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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
On Digital Fetishism: A Critique of the Big Data Paradigm	37
About the Authors	31
Debating Equity through Integration: School Officials’ Decision-Making and Community Advocacy During a School Rezoning in Williamsburg, Virginia	22
Media Visibility and Migrant Voices: Representational Segregation in the Nordic Platform Economy	21
Demolition, Division and Displacement: Examining the Preservation of Whiteness in Rotterdam Municipal Housing Policy	20
After the Arab Uprisings: Rejoinder to Reviewers	20
About the Authors	20
Decolonizing Sociology for Social Justice in Bangladesh: Delta Scholarship Matters	18
The Disorganization of America: Post-Fordism, Irrational Capitalism, and the Decline of Universalism	17
From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care	16
Unpacking State Production of Temporal Dispossession: The Intersections of Labour, Asylum and Informalization in Sweden	15
Institutions, Occupations and Connectivity: The Embeddedness of Gig Work and Platform-Mediated Labour Market in Hong Kong	15
Book Review: Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital: A Marxist Analysis of Service and Retail Labour by Fabian van Onzen	14
About the Authors	13
Turning Theory to Practice: Palestine as a Sociological Question: ASA Resolution for Justice in Palestine	13
About the Authors	12
From Black Zionism to Black Nasserism: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Foundations of Black Anti-Zionist Discourse	11
Critical Han Studies Through the Lens of Internal Colonialism: China, Guangdong, and Hong Kong	11
The Defamiliarization of Childcare in Uruguay: What Factors Contribute to the Use of Care Centers?	10
Michael Burawoy’s Path: From North to South, and Back Again	10
Degenerations of Democracy: Response to Comments	10
On the Job, Off the Books: Organizing Against Worker Misclassification in the Neoliberal Era	9
Ibn Khaldun and Critical Inquiry: A Response to Christian Fuchs	9
Exit-With-Autonomy or Autonomy-Without-Exit? Divergent Political Trajectories in Rojava and the Kurdish Regional Government	9
About the Authors	8

Criticize and Construct! A Case for Emancipatory Social Theory	8
Rethinking the Concept of a ‘Financial Elite’: A Critical Intervention	8
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	8
The Ethics of Seeing Historically: Past, Present, and Future in Dark Times	8
Cracking the Iron Ceiling: On Ethnography as Theory	7
Historical Alternatives and the Future of the Mass Party	7
After Trickle Down, Kicking Down: On Jordan Peterson, Naturalizing Inequality, and Neofascist Indirect Apologetics	7
Neoliberal Fatigue: The Effects of Private Refugee Sponsorship on Canadians’ Political Consciousness	7
COVID-19 Emergency Governance in Croatia: The Case of Perpetual Exception and Securitized Disenfranchisement	7
Last Rites for Development Studies?	7
Precarious Participants, Online Labour Platforms and the Academic Mode of Production: Examining Gigified Research Participation	7
Fictionalized Violence and Criminality: Re-evaluating the Burakumin of Japan	7
Book Review: Unequal America: Class Conflict, the News Media, and Ideology in an Era of Record Inequality by Anthony R DiMaggio	6
The Political Economy of Precarious Work in India: A Case of Languishing Social Policy?	6
Cybernetic Society and the Demise of Democracy	6
Colorblindness and Free Market Ideologies as Racecraft	6
‘Drawing the Line’: Market Rule and Liberal Planning in the Governance of Capitalism	6
The Making of a Reserve Army of Labor: Paradoxes of American Disability Policy	6
Book Review: Agile Against Lean: An Inquiry into the Production System of Hyundai Motor, by Hyung Je Jo, Jun Ho Jeong and Chulsik Kim	5
Landholding and the Creation of Lumpen Tenants in Freetown: Youth Economic Survival and Patrimonialism in Postwar Sierra Leone	5
Book review: Social Security in the Balkans Volume 2: An Overview of Social Policy in the Republics of North Macedonia and Montenegro edited by Marzena Żakowska and Dorota Domalewska	5
