OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cultural Studies 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
‘Stress-testing’ the system: speculations on the Hong Kong protests from afar	31
Male youth’s self-narrative and the discourse of meritocracy in South Korea	23
Viral justice: how we grow the world we want	21
Psy-drama from Martín-Barbero’s perspective	19
COVID-19 and the affective politics of congestion: an exploration of population density debates in Australia	15
Rearticulating football fans in Hong Kong: between activism, localism, and consumerism	15
Artificial flavors: nostalgia and the shifting landscapes of production in Sino-Japanese animation	13
Settler colonial ways of seeing: documentation, administration, and the interventions of Indigenous art	13
Keywords and keywording	11
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	10
Changes in the understandings and practices of village commoning in Hong Kong	10
‘Comrade unknown to me’: colonialism, modernity, and conjunctural translation in Familiar Stranger	10
Anticipation, abolition, possibility: on riots, networked communication, and listening	10
Crisis vision: race and the cultural production of surveillance	9
The predicaments of craftsmanship in the knowledge economy: the rise and fall of Caminha’s boatyards in Caminha, Portugal	9
Tiffany Pollard GIFs and nostalgia for the negative	8
Resisting political traditionalism: a rejoinder to Ho	8
Correction	7
Between consciousness and conscience: on ‘restorative commoning’ among moderate youth	7
Oaths and the ethics of automated data: limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data science	7
The community forming potential of Cartonera publishing	6
Moments of shame in the figural history of trans suicide	6
Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition	6
Streaming Black girlhood: biculturality, nostalgia and hypervisibility in Cuties	6
Locating vernacular creativity outside the ‘urban cool’ in Beijing: ephemeral water calligraphy	6

Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic	5
‘Water, asylum, metamorphosis, freak show’: flourishing through streaming karaoke play in China	5
Black media nostalgia in Britain	5
The long and deadly road: the covid pandemic and Indian migrants	5
Narratives of the homoerotic soldier: the fleshiness of the South Korean military	5
Predicting Covid-19: wearable technology and the politics of solutionism	5
Seven theses about the so-called culture war(s) (or some fragmentary notes on ‘cancel culture’)	4
Following the science? Covid-19, ‘race’ and the politics of knowing	4
More than just ‘working from home’: domestic space, economies and living infrastructures during and beyond pandemic times	4
Multispecies mourning: grieving as resistance on the West Papuan plantation frontier	4
Cloned Buddhas: mapping out the DNA of Buddhist heritage preservation	4
The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’	4
Rewriting the queer potential of She’s Gotta Have It	4
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
How should the non-Indigenous speak? A discussion of decolonizing academia, positioning, and freedom of speech	3
Covid-19 and the mundane practices of privilege	3
Translating Familiar Stranger into German: the particularities of the historical, cultural and political context	3
A narrative of suffering and soil: Swedish migration and settler colonialism in northeast Argentina	2
Marry My Dead Body , and the queer trouble of confucian-liberal enclosure	2
Fashion in ‘crisis’: consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown	2
Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power	2
Witch camps and witchcraft discourse in Africa: critiquing development practices	2
‘Go! You are Free!’: rentier politics and the gift logic of the royal pardon in Morocco	2
Twilight of the Eidos: rhetoric, ecology, media (and White Noise)	2
Capturing news, capturing democracy: Trump and the Voice of America	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
From mass popular to bastardized popular	2
Automated media and commercial populism	2
Who needs cultural studies in Colombia?	2
Remembering what we never were: the law of the victims, nationism and right-wing hegemony in Colombia	2
The epiphanic moments of COVID-19: the revelation of painful national truths	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
How concepts do activism: as worlds, aids, cells, and currents	2
Religion to culture: who is the ‘Us’?	2