OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Agenda 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Creating sustainable Posthuman Adaptive Learning environments for pregnant teenagers	23
All the things you could be by now if Pinky Pinky wasn’t your Madam: Black gender, Human subjectivity and the terror of solidarity	11
Women Cross Border Traders’ Participation in Tax Rulemaking Processes	8
Echo’s Reflection	7
Reflections on the politics of gendered food chains	6
Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon (eds.)	6
Temporal disjunctures and cultures of the post-apartheid imagination: A review of Sisafunda Futhi Siselapha (Still Here): Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty-Five	5
Beijing +25	5
Rethinking Africa: Indigenous Women Reinterpret Southern Africa's Pasts	5
African feminisms for abolitionist futures: archival hauntings in a speculative geography	5
My body, my womb, my rights, my decisions: Feminist advocacy to seek justice for HIV positive women who are victims of forced sterilisations in South Africa	5
“In tatters”? The problem of ruling relations, power and the National Gender Machinery	4
Feminist Advocacy in Africa: Voices and Actions	4
Amplifying the experiences of young feminists conducting advocacy in Africa in the Challenging Patriarchy Programme: The case of South Sudan, Somalia, Uganda and Kenya	4
Marriage, intimacy, and the messy politics of COVID-19 in India	3
“It seems the women are taking over": Stereotyping around women in top-level leadership positions in Ghana's universities	3
The Black African female student fighting for survival: Gendered and cultural challenges of online learning	3
Restructuring intimacies during COVID-19: Women in Community Networks	3
Working from home, care work and shifting gender roles for dual-career couples during the COVID-19 pandemic: An exploratory study of urban Zimbabwe	3
Black transnational feminisms and the question of structure	3
Unbecoming to becoming a man: Reply to Moshibudi Motimele	2
Climate justice, gender and activisms	2
Glass Ceilings: cybermisogyny is a sign of unchecked sexism in media and newsrooms	2
Livelihood strategies of marginalised Zimbabwean women living in South Africa	2
Experiences of female higher education academics in Zimbabwe: A decolonial feminist perspective	2

Black women academics in the United States of America and South Africa deploying principles of Feminist Decoloniality as Care (FEMDAC) to confront experiences with microaggressions	2
‘Bodies that birth’ and the violence it bears: In conversation with Rachelle Chadwick	2
The nonhuman object in Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘Nowhere cool’: A black feminist critique of Object-oriented Ontology	2
A Gender Mainstreaming Approach to South Africa’s Budget Response to COVID-19	2
Women-led organisations leading from the front: Coordinating responses to gender-based violence in Somalia and South Sudan	2
Being a Black woman in Southy!	2
Food Shaming and Race, and Hungry Translations	2
‘Surrogate decision-making’ in India for women competent to consent and choose during childbirth	2
‘Loboko Ya Mama’: Homemade recipes of belonging	2
Challenges faced by women military officers in the South African National Defence Force: A case study of the Hoedspruit Air Force Base, Limpopo	2
Cuba in the time of COVID-19: Untangling gendered consequences	1
Bits of bytes and bites of bits: Instagram and the gendered performance of food production in the South African Indian community	1
Global Women’s Rights and African Realities: Examining Discourses of Gender Justice in South Africa	1
“Unlocking Safe Spaces for comprehensive SRHR”: Advocacy for women’s and adolescent girls’ right to access safe abortion in Zimbabwe	1
Beijing +25	1
‘Complex’ and ‘diverse’: Meaning-making and affirming practices as healing justice	1
Gender dimensions of war and displacement: Experiences of refugees from the Central African Republic in Cameroon	1
Greener on the other side: tracing stories of amaranth and moringa through indenture	1
Odouring foodscapes, ordering gender: Mapping women and caste in Samskara and The Weave of My Life	1
An analysis of obstetric violence among low-income urban women: A case study of Mabvuku Hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe	1
Stalled gender policy renewal and the effects of the policy gap on Malawi government’s gender agenda	1
The meanings of resilience in climate justice: women smallholder farmers’ responses to agricultural shocks in Uganda under the spotlight	1
The Impact of Feminism on postgraduate teaching in Durban	1
Wangari Maathai – an African woman leader who decolonised environmental discourse Wangari Mathaai’s registers of freedom (2020) edited by Grace A. Musila, HSRC Press, Pr	1
Mapping the notion of the transnational: A close reading of the ‘Women’s Question’ from the Ethiopian Student Movement’s publications in the 1960s and 1970s	1
Gendered implications of new technologies and posthuman subjectivities: perspectives from the global South	1
South African cities, housing precarity and women’s inclusion during COVID-19	1
Transnational Perspectives on Food, Ecology and the Anthropocene	1
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Where is the progress since Beijing?	1
Intersectional Experiences of Black South African Female Doctoral Students in STEM: Participation, Success and Retention	1
Symbolic inclusion and systemic exclusion: Exploring our precarious journeys to becoming black women academics at a South African university through the lens of fieldwork	1
Whose bodies are they? Conceptualising reproductive violence against adolescents in Ethiopia, Malawi and Zambia	1
Grandmother	1
Zulu Love Letter: Moving Black women from the margins to the centre in narrating South Africa’s political transition	1
“We are not Ready for a ‘she’ President”: Navigating Media Framing of Women Presidential Hopefuls	1
Sexual division of labour in Brazil: Interpretations of domestic and care work under COVID-19	1
The conceptualisation of the South African virtual class: A review ofSocial Media and Everyday Life in South Africaby Tanja Bosch	1
Posthuman subjectivities: Bollywood Nollywood film Namaste Wahala and the transnational transferability of post-colonial contemporary urban femininities	1
Exploring academic identities through collage-making: A collaborative autoethnographic project	1
“Victims or game changers?”: Exploring adolescent girls’ agency in the context of locally led climate action in rural Zimbabwe	1
‘Marxism, feminism and South African studies’ then and now: Some reflections on ‘then’	1
Gender and climate change ‘through other eyes’: Grassroots women’s responses to changing environments in southern Africa	1
Turning up the volume on equal pay: Notes toward building a platform for feminist advocacy	1
Fragile states, climate change, conflict and violence: Exploring the boundaries of resilience and adaptability from a gender perspective	1
Entangled battlefields: Challenges of precarity for womxn under COVID-19	1
Feminist Advocacy in Africa: Voices and Actions	1
Gender equality and women’s happiness in post-apartheid South Africa	1
Our Ubuntu: A Black feminist turn	1
Building Support Networks 25 Years After Beijing: The Case of Women Domestic Workers in Ethiopia and Tanzania	1
Hair, machines, sanitary pads and diary: The sentimental intimacy of truth during the COVID-19 pandemic	1

Conflict in Njobokazi, KwaZulu-Natal: Women as victims and as agents of change