OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ethnography 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Migration, mobility and the dynamics of kinship: New barriers, new assemblages	17
Imagining and living new worlds: The dynamics of kinship in contexts of mobility and migration	17
Research ethics committees, ethnographers and imaginations of risk	15
Labour of love: Secrecy and kinship among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in The Netherlands	10
“The African family is large, very large” mobility and the flexibility of kinship – examples from Cameroon	8
Ethnographic experiences of participating in a correctional officer training program: An exploration of values, ethics, and role conflict	7
‘Lean on me': Sifarish, mediation & the digitisation of state bureaucracies in India	6
Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly	6
Transnational hair (and turban): Sikh masculinity, embodied practices, and politics of representation in an era of global travel	6
Navigating the ‘field’: Reflexivity, uncertainties, and negotiation along the border of Bangladesh and India	5
Getting respect: How minority boxers build a hybrid masculinity in a French Banlieue	5
Introduction Special Issue “Paradoxical orders: Parenting encounters, the welfare state, and difference in Europe”	5
Carceral ethnography in a time of pandemic: Examining migrant detention and deportation during COVID-19	5
Snap-along ethnography: Studying visual politicization in the social media age	5
The communitarian stigma: Stigmatization as a mechanism of institutional racism in France	5
Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method	5
Temporalities at sea: Fast time and slow time onboard ocean-going merchant vessels	5
Frontera Sur: Behind and beyond the fences of Ceuta and Melilla	4
Toward a non-individualistic analysis of neoliberalism: the stay-fit maternity trend in Taiwan	4
The Independence Day as a nationalist ritual: Framework of the March of Independence in Poland	4
Emotional risk assessments in the field: Leaving Tanzania during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The construction of gender identity in Alevi organisations: Discourses, practices, and gaps	3
Genealogies across the cold war divide: The case of the Pontic Greeks from the former Soviet Union and their ‘affinal repatriation’	3
‘Team ethnography visual maps’: Methods for identifying the ethnographic object in multiple sites of fieldwork	3
Ethnographic (dis) locations: An approach for studying marginalisation in the context of socio-economic change	3

Unearthing conscious intent in women’s everyday resistance to mining in Indonesia	3
From East Harlem to Cape Town: Tupac Shakur’s legacy as a globalised oppositional repertoire	3
The interpretation of relationships: Fieldwork as boundary-negotiation	3
Company brokers: Human resources managers in foreign mining projects in the Congolese Copperbelt	3
Towards a politics of collaborative worldmaking: ethics, epistemologies and mutual positionalities in conflict research	3
Scaling proximity to whiteness: Racial boundary-making on São Tomé Island	3
Memeing a conspiracy theory: On the biopolitical compression of the great replacement conspiracy theories	3
A uniform front?: Power and front-line worker variation in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya	2
“La racaille,” a performed figure in French contemporary youth	2
Prepared in pots, served in plastics: Rural Ethiopian women’s responses to the global economy	2
Between narrative and practice: Storytelling as a way of knowing how to be in nature	2
Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre	2
Walking with bread in Cairo: Ethnographic collaboration between a researcher and a research assistant	2
Marrying the perfect child — Middle class norms and intergenerational arrangements in the marriage corners of urban China	2
Chinese rural left-behind elderly: Their individualization, descending familism and difficulties	2
‘Then we decided not to tell the adults’. Fieldwork among children in an international school	2
Between militants and “mafia”: Interrupting dispossession in rural Pakistan	2
The antifascist boxing body: Political somatics in boxe popolare	2
Reflections on ethnographic fieldwork across a lifetime	2
The merits of context: Unfolding mental vulnerability as category and experience	2
“Tying your ngemb”: Negotiating identity in Senegalese wrestling	2
‘It’s the noise of the snacks!’: School meals on the fringes and frail food pedagogies	2
A Chinese woman’s journey to the “west”: Ethnographic knowledge production amid ambiguous power dynamics	2
The ‘desired state of mind’: Emotional labor and the hidden cost of symbolic power in 911 emergency response in the U.S	1
‘We were fucking bold! We were fucking audacious!’: An interview with Paul Willis and Peter Geschiere	1
Contested knowledges: Negotiating the epistemic politics of engaged activist ethnography	1
The sensing eye: Intimate vision in couple dancing	1
The arrival of white women: Tourism and the reshaping of beach boys’ masculinity in Zanzibar	1
“You’ve got to have core muscles”: Cultivating hardworking bodies among white-collar women in urban China	1
Emic ethnographic encounters: Researching elderly female household heads’ experience with climate change in rural Zimbabwe	1
The Halfie Predicament in the Ethnography of Religion: Fieldwork with Iranian-Americana Muslim Women in Los Angeles	1
Learning to (depoliticize) critique: Critical knowledge and the formation of elite habitus in a predominantly White institution	1
Playing ethnographically living well together: Collaborative ethnography as speculative experiment	1
The sakan shababiyy, or the world improvised: Displacement and masculine domestic space in Lebanon	1
Fair Trade in an unfair market: economic competitiveness and workers’ rights in Costa Rica’s banana industry	1
Concrete sectarianism: Revisiting the Lebanese civil war through Beirut’s built environment	1
To deport or to ‘adopt’? The Israeli dilemma in dealing with children of non-Jewish undocumented migrants	1
Turning around the camera: Self-portraits of an anthropologist on Instagram	1
Cruising Boston and Providence: The roles of place and desire for reflexive queer research(ers)	1
‘The game is on!’ Eventness at a distance at a livestream concert during lockdown	1
Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka	1
Interstitial position or ‘bastard’ status? Interpreters at the French National Court of Asylum	1
Close quarters. Sailing the murky waters of an ethnography ‘at-home’	1
Living in the frame of structural violence: Institutional regulations and daily life in Lleida, Spain	1
Invisible bondage: Mobility and compulsion within Sri Lanka’s global assembly line production	1
Kickboxing with Bourdieu: Heterodoxy, hysteresis and the disruption of “race thinking”	1
Slow violence, depoliticisation and hope: Cultural landscapes of schooling in Wentworth, South Africa	1
I said, they said: The ethnographic backstage and the politics of producing engaged anthropology	1
A relational approach to the ethnographic study of power in the context of the city of London	1
Becoming ‘international’: Transgressing national identity as a ritual for class identification	1

On board the quarantine-ship as “floating hotspot”: Creeping externalization practices in the Mediterranean Sea	1
Reflexive collaboration: Building pluri-ethnographic partnerships in an Ecuadorian bank	1
Extra-terrestrial landings: An ethnographic account of doing ethnography	1
Love and agency in ethnographic fieldwork with children	1
Social participation of youth through volunteering: Case study of Centre for Peace Studies in Zagreb	1
The belts are set out: The batizado as a symbolic welcome to capoeira culture	1
Becoming traditional: Contemporary san art and the production of (non-) knowledge	1
‘Bed-space’ housing in Dubai: African migrants, ambivalence towards authorities and gender differences	1