OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cultural Studies is 1. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Male youth’s self-narrative and the discourse of meritocracy in South Korea	20
Psy-drama from Martín-Barbero’s perspective	15
Viral justice: how we grow the world we want	15
Women marrying women in northern Ghana: wading into the homosexuality debate from a Ghanaian perspective	13
Settler colonial ways of seeing: documentation, administration, and the interventions of Indigenous art	10
Artificial flavors: nostalgia and the shifting landscapes of production in Sino-Japanese animation	10
‘Comrade unknown to me’: colonialism, modernity, and conjunctural translation in Familiar Stranger	8
Changes in the understandings and practices of village commoning in Hong Kong	8
Tiffany Pollard GIFs and nostalgia for the negative	7
Mexican migration and the struggle for visibility in NYC A Mexican state of mind: New York City and the new borderlands of culture , by Melissa Castillo Planas, New Brun	7
Anticipation, abolition, possibility: on riots, networked communication, and listening	7
The predicaments of craftsmanship in the knowledge economy: the rise and fall of Caminha’s boatyards in Caminha, Portugal	7
Crisis vision: race and the cultural production of surveillance	6
Streaming Black girlhood: biculturality, nostalgia and hypervisibility in Cuties	6
Correction	6
The community forming potential of Cartonera publishing	6
Oaths and the ethics of automated data: limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data science	6
‘Water, asylum, metamorphosis, freak show’: flourishing through streaming karaoke play in China	5
Locating vernacular creativity outside the ‘urban cool’ in Beijing: ephemeral water calligraphy	5
Between consciousness and conscience: on ‘restorative commoning’ among moderate youth	5
Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition	4
Moments of shame in the figural history of trans suicide	4
The broken others of the nation state: debility, capacity and dissent	3
Black media nostalgia in Britain	3
Translating Familiar Stranger into German: the particularities of the historical, cultural and political context	3

Rewriting the queer potential of She’s Gotta Have It	3
Ecomodernism, cultured meat and the search for the ‘Middle landscape’	3
The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’	3
Multispecies mourning: grieving as resistance on the West Papuan plantation frontier	3
Afropolitanizing the local: how cultural imperialism is rewriting the narratives of African entertainment industries	3
Policing the Borribles: conjunctural crisis and moral panic in children’s literature	3
Registering the gang body in pain: violence and haunting in Central America	3
Seven theses about the so-called culture war(s) (or some fragmentary notes on ‘cancel culture’)	3
How should the non-Indigenous speak? A discussion of decolonizing academia, positioning, and freedom of speech	3
More than just ‘working from home’: domestic space, economies and living infrastructures during and beyond pandemic times	3
Cloned Buddhas: mapping out the DNA of Buddhist heritage preservation	3
Witch camps and witchcraft discourse in Africa: critiquing development practices	2
Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program	2
A narrative of suffering and soil: Swedish migration and settler colonialism in northeast Argentina	2
Settler colonial bordering and post-pandemic futures: disrupting the nation state in Aotearoa/New Zealand	2
Marry My Dead Body , and the queer trouble of confucian-liberal enclosure	2
Feminist economicus : popular feminism, popular finance, and the making of the economic woman in South Korea	2
A new model of distilling religion: culturalization as marginality	2
How concepts do activism: as worlds, aids, cells, and currents	2
Religion to culture: who is the ‘Us’?	2
Challenging the displacement of colonial histories? Isolated memories of colonial deportations from Libya to Italy in Europe’s ‘periphery’	2
Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial, and anti-racist care work in Strange Fish	2
Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power	2
Capturing news, capturing democracy: Trump and the Voice of America	2
Automated media and commercial populism	2
We don’t need a map: on Australian Aboriginal philosophy and critique	2
From mass popular to bastardized popular	2
Modern slavery legislation and the limits of ethical fashion	1
Radical motherhood ecologies: towards a mapping of social life, death and resistance in the southwest borderlands	1
‘It was a departure of sorts’: glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah	1
The politics of media scarcity	1
Disrupting the closet: radically recontextualizing sexuality and wildness	1
Amphibious subjects: sasso and the contested politics of queer self making in neo-liberal Ghana	1
Waste commons in motion	1
Reordering human waste. Public restrooms as a sign of socialist modernity in China	1
The ruse of impurity: Paul Gilroy’sThe Black Atlanticand the politics of hybridity	1
Through a southern prism: translating Stuart Hall into Spanish	1
The collateralized personality: creditability and resistance in the age of automated credit-scoring and lending	1
Anti-Nafta: imagining a continental unification centred on abundance	1
Brokering war: Afghan interpreters, western soldiers and unequal encounters in crisis	1
‘They abscond’: migration and coloniality in the contemporary conjuncture in Europe	1
Streaming services and brokerage in the music industry crisis in Nigeria	1
Making the human: race, allegory, and Asian Americans	1
Afterword: engendering new century black transnationalisms	1
Road warriors to digital nomads: portable computers, habitats, and remote work	1
Programming gender: surveillance, identity, and paranoia in Ex Machina	1
The decolonization that could have been but never was	1
Wulumuqi Road	1
The more, the better: queer urban spatialities of Seoul in three films	1
Dangerous memories and entangled temporalities: Irish republicanism and the postcolonial politics of time	1

Black, white, & read all over: is wearing a keffiyeh enough for Palestinian justice?	1
Editors’ introduction: remembering blackly	1