OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Globalizations is 3. 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
Beyond land grabs: new insights on land struggles and global agrarian change	39
Vaccine nationalism: contested relationships between COVID-19 and globalization	34
Workers’ organizations and the fetishism of the trade union form: toward new pathways for research on the labour movement?	33
The political trilemma of contemporary social-ecological transformation – lessons from Karl Polanyi’sThe Great Transformation	26
Information disorder, fake news and the future of democracy	26
Humility in the Anthropocene	25
The Dasgupta Review deconstructed: an exposé of biodiversity economics	24
Authoritarian neoliberalism, crisis, and consolidation: the political economy of regime change in Turkey	24
Spreading ‘green’ infrastructural harm: mapping conflicts and socio-ecological disruptions within the European Union’s transnational energy grid	23
Economics and climate emergency	23
The failure of Integrated Assessment Models as a response to ‘climate emergency’ and ecological breakdown: the Emperor has no clothes	22
Coloniality and globalization: a decolonial take	22
The global climate of land politics	21
Reframing civilization(s): from critique to transitions	18
Shared pretenses for collective inaction: the economic growth imperative, COVID-19, and climate change	18
Desert geographies: solar energy governance for just transitions	18
Skilled migration to emerging economies: the global competition for talent beyond the West	17
Neoliberalism incites but also restrains revolutionary change in the Third World – why articulating multiple struggles is necessary to confront structures of domination	16
The modern/colonial hell of innovation economy: future as a return to colonial mythologies	15
‘I don’t want your progress! It tries to kill … me!’ Decolonial encounters and the anarchist critique of civilization	14
Unpacking SDG 15, its targets and indicators: tracing ideas of conservation	13
From the Paris Agreement to the Anthropocene and Planetary Boundaries Framework: an interview with Will Steffen	13
From industrial relations research to Global Labour Studies: moving labour research beyond Eurocentrism	13
Politicizing hydroelectric power plants in Portugal: spatio-temporal injustices and psychosocial impacts of renewable energy colonialism in the Global North	13
Global or local solidarity? That’s the wrong question: relationality, aspiration and the in-between of feminist activism in Southeast Asia	13

Who wins and who loses from renewable energy transition? Large-scale solar, land, and livelihood in Karnataka, India	12
The role of the urban scale in anchoring authoritarian neoliberalism: a look at post-2012 neoliberalization in Belgrade, Serbia	11
Globalizing minority persecution: China's transnational repression of the Uyghurs	11
Critical Latin American agroecology as a regionalism from below	10
Beyond traditional trade unionism: innovative worker responses in three African cities	10
Silent revolution/passive revolution: Europe's COVID-19 recovery plan and green deal	10
The regenerative turn: on the re-emergence of reciprocity embedded in living ecologies	10
Labour conflicts in the Global South: an introduction	10
Challenging the three faces of extractivism: the Mapuche struggle and the forestry industry in Chile	9
The new conceptual vocabulary of the social sciences: the ‘globalization debates’ in context	9
A gendered labour geography perspective on the Cambodian garment workers’ general strike of 2013/2014	9
What was globalization?	9
Empowerment, rights, and global food governance: gender in the UN Committee for World Food Security	9
Brazilian far-right neoliberal nationalism: family, anti-communism and the myth of racial democracy	9
Democratizing global climate governance? The case of indigenous representation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)	8
Indigenous resistance, planetary dystopia, and the politics of environmental justice	8
On the question of time, racial capitalism, and the planetary	8
The far-right in world politics/world politics in the far-right	8
Politically motivated precarization of academic and journalistic lives under authoritarian neoliberalism: the case of Turkey	8
Solidarity across boundaries: a new practice of collectivity among workers in the app-based transport sector in Indonesia	8
The human development and capabilities approach as a twenty-first century ideology of globalization	8
