OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Social Theory 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social critique and transformation: Revising Habermas’s colonisation thesis	22
Virtues and vices in the sociology of morality Social Theorists of Morality: Essays on Moral Agency. By AbbottOwen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 352 pp. $139.99 US (hardcover). ISBN: 978-3-031-75	21
Is populism a social pathology? The myth of immediacy and its effects	14
Introduction to the special issue on theorizing contemporary capitalism	10
Who gets to speak for the environment, how and to what ends?	10
The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures	10
The triple problem displacement: Climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration	10
The moral fog of war and historical sociology	10
A sociology of regret	9
I trust (you) therefore I am! From trust to post-trust: Transforming social paradigms	9
Theorising political legitimisation: From stasis to processes	9
Institutionalized anti-anti-Semitism in Germany and its aporias	7
Politicization after the ‘end of nature’: The prospect of ecomodernism	7
Another unfinished project of modernity from a Latin American perspective	7
Book review: The Imposter as Social Theory: Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans	7
Labour, capital and the struggle over history: Reconstructing Marxist class theory from the standpoint of alienation	6
Technocratic myopia: On the pitfalls of depoliticising the future	6
“Fail better”: Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and learning from failure	5
Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses	5
Response to Hans-Herbert Kögler, Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine	5
Dramaturgies of change: Staging political transformation	5
Thinking of war, facing the catastrophe: The Russian-Ukrainian War	5
Winning while waning? The cunning of ecological reason	5
Forever failing: Feminist practices of peace in war/violence	5
Book Review: The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire GeorgeSteinmetz. 2022. The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Over	5

Social theory, the ecological emergency, and the direction of history: A review essay	5
Introduction to the special issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A new European war? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War	4
From anomie to order – structural roots and values underpinning anomie in capitalist societies and its political consequences	4
The dispositif of a closed future and the paradoxical effects of the eco-emancipatory project	4
Rethinking mobility in social theory: Yann Moulier-Boutang and the motor of history	4
Lessons from Castoriadis: Downsizing critical theory and defusing the concept of society	4
Book Review: The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East ZayaniMohamedKhalilJoe, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.	4
Book Review: Care and Capitalism Kathleen Lynch, Care and Capitalism . Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. 302 pp. ISBN 9781509543847.	4
Pandora’s box: The two sides of the public sphere	4
Trust in modernity: The case of Adam Smith	4
Book review: Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization	4
Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age	4
Irretrievable failure: Life in the ruins of utopian dreaming	4
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain	4
From the pluralisation of habitus towards the theory of plural habitus	4
Climate change, critical theory and economic democracy: ‘Small is Beautiful’ and the challenge to growth	4
Obituary: Margaret S Archer (1943–2023)	4
The separation between ethics and politics: Max Weber on ancient Judaism and modernity	4
Black Marxism , Racial Capitalism, and Greek and Balkan Coloniality Studies: Toward an Abolitionist Perspective	3
Interactive universalism, the concrete other and discourse ethics: A sociological dialogue with Seyla Benhabib’s theories of morality	3
The quest for transformative politics and the circumstances of social complexity	3
Critical theory of racism, antisemitism, and the demonisation of Israel: Understanding their complex interrelations	3
Experimentation and the future(s) of political hope	3
Ecological Ungovernability and the Transition to Postliberal Modernity: On the Dialectic of the Eco-Emancipatory Project	3
Tempering the not-yet: Towards a social theory for the Anthropocene	2
Ever again 1918? The threatening return of nationalism	2
Book review: In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms	2
Enrique Dussel (1934–2023)	2
Capitalism and the state: A new materialist perspective	2
Migration theory as social theory: From transnational migration to mobile social ontologies	2
Critical theory, Peirce and the theory of society	2
Planetary emergency, fossil-authoritarian hope and the dilemma of social theory: An introduction	2
Contemporary visions of the next apocalypse: Climate change and artificial intelligence	2
The critical theory of society: From its Young-Hegelian core to its key concept of possibility	2
Alter-neoliberal analysis: Abduction, critique, radical imagination	2
In search of the common good: The postliberal project Left and Right	2
Nazism, nationalism and the war in Ukraine: A reply to Kögler	2
Sovereignty cubed: The Arctic as a territorial and ontological volume	2
Better late than modern? Between ‘late capitalism’ and ‘late modernity’	2
Rationalizing the war in Ukraine through religion: The Orthodox Church and Russia’s imperialist motif (A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler)	1
Displacement, women intellectuals and entangled knowledge in the making of global modernity	1
Book Review: Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations: Visions of Italy and the Italians in England and Britain from the Renaissance to the Present Day	1
Prolegomena to a genealogy of “society”	1
The first “Unmodern” Nation: Germany and Poland's imperial exclusion from modernity	1
Interrogating the Interregnum	1
Postscript: On the moral case for solidarity with Ukraine: A reply	1
Book Review: Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment TaylorCharles, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Pres	1
A matter of state: The politics of German anti-anti-Semitism	1
Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses: Adopting the pointers of curiosity, nominalism, conceptual grounding and exemplarity	1
Towards a sociology of the future: An exploration in cognitive social theory	1

Decolonizing deliberative democracy	1
Understanding war: The sociological perspective revisited	1
Corrigendum to “Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis : Critical Theory’s Ongoing Struggle with the Concept of Society”	1
On the moral significance of military operations: A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler	1
Book review: Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania Across Empires by Anca, Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă AncaParvulescuManuelaBoatcă. Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania A	1
Adorno and Habermas: Two varieties of post-metaphysical thinking	1
New cold war or ‘world civil war’? Wertkritik and the critical theory of capitalism in an age of conflict	1
Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis: Critical Theory’s ongoing search for a concept of society	1
Can we use the open future? Preparedness and innovation in times of self-generated uncertainty	1
Another Russia: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler	1
Commentary on Kögler: Analysing the Ukraine war through a ‘new wars’ perspective	1
The progress without “progress”: Critique of Jaeggi's pragmatist theory of progress	1
Book Review: A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion. Wealth, Suffering, Negation Werner Bonefeld. A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion. Wealth, Suffering, Negation	1
Indigenous environmentalism: For a political economy where people (and planet) matter	1
Resonance and reflexivity as pathways to eudaimonia in the Anthropocene?	1
From false consciousness to functional necessities: rethinking ideology critique	1
Normative power at war in Ukraine: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler	1