Subalternity and the Integral State	5
Reconstructing Burawoy: Theorizing Migrant Labor, the Politics of Precarity, and Postcolonial/Racial Transformations	5
The White Right: A Gendered Look at the Links Between “Victim” Ideology and Anti-Black Lives Matter Sentiments in the Era of Trump	5
About the Authors	5
The Politics of Identity, the Identity of Politics: Thinking with Badiou and Táíwò	5
Postmodernizing the Peasantry (Again)	4
The Paradox of Upgrading: Standards of Social Reproduction and the Gendered Precarization of Garment Work in China	4
‘No South Asian Riders, Please’: The Politics of Visibilisation in Platformed Food Delivery Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong	4
Organising Irresponsibility: Pandemic Management, State Transformation and the Diversion of Class Politics in Scotland’s COVID-19 Response	4
Epistemic media and critical knowledge about the self: Thinking about algorithms with Habermas	4
Place Attachment and Alienation from Place: Cultural Displacement in Gentrifying Ethnic Enclaves	4
‘People Like Us’: Discourse on Class Identity in Residential Compounds	4
Evolving Publics and the Practice of Public Sociology	4
No Dispossession, No Mass Party	4
Party, Empire, and Flowers: A Comment on Taylor, Calhoun and Goankar’s Degenerations of Democracy	4
Global Appeal: Colorblindness, Neoliberalism, and Neighborhood Branding	4
Why Should We?	4
Techno-Feudalism as Primitive Accumulation: A Marxist Perspective on Digital Capitalism	4
Soviet and Post-Soviet Marxism: Braving the Challenges of the Technological Revolution	4
Turkey’s Road to Capitalism: Issues in Multilinear Historical Sociology	4
Vaccine Hesitancy and Attitudes Toward Elite Knowledge in the United States During COVID-19	4
Contesting Racial Capitalism in the Postcolonial City: A Response Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City. By LevensonZachary. Oxford: Oxford University Press	4
Crisis Feminisms: How Convenient Forgetting, Feminist Ambivalence, and Racial Gaslighting Maintain the Status Quo	4
The Good and the Bad in David Harvey’s Popular Marxism	4
The January 6 Insurrection: Historical and Global Contexts	4
Census Tract and Neighborhood Racial Change and the Locational Decisions of Financial Services in Metro Detroit	4
Digital Intermediation in Paid Domestic Work in Argentina: An Analysis of Ambivalent Effects on Working Conditions	3
Politics, Crisis, and the Canon: A Commentary on Michael Burawoy’s ‘Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois’	3
Walls, Cracks and Change: The Challenges and Opportunities of Critically Engaged Research Within Current Academic and Refugee Research Structures	3

Nadir of the Dialectic: A Review of Descent and Nihilism	3
Trajectories and Legacies of Outsider Party-Building: The Rise and Fall of Spain’s Podemos	3
Hong Kong’s Precarious Young Workers and Contradictions of Capital	3
Twisted Trajectories, Curious Chronologies: Revisiting the Unfree Labour Debate	3
The OECD and Ritualized Isomorphism: Anti-Corruption Monitoring, the ‘Narrow View’ of Corruption and the Transnational Political Order	3
‘The West Is Trying Too Hard’: Gender and the Right-Wing Critique of Globalization	3
Deglobalization and Resilience: A Historical Perspective	3
CORRIGENDUM to “From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care”	3
News Sources in the Sociology of the Media: A Critical Re-Examination	3
Worker Co-Operatives for the 21^st Century	3
Dependency Theory and Marxism in Latin America: Between Convergences and Contradictions	3
The Fragmented Labor Power Composition of Gig Workers: Entrepreneurial Tendency and the Heterogeneous Production of Difference	3
About the Authors	3
New Wave of Thinking About Revolutions	3
Running Democracy into the Ground?	3
Sociology Faces the Question of Palestine	3
From Labour Process Theory to Organisational Political Economy: A Response to Benassi, Ikeler and Wood	3
Walking on Two Legs: Black Marxism and the Sociological Canon	3
The Politics of Governance by Quantification Infrastructure	3
The Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies. Part II: A Systematic Review of Substantive Findings (Revolution Causes, Forms, and Waves)	3
Frankfurt School Legacy and the Critical Sociology of Media: Lifeworld in Digital Capitalism	3
When a House Explodes: Remarks on Emancipatory Politics in Times of Crises	3
Capital , Capitalism and Health	2
Breaking the ‘Tradition’: Race, Violence, and Gender in The Tradition	2
Between De-Growth and Eco-Modernism: Theorizing a Green Transition	2
Recovering the Local Without Falling Into Explanatory Localism: Participative Democracy in Venezuela and Bolivia Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn. By HetlandGabriel	2
From Africa to Amazon.com: Racialized Labor and Global Supply Chains	2
Mediating the Cost-of-Living Crisis: The Meaning of a ‘Keyphrase’ in UK Contemporary Cultural Discourse	2
Precarity and the Predatory Inclusion of Black Women by For-Profit Colleges	2
Review of Neoliberal Transformations of the Italian State: Understanding the Roots of the Crises by Adriano Cozzolino	2
‘Everything We Do Is About Our History’: Indigenous Resurgence and Its Critique of History	2
Reading Burawoy’s The Politics of Production Now: On the Political after Post-Politics	2
Against Imperial Social Policy: Recasting Mkandawire’s Transformative Ideas for Africa’s Liberation	2
Feminicide: Unravelling the State’s Data Infrastructures	2
Revisiting Turkish Modernity or Uneven and Combined Development?	2
A Critical Realist Model for Organizational Sociology	2
Normalizing and Resisting the New Precarity: A Case Study of the Indonesian Gig Economy	2
Book Review: With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation by Dominique Routhier	2
Are Services Post-Capitalist? A Marxian Interrogation	2
About the Authors	2
Managerial Contradictions and Satisficing in the Lean Workplace	2
Revisiting Marcuse’s Technological Rationality: Nuclear Fusion Advancement in the Age of Climate Change	2
Platforms Don’t Care – Qualified and Experienced Women Do: A Case Study on Self-Employment and On-Demand Platforms in Eldercare	2
Changing, But Not in Decline: Globalization From a Sociometabolic Perspective	2
‘Knowing’ Palestinian Women: Interrogating Western International Feminist Assumptions, Governance, and Social Science Discourses	2
Book Review: Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty: Studies of Social Phenomena and Social Theory Across 6 Continents by Patrick R. Brown and Jens O. Zinn	2
Book Review: The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game, by Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva	2
The Rise of the First-Generation College Student: A Ubiquitous Category in Need of Critical Analysis	2
Conspiracies and Restorative Violence in American Culture	2
Book Review: Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century: The New Waves of Revolutions, and the Causes and Effects of Disruptive Political Change, by Jack A. Goldstone, Leonid Grinin and Andrey	2
Politization in Labor Conflict: Analyzing the Demands of Post-Authoritarian Chilean Strikes	2
Politicized Megaprojects and Public Sector Interventions: Mass Consent Under Neoliberal Statism	2
Video Game Concerts: Unending Consumption on Video Game Platforms	2
Book Review: A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa edited by Joel Beinin, Bassam Haddad, and Sherene Seikaly	2
Mapping the Coercive Turn: Universal Credit, Social Crisis, and the Politics of Welfare in Austerity Britain, 2010–2019	2
The Tribal Games: Tribalist Foundations of Trump Supporters	2
(Non) Cooperative and (Non) Digital Modalities in Home Care Provision in the Basque Country: Implications for Labor Autonomy of Domestic Workers	2
Contesting Power From the Periphery: The Latin American Sociological Imagination and the Media	2
‘You Can’t Sacrifice Nothing’: Exploring the Lived Realities of Chronic Poverty in a Cost-of-Living Crisis Through Participatory Research	2
Society of Trauma as a Third Modality of Development (Debatable Problems of Russia’s Present and Future From the Standpoint of Critical Marxism)	2