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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Stress-testing’ the system: speculations on the Hong Kong protests from afar	41
Looking for the clown in the 1980s: the melancholy clients in the Taiwan teahouse and their memories of being a ‘nobody’	29
Playing politics digitally: young Chinese people’s political feelings on social media platforms	23
How black is African Noir?: defining blackness through crime fiction	22
‘The world is sinking:’ sand, urban infrastructure, and world-cities	19
Tech money in civil society: whose interests do digital rights organisations represent?	19
The new profiling landscape The triumph of profiling: the self in digital culture by Andreas Bernard, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2019, pp. 179, £50.00 (hardback ISBN 97815	17
The fire this time: a conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Josh Kun	16
The problematization of consumers in Swedish financial literacy education	14
Male youth’s self-narrative and the discourse of meritocracy in South Korea	13
Rearticulating football fans in Hong Kong: between activism, localism, and consumerism	13
Communication totalitarianism in Japan: ‘Decontextualisation’ and ‘Recontextualisation’ and the digital communication environment	12
Viral justice: how we grow the world we want	11
Artificial flavors: nostalgia and the shifting landscapes of production in Sino-Japanese animation	10
A new model of distilling religion: culturalization as marginality	10
Writing our stories with hooks and needles: literary women's voices in textiles	10
Conjunctures	9
Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program	9
Disrupting the closet: radically recontextualizing sexuality and wildness	9
The hashtag: the most conspicuous sign of our times	9
Recoding the city: cultural mediation of short-term rental platforms in the US	8
Word and action: the many routes through Jesús Martín-Barbero	8
Psy-drama from Martín-Barbero’s perspective	8
Smart homes: domestic futurity as Infrastructure	7
COVID-19 and the affective politics of congestion: an exploration of population density debates in Australia	7

Oceanic bellies and liquid feminism in Fatou Diome’sLe Ventre de l’Atlantique	7
The epiphanic moments of COVID-19: the revelation of painful national truths	7
COVID bread-porn: social stratification through displays of self-management	7
Everyday life and the management of risky bodies in the COVID-19 era	6
Regulation of pornography and criminalization of BL readers and authors in contemporary China (2010–2019)	6
Evangelicals and politicians in Argentina and Brazil: transformations and conservative choices	6
COVID-19 at sea: ‘the world as you know it no longer exists’	6
Redirected entanglements in the digital supply chain	6
Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: brokering crisis or brokers in crisis	6
Editors’ introduction: remembering blackly	5
Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power	5
‘They abscond’: migration and coloniality in the contemporary conjuncture in Europe	5
Affect, Protest, Pandemic: Conversations from the crises of 2020	5
COVID-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’: pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies	5
Settler colonial ways of seeing: documentation, administration, and the interventions of Indigenous art	5
From mass popular to bastardized popular	4
Hangtime melancholia	4
Streaming Black to the future: post-soul aesthetics & competing nostalgia in FX’s Snowfall and Pose	4
New normals, from talk to gesture	4
‘The end of the common world’: COVID anxieties, bordered lives and democratic censorship in Taiwan	4
‘Blood Money’: a cultural history of the menstrual economy	4
Witch camps and witchcraft discourse in Africa: critiquing development practices	4
The future of religious pasts: religion and cultural heritage-making in a secular age – introduction	4
From media to mediations: unexpected readings	4
Cultural physics	4
Tiffany Pollard GIFs and nostalgia for the negative	4
Sonic masquerading in Israeli popular music: self-Imitation, accent, and mockery	3
Dissonance and defensiveness: orienting affects in online feminist cultures	3
Turks against orientalist discourse	3
Stirring the sugar in the English cup of tea: more notes on the continuing relevance of Stuart Hall	3
Asian Americans as racial contagion	3
Zombie capitalism and coronavirus time	3
Anticipation, abolition, possibility: on riots, networked communication, and listening	3
Violent spectre of ghost limbs	3
Afterword: engendering new century black transnationalisms	3
Suburban vogue and other queer survival strategies	2
Dancing with Coronaspheres: Expanded Breath Bodies and the Politics of Public Movement in the Age of COVID-19	2
Black, white, & read all over: is wearing a keffiyeh enough for Palestinian justice?	2
Keywords and keywording	2
Dangerous memories and entangled temporalities: Irish republicanism and the postcolonial politics of time	2
Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower	2
Guarani-kaiowa’s political ontology: singular because common	2
Gender perspectives on professional and everyday creativities: introduction to the special issue	2
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	2
Aqua/geopolitical conjuncture and disjuncture: invasion, resources, and mining the deep dark sea	2
Waste commons in motion	2
Girl spaces: images of girlhood on the internet	2
Between knowing and understanding: Israeli Jews and the memory of the Palestinian Nakba	2
Crisis vision: race and the cultural production of surveillance	2
The spectacle of competence: global pandemic and the redesign of leadership in a post neo-liberal world	2

Civilizing infrastructure	2
The cultural politics of teacher strikes in the United States	2
Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka	2
Introduction: commoning as unthinkable politics: Hong Kong against hard times	2
Fashion in ‘crisis’: consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown	2
NFTs and the financialization of art	2
Tuning machines: an approach to exploring how Instagram’s machine vision operates on and through digital media’s participatory visual cultures	2