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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Eternal mothers, whores or witches: the oddities of being a woman in politics in Zimbabwe	16
Breaking the frame: Obstetric violence and epistemic rupture	15
Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage: The reproduction of the obstetric subject and its racialised (m)other	9
“I only relieve myself when I get home in the afternoons”	7
Exploring queerphobic geographies in Southern Africa	7
The socio-economic determinants of health for transgender women in South Africa: findings from a mixed-methods study	6
Schoolgirls leading their rural community in dialogue to address gender-based violence	6
Intersectional Experiences of Black South African Female Doctoral Students in STEM: Participation, Success and Retention	6
Art and performance during the time of COVID-19 lockdown	5
“Hospitals have some procedures that seem dehumanising to me”: Experiences of abortion-related obstetric violence in Brazil, Chile and Ecuador	5
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Where is the progress since Beijing?	5
Structural violence on the margins of society: LGBT student access to health services	5
Unbecoming men: Towards a discursive emancipation of black boys	5
Entangled battlefields: Challenges of precarity for womxn under COVID-19	5
“We need to do public health differently in this community”: A reflexive analysis of participatory video, affective relations, and the policy process	5
On reproductive violence: Framing notes	5
Queer Blackwomxn on the periphery of the rainbow	4
The ‘normative’ of sex and gender differentiates the bodies it controls to consolidate a heterosexual imperative: a cause of homophobic sexual violence in Africa	4
Teenage girls and the entanglement with online porn: a new feminist materialist perspective	4
Whose bodies are they? Conceptualising reproductive violence against adolescents in Ethiopia, Malawi and Zambia	4
Female bodies, agency, real and symbolic violence during the coronavirus pandemic: The experiences of women politicians and activists in Zimbabwe	3
Shaping policy, sustaining peace: Intergenerational activism in the policy ecosystem	3
Cuba in the time of COVID-19: Untangling gendered consequences	3
Gender, evictions, and relocations during COVID-19 in South Africa: Lessons for programming and practice	3
Framing notes – COVID-19: The intimacies of pandemics	3

The ideal Hindu woman? Representations of Sita in Yael Farber’s Ram – The Abduction of Sita into Darkness	3
Cultivating Third Space thinking in (‘African’) feminism through the works of Nandipha Mntambo	3
Tracking the trajectory of feminist advocacy in Uganda: How has theory informed the practice of advocacy?	3
Decolonization and Afro-Feminism by Sylvia Tamale	2
Survivalist economics in the time of COVID-19	2
Cracking-open vernacular stand-up comedy: Reflections on Celeste Ntuli’s work on sexuality	2
An evaluation of South Africa’s gender norms on governance and leadership within the context of Aspiration 6 of Agenda 2063	2
Feminist advocacy in the agenda for implementing Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development initiatives in Monrovia, Liberia	2
“Powerless and afraid, I felt they let me down”: Reflections of a first-year student on gender-based violence at a university in South Africa	2
South African cities, housing precarity and women’s inclusion during COVID-19	2
Sexual and gender identities: violating norms	2
Gendered attitudes to fruit and vegetable consumption during the COVID-19 epidemic: Implications for policy and programming	2
Exploring women’s gendered experiences of sexual reproductive health during a pandemic: Intergenerational reflections	2
“We have heard you but we are not changing anything”: Policymakers as audience to a photovoice exhibition on challenges to school re-entry for young mothers in Kenya	2
How can girls with disabilities become activists in their own lives? Creating opportunities for policy dialogue through ‘knowledge mobilisation spaces’	2
‘Surrogate decision-making’ in India for women competent to consent and choose during childbirth	2
Grabbing the Sharp End of the Knife to Bring Liberation, Peace and Justice to South Africans: lessons from Ellen Kuzwayo and Phyllis Naidoo	1
Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1	1
From Black Consciousness to Black Lives Matter: Confronting the colonial legacy of colourism in South Africa	1
Women in nation building: breaking down barriers, building bridges	1
Yes! We are girls with disabilities and Yes! We can represent ourselves in policy dialogue	1
When the personal remains personal. Intimate partner violence in lesbian relationships	1
The Village Savings and Loans Association pathway – feminist solidarity groups leverage COVID-19 to have their voices heard	1
In search of reciprocity: Feminist challenges in Posthumanist thinking – An intellectual meditation	1
Zulu Love Letter: Moving Black women from the margins to the centre in narrating South Africa’s political transition	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
Ours	1
Beijing +25	1
Intersectionality and/or multiple consciousness: Re-thinking the analytical tools used to conceptualise and navigate personhood	1
Fear, discrimination, and healthcare access during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring women domestic workers’ lives in India	1
Marriage, intimacy, and the messy politics of COVID-19 in India	1
Story Circles: A conversation on Black Feminist theatre practices drawn from creating the play ‘Postcards: Bodily preserves’	1
‘Bodies that birth’ and the violence it bears: In conversation with Rachelle Chadwick	1
Girl-led ‘from the ground up’ approaches to policy dialogue and policy change	1
Unbecoming to becoming a man: Reply to Moshibudi Motimele	1
Gendered implications of new technologies and posthuman subjectivities: perspectives from the global South	1
Sexualising the performance, objectifying the performer: The twerk dance in Kenya	1
Nasi iStocko! Forging contemporary feminist imaginaries of liberation	1
Bleed, kill, cut, kin: Uterine violence, body-talk, and feminist subjectivities	1
Understanding the violation of directive anti-abortion counselling [and cisnormativity]: Obstruction to access or reproductive violence?	1
Embodying transnational queer Black and Brown utopia in alternative QTPOC nightlife spaces	1
Pandemics, routine death, and pleasure	1
“Everything is written there; there should be something that is going to follow”: A girlfesto as a strategy for girl-led activism in rural communities	1
“I see myself really as a public health activist”: A critical analysis of young people’s voices in the National Health Insurance policy submissions	1
Can the curriculum be a tool to engage pre-service teachers in prevention of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity? A teacher–educator dialogue	1
The nonhuman object in Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘Nowhere cool’: A black feminist critique of Object-oriented Ontology	1
Women farmers leading and co-learning in an agroecology movement at the intersections of gender and climate	1
Gender mainstreaming in the South African State, 25 years post Beijing	1
Restructuring intimacies during COVID-19: Women in Community Networks	1
I just asked why?	1

Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon (eds.)	1
Women informal food traders during COVID-19: A South African case study	1
Shamed or shameless: the life of a lesbian minister and her struggle in the Methodist Church in Southern Africa (MCSA)	1
Time and distance	1
Beijing +25 consultative forumGeneration Equality: Realising Women’s Rights for an Equal Future	1
Agriculture, rivers and gender: Thinking with ‘caste capitalism’, migrant labour and food production in the Capitalocene	1
Rhizome networks: Turmeric’s global journey from haldi doodh to turmeric latte	1
‘I don’t like them coming to me and saying hey, I like you’: male teachers in relegated positions of masculinity	1
Turning up the volume on equal pay: Notes toward building a platform for feminist advocacy	1
The inception of Camagu Theatre and Dance Festival: Black women shifting the paradigm, disrupting and decolonising theatre in South Africa	1
Hair, machines, sanitary pads and diary: The sentimental intimacy of truth during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Negotiating masculinity: experiences of black gay men	1
Land and the feminine: Silence as a Room #1 of #5 , Richmond, Karoo	1
Beijing +25	1
The Angry Feminist	1
Working from home, care work and shifting gender roles for dual-career couples during the COVID-19 pandemic: An exploratory study of urban Zimbabwe	1