OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Anthropology 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID‐19: what is the disaster?	26
The COVID exception	18
States of dependence: Introduction	15
Compounded disasters: Puerto Rico confronts COVID‐19 under US colonialism	15
‘Virtual choirs’ and the simulation of live performance under lockdown	14
We need each other: Social supports during COVID‐19	13
Pandemic … or syndemic ? Re‐framing COVID‐19 disease burden and ‘underlying health conditions’	12
A pandemic is not a war: COVID‐19 urgent anthropological reflections	12
Exploring taskscapes: an introduction	12
Unequal expressions: emotions and narratives of leaving and remaining in precarious academia	11
Religious returns, ritual changes and divinations on COVID‐19	11
COVID‐19, dugnad and productive incompleteness: volunteer labour and crisis loans in Norway	10
The COVID‐19 epidemic through a gender lens: what if a gender approach had been applied to inform public health measures to fight the COVID‐19 pandemic?	10
A lesser human? Utopian registers of urban reconfiguration in Maputo, Mozambique	9
From wet markets to Wal‐Marts: tracing alimentary xenophobia in the time of COVID‐19	8
Beyond Failure	8
The legal void and COVID‐19 governance	8
Utopian confluences: anthropological mappings of generative politics	8
Jishuku , social distancing and care in the time of COVID‐19 in Japan	8
Strategic alliance and the Plantationocene among the Makushi in Guyana	8
Overlapping values: religious and scientific conflicts during the COVID‐19 crisis in Brazil	7
Nature as a constellation of activities: movement, rhythm and perception in an Italian national park	6
Debt collection as labour discipline: the work of finance in a Myanmar squatter settlement	6
Partying at times of crises and pandemics: solidarity, resilience and coping with the measures against COVID‐19	6
Algorithmic Intimacy	6

Stratifying academia: ranking, oligarchy and the market‐myth in academic audit regimes	6
Organic taste and labour on Indian tea plantations*	6
Grammars of liberalism	6
The China–US blame game: claims‐making about the origin of a new virus	6
The swarming life of pastures: living with vole outbreaks in the French Jura uplands	6
Introduction: urgent anthropological COVID‐19 forum	6
Fortifying breath in this moment of spray: face masks beyond COVID‐19	6
How to kill a democracy	5
Extinction Rebellion, Image events, social media and the eclipse of the earth	5
A desire for normality: (early) marriage among Syrian refugees in Jordan between waiting and home‐making	5
Public space during COVID‐19	5
The national(ist) necropolitics of masks	5
Syrian refugees and the politics of waiting in a Turkish border town	5
Interstitial urban spaces: housing strategies and the use of the city by homeless asylum seekers and refugees in Trento, Italy	5
On the educational mode of existence: Latour, meta‐ethnography and the social institution of education	5
Liberalism in fragments: oligarchy and the liberal subject in Ukrainian news journalism	5
Crossing borders: the case of NASFAT or ‘Pentecostal Islam’ in Southwest Nigeria	5
What does COVID‐19 distract us from? A migration studies perspective on the inequities of attention	5
Rethinking states of emergency	5
Humanising fascists? Nuance as an anthropological responsibility	5
Documenting the UNESCO feast: stories of women’s ‘empowerment’ and programmatic cooking	4
Urgency and Imminence	4
Waiting during the time of COVID‐19	4
Introduction: On the politics of waiting	4
Material methods for a rapid‐response anthropology	4
‘To all the anti‐vaxxers out there…’: ethnography of the public controversy about vaccination in the time of COVID‐19	4
When the virus makes the timeline	4
Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good	4
Bicho bandido : wild boars, biological invasions and landscape transformations on the Brazilian–Uruguayan border (Pampas region)	4
Where have the gatherings gone? Reweaving the social fabric in the time of pandemic and interpersonal distancing	4
Walking utopias. The politics of walking in art and anthropology	4
New climate change activism: before and after the Covid‐19 pandemic	4
Ethnographic fieldwork quarantined	4
Why take such a risk? Beyond profit: motivations of border‐crossing facilitators between France and Italy	4
