Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology

Papers
(The median citation count of Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is 0. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Struggle beyond tragedy34
Affective relatedness, temporalities, and the politics of care in a medical South-South partnership12
Everyone's an artist?11
Whose death, whose eco-revival?10
People without history in financial capitalism6
Monumental silence6
Islamic piety as sovereign transcendence in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan6
Infrapolitical mobilities6
Waiting, planning, and tricking the future5
More than a glitch in the platforms5
Palestinian humorous art as an agentic force5
Care as political revolution?4
Between loss and opportunity4
Connections and contradictions4
“We keep each other safe”4
Introduction. Looking at warfare through the lens of accumulation3
The politics of foreign-currency housing debt in Hungary's authoritarian capitalist reconfiguration after 20103
Aesthetic politics in contemporary India3
Own goal! When war becomes its own end—and society the means3
Gucci cabbages and Dior eggplants3
The war on indeterminacy3
The making of a racialized surplus population3
Acteon's tears reversed3
Fantasy constitutions3
The security-safety nexus2
War on the horizon2
War and dependent state formation in Ukraine2
The nothingness myth2
Relocating exploitation2
“To make Penedès a tourism destination”2
On difference and combination2
Class, values, and revolutions in the Russia-Ukraine war2
Along the twilights of care2
The Russia/China border2
Making, taking, relating, and planning2
Irrigate to accumulate2
After the boom2
Exploring wit in oppressive and conflictual environments2
Class and kinship in problem debt2
Affordability and relationality2
A manifesto against property2
Social housing and feminist commoning in urban Vietnam1
Rethinking affects of care through power1
Development, memory, and place1
“It is as if one may not be clean”1
Surplus population in-situ1
Siberia, protest, and politics1
Theorizing peripheral labor1
Commoning and publicizing1
National self-identifications and coexistence in war-affected Ukraine1
In/visibilizing statehood1
Afterlives of depopulated places1
Spirits of displacement1
From rubble to rebuilding1
“Bromancing” at Yad Vashem1
The household and family as refuge?1
Dreams and reality in the tubuan and the corporation1
Building a life as a beneficiary of philanthrocapitalism1
Mobility rules0
The proxy war in Ukraine0
Afterword0
Planning, state building, and the days after in Palestine0
Can universities be antiracist?0
Ruling out rescue at sea?0
Feeling fairness in a foodbank0
(Un)ruly relationalities0
Claiming village commons by “militarizing the ancestors” in urbanizing Fuzhou, China0
The other border battlefield0
Towards a critical anthropology of freedom?0
Against security0
Is civilizational primordialism any better than nationalist primordialism?0
Spoils and treasures0
Toward a planetary ethnography?0
A mutable space0
How to buy a house “at the right time” in Bucharest0
Contextualizing Kenyatta0
Where is population in “surplus population”?0
Conspiritual activism0
The peasant is dead, long live the peasant!0
Ukrainian tragedy—Maidan0
Rejoinder0
Christopher Krupa: A feast of flowers review essays0
Enlisted in struggle0
Container life in post-earthquake Croatia0
Introduction0
Digging into deep reality0
Faith in paper?0
The “system” as another sea0
Entrenched provisionality0
“Trapped in horror transactions”0
Generativity, agency, and time0
The anthropology of infrastructure0
The proxy war in Ukraine0
Italian alliances between commoning and law0
Very sneaky crimes0
Two theories of money0
At the time of the “backway”0
Guns, fatigues, and fitness0
A fragmented labor system0
Wolf's Marxian Marxism and the contradictory unity of theory and practice0
Timing property0
Land and ocean grabs and the relative surplus population in Ghana0
“It is through struggle that we may write of structure”0
Homeownership and the “making” of class in São Paulo0
Coal’s end0
The “awkwardnesses” of aid and exchange0
De-essentializing hegemony, with Gramsci, Williams, and Hall0
A politicized ecology of resilience0
Political struggles over the logic of human needs quantification0
Profiting from help0
Managing problem debt in Europe0
Disappointment and awkwardness as ugly feelings0
In the shadows of the War on Drugs in Mexico0
The Focaal 1000
Laughing in the streets0
Surplus populations, migration, and collective action0
On self-reliant masculinities and rural returnees in ethnic China0
“While it lasts”0
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