OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Globalizations is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Knowing dissent: the Enlightenment subject within contemporary politics of subjectivity	45
Enacting the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) Triple Nexus: civic ecosystems at the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war	42
Reprocessing and remining as grey extractivism: the example of cobalt from the Southeast Missouri Lead Belt	35
The reconfiguration of twenty-first century Latin American regionalism: actors, processes, contradictions, and prospects	35
Learning from rivals: the role of science diplomats in transferring Iran's health house policy to the US	31
Kicking away the countermovement? Neoliberal resilience in Mexican context	25
Spreading ‘green’ infrastructural harm: mapping conflicts and socio-ecological disruptions within the European Union’s transnational energy grid	25
The geopolitical economy of state-led intelligence-commerce: two examples from Iraq and West Germany	24
Advancing emigrants' rights in India: strategies of civil society in spaces for engagement	22
Che Guevara and continental revolution	20
Unfreedom in labour relations: from a politics of rescue to a politics of solidarity?	19
Water utilities as debt emitters: the commercialization of development funding and services provision in Kenya’s water sector	18
Confronting multiple global crises: a political economy approach for the twenty-first century	18
Inclusive globalization or old wine in a new bottle? China-led globalization in sub-Saharan Africa	16
The political practices of gender experts: repurposing women's empowerment	14
Compartmentality, commonist impulses, and the path to pluriversal transformation: an Australian perspective	14
COVID-19 crisis and crisis management in South Korea, 2020–2021	14
Correction	14
Work in the post-COVID-19 pandemic: the case of South Korea	13
From organic to climate solidarity: challenges for climate change mitigation	13
Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state	12
The politics of the anti-politics machine of agricultural commercialization: Uganda and Tanzania in the Longue Durée	12
Episodes of contention, bonds of trust: the UGTT and ‘new’ trade union activism in post-Ben Ali Tunisia	11
Epilogue: the ethico-politics of attention	11
Conflicting securities: contributions to a critical research agenda on climate security	11

Capital redefined: a commonist value theory for liberating life	11
The geoeconomics of infrastructures: viewing globalization and global rivalry through a lens of infrastructural competition	10
The lying flat movement, global youth, and globality: a case of collective reading on Reddit	10
The adoption of earth-observation technologies for deforestation monitoring by Indigenous people: evidence from the Amazon	10
Norm spoiling, gender washing and the pushback against women’s rights in Brazilian foreign policy	10
Prefiguring politics: transregional energy infrastructures as a lens for the study of authoritarian practices	9
Attacking gender education in Latin America: an ambiguous consensus?	9
About time: climate change and inventions of the decolonial, planetarity and radical existence	9
Is Jair Bolsonaro a classic populist?	8
Technoscience and globalized moral economies	8
Education and socio-environmental justice in the pluriverse: decolonial perspectives	8
Work futures: globalization, planetary markets, and uneven developments in the gig economy	8
Transnational migrant entrepreneurs: understanding their dependencies, fragilities, and alternatives	8
Neoliberalisation, dissensus, and the demise of tripartite bargaining in Italy after the 2011 debt crisis: a Gramscian ‘common sense’ approach	8
Confronting international organizations on social media? Understanding digital self-representation of liminal youth in global governance	8
The far-right in world politics/world politics in the far-right	8
How global norms matter: norm diffusion and the tangled web of localization in Ghana’s extractive industry	8
Local resistance: at the margins of investment law	7
Containing change: the politics of transitional aid in Egypt after the Arab uprisings	7
The distant proximity of infrastructural harm: the contested and (in)visible dynamics of waste politics in Athens, Greece	7
‘Not too high, not too low’: transparency, opacity and the politics of poverty measurement in Jordan	7
The transnational dimension of the Pakistani ethnic economy in Barcelona	7
Digital markets and the commercialization of healthcare in Africa: the case of Kenya	7
Unpacking SDG 15, its targets and indicators: tracing ideas of conservation	7
Unpacking the ideational foundations of South American migration governance: a systematic analysis of the South American conference on migration (SACM)	7
Labour and migration in the games industry: circulation of workers and struggles across Brazilian and British contexts	7
Trade, health and social reproduction in a COVID world	7
Legitimation struggles in international organizations: the case of the African Union	6
Who wins and who loses from renewable energy transition? Large-scale solar, land, and livelihood in Karnataka, India	6
The complexities of the urban [the case of Delhi]	6
On living in an already-unsettled world: COVID as an expression of larger transformations	6
‘Neoliberalism, far-right politics, and the shrinking White middle class in Southern California’s Inland Empire’	6
