OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Asian Studies is 0. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Hashtag activism: social media and the #FreeYouth protests in Thailand	41
Disruptors’ dilemma? Thailand’s 2020 Gen Z protests	21
The white ribbon movement: high school students in the 2020 Thai youth protests	20
Myanmar’s military coup and the elevation of the minority agenda?	15
Sticky rice in the blood: Isan people’s involvement in Thailand’s 2020 anti-government protests	13
Myanmar’s hidden-in-plain-sight social infrastructure: nalehmu through multiple ruptures	11
Defending lands and forests: NGO histories, everyday struggles, and extraordinary violence in the Philippines	11
#Papuanlivesmatter: black consciousness and political movements in West Papua	9
The Tongpo case: indigenous institutions and environmental justice in China	8
Writing war, and the politics of poetic conversation	8
Network discrimination against LGBTQ minorities in Taiwan after same-sex marriage legalization: a Goffmanian micro-sociological approach	8
Policy responses to COVID-19 and discrimination against foreign nationals in South Korea	8
COVID-19’s impact on Nepalese migrants: families. Vulnerability, coping strategies, and the role of state and non-state actors	7
The politicization of everyday life: understanding the impact of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Protests on pro-democracy protesters’ political participation in Hong Kong	7
Nostalgic nationalists in South Korea: the flag-carriers’ struggles	6
Green silk roads, partner state development, and environmental governance: Belt and road infrastructure on the Sino-East African frontier	5
Fresh News, innovative news: popularizing Cambodia’s authoritarian turn	5
The co-production of disasters: how the nexus of climate change, tourism, and COVID-19 increases socioeconomic vulnerability in Mustang, Nepal	4
“I am the land and I am their witness”: placemaking amid displacement among Lumads in the Philippines	4
Performative secularism: school-sponsored prayer in China's National College Entrance Exam	4
A quiet revolution? Village head elections and the democratization of rural Indonesia	4
Time-Space Companions: Digital Surveillance, Social Management, and Abuse of Power During the Covid-19 Pandemic in China	4
Prosecution reform and the politics of faking democracy in South Korea	3
Land Mafias in Indonesia	3
Precarity and Islamism in Indonesia: the contradictions of neoliberalism	3

Localizing global concepts: an exploration of Indigeneity in Cambodia	3
Governance and state–society relations in Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
“Water in One Hand, Fire in the Other:” Coping with Multiple Crises in Post-coup Burma/Myanmar	3
The Politics of Misalignment: NGO Livelihood Interventions and Exclusionary Land Claims in an Indonesian Oil Palm Enclave	3
Historical Agrarian Change and its Connections to Contemporary Agricultural Extension in Northwest Cambodia	3
Feeding hungry ghosts: grief, gender, and protest in Hong Kong	3
Rebuffing Bengali dominance: postcolonial India and Bangladesh	3
“We used to have lice … ” interethnic imagery in post-war upland Laos	3
Continuity and Complexity: A Study of Patronage Politics in State-owned Enterprises in Post-authoritarian Indonesia	2
Cold War, state-building and social change: perspectives from two Southeast Asian borderlands	2
Private Power and Public Office: The Rise of Business Politicians in Indonesia	2
Crime Talk and Male Criminality: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Malaysia, 1978-2018	2
Ethnic Vietnamese and the Khmer Rouge: the genocide and race debate	2
Discipline, Development, and Duress: The Art of Winning an Election in Bangladesh	2
The geopolitical alignments of diverging social interests: the Sino-Soviet split and the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas, 1966–1967	2
The Party-State’s Hegemonic Project and Responses from Civil Society: The Case of Service-oriented NGOs in China	2
