OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Dark finance: book conversation with Fabio Mattioli	13
Hodges, Adam. 2019. When words trump politics: resisting a hostile regime of language. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 200 pp. Pb.: US$14.00. ISBN: 9781503610798.	10
Algorithmic Governance, Public Participation and Trust	10
Why Urgency, Now?	9
Martyrdom and Destiny in Time of Revolution	9
Democracy after ‘the end of history’: Vietnamese diasporic liberalism in Poland	8
Waiting for the Inevitable	8
Anthropologies of the far‐right and the anthropology of critique	7
Gibb, Robert, AnnabelTremlett and Julien DaneroIglesias (eds.) 2019. Learning and using languages in ethnographic research. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 256 pp. Pb.: £29.95. ISBN: 9781788925907.	7
Grammars of liberalism	7
Utopian confluences: anthropological mappings of generative politics	7
Schmidt, Mario and SandyRoss (eds.) 2020. Money counts: revisiting economic calculation. New York: Berghahn Books. 142 pp. Pb.: US$27.95. ISBN: 9781789206852.	6
Unequal expressions: emotions and narratives of leaving and remaining in precarious academia	6
Issue Information	6
Reactionary education in the USA	6
Vocation and political activism: sacrifice, stigma, love, utopia?	6
Issue Information	6
Editorial	6
‘Every Person Counts’	6
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Kapferer, Bruce and DimitriosTheodossopoulos (eds.) 2019. Democracy’s paradox: populism and its contemporary crisis. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books. 100 pp. Pb: US$14.95/£11.95. ISBN: 9781789201550.	5
Changing Monsoonal Waterworlds	4
‘True love’ as a bureaucratic utopia: the case of bi‐national couples in Belgium	4
The Hard Way	4
Vectoral Fieldsites	4

Beyond (Un)Stable	4
Vital Bodies	4
Afterword	4
Editorial	3
Ways of Not-Knowing in Neoliberal Chile	3
The neo‐nationalist ascendency: further thoughts on class, value and the return of the repressed	3
Liberalism in fragments: oligarchy and the liberal subject in Ukrainian news journalism	3
Keeping the Snout in the Plough Furrow	3
‘Before others’: construction pioneers in the uplands of northwestern Laos	3
Reductio ad cambitas: The grammar of liberalisation in Northeast Brazil	2
Hinojosa, Servando Z. 2020. Maya bonesetters: manual healers in a changing Guatemala. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 256 pp. Hb.: US$29.95. ISBN: 9781477320297.	2
Conspicuous performances: ritual competition between Christian and non‐Christian Hmong in contemporary Vietnam	2
Martínez, Francisco and PatrickLaviolette (eds.) 2019. Repair, brokenness, breakthrough: ethnographic responses. New York: Berghahn Books. 327 pp. Hb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 9781‐1‐78920‐331‐8.	2
Hetherington, Kregg. 2020. The government of beans: regulating life in the age of monocrops. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 296 pp. Hb: US$104.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐0606‐0.	2
Trying a sombrero	2
Bad parrhesia: the limits of cynicism in the public sphere	2
Andersson, Ruben. 2019. No go world: how fear is redrawing our maps and infecting our politics. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 360 pp. Hb.: US$29.95. ISBN: 9780520294608.	2
New climate change activism: before and after the Covid‐19 pandemic	2
Humanising fascists? Nuance as an anthropological responsibility	2
Beyond Failure	2
‘When I see what democracy is…’: bleak liberalism in a French court	2
PennyHarvey, ChristianKrohn‐Hansen and Knut G.Nustad (eds.) 2019. Anthropos and the material. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 272 pp. Pb.: US$26.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐0286‐4.	2
Urgency and Imminence	2
Crowder, Jerome W., MikeFortun, RachelBesara and LindsayPoirier (eds.) 2020. Anthropological data in the digital age: new possibilities, new challenges. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 270 pp. Hb.: €99.99.	2
Book Reviews	2
Forum: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine	2
Reviews	1
Editorial	1
Editorial	1
Depriving the far‐right unity	1
Confronting Uncertainties in Pastoral Areas	1
Documenting the UNESCO feast: stories of women’s ‘empowerment’ and programmatic cooking	1
Afterword	1
Concerns, Considerations and Conceptions of Kinship	1
Ethnography of the right as ethical practice	1
Anthropology against Borders	1
American far right ideologies have spread to Europe	1
Imagining Himalayan Glacial Futures	1
Anthropology and the postliberal challenge	1
Situating the Investigation on Clandestine Graves in Mexico	1
‘Utopian Confluences’	1
