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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification	106
The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change	71
‘The economy’ as if people mattered: revisiting critiques of economic growth in a time of crisis	56
Beyond land grabs: new insights on land struggles and global agrarian change	38
Deep Restoration: from The Great Implosion to The Great Awakening	38
Apologists for growth: passive revolutionaries in a passive revolution	33
Workers’ organizations and the fetishism of the trade union form: toward new pathways for research on the labour movement?	31
Vaccine nationalism: contested relationships between COVID-19 and globalization	29
In search of a political economy of the postgrowth era	28
Reforming global climate governance in an age of bullshit	28
COVID-19, markets and the crisis of the higher education regulatory state: the case of Australia	22
Economics and climate emergency	22
Bitter sugarification: sugar frontier and contract farming in Uganda	22
The political economies of different globalizations: theorizing reglobalization	22
The political trilemma of contemporary social-ecological transformation – lessons from Karl Polanyi’sThe Great Transformation	21
Humility in the Anthropocene	21
The Dasgupta Review deconstructed: an exposé of biodiversity economics	21
The globalization of artificial intelligence: consequences for the politics of environmentalism	20
The failure of Integrated Assessment Models as a response to ‘climate emergency’ and ecological breakdown: the Emperor has no clothes	20
Philosophies of migration governance in a globalizing world	20
Spreading ‘green’ infrastructural harm: mapping conflicts and socio-ecological disruptions within the European Union’s transnational energy grid	19
Grounding Chinese investment: encounters between Chinese capital and local land politics in Laos	18
Information disorder, fake news and the future of democracy	18
Authoritarian neoliberalism, crisis, and consolidation: the political economy of regime change in Turkey	17
Contextualizing corporate control in the agrifood and extractive sectors	17

Coloniality and globalization: a decolonial take	17
The global climate of land politics	16
Shared pretenses for collective inaction: the economic growth imperative, COVID-19, and climate change	15
Network companies, land grabbing, and financialization in South America	15
Neoliberalism incites but also restrains revolutionary change in the Third World – why articulating multiple struggles is necessary to confront structures of domination	15
Skilled migration to emerging economies: the global competition for talent beyond the West	14
‘We are not a partnership’ – constructing and contesting legitimacy of global public–private partnerships: the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement	13
Unthinking knowledge production: from post-Covid to post-carbon futures	12
Teaching climate complacency: mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education	12
Reframing civilization(s): from critique to transitions	12
Steering towards reglobalization: can a reformed G20 rise to the occasion?	12
Land, territory and commons: voices and visions from the struggles	11
Towards a feminist global trade politics	11
Politicizing hydroelectric power plants in Portugal: spatio-temporal injustices and psychosocial impacts of renewable energy colonialism in the Global North	11
From the Paris Agreement to the Anthropocene and Planetary Boundaries Framework: an interview with Will Steffen	11
Desert geographies: solar energy governance for just transitions	11
The role of the urban scale in anchoring authoritarian neoliberalism: a look at post-2012 neoliberalization in Belgrade, Serbia	10
From industrial relations research to Global Labour Studies: moving labour research beyond Eurocentrism	10
Beyond traditional trade unionism: innovative worker responses in three African cities	10
A gendered labour geography perspective on the Cambodian garment workers’ general strike of 2013/2014	10
Unpacking the finance-farmland nexus: circles of cooperation and intermediaries in Brazil	10
Reglobalizing trade: progressive global governance in an age of uncertainty	10
Introduction to ‘Reclaiming democracy from below: from the contemporary state capitalist system to peoples’ sovereignty’	10
Unpacking SDG 15, its targets and indicators: tracing ideas of conservation	10
Global or local solidarity? That’s the wrong question: relationality, aspiration and the in-between of feminist activism in Southeast Asia	10
‘I don’t want your progress! It tries to kill … me!’ Decolonial encounters and the anarchist critique of civilization	10
Rule of nature or rule of capital? Physiocracy, ecological economics, and ideology	10
A critique of the Laffer theorem’s macro-narrative consequences for corporate tax avoidance from a Global Wealth Chain perspective	9
Critical Latin American agroecology as a regionalism from below	9
Brazilian far-right neoliberal nationalism: family, anti-communism and the myth of racial democracy	9
Empowerment, rights, and global food governance: gender in the UN Committee for World Food Security	9
Labour conflicts in the Global South: an introduction	9
The modern/colonial hell of innovation economy: future as a return to colonial mythologies	9
Solidarity across boundaries: a new practice of collectivity among workers in the app-based transport sector in Indonesia	8
What was globalization?	8
On the question of time, racial capitalism, and the planetary	8
Constructing world society: international organizations, otherhood and the rise of global reporting	8
