5
Donald Trump in Power: Discourse, Performativity, Identification	5
‘Play’ing College Football: Campus Athletic Worker Experiences of Exploitation	5
Walking on Two Legs: Black Marxism and the Sociological Canon	5
COVID-19 and Other Challenges: A Case Study of Certified Organic Green Tea Producers in China	5
Social Movements in Iran: How Well Does the Dominant Narrative Work?	5
Old and New Organizational Forms in a Complex Society: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective	5
The Indefatigable Worker: From Factory Floor to Zoom Avatar	5
Learning from Criticisms of Civil Resistance	5
Lest We Forget: Politics of Multiculturalism in Canada Revisited during COVID-19	5
The Dilemma of Foxconn Moms: Social Reproduction and the Rise of ‘Gig Manufacturing’ in China	5
Labor Unions and Undocumented Immigrants: Local Perspectives on Transversal Solidarity During DACA and DAPA	4
Elite Communities and Polarization in Neoliberal Society: Consecration in Australia’s and Sweden’s Wealthy Neighbourhoods	4
Detached Attachment: Burnout and Commitment among Caregivers in the Immigrant Rights Movement	4
News, Nations, and Power Relations: How Neoliberal Media Reproduce a Hierarchical World Order	4
Marx’s Theories and Beyond: Understanding Working-Class Solidarity in China	4
The January 6 Insurrection: Historical and Global Contexts	4
(Re)enacting Settler Colonialism via White Resident Utterances	4
Hong Kong’s Precarious Young Workers and Contradictions of Capital	4
Democracy and Capitalism in the Interregnum: Trump’s Failed Self-Coup and After	4
The Policy Road to Socialism	4
The State of US Sociology: From Crisis to Renewal	4
Organization for Liquid-Modern times?	4
The Fragmented Labor Power Composition of Gig Workers: Entrepreneurial Tendency and the Heterogeneous Production of Difference	4
Debating Equity through Integration: School Officials’ Decision-Making and Community Advocacy During a School Rezoning in Williamsburg, Virginia	3
Overcoming and Penalizing Precarity: Narratives of Drug Personalities Arrested in the Philippine War on Drugs	3
Theorizing Regulation-in-City for Homeless People’s Subaltern Strategy and Informality: Societalization, Metabolism, and Classes With(out) Housing	3
Profit, Self, and Agency: A Reevaluation	3

Socio-Economic Inequality and Quality of Life in Russia	3
The Palestine Exception, Racialization and Invisibilization: From Israel (Palestine) to North America (Turtle Island)	3
Epistemic media and critical knowledge about the self: Thinking about algorithms with Habermas	3
Europeanisation, Devolution and Popular Sovereignty: On the Politics of State Transformation in Scottish Nationalism	3
After the Foxconn Suicides in China: A Roundtable on Labor, the State and Civil Society in Global Electronics	3
Realist and Historicist Modes of Critique in Critical Sociology	3
Platform Organizations and Fields: Exploring the Influence of Field Conditions on Platformization Processes	3
The Perfect Storm: US Missteps, Belligerence, and Racial Legacies	3
Suicidal Economy of Turkey in Times of Crisis: 2018 Crisis and Beyond	3
Epistemic and Social Diversity as Sociology’s Strengths	3
The Tribal Games: Tribalist Foundations of Trump Supporters	3
Marketization in Crisis: The Political Economy of COVID-19 and the Unmaking of Public Transport in Stockholm	3
When Feminism Redefines National Liberation: How Tal’at Movement brought Feminism to the Core of the Palestinian National Liberation Struggle	3
Critical Agrarian Studies as Populist Land-Grab	3
Conspiracies and Restorative Violence in American Culture	3
For Sociology: May Our Arguments Unite Us	3
Rosa Luxemburg in Mexico: On the Return of Primitive Accumulation	3
Placing Mexican Ethnic Enclaves: Toward a Recursive Model of Place Attachment	3
From Climate Change to Sustainable and Inclusive Economies: A Policy Agenda	3
The Making of a Work-ready Individual: The Political Economy of Time in a Workfare Program in Israel	3
Post-Soviet Capitalism in Russia and Digital Revolution	2
Social Forms Beyond Value: Public Wealth and Its Contradictions	2
Redistributive Solidarity? Exploring the Utopian Potential of Unconditional Basic Income	2
Stratification Among In-Home Care Workers in the United States	2
The Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism (PSSCM): Particular Characteristics, Main Tendencies, and Its Place in the System of Marxist Studies in Post-Soviet Russia	2
Canon Fodder and the Intimacy of Dialogues	2
Trump’s Charisma	2
Passive Revolution in Japan: The Restoration of Hegemony under Abe?	2
Political Imaginations of Community Kitchens in Sweden	2
Stratification in a Neoliberal Society: The Making of Elites and Occupationally Disabled in Contemporary Sweden	2
Transversal Solidarities and the City: An Introduction to the Special Issue	2
A Call for Counter-Public Sociology	2
Global Capitalism and Labour in the Age of Monopoly: Hong Kong and Mainland China	2
On the Job, Off the Books: Organizing Against Worker Misclassification in the Neoliberal Era	2
Colonial Capitalist Heterochronicity: Socio-Ecological Rhythms of the Sugar Plantation and the Formal Subsumption of Historical and Cultural Difference	2
Politics, Crisis, and the Canon: A Commentary on Michael Burawoy’s ‘Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois’	2
Frankfurt School Legacy and the Critical Sociology of Media: Lifeworld in Digital Capitalism	2
Worker Co-Operatives for the 21^st Century	2
Detention as Social Space: Waiting, Social Relations, and Mundane Resistance of Asylum Seekers in Detention	2
Palestinian Erasure and Dehumanization in Introductory Sociology Texts	2
Financialization and income inequality: bringing class struggle back in	2
The End of Globalized Production? Supply-Chain Resilience, Technological Sovereignty, and Enduring Global Interdependencies in the Post-Pandemic Era	2
Rethinking the Concept of a ‘Financial Elite’: A Critical Intervention	2
Exodus, Nakba Denialism, and the Mobilization of Anti-Arab Racism	2
Indigenous Knowledge and the Social Construction of Patriarchy: The Case of the Bukusu of Kenya	2
Economic Insecurity and Social Stability: An Exploration of One of Capitalism’s Vicious Cycles	2
Visioning Alternatives to Segregated Education: A Disability Justice and Access-Centered Pedagogy Approach	2