Issue Information	1
The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention	1
The Properties of Self-Managed Collective Housing	1
Anthropologies in/of the Black Mediterranean	1
Anthropology Comes In When Translation Fails	1
Book Reviews	1
Amico, Marta. 2020. La fabrique d’une musique touarègue. Un son du désert dans la World Music. Paris: Karthala. 320 pp. Pb.: €29.00. ISBN: 978‐2‐8111‐2688‐9.	1
On the educational mode of existence: Latour, meta‐ethnography and the social institution of education	1
Book Reviews	1

deCesari, C.2019. Heritage and the cultural struggle for Palestine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 288 pp. Hb. US$28.00. ISBN: 9781503609389.	1
Johnson, Andrew Alan. 2020. Mekong dreaming: life and death along a changing river. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 208 pp. Pb.: US$25.95. Ebook ISBN: 9781478012351.	1
Collinson, Paul, IainYoung, LucyAntal and HelenMacbeth (eds.) 2019. Food and sustainability in the twenty‐first century: cross‐disciplinary perspectives. New York: Berghahn Books. 227 pp. Hb. US$115.5	1
The Ends of Consent	1
History, revisionism, neo‐nationalism	1
The Golden Passport ‘Russian’ Eutopia	1
Becoming Time-Bound	1
Passing It On	1
A pandemic can do what a movement cannot	1
Introduction: Auto‐Anthropocenes	1
Editorial	1
Armstrong, Andrew B.2019. 24 bars to kill: hip hop, aspirations, and Japan’s social margins. New York: Berghahn Books. 173 pp. Pb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 9781789202670.	1
Inhabiting Volatile Worlds	1
Developing statizens: biometric technologies and digital identification	1
Field Aporias in Minho (Portugal)	0
Vernacular Humanitarianisms	0
A decolonial, ecofeminist ethic of care	0
Ball, Christopher. 2018. Exchanging words: language, ritual, and relationality in Brazil’s Xingu Indigenous Park. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. 288 pp. Hb.: US$49.95. ISBN: 97808263	0
Revisiting the Untranslatable	0
Lyon, Stephen M.2019. Political kinship in Pakistan: descent, marriage, and government stability. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 150 pp. Hb.: US$85.00. ISBN: 9781498582179.	0
Soothsayers and horoscopes: new modes of inquiring into the future in northern Laos	0
Coronavirus Verity	0
The optimistic utopia: sacrifice and expectations of political transformation in the Angolan Revolutionary Movement	0
The Debate’s Conjuncture	0
(Un)Doing the Colombian Armed Conflict	0
Dilger, Hansjörg, AstridBochow, MarianBurchardt and MatthewWilhelm‐Solomon (eds.) 2020. Affective trajectories: religion and emotion in African cityscapes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 320 pp. P	0
Pioneers of the plantation economy: militarism, dispossession and the limits of growth in the Wa State of Myanmar	0
Book Reviews	0
How to kill a democracy	0
When Food Waste Goes to Work	0
Stout, Noelle. 2019. Dispossessed: how predatory bureaucracy foreclosed on the American middle class. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 280 pp. Hb.: US$29.95/£25.00. ISBN: 9780520291782.	0
Upland pioneers: an introduction	0
A desire for normality: (early) marriage among Syrian refugees in Jordan between waiting and home‐making	0
Chasing Rotten Ice	0
A lesser human? Utopian registers of urban reconfiguration in Maputo, Mozambique	0
Clashing Scales and Accelerated Change	0
AmitVered and Noël B.Salazar (eds.) 2020. Pacing mobilities. Timing, intensity, tempo and duration of human movements. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 194 pp. Pb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 9781789207248.	0
Editorial	0
Firat, Bilge. 2019. Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey’s Europeanisation: the private life of politics (Political Ethnography). Manchester: Manchester University Press. 224 pp. Hb. US$90.00. ISBN: 1	0
Introduction: On the politics of waiting	0
Silent Stock	0
Ode to the Literature Review	0
The Desire to Help	0
HadžiMuhamedović, Safet. 2018. Waiting for Elijah: time and encounter in a Bosnian landscape. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 304 pp. Hb.: £99.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐78533‐856‐4.	0
Henley, Paul. 2020. L’aventure du Réel. Jean Rouch et la Pratique du Cinéma Ethnographique. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. 518 pp. Broché: €30.00, ISBN: 9782753579125	0
Technomoral Governance	0
Revisiting social media as far‐right modality	0
Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios and Diana EspíritoSanto (eds.) 2019. Articulate necrographies: comparative perspectives on the voices and silences of the dead. New York: Berghahn. 272 pp. Hb.: US$135.00/£	0
