OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Anthropology 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Unequal expressions: emotions and narratives of leaving and remaining in precarious academia	13
Beyond Failure	10
Utopian confluences: anthropological mappings of generative politics	10
A lesser human? Utopian registers of urban reconfiguration in Maputo, Mozambique	9
Algorithmic Intimacy	9
Interstitial urban spaces: housing strategies and the use of the city by homeless asylum seekers and refugees in Trento, Italy	8
Urgency and Imminence	8
To Fail at Scale!	7
On the educational mode of existence: Latour, meta‐ethnography and the social institution of education	7
Introduction: On the politics of waiting	7
Grammars of liberalism	7
Organic taste and labour on Indian tea plantations*	7
How to kill a democracy	6
Extinction Rebellion, Image events, social media and the eclipse of the earth	6
A desire for normality: (early) marriage among Syrian refugees in Jordan between waiting and home‐making	6
Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good	6
Vernacular Humanitarianisms	6
Humanising fascists? Nuance as an anthropological responsibility	6
Syrian refugees and the politics of waiting in a Turkish border town	6
Stratifying academia: ranking, oligarchy and the market‐myth in academic audit regimes	6
Liberalism in fragments: oligarchy and the liberal subject in Ukrainian news journalism	6
Leapfrogging the Grid	5
For an anthropological theory of praxis: dystopic utopia in Indian Maoism and the rise of the Hindu Right	4
Documenting the UNESCO feast: stories of women’s ‘empowerment’ and programmatic cooking	4
Controlled experiments: ethnographic notes on the intergenerational dynamics of aspirational migration and agrarian change in upland Laos	4

New climate change activism: before and after the Covid‐19 pandemic	4
Curious Utopias	4
Confronting Uncertainties in Pastoral Areas	4
Generation climate change	3
Waiting for the disappeared: waiting as a form of resilience and the limits of legal space in Turkey	3
The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention	3
Revisiting social media as far‐right modality	3
Editorial	3
The neo‐nationalist ascendency: further thoughts on class, value and the return of the repressed	3
Policy as Experimentation	3
‘Meat is stupid’: Covid‐19 and the co‐development of climate activism	3
‘Eating with the People’	3
‘True love’ as a bureaucratic utopia: the case of bi‐national couples in Belgium	2
Waiting for justice amidst the remnants: urban development, displacement and resistance in Diyarbakir	2
‘Are you paying for somebody else’s?’ The value of secrecy in the uses of DNA paternity tests in the USA	2
Upland pioneers: an introduction	2
The Debate’s Conjuncture	2
The Golden Passport ‘Russian’ Eutopia	2
The limits of strategic citizenship: affective engagements with Russian passports in the context of migration from Tajikistan	2
Vocation and political activism: sacrifice, stigma, love, utopia?	2
The optimistic utopia: sacrifice and expectations of political transformation in the Angolan Revolutionary Movement	2
Of Fascists and Dreamers	2
Shacktopia	2
‘Excesses’ of modernity: mundane mobilities, politics and the remaking of the urban	2
State and life in Cuba: calibrating ideals and realities in a state‐socialist system for food provision	2
Conspicuous performances: ritual competition between Christian and non‐Christian Hmong in contemporary Vietnam	2
(Un)Doing the Colombian Armed Conflict	2
A decolonial, ecofeminist ethic of care	2
Pioneers of the plantation economy: militarism, dispossession and the limits of growth in the Wa State of Myanmar	2
Getting things back to normal: populism, fundamentalism and liberal desire	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
Anthropology Comes In When Translation Fails	2
Terms of engagement	1
The Properties of Self-Managed Collective Housing	1
Promising pipelines and hydrocarbon nationalism: the sociality of unbuilt infrastructure in indigenous Siberia	1
Ruined beings: ontology in post‐socialist driving	1
Reductio ad cambitas: The grammar of liberalisation in Northeast Brazil	1
Once upon a time in Utopia: Bergson, temporality and the remaking of social movement futures	1
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.	1
Beyond (Un)Stable	1
The potential of intangible loss: reassembling heritage and reconstructing the social in post‐disaster Japan	1
White climate, white energy: a time for movement reflection?	1
Religious Nationalism, Strategic Detachment and the Politics of Vernacular Humanitarianism in Post-War Sri Lanka	1
From Scottish Independence, to Brexit, and Back Again	1
Liberalism in the breach	1
Armytage, Rosita. 2020. Big capital in an unequal world: the micropolitics of wealth in Pakistan. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books. 206 pp. Hb.: US$120.00/£89.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐78920‐616‐6.	1
Creeping racism: a cultural conception of politics	1
Curfew ‘until further notice’: waiting and spatialisation of sovereignty in a Kurdish bordertown in Turkey	1
Introduction: Auto‐Anthropocenes	1
The Desire to Help	1

‘When I see what democracy is…’: bleak liberalism in a French court	1
Minority sexualities, kinship and non‐autological freedom in Montenegro	1
‘Before others’: construction pioneers in the uplands of northwestern Laos	1
Democracy after ‘the end of history’: Vietnamese diasporic liberalism in Poland	1
Spatialising the far right	1
Soothsayers and horoscopes: new modes of inquiring into the future in northern Laos	1
What kinds of activism do regenerative cultures fuel and how might we research them?	1
Ambiguous entanglements: infrastructure, memory and identity in indigenous Evenki communities along the Baikal–Amur Mainline	1
Conspiracies are about identities not ideas	1
Hmong Christian elites as political and development brokers: competition, cooperation and mimesis in Vietnam’s highlands	1
Global far right and imaginative interconnectivities	1
The Anti-Politics of Inclusion	1
A pandemic can do what a movement cannot	1
Corporeal performance in contemporary ethnonationalist movements: the changing body politic of Basque and Catalan secessionism	1
Forum: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine	1
The Hard Way	1
Vignerons and the Vines	1
Reckoning with ‘humanising fascists’ and other requisites of an anthropology of the far right	1
Vertigo and Urgency	1
Traditional culture as a vehicle for Christian future‐making: ethnic minority elites pioneering self‐representations in northern Myanmar	1
Pacifist utopias: humanitarianism, tragedy and complicity in the Second World War	1