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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative	95
The COVID pandemic and social theory: Social democracy and public health in the crisis	43
Capitalism and alienation: Towards a Marxist theory of alienation for the 21st century	28
Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine	16
Machine learning and social theory: Collective machine behaviour in algorithmic trading	14
Are you a neoliberal subject? On the uses and abuses of a concept	14
Illiberalism and the democratic paradox: The infernal dialectic of neoliberal emancipation	14
Habermas and the public sphere: Rethinking a key theoretical concept	13
The anti-authoritarian revolt: Right-wing populism as self-empowerment?	12
Claiming solidarity: A multilevel discursive reconstruction of solidarity	11
Post-work society as an oxymoron: Why we cannot, and should not, wish work away	11
Liberation and limitation: Emancipatory politics, socio-ecological transformation and the grammar of the autocratic-authoritarian turn	11
The triple problem displacement: Climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration	10
Emancipatory Politics at its Limits? An Introduction	9
For a translational sociology: Illuminating translation in society, theory and research	9
No (sociological) excuses for not going green: How do environmental activists make sense of social inequalities and relate to the working class?	7
Friendship and solidarity	7
Body pedagogics, culture and the transactional case of Vélo worlds	7
The philosopher as engaged citizen: Habermas on the role of the public intellectual in the modern democratic public sphere	7
Network concepts in social theory: Foucault and cybernetics	6
Reformulating emancipation in the Anthropocene: From didactic apocalypse to planetary subjectivities	6
A different kind of emancipation? From lifestyle to form-of-life	6
Habermas, democracy and the public sphere: Theory and practice	6
The critical theory of society: From its Young-Hegelian core to its key concept of possibility	6
Emancipation in the Anthropocene: Taking the dialectic seriously	5

Introduction to the special issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A new European war? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War	5
Emancipatory struggles and their political organisation: How political parties and social movements respond to changing notions of emancipation	5
Critical theory in the Anthropocene: Marcuse, Marxism and ecology	5
Bourdieu and the study of capitalism: Looking for the political structures of accumulation	5
Fear of a Black planet: Climate apocalypse, Anthropocene futures and Black social thought	5
No such thing as sociological excuses? Performativity, rationality and social scientific expertise in late liberalism	4
Excuse and justification: What’s explanation and understanding got to do with it?	4
Explanations and excuses in French sociology	4
Social science as apologia	4
Theorising medical psychotherapy: Therapeutic practice between professionalisation and deprofessionalisation	4
Democratic socialism or barbarism: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler	3
Commentary on Kögler: Analysing the Ukraine war through a ‘new wars’ perspective	3
In search of the common good: The postliberal project Left and Right	3
Goodbye Foucault’s ‘missing human agent’? Self-formation, capability and the dispositifs	3
Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses: Adopting the pointers of curiosity, nominalism, conceptual grounding and exemplarity	3
Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age	3
Why (not) suicide: Habitus in hysteresis and the space of possibles	3
Politicization after the ‘end of nature’: The prospect of ecomodernism	3
The moral fog of war and historical sociology	3
Does emancipation devour its children? Beyond a stalled dialectic of emancipation	2
On the relationships between critical theory and secularisation: The challenges of democratic fallibility and planetary survival	2
Is populism a social pathology? The myth of immediacy and its effects	2
Introduction: Social theory and the idea of the future	2
Thinking of war, facing the catastrophe: The Russian-Ukrainian War	2
Thinking beyond the ecological present: Critical theory on the self-problematization of society and its transformation	2
Social theory: Legacies and future directions – An interview with Gerard Delanty	2
The separation between ethics and politics: Max Weber on ancient Judaism and modernity	2
Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis: Critical Theory’s ongoing search for a concept of society	2
Rationalizing the war in Ukraine through religion: The Orthodox Church and Russia’s imperialist motif (A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler)	2
Reactionaries of the lectern: Universalism, anti-empiricism and corporatism in Austrian (and German) social theory	2
‘In the vertigo of this freedom’: Democracy between procedural and divided popular sovereignty	2
Social critique and transformation: Revising Habermas’s colonisation thesis	2
Ever again 1918? The threatening return of nationalism	2
Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses	2
Experimentation and the future(s) of political hope	2
Adventures in the anti-humanist dialectic: Towards the reappropriation of humanism	2
From the pluralisation of habitus towards the theory of plural habitus	1
Explaining away crime: The race narrative in American sociology and ethical theory	1
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain	1
Displacement, women intellectuals and entangled knowledge in the making of global modernity	1
Book review: Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893–2020	1
Book review	1
Human self-selection as a mechanism of human societal evolution: A critique of the cultural selection argument	1
Articulate the missing: The role of religion in political modernity	1
When did biopolitics begin? Actuality and potentiality in historical events	1
Response to Hans-Herbert Kögler, Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine	1
Habermas on Rawls and the normative foundations of democracy	1
Labour, capital and the struggle over history: Reconstructing Marxist class theory from the standpoint of alienation	1
Reframing Habermas’s colonization thesis: Neoliberalism as relinguistification	1
Polanyi’s discovery of society and the digital phase of the industrial revolution	1

Habermas on people-building in the European Union	1
Critical theory, Peirce and the theory of society	1
Normative power at war in Ukraine: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler	1
On the colonization of the environment	1
Interactive universalism, the concrete other and discourse ethics: A sociological dialogue with Seyla Benhabib’s theories of morality	1
On the moral significance of military operations: A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler	1
Political theology and religious pluralism: Rethinking liberalism in times of post-secular emancipation	1
Another Russia: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler	1
A sociology of regret	1
Introduction to special issue: The critical theory of society	1
Activated. Towards a sociology of reaction	1
Lessons from Castoriadis: Downsizing critical theory and defusing the concept of society	1
Tempering the not-yet: Towards a social theory for the Anthropocene	1
Future-cultures: How future imaginations disseminate throughout the social	1
Political justice, political obligation and the European Union: Lessons from Habermas	1