‘Band aid’ for women in the ready-made garment industry: self-help and surveillance in Bangladesh	6
Contested geographies of localization(s): towards open-locales	6
Tejiendo palabras – weaving words liaising with the Mexican national indigenous council communities:	6
‘Throwing in my two cents’: Burundian diaspora youth between conventional and transformative forms of mobilization	6
Filling the descriptive representation gap? Youth platforms in global environmental governance	6
Between abolition and opium: civility and force across Asian and Caribbean British imperialisms	6
‘Speak of the devil and he shall appear’: unpacking the practices of security brokers in West Africa	6
Introduction to ‘Pink Tides, Right Turns in Latin America’ special issue	6
Desert geographies: solar energy governance for just transitions	6
Between land and the market: farmers’ mobilizations in Chhattisgarh and western Uttar Pradesh	6
Reaching for the past: North Korea’s engagement with Koreans in Japan	6
Learning by doing: a role theoretical approach to learning of inter-governmental organizations	6
‘My parents told me to love my country’: positionalities of second-generation diaspora Eritreans in a transnational setting	6
Decentring the West? Civilizational solidarity and (de)colonization in theories of the Russia-Ukraine War	5
Youth responses to state-manufactured diaspora mobilization: Turkey’s diaspora governance and the politics of selective engagement	5
Negotiating the public: re-municipalization, water politics and social reproduction	5
Embeddedness and entanglement between the methods of Articulation and Calibration	5
Regional governance, gender and the COVID-19 pandemic in the global south	5

‘We’ll be like Che’ Foquismo and sacrificial ethics within the Latin American revolutionary activism	5
Dispossession of the commons: the Chaiya community forest and the creation of special economic zones	5
Global assemblage of the Responsibility to Protect	5
Reclaiming the politics of South-South cooperation	5
Global benchmarking: contestations from a localized everyday perspective	5
Monetary transformation: revisiting the end of the Bretton Woods order	5
‘Andizi’: black women remaking the university in KwaZulu-Natal	5
A segregated rootedness : the integration pattern of the global south immigration in Spain and its causes	5
Bringing externalization home: the International Civil Aviation Organization and ‘entry screening’ in Australia	5
The political economy of hipsters in Kazakhstan: mobilization, hybridity and class	5
Afro-optimism and progressive modernity: the Fintech story in the African press	5
Organizing against mining companies during the COVID-19 pandemic: frames, tactics and the digital divide in southern Mexico	5
Climate change, global population and the capitalist axiomatic: making sense of Malthus	5
Re-embedding Polanyi’s double movement thesis – the non-ideological and destructive countermovement	5
Representation, regulation and voice of immigrant couriers and platform drivers in Portugal	5
How do we pay back? Women health workers and the COVID-19 pandemic in India	5
The global (health) governance of antimicrobial resistance	5
Gender-based digital transnational repression as a global authoritarian practice	5
Father state and its migrant daughters	5
Technology and countersurveillance: holding governments accountable for refugee externalization policies	5
Che as minister: the promotion of science and technology for Cuba’s socialist development	4
Silent revolution/passive revolution: Europe's COVID-19 recovery plan and green deal	4
Local communities, extractivism and international investment law: the case of five Colombian communities	4
Geostrategic globalization: US–China rivalry, corporate strategy, and the new global economy	4
Fossil fuel companies’ duty of reparation: why the industry must concur to foot the climate bill	4
Postscript, an end to the war on nature: COP in or COP out?	4
The shape of things to come: a further dialogue	4
Movement pedagogies in pandemic times: Extinction Rebellion Netherlands and (un)learning from the margins	4
The genealogy of social and political mobilization in Lebanon under a neoliberal sectarian regime (2009–2019)	4
Decolonial dialogues: COVID-19 and migrant women's remembrance as resistance	4
Two tiers and double standards: foreign investors and the local community of La Guajira, Colombia	4
Implications of Islamic women’s mobilizations in Egypt	4
Global cinema in an era of deglobalization: trans-territorial compulsions and the plenipotentiary potential of human activities in Cloud Atlas and Okja	4
Limits of solidarity: immigration enforcement, labour control and im/mobility in Washington State	4
How to achieve an institutional change towards circular economy? A comparative case study on the EU and China	4
Tackling terricide, not (only) ecocide: further exploring the nexus between social-ecological destruction	4
Sites, stakes, and scales: radical relationalism and the shifting nature of food sovereignty mobilization	4
Introduction: political subjectivity in times of crisis	4
The roles they play: change in China’s climate leadership role during the post-Paris era	4
Unfreedoms in south India’s tea value chain: reproduction and resistance	4
For a global sociology of social movements. Beyond methodological globalism and extractivism	4
The long run and the short run: temporalities of gender and development	4
A Freirean ecopedagogy or an imposition of values? The pluriverse and the politics of environmental education	4