OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Sociology is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Surging Ahead But Feeling Stupid: Gendered Understandings of Confidence Among Working-Class College Students	34
Dispossession, Accumulation, Anti-Systemic Resistance Capitalist Dispossessions: Redistribution and Capital Expansion in Contemporary Brazil. By BinDaniel. London: Routledge, 2025. 186 pp., $190.00 (h	23
Corrigendum to Solidarity in troubling times	20
Capitalism: A historical romance BeckertSven, Capitalism: A Global History, Allen Lane/Penguin Random House: London, 2025; xiii + 1325 pp., £50.00 (hbk): ISBN: 9780241269053	19
From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care	19
After the Arab Uprisings : Rejoinder to Reviewers	18
Demolition, Division and Displacement: Examining the Preservation of Whiteness in Rotterdam Municipal Housing Policy	18
The Disorganization of America: Post-Fordism, Irrational Capitalism, and the Decline of Universalism	17
Media Visibility and Migrant Voices: Representational Segregation in the Nordic Platform Economy	17
On Digital Fetishism: A Critique of the Big Data Paradigm	16
Debating Equity through Integration: School Officials’ Decision-Making and Community Advocacy During a School Rezoning in Williamsburg, Virginia	16
The ‘unavoidable antagonism’ in the ‘academic labour process’: Theorising labour-management relations within academic settings with Marx and the Labour Process Theory	15
Toward a radical public sociology: Key observations on Mahadeo’s call for counter-public sociology	14
Mobilisation as organising under outsourcing and subcontracting: Collective capacity, solidarity and power in fragmented labour markets	13
About the Authors	13
Criticize and Construct! A Case for Emancipatory Social Theory	13
Unpacking State Production of Temporal Dispossession: The Intersections of Labour, Asylum and Informalization in Sweden	13
US Hegemony in Evolutionary Perspective	12
About the Authors	12
The Ethics of Seeing Historically: Past, Present, and Future in Dark Times	11
Ibn Khaldun and Critical Inquiry: A Response to Christian Fuchs	10
Degenerations of Democracy: Response to Comments	10
Turning Theory to Practice: Palestine as a Sociological Question: ASA Resolution for Justice in Palestine	10
Michael Burawoy’s Path: From North to South, and Back Again	10
From Black Zionism to Black Nasserism: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Foundations of Black Anti-Zionist Discourse	9

Critical Han Studies Through the Lens of Internal Colonialism: China, Guangdong, and Hong Kong	9
Rethinking the Concept of a ‘Financial Elite’: A Critical Intervention	9
Precarious Participants, Online Labour Platforms and the Academic Mode of Production: Examining Gigified Research Participation	9
Toward a sociology of loss and life	9
Book Review: Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital: A Marxist Analysis of Service and Retail Labour by Fabian van Onzen	9
The Political Economy of Precarious Work in India: A Case of Languishing Social Policy?	9
Last Rites for Development Studies?	9
COVID-19 Emergency Governance in Croatia: The Case of Perpetual Exception and Securitized Disenfranchisement	8
Book Review: Unequal America: Class Conflict, the News Media, and Ideology in an Era of Record Inequality by Anthony R DiMaggio	8
Cybernetic Society and the Demise of Democracy	8
‘Drawing the Line’: Market Rule and Liberal Planning in the Governance of Capitalism	8
Cracking the Iron Ceiling: On Ethnography as Theory	8
After Trickle Down, Kicking Down: On Jordan Peterson, Naturalizing Inequality, and Neofascist Indirect Apologetics	8
Colorblindness and Free Market Ideologies as Racecraft	7
Community picket lines and social movement unionism on the U.S. docks, 2014–2021: Organizing lessons from the Block the Boat campaign for Palestine	7
Mobility and immobility of migrants and non-migrants	7
The fortunes of radicalization: How the party environment determined the fate of radical movements in the late 20th-century United States	7
The Making of a Reserve Army of Labor: Paradoxes of American Disability Policy	7
Hegemony, Resistance, and the Cultural Turn: Revisiting the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies	7
Historical Alternatives and the Future of the Mass Party Origins of the Mass Party: Dispossession and the Party-Form in Mexico and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective. By AckermanEdwin F.Oxford and New	7