Eurasian globalization: past and present	7
Norm convergence and collision in regime overlaps. Business and human rights in the UN and the EU	7
Reluctant transformers or reconsidering opposition to climate change mitigation? German think tanks between environmentalism and neoliberalism	7
Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state	7
Neoliberalism and state formation in Iran	6
‘Welcome to Mars’: space colonization, anticipatory authoritarianism, and the labour of hope	6
In the name of the nation: Authoritarian practices, capital accumulation, and the radical simplification of development in China’s global vision	6
The Trump administration, the far-right and world politics	6
Beyond the premise of conquest: Indigenous and Black earth-worlds in the Anthropocene debates	6
Blockchain-driven digital nomadism in the Basque e-Diaspora	6
Conflicting securities: contributions to a critical research agenda on climate security	6
Innovation in the era of generalized monopolies: the case of the US–Mexico automotive industrial complex	6
Authoritarian practices between ‘para-coloniality’ and ‘cheap security’: when Chinese state capital meets neoliberal copper mining (and protests) in Las Bambas, Peru	6
Postscript, an end to the war on nature: COP in or COP out?	6
Reciprocal empowerment for civil society peacebuilding: sharing lessons between the Korean and Northern Ireland peace processes	6
Renewable energy and EU-led authoritarian neoliberalization: small hydropower in Rakita, Serbia and the upscaling of environmental struggles	6
Where is finance in the financialization of development?	5
Climate emergency and securitization politics: towards a climate politics of the extraordinary	5
What does Degrowth mean? Some comments on Jason Hickel’s ‘A few points of clarification’	5
On living in an already-unsettled world: COVID as an expression of larger transformations	5
Digital markets and the commercialization of healthcare in Africa: the case of Kenya	5
Prefiguring politics: transregional energy infrastructures as a lens for the study of authoritarian practices	5
Humanity for itself? Reflections on climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic	5
Work in the post-COVID-19 pandemic: the case of South Korea	5
Multiple Anthropocenes: pluralizing space–time as a response to ‘the Anthropocene’	5
Pious and illiberal Muslim activist women resistingTunisianitéin post-2011 Tunisia	5
‘A virtuous industry’: the agrarian work-family ethic in US rulemaking on child agricultural labour	5
Reconciling different approaches to conceptualizing the glocalization of the Belt and Road Initiative projects	5
Poverty, corruption and democracy: the role of ‘political society' in post-colonial South Africa	5

Rising temperatures and rising prices: the inflationary impacts of climate change and the need for degrowth-based solutions to the ecological crisis	5
Inclusive globalization or old wine in a new bottle? China-led globalization in sub-Saharan Africa	5
The impact of moral injury on social movements: the demobilization of Jordan’s ‘Arab Spring’ protestors	5
The Pacific Alliance: regional integration as neoliberal discipline	5
Revisiting the ‘boomerang effect’: the international relations of the trade unions in Turkey under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule	5
Land grabbing, power configurations and trajectories of China’s investments in Argentina	5
‘We need to organise millions of people’ – how Alter Summit and DiEM25 struggle to create a European ‘modern prince’	4
The ‘ideal citizen’ abroad: engaging Rwanda’s young generation diaspora	4
Captain America? On the relationship between Hollywood blockbusters and American soft power	4
The adoption of earth-observation technologies for deforestation monitoring by Indigenous people: evidence from the Amazon	4
Socio-ecological crises and global climate tipping points as difficulties for expanding extractivisms: prognoses on the Arctic	4
Turning left: student-worker alliance in labour struggles in China	4
What is ‘business as usual’? Towards a theory of cumulative sociomaterial change	4
Migrant entrepreneurs in the ‘Farm of Europe’: the role of transnational structures	4
The digital blender: conceptualizing the political economic nexus of digital technologies and authoritarian practices	4
Contemporary slave labour on the Amazonian frontier: the problems and politics of post rescue solidarity	4
Becoming ‘active labour protestors’: women workers organizing in India’s garment export factories	4
