OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sociology 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Historical education and colonial racist violences: A contribution to debates on historic reparations for Black, Afro-descendant people in Colombia	22
Post-nationalism, sovereignty and the state	18
Religious diversity, legislation, and Christian privilege	16
Book Review: Alan Morris, Kath Hulse and Hal Pawson, The Private Rental Sector in Australia: Living with Uncertainty	15
Structural violence of platform capitalism: A case study of online sex workers’ experiences	13
Cricket and the Beechworth Asylum, 1910–1915: A collective biography	13
Beyond authenticity: An ethnographic reflection on Italians in Australia and Italians in Italy	12
Introduction to the digital welfare state: Contestations, considerations and entanglements	10
Stuck between the Global North and South: Middling migrants in Australia and Singapore	9
‘I leave most of the decisions up to her:’ Gendered parenting, un/equal decision work, and responsibility for COVID-19 vaccination	9
The moral and political economy of suicide prevention	9
Ambivalent presents, open futures: Affective constructions of the future among highly qualified Turkish migrants in Germany	9
Hospitality and hostility: The dilemmas of intimate life and refugee hosting	9
Linking with migrants: The potential of digitally mediated connections to build social capital during crisis	9
Too Muslim or not Muslim enough? Exploring identity negotiations for women visual artists in Australia	9
Risk-taking and social inequality	8
Bourdieu's habitus clivé in voicing, feeling, being Aboriginal	8
Decolonising consciousness: Confronting and living with colonial truths in Australia	8
‘Like pouring fuel on a fire’: Perspectives on family and domestic violence among Ethiopian women in Melbourne	8
Fight, or flee, the future: Affect in contrasting responses against future collective death	8
Chronic condition self-management is a social practice	8
Following a straight path? The social locations and sexual identity trajectories of emerging adult women	8
Special Issue: What do misinformation practices feel like? Embodiment, health and digital spaces	8
Legitimate culture, field of power, and domination	8
‘This is NOT human services’: Counter-mapping automated decision-making in social services in Australia	7

Airbnb and the paradox of the body: The biopolitical management of hosts in four tourist towns in New Zealand	7
Future/tense: A sociology of temporal dis/order	7
Clothing and identity: Chinese rural students’ embodied transformations in the urban university	7
Sexual orientation and life satisfaction	7
‘Hey lovely! Don’t miss this opportunity!’ Digital temporalities of wellness culture, email marketing, and the promise of abundance	7
Making friends with the family: A fresh look at coming out	6
Everyday refugee integration: A holistic reconceptualization of refugee integration through the everyday practices of Hazara Afghan refugees	6
Writing national histories of sociology: Methods, approaches and visions	6
Shades of green: Change, continuity and conservation among Tasmanian forestry workers	6
Exploring alcohol cultures and homosocial relationships in women's amateur AFL teams	5
Creative arts workers during the Covid-19 pandemic: Social imaginaries in lockdown	5
Lived experiences of the adjustment of older employees to re-employment in Singapore: A Bourdieusian perspective	5
Navigating the ethnic boundary: From ‘in-between’ to plural ethnicities among Thai middle-class migrant women in Hong Kong	5
Reckonings with truth: Sovereign truths on Country	5
OBGYNs of TikTok and the role of misinformation in diffractive knowledge production	5
Publishing during a sociology PhD in Australia: Differences by elite and non-elite universities and gender	5
Motivators, facilitators, and barriers to blood donation in Australia by people from ethnic minority groups: Perspectives of sub-Saharan African, East/South-East Asian, and Melanesian/Polynesian blood	5
African migrant women in the aged care sector: Conceptualising experiences of racism, micro-aggressions and Otherness	5
A basic income for every crisis? Building blocks of a political economy framework	4
Indigenous art as decolonising truth-telling: Battle Mountain Memorial	4
Social enterprises and community wellbeing in regional Australia	4
Bodies, non-human matter and the micropolitical production of sociomaterial dis/advantage	4
Exploring trans youths’ future orientations as a product of experiences of dis/affirmation	4
Enabling futures? Disability and sociology of futures	4
Intermediaries as infrastructure: Interrogating the phatic labor of state-building	4
