OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Myth of Sufi Sindh: Reflections on the Orientalist and Nationalist Historiography	12
Inhabiting the Hyphen: (Re)Negotiating Arab-American Identity in Poems by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Laila Halaby and Suheir Hammad	10
Woman, child, and minor forms in contemporary world literature: Lydia Davis and J. M. Coetzee	8
Uhyggelig horror: narratives of asylum in Hassan Blasim’s Nordic stories	8
INTRODUCTION: Forms of cultural enclosure	7
Loose Canons: The Global Anglophone Novel and the Failures of Universalism	6
Partition, diaspora, and translation in rap versions of “Toba Tek Singh”	6
Brexit as a constitutive force in the Commonwealth: Constitutional identities and the withering Sovereign	6
Cultural attachés: African literature, the CIA, and the hermeneutics of suspicion	5
From the river to the sea: Gramsci and Palestinian cultural politics in the post-Oslo conjuncture	5
Independence fighters and flour sacks: common sense, colonial subjectivities and revolutionary afterlives in Tunisia	5
An unpublished speech by Frantz Fanon in the French intelligence archives: introduction to the lecture given to the council of the World Assembly of Youth, Accra, 1960	5
Roman Routes in Italian Postcolonial Women Writers	5
When the People Behind the Scenes Come to the Fore:	5
The infrastructure humanities	4
The Tunisian laboratory: Marxism, organic intellectuals and the “Islamic Left”	4
Sri Lankan anglophone poetry and modernist painting	4
Minor characters, genre, and relationality: Antigone’s sister in contemporary literature	4
Gramsci’s Writing Body. On Embodiment and Subaltern Knowledge	4
The Notion of the “Subaltern” and the Drone Victim Subjectivities in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction	3
EXCAVATORY ART: A transnational reading of cultural activism in creative responses to Ireland’s architecture of containment	3
Voyage Out, Voyage Up?	3
Ecological imagination and women’s memory in the contemporary Turkish novel	3
The Balfour Conversations: British Human Rights Activists and the Call to Reckon with Implication	3
The Question of Script for Sindhi in India: Reflections on Postcolonial Grammatology	3

The beautyful and the damned: Ayi Kwei Armah’s postcolony and the still-born humanisms of decolonization	3
“Ghost nets and rusting machines”: rivers in the contemporary Canadian long poem	3
Genocidal politics of settler psychopathology and Palestinian liberation as healthy becoming	3
Imitation and subversion: Liu Bannong’s postcolonial parodies The Great Failures of Sherlock Holmes series	3
Parables for Planetary Crisis: Storytelling and Multispecies Migration in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island	3
Twice the Responsibility: Intersectionality and Gender Performativity in Palestinian Hip-Hop	3
Stuplime Orientalism	3
A Map of Divergence and Connection: Voices from Nineteenth-century Nunavut and Aberdeen	3
A new poetics of testimonial activism: feminist creative practice and the imagining of just futures	2
Negotiating Moral Authority for Body Repatriation: The Case of Senegalese Migration	2
Preparing for revolutionary times? Chronic crisis of authority and constructive subversion in contemporary Jordan	2
Absence of dialectical Gramsci in Iran: a critical analysis of Gramsci’s reception among Iranian intellectuals	2
Queer Performativities in Pakistan	2
Decolonial memory activism: grandmothers against removals, After the Apology , and the struggle for self-determination	2
Rag-pickers, boxers, dilettantes: the literary activism of Amit Chaudhuri and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra	2
Looking into Walcott’s Homer: Omeros between epic and mock-epic	2
The poetic excess of Susana Thénon’s Ova completa	2
Constructing and Consuming the Periphery	2
Intellectual Decolonization and Harmful Nativism: Arabic Knowledge Production of Ancient Egyptian Literature	2
Built to last? Material legacies of Italian colonialism	2
Introduction: Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces	2
Anglophone Illegibility: The Anglophone Writer and Local Literature in 1970s Singapore	2
Against minoritization: five strategies for world literature	2
The crisis of Bandung’s new human: Senghor reads Mao at the First Congress of Black Writers and Artists (1956)	2
Marginalizing Representation of Women in the Naxalite Movement in West Bengal, India (1967–1975)	2
Reflective nostalgia and collective memory in Fawaz Turki’s Exile’s Return and Andrew X. Pham’s Catfish and Mandala	2
Horizons of liberation: materialism, ecology, and the colonial question	1
Healing in intercorporeal harmony: decolonial (re-)cognition of Angami Naga shamanic therapeutic traditions in Avinuo Kire's The Last Light of Glory Days	1
From sands to salons: rethinking William Jones’s pioneering translation of the Mu‛allqāt	1
Unburials and Skeletal Reconstructions: Narrative as Forensics in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost	1
Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq	1
Syria’s “Southern Question”? Class, geography and organization in the 2011 Syrian revolution and war	1
Contemporary Art’s Thanatic Work	1
Colonial Amnesia and the Material Remains of Italian Colonialism in Mogadishu	1
Capturing elephants with Tsitsi Dangarembga: postcolonial wildlife conservation and humanitarian imaginaries in Elephant People	1
Traces, Absences, and Distortions in Emilie Demant Hatt’s Representations of Sámi Life	1
Colonial Czechoslovakia? Overseas and Internal Colonization in the Interwar Czechoslovak Republic	1
Reclaiming Hinemihi through rematriation: Victoria Hunt’s cinematic and performance art as memory activism	1
In search of the organic intellectual a Gramscian reading of Arab feminist knowledge production	1
White Erethism: Beckett, Crevel, Cunard	1
Imperial Medicine and Proselytization in Robert Kerr’s “Salvific” Activities In Morocco, 1886–1915	1
Recognition beyond recognition!	1
Performing trauma in the Arabic appropriations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet	1
Walking with Fanon: Towards Decolonized Embodiments	1
Just Add Global	1
Showcasing Italianness through migration governance	1
Spatio-temporal dimensions of hegemony and resistance in neoliberal Jordan	1
The Land and its People: Looking at the Andaman Islands through a Postcolonial Ecocritical Lens	1
Postcolonial Italy , A Public History Project Mapping Colonial Heritage	1
Evaluating UN peacekeeping deployment problems: the case of the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956–1967	1

“MOTHER EARTH LIBERATING HERSELF”: indigenous mobilizations, planetary relations and transcorporeal solidarities in Cauca, Colombia	1
Intertextuality, World Literature and Migration: Dictionaries and the Female Body in Najat El Hachmi’s L’últim Patriarca and Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chines	1
Welsh evangelists in the Khasi Hills: the curious case of the colonized colonizers	1
“They have always burned us” femicide, finance, and neoextractivism in Latin America	1
Constructing a Poetics of Connections: From Network to Relation in Pandemic Poetry Performances from South Africa	1
The rights of whites (in search of a majority)	1
Introduction: Genres, Poetics and Subjectivities of Migration	1
The White Siren, the Black Policeman	1
“Address on Algeria”: Frantz Fanon’s speech in Accra, August 1960, in its three versions	1
Necropolitical Ecologies: Creative Articulations of Nature’s Death-Work in the Borderzone	1
Exilic Aesthetic Practices: An expanded epistemology of displacement	1