Crisis Feminisms: How Convenient Forgetting, Feminist Ambivalence, and Racial Gaslighting Maintain the Status Quo	6
Cosmic empire: Colonialism and postcolonial thought in Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem	6
Why Should We?	6
Decentring Roman historiography: The future of the past? ScheidelWalter, What Is Ancient History?Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2025; 319 pp., £25.00 (hbk): ISBN: 9780691236650	6
Techno-Feudalism as Primitive Accumulation: A Marxist Perspective on Digital Capitalism	6
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 Ż	6
Organising Irresponsibility: Pandemic Management, State Transformation and the Diversion of Class Politics in Scotland’s COVID-19 Response	6
Writings acts and protest actions: The role of graffiti during the 2019 outbreak in Santiago, Chile	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	6
Reconstructing Burawoy: Theorizing Migrant Labor, the Politics of Precarity, and Postcolonial/Racial Transformations	6
The Good and the Bad in David Harvey’s Popular Marxism	5
Between Hope and Failure: Refusing Precarity and Building Solidarity in South Korea Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest. By ChunJennifer JihyeHanJu Hui Judy. Stanfor	5
No Dispossession, No Mass Party AckermanEdwin F, Origins of the Mass Party: Dispossession and the Party-Form in Mexico and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press: Oxford and New Y	5
Turkey’s Road to Capitalism: Issues in Multilinear Historical Sociology Capitalism, Jacobinism, and International Relations: Revising Turkish Modernity. By DuzgunEren. New York: Cambridge University P	5
Digital Intermediation in Paid Domestic Work in Argentina: An Analysis of Ambivalent Effects on Working Conditions	5
Learning to love accumulation by dispossession: How US university students value paying tuition and an elitist social order	5
Landholding and the Creation of Lumpen Tenants in Freetown: Youth Economic Survival and Patrimonialism in Postwar Sierra Leone	5
Redistribution and Exclusion: Value Articulations in the Populist Moment	5
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	5
The Paradox of Upgrading: Standards of Social Reproduction and the Gendered Precarization of Garment Work in China	5
Subalternity and the Integral State Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City. By LevensonZachary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 296pp. £23.99 (paper).	5
About the Authors	5
The Politics of Identity, the Identity of Politics: Thinking with Badiou and Táíwò	5
Deglobalization and Resilience: A Historical Perspective	5
‘People Like Us’: Discourse on Class Identity in Residential Compounds	5
Running Democracy into the Ground?	4
Global Appeal: Colorblindness, Neoliberalism, and Neighborhood Branding	4
Evolving Publics and the Practice of Public Sociology	4
Census Tract and Neighborhood Racial Change and the Locational Decisions of Financial Services in Metro Detroit	4
Neo-extractivism and the politics of consent: The case of gold mining in rural Turkey	4

Trajectories and Legacies of Outsider Party-Building: The Rise and Fall of Spain’s Podemos	4
New Wave of Thinking About Revolutions	4
Party, Empire, and Flowers: A Comment on Taylor, Calhoun and Goankar’s Degenerations of Democracy	4
‘The West Is Trying Too Hard’: Gender and the Right-Wing Critique of Globalization	4
Fair practice reconsidered: Critical inside perspectives on grassroots policy development in the Dutch cultural labor market between 2012 and 2025	4
Doing Things Differently? Potentialities and Limitations for Enacting Radical Cosmopolitanism Among Citizen-led initiatives for Refugees in the Netherlands	4
The critical intersectionality of elites, nonelites, and power in social transformations	4
When a House Explodes: Remarks on Emancipatory Politics in Times of Crises	4
Frankfurt School Legacy and the Critical Sociology of Media: Lifeworld in Digital Capitalism	4
Postmodernizing the Peasantry (Again)	4
Vaccine Hesitancy and Attitudes Toward Elite Knowledge in the United States During COVID-19	4
Sociology Faces the Question of Palestine	4
Moral Disapproval: The Political Consciousness of the Demobilized Working Class	4
The Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies. Part II: A Systematic Review of Substantive Findings (Revolution Causes, Forms, and Waves)	4
‘No South Asian Riders, Please’: The Politics of Visibilisation in Platformed Food Delivery Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong	4