Unveiling Class Discourse: Its Articulation and Generation in Chinese Labor Struggles	2
The Korean War and the environment	2
Agent politics of Chinese think tanks and cultural industry governance in China’s “new era”	2
Surviving Pemakö’s pluriverse: Kunga Tsomo, the goddess, and the LAC	2
Shan Male Migrants’ Engagement with Sex Work in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Pre- and Post-Pandemic	2
The Specter of Potential Foreigners: Revisiting the Postcolonial Citizenship Regimes of Myanmar and India	1
Subject making with Chinese characteristics: gender, sexuality, and Chineseness in neoliberal popular and public imaginaries	1
Decolonizing knowledge of and from Okinawa	1
“No city for lovers:” anti-Romeo squads, resistance, and the micro-politics of moral policing in an Indian city	1
Informal politics and local labor activism in Indonesia	1
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Populism and Thai Conservative Movements, 2006-2014	1
The war that destroyed America: Afghanistan’s coming bill	1
Source Governance of Social Disputes in China	1
The Patani Malay Dilemma: The 2023 Electoral Landscape in Thailand’s Deep South	1
The 1974 Battle of Jolo: testimonial narratives of survivors and intra-Tausug relations	1
Theulama, the state, and politics in Malaysia	1
Elite family politics in Laos before 1975	1
Against oblivion: art and hindered transitional justice in Taiwan	1
Negotiating antifascist solidarity across ethnic difference in Myanmar: Bhamo Tin Aung’sYoma Taikbwe	1
Phantasmagoric Borneo	1
Competing for opium profits: the Japanese Empire and imperial subjects in Manchukuo, 1932–1937	1
Turning Marx on His Head? North KoreanJucheas Developmental Nationalism	1
The making of a local deity: the Patriarch of Sanping’s cult in post-Mao China, 1979–2015	1
Mediating Coalitions and the Politics of Civil Rights in the Philippines under Duterte	1
Reconfiguring vulnerability: climate change adaptation in the Cambodian highlands	1
The crown and the capitalists: the ethnic Chinese and the founding of the Thai Nation	0
Zhuang Xueben and the Ninth Panchen Lama’s final journey	0
Reclaiming Resilience Through Granular Arbitrage: Anticipating Sea Level Rise in Singapore	0
Thailand's Contract Farming Act at a Crossroads: Impacts, Shortfalls, and the Need to Better Protect Smallholders	0
“Framing” the Opposition: The Limits of Mobilization against Duterte’s “War on Drugs” in the Philippines	0
Trauma’s Transformations in a Chinese Village	0
Going to Yan’an: The Making of China’s New Ruling Class	0
Tuu Karrai Spi: Deconstructing Aman Committees and Life in South Waziristan	0
Okinawan memories in Argentina: between a transnational circulation of memories and migrants’ agency, 1945–1965	0

Civil society in the PRC: empirical studies and normative lenses	0
Islands between empires: the Ryukyu Shobun in Japanese and American expansion in the pacific	0
Agents of Subversion. The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China Agents of Subversion. The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China , b	0
The Pol Pot regime’s simultaneous war against Vietnam and genocide of Cambodia’s ethnic Vietnamese minority	0
Creating Racial Subjects: Eugenics, Psychiatry, and the Ainu	0
Ritualized Relational Work: Secret Banquets and Rural Cadres in China	0
Dynastic Female Politicians and Family Rule in Thailand: Evidence from the 2019 and 2023 General Elections	0
Okinawa studies today	0
Civic Subjecthood: The Hybridization and Reformulation of Subjecthood and Citizenship in Brunei	0
The Politics of Space in Modern Tokyo	0
Crafting Utopias for Spiritual Nationhood: Digested India in Contemporary Self-cultivation Practices in China	0
Forest Reserves as Frontiers of Indigeneity: Semai Orang Asli Investments of Work, Cultural Use, and Identity in the Bukit Tapah Forest Reserve	0
Spiritually surviving precarious times: Millennials in Jakarta, Indonesia	0
When Indigenous Religious Traditions and Environmentalism Collide in Southeast Asia	0