The Politics of Equivalence	0
The potential of intangible loss: reassembling heritage and reconstructing the social in post‐disaster Japan	0
Projects as an Iterative Pursuit	0
Moore, Amelia. 2019. Destination Anthropocene: science and tourism in The Bahamas. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 216 pp. Pb.: US$29.95. ISBN: 9780520298934.	0
Projects and Project Temporalities	0
Encountering Compassion	0
Interstitial urban spaces: housing strategies and the use of the city by homeless asylum seekers and refugees in Trento, Italy	0
Curfew ‘until further notice’: waiting and spatialisation of sovereignty in a Kurdish bordertown in Turkey	0
Vignerons and the Vines	0
The aesthetics and multiple origin stories of climate activism	0
Henley, Paul. 2020. Beyond observation: a history of authorship in ethnographic film. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 568 pp. Hb. £85.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐5261‐3134‐8.	0
Global far right and imaginative interconnectivities	0
‘Punk food’	0
Extinction Rebellion, Image events, social media and the eclipse of the earth	0
Anghel, Remus Gabriel, MargitFauser and PaoloBoccagni (eds.) 2019. Transnational return and social change. Hierarchies, identities and ideas. London: Anthem Press. 206 pp. Pb.: £80.00. ISBN: 978178527	0
Smallness and Small-device Heuristics	0
Reconfiguring Hell	0
The Sound of Difference	0
Valued Volatility	0
Wright, Susan, StephenCarney, John BenedictoKrejsler, Gritt BykærholmNielsen and Jakob WilliamsØrberg. 2020. Enacting the university. Danish university reform in an ethnographic perspective. Dordrecht	0
‘De-kinning’	0
Creeping racism: a cultural conception of politics	0
Unhinged	0
Technomoral Politics in Conservative Britain	0
Laziness and Stinginess	0
Graham, Fabian. 2020. Voices from the underworld: Chinese Hell deity worship in contemporary Singapore and Malaysia. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 259 pp. Hb.: £80.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐5261‐4057	0
William C.Olsen and ThomasCsordas (eds.) 2019. Engaging evil: a moral anthropology. New York: Berghahn Books. 322 pp. Hb. US$135.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐78920‐213‐7.	0
Placing anthropology at the forefront: studying far‐right transformism	0
Curious Utopias	0
White climate, white energy: a time for movement reflection?	0
Forum: ‘Utopian Confluences’	0
Religious Nationalism, Strategic Detachment and the Politics of Vernacular Humanitarianism in Post-War Sri Lanka	0

Minority sexualities, kinship and non‐autological freedom in Montenegro	0
Golomski, Casey. 2018. Funeral culture: Aids, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 215 pp. Pb.: US$30.00. ISBN: 978 0 253 03645 2.	0
Vertigo and Urgency	0
Remaining Kin over Time	0
Leapfrogging the Grid	0
The ethnography of populism and the predicament of class	0
Suspicion and Evidence	0
Terms of engagement	0
Mussels and Megaprojects	0
Reckoning with ‘humanising fascists’ and other requisites of an anthropology of the far right	0
Ethical Endeavours	0
Infrastructural stripping and ‘recycling’ of copper: producing the state in an industrial town in Serbia	0
Ruined beings: ontology in post‐socialist driving	0
Bodies of and against austerity: gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal	0
Managing Mass Graves in Rwanda and Burundi	0
‘Leave No One Behind’	0
Corporeal performance in contemporary ethnonationalist movements: the changing body politic of Basque and Catalan secessionism	0
Editorial	0
Rottmann, Susan Beth. 2019. In pursuit of belonging: forging an ethical life in European‐Turkish spaces. New York: Berghahn Books. 216 pp. Hb.: US$120.00. ISBN: 97817892026994.	0
Cracks in the System and Anthropology	0
Minor Genealogies of Palestine	0
Once upon a time in Utopia: Bergson, temporality and the remaking of social movement futures	0
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Scenarios in a Time of Urgency	0
For an anthropological theory of praxis: dystopic utopia in Indian Maoism and the rise of the Hindu Right	0
Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good	0
Landmine Clearance, or the Promise of a Project without End	0
Kristensen, Regnar and Claudia A.Villamil. 2020. The children of Gregoria: dogme ethnography of a Mexican family. Berghahn Books: New York. 280 pp. Hb. US$149.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐78920‐653‐1.	0
‘Not as single spies’: a review of European Social Anthropology 2020	0
Getting things back to normal: populism, fundamentalism and liberal desire	0