‘I’m Afraid That When the Devil Come Take My Master’s Body, the Devil May Mistake and Get Mine:’ Necro-Armor and African American Death Ideology	3
Hong Kong’s Precarious Young Workers and Contradictions of Capital	3
‘Knowing’ Palestinian Women: Interrogating Western International Feminist Assumptions, Governance, and Social Science Discourses	3
Video Game Concerts: Unending Consumption on Video Game Platforms	3
Feminicide: Unravelling the State’s Data Infrastructures	3
The fragile accomplishment of elite domination	3
About the Authors	3
Book Review: Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice by Aaron Kupchik Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Le	3
The Tribal Games: Tribalist Foundations of Trump Supporters	3
Reproducing capitalism through survival: Pseudo-entrepreneurs and compensation-driven investors in Turkey	3
Reading Burawoy’s The Politics of Production Now : On the Political after Post-Politics	3
‘Everything We Do Is About Our History’: Indigenous Resurgence and Its Critique of History	3
Book Review: Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century: The New Waves of Revolutions, and the Causes and Effects of Disruptive Political Change , by Ja	3
Digital despotism or platform capitalism? A critique of political economy against the theory of “techno-feudalism”	3
Book Review: A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa edited by Joel Beinin, Bassam Haddad, and Sherene Seikaly	3
Solidarity in troubling times ChunJennifer JihyeHanJu Hui Judy, Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest, Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA, 2025; 322 pp., $32.00:	3
The Politics of Governance by Quantification Infrastructure	3
Labor Market Theory as a Tautology or Theoretical Construct? Toward a Marxist Labor Market Theory	3
Mapping the Coercive Turn: Universal Credit, Social Crisis, and the Politics of Welfare in Austerity Britain, 2010–2019	3
Against Imperial Social Policy: Recasting Mkandawire’s Transformative Ideas for Africa’s Liberation	3
About the Authors	3
The Fragmented Labor Power Composition of Gig Workers: Entrepreneurial Tendency and the Heterogeneous Production of Difference	3
Managed normlessness: How racial capitalism governs through fragmentation and instability	3
News Sources in the Sociology of the Media: A Critical Re-Examination	3
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	3
(Non) Cooperative and (Non) Digital Modalities in Home Care Provision in the Basque Country: Implications for Labor Autonomy of Domestic Workers	3
Nadir of the Dialectic: A Review of Descent and Nihilism	3
Are Services Post-Capitalist? A Marxian Interrogation	3
AI fetishism and perverse climate disavowal: Why denying destructiveness facilitates our ecological collapse	3
Between De-Growth and Eco-Modernism: Theorizing a Green Transition	3
Critical Reflection on Strategies for Widening Acceptance to Emancipatory Sociology Engaging with Employers and Workers in the Good Jobs Project	3
Revisiting Marcuse’s Technological Rationality: Nuclear Fusion Advancement in the Age of Climate Change	3
CORRIGENDUM to “From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care”	3
From Africa to Amazon.com: Racialized Labor and Global Supply Chains	3
Changing, But Not in Decline: Globalization From a Sociometabolic Perspective	3
Regimes of socio-technical control in Spanish care platform work	3
Mediating the Cost-of-Living Crisis: The Meaning of a ‘Keyphrase’ in UK Contemporary Cultural Discourse	3
Book Review: With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation by Dominique Routhier	3
Dependency Theory and Marxism in Latin America: Between Convergences and Contradictions	3
Death Positivity, White Respectability: A Critical History of Cicely Saunders and the Hospice Model of Care	3
From Labour Process Theory to Organisational Political Economy: A Response to Benassi, Ikeler and Wood	3
The OECD and Ritualized Isomorphism: Anti-Corruption Monitoring, the ‘Narrow View’ of Corruption and the Transnational Political Order	3
Agency work before around age 40, formal work after: Labour mobility in gig manufacturing under China’s New Normal	3
Safe Spaces in Dangerous Times: The Continued Importance of Critical Sociology	3
Precarity and the Predatory Inclusion of Black Women by For-Profit Colleges	3
Platforms Don’t Care – Qualified and Experienced Women Do: A Case Study on Self-Employment and On-Demand Platforms in Eldercare	3
Managerial Contradictions and Satisficing in the Lean Workplace	3
Enforced disappearance in death and criminalization of grief in Kashmir	3