‘Not too high, not too low’: transparency, opacity and the politics of poverty measurement in Jordan	4
The lying flat movement, global youth, and globality: a case of collective reading on Reddit	4
From Luddites to limits? Towards a systematization of growth critiques in historical perspective	4
Labour conflicts in the Global South: towards a new theory of resistance?	4
Welcome to the Anthropocene: Gregory Bateson, disaster porn, Swamp Thing, and ‘The Green’	4
Trade, health and social reproduction in a COVID world	4
How to achieve an institutional change towards circular economy? A comparative case study on the EU and China	4
The credibility of regional policymaking: insights from South America	4
Unfreedoms in south India’s tea value chain: reproduction and resistance	4
The far-right in modern world history	4
The reconfiguration of twenty-first century Latin American regionalism: actors, processes, contradictions, and prospects	4
Governing through metrics in the digital age	4
Expanding the geographies of ‘sanctuary’ and the deepening and contentious nature of immigration federalism: the case of California’s SB 54	3
Orange bras, petit capitalism and e-entrepreneurs. On the backroads of globalisation between China and Taiwan	3
Introduction: post-COVID transformations	3
Globalization, crisis and right-wing populists in the Global South: the cases of India and Turkey	3
Pandemics in global and historical perspective	3
A decolonial political geography of resistance and digital infrastructural harm in Cameroon and Ethiopia	3
Broadened embedded autonomy and Latin America’s Pink Tide: towards the neo-developmental state	3
Time to change? Technologies of futuring and transformative change in Nepal’s climate change policy	3
The urban identity in the global world. A theoretical reflection	3
Resurgent dams: shifting power formations, persistent harms, and obscured responsibilities	3
Prefiguring communalism and economic democracy in the Basque Country	3
From environmental to climate justice: social-environmental expulsions and the emergence of a climate edge in Europe	3
The power of food security	3
The epistemological intimacies of the urban frontier: mangrove swamps, possessive (non)belonging and kinship (m)otherwise	3
Norm conflict in the governance of transnational and distributed infrastructures: the case of Internet routing	3
Glocal as hybridity, hegemony and reflexive engagement	3
Toward an interstitial global critical theory	3
A contemporary history of Silicon Valley as global heterotopia: Silicon Valley metaphors in the French news media	3
How do we pay back? Women health workers and the COVID-19 pandemic in India	3
Unfreedom in labour relations: from a politics of rescue to a politics of solidarity?	3
Globalization in question: why does engaged theory matter?	3
‘Band aid’ for women in the ready-made garment industry: self-help and surveillance in Bangladesh	3
India’s pandemic: spectacle, social murder and authoritarian politics in a lockdown nation	3
Neo-liberal authoritarian urbanism: the dominant contemporary patterns of urban spatial production in Istanbul and São Paulo	3
Articulating system change to effectively and justly address the climate crisis	3
Limits of solidarity: immigration enforcement, labour control and im/mobility in Washington State	3
About time: climate change and inventions of the decolonial, planetarity and radical existence	3
Decolonizing healing: weaving the curandera path	3
Local communities, extractivism and international investment law: the case of five Colombian communities	3
The global south, degrowth and The Simpler Way movement: the need for structural solutions at the global level	3
How secondary states can take advantage of networks in world politics: the case of bridges and hubs	3
The political practices of gender experts: repurposing women's empowerment	3
Understanding conflicts as clouds: an exploration of Northern Irish conflict narratives	3
Tamil diaspora activism in the post-liberal international order: navigating politics and norms	3
The challenges of economic integration in Latin America: searching for consensus in contexts of globalization. The case of MERCOSUR (1991–2019)	3
Liquid gold or the source of life? Understanding water commodification as a contradictory and contested political project	3
Political and social mobilization in the Middle East and North Africa after the 2011 uprisings	3
Energy transition and dialectics: tracing discursive resistance to coal through discourse coalition in India	3