Cadre ethnographer: Chinese land reform novels and the making of socialist history	0
Embedded in a patrimonial culture: the politicized judiciary and an undisciplined reformist party in Thailand	0
CCAS statement of purpose	0
Idealized Past, Exclusivist Present: Right-wing Appropriation of the Decolonial Rhetoric in Malaysia	0
Negotiating Between Belief and Custom: The Encounters of Han Muslim Converts in China	0
Negotiating Work-Family Transitions: Reverse Family Migration among Second-Generation Hong Kong Mothers	0
Becoming Korean: Japanese wives in the boundary formation of a leftistzainichicommunity	0
Warrior monk: guns, grenades, and the rise of the Ninth Panchen Lama on Sino–Mongol–Tibetan frontiers, 1924–1937	0
Frontiers: real and imagined	0
Layers of (in)visible resilience: art, women, and homelessness in Japan	0
Milk consumption in Modern China: politics of science, dietary health knowledge, and identity building	0
CCAS Statement of Purpose	0
The Self-Image of Propaganda: Biopolitics of Yuqing Governance	0
Flexible and compassionate, or violent and intimidating?: various accounts of law in Vietnam	0
The Emergence of Political Indigeneity: The Resistance Movement on Jeju Island against Colonization by Development	0
Hindutva, OBCs, and Koli Selfhood in Western and Central India	0
Bread-and-Butter Politics: Arrested Liberalization and Hegemonic Materialism in Singapore	0
Exhibition review: Portraits of Ryukyu	0
From Bizarre Encounters to Native Strangeness: Indigenous Otherness and Insider-Outsider Interactions in Indonesia	0
Expanding Protected Areas Globally Post-2020: A Critical Perspective from Thailand, with Implications for Community Forestry	0
Compound Capitalism: A Political Economy of Southeast Asia’s Online Scam Operations	0
Myanmar’s Menu of Electoral Manipulation: Self- and External Legitimation after the 2021 Coup	0
A “Forgotten” Massacre: The Battle of Thakhek in Laos, 1946	0
Wukan: Failed Promises of the Era of Reform and Opening	0
Statement of Purpose	0
Sorry seems to be the hardest word: the 1972 system, the reparation issue, and the history problem in Sino-Japanese relations	0
Fugitive Archives: Architecture, Police Photography, and Decolonial Futures	0
Correction	0
Emotions of perpetrators and victim-survivors: multi-layered violence against Chinese women during the Asia-Pacific War	0
Revisiting the CIA’s Deceptions in Asia	0
In stagnation: a case study of a Chinese community-based labor NGO in the Yangtze River Delta	0
Women as a pathway: dilemmas of the Marriage Law in Northeast China in the early 1950s	0
Under imperialism “Black lives don’t matter.” Ho Chi Minh, The Black Race, and Black liberation	0
On the existence of (global) Maoism	0
Reviewing “The Chinese Question” in Southeast Asia	0
Historical formation of Islamist ideology in Indonesia: the role of the Indonesian Islamic Propagation Council (DDII)	0
Hair Discipline in Singapore: Aesthetics, Morality, and Gender	0
Saving China’s dogs: social transformation and moral conflicts in Chinese society	0
Where does Xinjiang fit within the Belt and Road Initiative? Indications from CCP Documents and China’s Steel industry	0
Re-reading The Indo-Pacific as Aidagara : Watsuji Tetsurō’s Relevance to Japan’s Foreign Relations	0
The Taliban Are Coming! How Intra-Oligarchic Conflict Proliferates Computational Propaganda in Indonesia	0
Remembering Ngô Vĩnh Long, Renowned Scholar of Vietnam and Antiwar Activist	0
Populist Revolt from the Margins: The Ambiguous Case of Uma Bharati	0
A New Neoliberal Offensive in South Korea: The Conservative Politics of Rollback and the Disciplining of Organized Labor	0
Keeping A Distance: Changing Everyday Lives of Married Migrant Gay Men in China’s State-owned Enterprises	0
Xi Is Not Emperor of All He Surveys Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China’s Rise , by Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri, (Cambridge University Press: Cam	0
The limits of civil society activism in Indonesia: the case of the weakening of the KPK	0