Power and transcendence: a comment on upland pioneers	0
Syrian refugees and the politics of waiting in a Turkish border town	0
Humour and the Plurality of Everyday Life	0
Editorial	0
Blocking the Exit	0
Kubica, Grażyna. 2020. Maria Czaplicka. Gender, shamanism, race. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, xxii + 593 pp. Hb.: US$85.00. ISBN: 00978‐1‐4962‐2261‐9	0
Forum on the new far right: introduction	0
Jung, Yuson. 2019. Balkan blues: consumer politics after state socialism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 192 pp. Pb.: US$35.00. ISBN: 978‐0253029140.	0
Spatialising the far right	0
Editorial	0
Amit, Vered and Noel B.Salazar (eds.) 2020. Pacing mobilities: timing, intensity, tempo and duration of human movements. New York: Berghahn Books. Ebook US$29.95. eISBN: 978‐1‐78920‐725‐5.	0
Vital Matter	0
Rofel, Lisa and Sylvia J.Yanagisako. 2019. Fabricating transnational capitalism: a collaborative ethnography of Italian‐Chinese global fashion. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 392 pp. Pb.: US$29.93	0
Ambivalent Precarity among Israel's Young Generation of Filmmakers	0
What kinds of activism do regenerative cultures fuel and how might we research them?	0
Martins, Rosana and MassimoCanevacci (eds.). 2018. Lusophone hip‐hop: ‘who we are’ and ‘where we are’: identity, urban culture and belonging. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing. 316 pp. Hb.: £65.00.	0
We Just Want to Know How it was Calculated	0
Of Ice and Meteorites	0
Bruun Jensen, Casper and AtsuroMorita (eds.) 2019. Multiple nature‐cultures, diverse anthropologies. New York: Berghahn Books. 158 pp. Pb.: US$27.95. ISBN: 9781789205398.	0
Policy as Experimentation	0
Beyond ethnographic populisms and performative nationalisms: notes on the anthropology of the far right	0
Of Fascists and Dreamers	0
Algorithmic Intimacy	0
Phong pioneers: exploring the sociopolitics of mythology in upland Laos	0
The Anti-Politics of Inclusion	0
The Hau of the Article and Dividual Authors	0
Issue Information	0
From Scottish Independence, to Brexit, and Back Again	0
Unearthing Unknowns	0
Editorial	0
‘Are you paying for somebody else’s?’ The value of secrecy in the uses of DNA paternity tests in the USA	0
Religence	0
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The hierarchical right	0
Editorial	0
Ambiguous entanglements: infrastructure, memory and identity in indigenous Evenki communities along the Baikal–Amur Mainline	0
Automating Morality	0
Militancy and Martyrs’ Ghostly Whispers	0
Barnard, Alan. 2019. Bushmen: Kalahari hunter‐gatherers and their descendants. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 218 pp. Pb.: £22.99. ISBN: 9781108406871.	0
Introduction	0
‘What is not Counted, doesn't Count’	0
Bali’s environmental crisis: between moral ecology and global climate discourse	0
The Okjökull Memorial and Geohuman Relations	0
Book Reviews	0
Roque, Ricardo and Elizabeth G.Traube (eds.) 2019. Crossing histories and ethnographies: following colonial historicities in Timor‐Leste. New York: Berghahn, Books. 362 pp. Hb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 97817	0
‘Eating with the People’	0
Book Reviews	0
Imperial Infinity, Project Futurity and Clockwork Discipline	0
Waiting for the disappeared: waiting as a form of resilience and the limits of legal space in Turkey	0
Shacktopia	0
A border‐as‐tidemarks in the Polish–German borderland	0
To Fail at Scale!	0
‘Excesses’ of modernity: mundane mobilities, politics and the remaking of the urban	0
Regnier, Denis. 2021. Slavery and essentialism in highland Madagascar: ethnography, history, cognition. New York: Routledge. 208 pp. Hb: US$115.00. ISBN: 9781350102477.	0
Hmong Christian elites as political and development brokers: competition, cooperation and mimesis in Vietnam’s highlands	0
Zani, Leah. 2019. Bomb children. Life in the former battlefields of Laos. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 184 pp. Pb.: US$24.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐0485‐1.	0
Waiting for justice amidst the remnants: urban development, displacement and resistance in Diyarbakir	0
Craig, Sienna. 2020. The ends of kinship: connecting Himalayan lives between Nepal and New York. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. 304 pp. Pb.: US$30.00. ISBN: 9780295747699.	0
The Five Star Movement (M5S) in Rome: the real life of utopian politics	0
Engaged Lingering	0
Searching for an ‘Authentic Encounter’	0
Rhythming Volatilities	0
Kinning and De-kinning	0
Editorial	0
Controlled experiments: ethnographic notes on the intergenerational dynamics of aspirational migration and agrarian change in upland Laos	0