OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Cultural Studies 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Past imperfect: Transition narratives, popular discourses and The Informant	78
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector	32
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome	19
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis	16
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture	16
The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender	15
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games	15
Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade	15
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers	15
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value	13
Soft nationalism in China: The case of Hanfu style	13
Keywords as method	13
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities	13
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy	12
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	11
‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong	10
Music and dance beyond boundaries? Emphasizing Muslim–Jewish North African commonalities, avoiding politics	10
‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign	10
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips	10
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies	10
Laughter in times of distress: Pandemic humor and satire in Iran	9
The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry	9
Glitch, the Post-digital Aesthetic of Failure and Twenty-First-Century Media	8
Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics	8
Urban renewal, contested memories and the politics of cultural production: The case of Jewish–Muslim encounters in Germany	8

Book Review: Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North Africa BoumAomarBerberNadjib, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North	7
Special cultural commons section: Roundtable discussion of Catherine Rottenberg’s This Is Not a Feminism Textbook, Goldsmiths University Press (2023)	7
‘Je te crois’ (‘I believe you’): Pragmatics of a feminist slogan, or silencing and the scene of address in post-#MeToo France	7
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors	7
I was never in it for the money: Media narratives of celebrity chefs and the gastro-capitalist social entrepreneur	6
‘We live in a capitalist world, we need to survive!’: Feminist cultural work, platform capitalism, and pandemic precarity	6
Backlash, white privilege and anger: Resistance to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda in the British television industry	6
The unprotectables: A critical discourse analysis of older people’s portrayal in UK newspaper coverage of Covid-19	6
High art on a mug: Art merchandise in China’s contemporary art market	5
Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives	5
The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons	4
Anokha emerging: The Asian Underground, new ethnicities, and diversity conservatism	4
‘I’m just not gay-gay’: Exploring same-sex desire and sexual minority identity formation in SKAM and its Western European remakes	4
From Cinéfondation’s Résidence to film production: The experience of Brazilian filmmakers in an international labour market	4
The travelogue cooking show in a sub-state nation: Representing Scotland in British food television	4
Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject	4
Negative justice: The case of the human rights museum	4
Resilience is a feminist issue: A response to Angela McRobbie’s Feminism and the Politics of Resilience in the context of Britain during the coronavirus pandemic	4
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Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity	4
Fatherhood and gender relations in the manosphere: Exploring an Italian non-resident fathers’ online forum	4
Dirt(y) media: Dirt in ecological media art practices	4
The racialisation of AIDS in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion	4
Book Review: Johnny Walker, Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978–92	4
Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity	4
Brexit, ugly feelings and the power of participatory art in Grayson Perry: Divided Britain	4
The digital pregnancy: A qualitative study of Danish women’s use of pregnancy apps	4
Equity, diversity and inclusivity: Once more, with feeling	3
Weaving the network of collectivism –Kuqingas affective glue in China: Analyzing the reality showX-Change	3
Book review: Joanne Hollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating JoanneHollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating. London: Blooms	3
Space invaders in US immigration courts: Reflections on embodiment, complicities, and the possibility and limits of resistance	3
The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide	3
Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right	3
Ticking off the (pink) diversity box? Production views on LGBT+ in children’s fiction	3
Expat anxieties: Risk and safety in Cape Town, South Africa and Santiago de Chile	3
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?	3
No room! Of course there’s room	3
Trans experiences of epistemic recognition against the backdrop of the Finnish trans act reform	3
‘I want to be judged on my work, I don’t want to be judged as a person’: Inequality, expertise and cultural value in UK craft	3
Mediating American hospitality: Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge to Donald Trump?	3
ECS-Ecrea Early Career Scholar Prize winner - An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction	3
Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces	3
Book review: Lin Zhang, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	3
Challengers: A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires	3
The performative body of disabled women: Toward the politics of visibility in China	3
Tell the story of a virus	3
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism	3
Netflix teen series and the globalization of difference	3
Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present	3
Making the invisible visible	3

Book review: Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism	3
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow	3
Fat shaming, feminism and Facebook: What ‘women who eat on tubes’ reveal about social media and the boundaries of women’s bodies	3
The nation as an imagined commodity: Branding ‘Melania’	3
Platformed intimacies: Professional belonging on social media	3
No more jokes: Comic complexity, Adult Swim and a political aesthetic model of humour	2
Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries	2
Moving with affects in Finnish academia: Resistance practices of social science and humanities researchers and a possibility of change	2
The consequences of the television closet: It’s a Sin (Red Production Company for Channel 4/HBO Max, 2021) as a meditation on the presence and absence of queer lives on British television	2
Telephone networks and transactional motherhood in Channel 4’s It’s A Sin	2
Screen agencies as cultural intermediaries: Delivering gender equality in the film and television sectors?	2
No such thing as peacetime: Notes on Gaza, Hannah Arendt and cultural studies	2
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation	2
Peripheral allegories of platform capitalism: Carnival Row , Prague and the materiality of local labor	2
More than perfect: Cosmetic surgery and ageing single women in contemporary China	2
Towards luminescent ethnography of creative work: Purity, dirt and social inequality in Russian art institutions	2
‘Rocking the establishment’: Subculture, authenticity and the populist radical right in Sweden	2
Logbook of a researcher in sociology in times of crisis: Investigating Jews and Muslims after the 7th of October and the following days	2
Woman, Life, Freedom: Revolting space invaders in Iran	2
Science as an ‘object of love’ – affective milieus in the neoliberal university	2
Wounded men of feminism: Exploring regimes of male victimhood in the Spanish manosphere	2
Book review: Margreth Lünenborg and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (eds), Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media	2
Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event	2
Book review: Nahuel Ribke, Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographies and Performances	2
Aligning to ambivalence: White petty bourgeois masculinities, leisure and the contemporary cultural politics of gender in the UK	2
Personal stories in migration museums and our notions of hospitality: A case study from France’s National Museum of the History of Immigration	2
‘The small girl with the huge dildo is what we needed’: The politics of sex toy in Cocks Not Glocks protest	2
#MeToo in British schools: Gendered differences in teenagers’ awareness of sexual violence	2
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media	2
Surveillance and self-care: Performing beauty labor in online video content	2
Marginalized disappearances: Shaping the power relations of the search for the missing	2
Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries	2
Religion and faith: The missing index of inequality in culture and the arts	2
Remembering voices: Singing and critical cosmopolitan memory in the Bengali diaspora	2
Book review: Fong Siao Yuong, Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy	2
Football and the sounds of the Black Atlantic	2
On joining the editorial team of European Journal of Cultural Studies in its 25th year	2
Introduction: Boundary work in Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban Europe	2
Book Review: Michelle Phillipov and Katherine Kirkwood (eds), Alternative Food Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream	2
Dancing on a tightrope: Uncertainty, risk perception and trust relationships in the live music industry	2