OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Boxing clever: exercising with ethnicity, ethics and embodied ethnography *Book Review of Fighting Identity: An Ethnography of Kickboxing in East London,*	24
Stateless citizenship: ‘radical democracy as consciousness-raising’ in the Rojava revolution	20
Pan-African identity, psychological well-being, and mental health among African Americans	15
Asserting an Eritrean identity in the face of imposed racialisation: national identity claims of some Eritrean refugees in South Africa	15
Indifference or hostility? Anti-Scottishness in a post-Brexit England	13
Constructing homonationalist identities in relation to religious and LGBTQ+ outgroups: a case study of r/RightWingLGBT	11
Intercultural capital and ambiguous loss in in-between space: a digital ethnography of Anglo-Sino academic families amid China’s transformation into the post-pandemic era	9
The emotional governance of immigration controls	8
Politics, NOT as usual	7
Unpacking the colonial genealogies of political science	7
Storytelling amid the ‘dirty plates’ of the past	7
Toppling statues and making space: prospects for anti-racist cultural activism	6
‘Detention is morally exhausting’: melancholia of detention centres in France	6
Janathana Sarkar (people’s government): rebel governance and agency of the poor in India’s Maoist guerrilla zones	6
Pretty fly for a white guy: the politics of race, nation and difference in professional boxing	6
Radical democratic citizenship at the edge of life: young children, cafés and intergenerational and intersectional activism	6
Towards a differentiated notion of the mainstream: superdiversity and residents’ conceptions of immigrant integration	6
Disentangling radical right populism, gender, and religion: an introduction	5
‘Messy refusal’, assimilationist moves, and the reproduction of Eurocentric modernity/coloniality: examining anti-Islamophobia in Lebanon	5
Exploring ‘festive commoning’ in radical gatherings in Scotland	5
‘Paperwork or no paperwork, we are guests in this country’: mothering and belonging in the wake of the Windrush Scandal	5
From otherness to belongingness: the role of co-ethnic relationships in Korean New Zealanders’ ethnic identity formation	4
(Doing) belonging as technology of power: how the principle of ‘gender equality’ governs membership in Swiss society	4
The socioeconomics of Sikh American identity	4
Negotiating identities. On identity politics and deliberation	4

A Chinatown undeclared: Chinese entrepreneurs’ unethnic ways of being in Ikebukuro, Tokyo	4
Interracial couples and the phenomenology of race, place, and space in contemporary England	4
Histories of place: the racialization of representational space in Govanhill and Butetown	4
Unwrapping oppression: Black latinas in craft chocolate marketing	4
Music and political identity salience in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election	4
Negotiating one’s own belonging: envisaging the Japanese (Im)migratory stratification through immigrant-origin youths’ narratives	4
Producing whiteness through urban space: the socio-spatial construction of white identities in Amsterdam	3
What’s love got to do with it? Marriage and the security state	3
Criminalizing black solidarity: Dublin deportations, raids, and racial statecraft in southern Germany	3
Dead serious racial humour Book Review of The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy , by Raúl	3
Grace, books and diplomacy: a conversation with John Solomos	3
Place as social identity: an analysis of the spatial enactments of community loss and activism within the built environment surrounding Grenfell Tower	3
‘I always felt I have something I must do in my life’: meaning making in the political lives of refugee non-citizens	3
The BBC, public intellectuals, and the making of Five Views of Multi-Racial Britain	3
Black boundaries	3
Multiraciality and racialized politics in the United States	3
Feeling race: mapping emotions in policing Britain’s borders	3
#SouthAsians4BlackLives: racial positionality in digital allyship and the prospects for cross-racial solidarity for racial justice in the USA	2
The governmentality of multiculturalism: from national pluri-ethnicity to urban cosmopolitanism in Bogotá	2
Intracultural dialogue as a precursor to cross-community initiatives: the Irish language among Protestants/unionists in Northern Ireland	2
Islamophobia in Scottish towns and small cities	2
Drifting borders, anchored community: re-reading narratives in the semiotic landscape with ethnic Lithuanians living at the Polish borderland	2
National pride and identification with national symbols in a divided society: the case of South Africa	2
Producing labour stratification: how migration policies affect the working, living and housing conditions of migrant farmworkers	2
The staging of cultural diversity in Dubai: the case of Dubai Art Fair	2
Emirati expats in social media: a new arena for involvement and political expression?	2
Towards a ‘new’ Moroccan capital? Democratisation, diversity politics and the remaking of national space in Rabat	2
The dread of dread	2
The veil as an object of right-wing populist politics: a comparative perspective of Turkey, Sweden, and France	2