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

Article	Citations
Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative	60
The COVID pandemic and social theory: Social democracy and public health in the crisis	36
Capitalism and alienation: Towards a Marxist theory of alienation for the 21st century	20
Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine	14
Machine learning and social theory: Collective machine behaviour in algorithmic trading	12
The politics of becoming: Disidentification as radical democratic practice	12
Post-work society as an oxymoron: Why we cannot, and should not, wish work away	11
Theorising French neoliberalism: The technocratic elite, decentralised collective bargaining and France’s ‘passive neoliberal revolution’	11
Illiberalism and the democratic paradox: The infernal dialectic of neoliberal emancipation	11
Habermas and the public sphere: Rethinking a key theoretical concept	10
The anti-authoritarian revolt: Right-wing populism as self-empowerment?	10
Are you a neoliberal subject? On the uses and abuses of a concept	10
Liberation and limitation: Emancipatory politics, socio-ecological transformation and the grammar of the autocratic-authoritarian turn	9
Social nothingness: A phenomenological investigation	9
Body pedagogics, culture and the transactional case of Vélo worlds	7
Claiming solidarity: A multilevel discursive reconstruction of solidarity	7
For a translational sociology: Illuminating translation in society, theory and research	7
No (sociological) excuses for not going green: How do environmental activists make sense of social inequalities and relate to the working class?	7
Reformulating emancipation in the Anthropocene: From didactic apocalypse to planetary subjectivities	7
Emancipatory Politics at its Limits? An Introduction	7
Fields and individuals: From Bourdieu to Lahire and back again	7
From the humanism of critical theory to critical humanism	6
The philosopher as engaged citizen: Habermas on the role of the public intellectual in the modern democratic public sphere	6
Friendship and solidarity	6
Alienation and the task of geo-social critique	5

The triple problem displacement: Climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration	5
The return of society	4
Introduction to the special issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A new European war? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War	4
Theorising medical psychotherapy: Therapeutic practice between professionalisation and deprofessionalisation	4
Emancipation in the Anthropocene: Taking the dialectic seriously	4
Critical theory in the Anthropocene: Marcuse, Marxism and ecology	4
Bourdieu and the study of capitalism: Looking for the political structures of accumulation	4
Habermas, democracy and the public sphere: Theory and practice	4
Excuse and justification: What’s explanation and understanding got to do with it?	3
Network concepts in social theory: Foucault and cybernetics	3
Explanations and excuses in French sociology	3
Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses: Adopting the pointers of curiosity, nominalism, conceptual grounding and exemplarity	3
A different kind of emancipation? From lifestyle to form-of-life	3
Fear of a Black planet: Climate apocalypse, Anthropocene futures and Black social thought	3
Anti-equivalence: Pragmatics of post-liberal dispute	3
Social science as apologia	3
The moral fog of war and historical sociology	3
No such thing as sociological excuses? Performativity, rationality and social scientific expertise in late liberalism	2
Politicization after the ‘end of nature’: The prospect of ecomodernism	2
Escape from arbitrariness: Legitimation crisis of real socialism and the imaginary of modernity	2
Is populism a social pathology? The myth of immediacy and its effects	2
Thinking of war, facing the catastrophe: The Russian-Ukrainian War	2
Emancipatory struggles and their political organisation: How political parties and social movements respond to changing notions of emancipation	2
‘In the vertigo of this freedom’: Democracy between procedural and divided popular sovereignty	2
The critical theory of society: From its Young-Hegelian core to its key concept of possibility	2
The separation between ethics and politics: Max Weber on ancient Judaism and modernity	2
Why (not) suicide: Habitus in hysteresis and the space of possibles	2
Reactionaries of the lectern: Universalism, anti-empiricism and corporatism in Austrian (and German) social theory	2
Commentary on Kögler: Analysing the Ukraine war through a ‘new wars’ perspective	2
In search of the common good: The postliberal project Left and Right	2
Book review: Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893–2020	1
On the relationships between critical theory and secularisation: The challenges of democratic fallibility and planetary survival	1
Ever again 1918? The threatening return of nationalism	1
Articulate the missing: The role of religion in political modernity	1
Interactive universalism, the concrete other and discourse ethics: A sociological dialogue with Seyla Benhabib’s theories of morality	1
Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses	1
On the moral significance of military operations: A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler	1
Political justice, political obligation and the European Union: Lessons from Habermas	1
Explaining away crime: The race narrative in American sociology and ethical theory	1
Polanyi’s discovery of society and the digital phase of the industrial revolution	1
Book review	1
Does emancipation devour its children? Beyond a stalled dialectic of emancipation	1
Critical theory, Peirce and the theory of society	1
Lessons from Castoriadis: Downsizing critical theory and defusing the concept of society	1
On the colonization of the environment	1
Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis: Critical Theory’s ongoing search for a concept of society	1
Response to Hans-Herbert Kögler, Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine	1
Rationalizing the war in Ukraine through religion: The Orthodox Church and Russia’s imperialist motif (A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler)	1
The ‘populist moment’: An expression that teaches us more about how we perceive our time than about this time itself	1
Habermas on Rawls and the normative foundations of democracy	1

Reframing Habermas’s colonization thesis: Neoliberalism as relinguistification	1
Social theory: Legacies and future directions – An interview with Gerard Delanty	1
Normative power at war in Ukraine: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler	1
Human self-selection as a mechanism of human societal evolution: A critique of the cultural selection argument	1
Book review: The Crisis of Expertise	1
Future-cultures: How future imaginations disseminate throughout the social	1
When did biopolitics begin? Actuality and potentiality in historical events	1
Democratic socialism or barbarism: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler	1
From the pluralisation of habitus towards the theory of plural habitus	1
Another Russia: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler	1
A sociology of regret	1
Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age	1