To Fail at Scale!	4
For an anthropological theory of praxis: dystopic utopia in Indian Maoism and the rise of the Hindu Right	4
Touch in the new ‘1.5‐metre society’	3
The myth of masks: a tale of risk selection in the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
The nation‐state, class, digital divides and social anthropology	3
Controlled experiments: ethnographic notes on the intergenerational dynamics of aspirational migration and agrarian change in upland Laos	3
Local response to the global pandemic (COVID‐19) in Bangladesh	3
Taking matters into our own hands: reflections on the COVID‐19 pandemic in the Philippines	3
A pandemic in prisons	3
The neo‐nationalist ascendency: further thoughts on class, value and the return of the repressed	3
When a crisis is embedded in another crisis	3
‘Meat is stupid’: Covid‐19 and the co‐development of climate activism	3
‘Do you want us to feed you like a baby?’ Ascriptions of dependence in East New Britain	3
Youth in a viral age: a collated auto‐ethnographic response by young people (dis)orientated in strange times	3
Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment: abortion rights and democracy today	3
Reclaiming the social from ‘social distancing’	3

From sociality to social distancing: reversing values of solidarity in Italy	3
State and life in Cuba: calibrating ideals and realities in a state‐socialist system for food provision	3
‘Living as Londoners do’: born‐again Christians in convivial East London	3
Liquid crystal and the A1: densities of state from the perspective of a Montenegrin village	3
‘At least I am married’: Muslim–Christian marriage and gender in southwest Nigeria	3
Curious Utopias	3
Waiting for the disappeared: waiting as a form of resilience and the limits of legal space in Turkey	3
Performing compliance with development indicators: brokerage and transnational governance in aid partnerships	3
COVID‐19 and human–virus relationality	3
Confronting Uncertainties in Pastoral Areas	3
The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention	3
The shade of religion: Kyangyang and the works of prophetic imagination in Guinea‐Bissau	3
Anthropology Comes In When Translation Fails	2
COVID‐19 and climate change reactions: STS potential of online research	2
Conspicuous performances: ritual competition between Christian and non‐Christian Hmong in contemporary Vietnam	2
Generation climate change	2
Revisiting social media as far‐right modality	2
Waiting for justice amidst the remnants: urban development, displacement and resistance in Diyarbakir	2
Contagion and memory	2
Vernacular Humanitarianisms	2
Pioneers of the plantation economy: militarism, dispossession and the limits of growth in the Wa State of Myanmar	2
The Debate’s Conjuncture	2
To go with the free information flow: problems and contradictions in macro‐level neoliberal theories and their translation to micro‐level business innovation strategies	2
Disaster nativism: notes from rural Australia	2
Containing the future shock	2
Viruses beyond epistemic fallacy	2
Document the quotidian transformations of the pandemic	2
Definitions, differences and inequalities in times of COVID‐19: indigenous peoples in Mexico	2
COVID‐19 as the primary agent	2
A decolonial, ecofeminist ethic of care	2
‘Are you paying for somebody else’s?’ The value of secrecy in the uses of DNA paternity tests in the USA	2
The optimistic utopia: sacrifice and expectations of political transformation in the Angolan Revolutionary Movement	2
Dealing with the unexpected: new forms of mytho‐praxis in the age of COVID‐19	2
The comparative anthropology of religion, or the anthropology of religion compared: a critical comment	2
The challenge of breath: toward an ‘after’ COVID‐19	2
Situating ascriptions of independence and dependence in Italian family capitalism	2
The pandemic present	2
The limits of strategic citizenship: affective engagements with Russian passports in the context of migration from Tajikistan	2
Leapfrogging the Grid	2
Policy as Experimentation	2
Times and metaphors of pandemics	2
Ground glass: the future after COVID‐19?	2
Contested values and climate change mitigation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia	2
Upland pioneers: an introduction	2
‘Eating with the People’	2
Life versus capital: COVID‐19 and the politics of life	2