The IMF, tackling inequality, and post-neoliberal ‘reglobalization’: the paradoxes of political legitimation within economistic parameters	8
Challenging the three faces of extractivism: the Mapuche struggle and the forestry industry in Chile	8
The Arctic mineral resource rush and the ontological struggle for the Viiankiaapa peatland in Sodankylä, Finland	8
Politically motivated precarization of academic and journalistic lives under authoritarian neoliberalism: the case of Turkey	8
Economics and the climate catastrophe	7
Shared interest or strategic threat? A critical investigation of political debates and regulatory responses to Chinese agricultural investment in Australia	7
The regenerative turn: on the re-emergence of reciprocity embedded in living ecologies	7
Democratizing global climate governance? The case of indigenous representation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)	7
The human development and capabilities approach as a twenty-first century ideology of globalization	7
The new conceptual vocabulary of the social sciences: the ‘globalization debates’ in context	7
Indigeneity as a transnational battlefield: disputes over meanings, spaces and peoples	7
Economics, the climate change policy-assemblage and the new materialisms: towards a comprehensive policy	6
Critical development studies and the study of globalization(s): introduction	6

Indigenous resistance, planetary dystopia, and the politics of environmental justice	6
Who wins and who loses from renewable energy transition? Large-scale solar, land, and livelihood in Karnataka, India	6
The Trump administration, the far-right and world politics	6
Innovation in the era of generalized monopolies: the case of the US–Mexico automotive industrial complex	6
Eurasian globalization: past and present	6
Postscript, an end to the war on nature: COP in or COP out?	6
Work in the post-COVID-19 pandemic: the case of South Korea	6
Taxing the ‘crop of the century’: the role of institutions in governing the soy boom in South America	6
Multiple Anthropocenes: pluralizing space–time as a response to ‘the Anthropocene’	5
Reciprocal empowerment for civil society peacebuilding: sharing lessons between the Korean and Northern Ireland peace processes	5
Land grabbing, power configurations and trajectories of China’s investments in Argentina	5
Creating a race to the top in global tax governance: the political case for tax spillover assessments	5
Inclusive globalization or old wine in a new bottle? China-led globalization in sub-Saharan Africa	5
What does Degrowth mean? Some comments on Jason Hickel’s ‘A few points of clarification’	5
Beyond the premise of conquest: Indigenous and Black earth-worlds in the Anthropocene debates	5
Humanity for itself? Reflections on climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic	5
Conflicting securities: contributions to a critical research agenda on climate security	5
Rising temperatures and rising prices: the inflationary impacts of climate change and the need for degrowth-based solutions to the ecological crisis	5
Reforming in a democratic vacuum: the authoritarian neoliberalism of the Temer administration from 2016 to 2018	5
Bridging the gap between overseas and Chinese perceptions on Sino-Middle Eastern relations: a Chinese perspective	5
From climate change to economic change? Reflections on ‘feedback’	5
Welcome to the Anthropocene: Gregory Bateson, disaster porn, Swamp Thing, and ‘The Green’	4
‘A virtuous industry’: the agrarian work-family ethic in US rulemaking on child agricultural labour	4
Reconciling different approaches to conceptualizing the glocalization of the Belt and Road Initiative projects	4
‘Welcome to Mars’: space colonization, anticipatory authoritarianism, and the labour of hope	4
The credibility of regional policymaking: insights from South America	4
Relational governance in rhetoric and reality: explanations and problems of China’s Belt and Road Initiative from the relational perspective	4
Labour conflicts in the Global South: towards a new theory of resistance?	4
What is ‘business as usual’? Towards a theory of cumulative sociomaterial change	4
Globalizing minority persecution: China's transnational repression of the Uyghurs	4
Neoliberalism and state formation in Iran	4
Blockchain-driven digital nomadism in the Basque e-Diaspora	4
‘We need to organise millions of people’ – how Alter Summit and DiEM25 struggle to create a European ‘modern prince’	4
Goodbyelabouring man, long livehomo economicus: the new precarity in the world of work	4
Climate emergency and securitization politics: towards a climate politics of the extraordinary	4
The reconfiguration of twenty-first century Latin American regionalism: actors, processes, contradictions, and prospects	4
On living in an already-unsettled world: COVID as an expression of larger transformations	4
How to achieve an institutional change towards circular economy? A comparative case study on the EU and China	4
Revisiting the ‘boomerang effect’: the international relations of the trade unions in Turkey under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule	4
Becoming ‘active labour protestors’: women workers organizing in India’s garment export factories	4
In the name of the nation: Authoritarian practices, capital accumulation, and the radical simplification of development in China’s global vision	4
The impact of moral injury on social movements: the demobilization of Jordan’s ‘Arab Spring’ protestors	4
Norm convergence and collision in regime overlaps. Business and human rights in the UN and the EU	4