Book Review: Van Luyn and de la Fuente, Regional cultures, economies, and creativity: Innovating through place in Australia and beyond	4
Working against the clock: digital surveillance in US Medicaid homecare services	4
The absorbent digital welfare state: Silencing dissent, steering progress	4
A basic income for a complex society: Introduction	4
Experiencing work–family enrichment as a separated parent in Australia	3
What comes after fields, capitals, habitus? Suggestions for future cultural consumption research in Australia	3
A consensus that impedes contestation: Debating migration-related diversity in post-terror Norway	3
Negotiating Australian academia as a historically white settler colonial institution: A comparison between Muslim and non-Muslim students	3
Book Review: Kirsten Harley and Gary Wickham, Australian Sociology: Fragility, Survival, Rivalry	3
Strong communities and justice practices in the Torres Strait Region	2
Gender, doctorate holders, career path, and work–life balance within and outside of academia	2
Information, influence, ritual, participation: Defining digital sexual health	2
Book Review: Alison Phipps, Me Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism	2
Teaching gender in and through uncertainty	2
Book Review: Social Media in the Lives of Young Connected Migrants: Making and Unmaking Boundaries by Xinyu (Andy) Zhao	2
Education's economic return in multicultural Australia: Demographic analysis	2
Crossing boundaries in rural research	2
Burning out in emotional capitalism: Appropriation of ganqing and renqing in the Chinese platform economy	2
Can a basic income help address homelessness? A Titmussian perspective	2
Pride, belonging and community: What does this mean if you are Aboriginal and LGBT+ and living in Western Australia?	2
A Tribute to Gary Bouma	2
Invisible innovation: Intellectual labour on regional university campuses in Australia	2
“The clock is ticking”: (dis)orientations to ageing and end-of-life care in advanced capitalism and care directives	2
Book Review: Cameron Parsell, Andrew Clarke and Francisco Perales Charity and Poverty in Advanced Welfare States	2
Interdisciplinarity, art and immaterial labour in the creative economy: Maurizio Lazzarato and the production of value in ArtScience practice	2

Not that old person: Older people’s responses to ageism revealed through digital storytelling	2
Engineering masculinity: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of trans masculine embodiment in magazines for trans men	2
Disablism, racism and the spectre of eugenics in digital welfare	2
Disentangling the normative justification of basic income from the structure of the capitalist wage relation and the culture of the work ethic	2
Split nationality households: A strategic response to optimise the citizenship constellations of transnational families	2
Introduction to the special issue – Imagining rural futures in times of uncertainty and possibility: Progressing a transformative research agenda for rural sociology	1
Religious diversity through a super-diversity lens: National, sub-regional and socio-economic religious diversities in Melbourne	1
Youth and hospitality work: Skills, subjectivity and affective labour	1
Migrant children in a Chilean school: Habitus, discourses and otherness	1
Changing masculinities? Using caring masculinity to analyse social media responses to the decline of men in Australian primary school teaching	1
Truth Telling and Reconciliation in the Pacific: Solomon Islands' Experience	1
Risky business: How food-delivery platform riders understand and manage safety at work	1
Book Review: Shanthi Robertson, Temporality in Mobile Lives: Contemporary Asia-Australia Migration and Everyday Time	1
Agri-food scholarship: Past, present and future contributions to Australasian rural sociology	1
Parallel lives or active citizens? Examining the interplay between multicultural service provision and civic engagement in Australia	1
Rural youth in southern Nigeria: Fractured lives and ambitious futures	1
Book Review: Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska, Collaborative Society	1
Reckoning with truth globally: Decolonial possibilities	1
Coloniality and decoloniality in ‘comfort women’ memory activism: Transnational and transgenerational truth-telling practices in Australia	1
Single mothers and resistance to welfare-to-work: A Bourdieusian account	1
The ‘dead’ as agents of truth-telling: Lessons from Timor-Leste and the Indigenous repatriation movement	1
Workplace wellbeing among LGBTQ+ Australians: Exploring diversity within diversity	1
Book Review: Louise Ryan Social Networks and Migration: Relocations, Relationships and Resources	1
The state of the discipline: Australian sociology and its future	1
The trope of the vulnerable child in conditional welfare discourses: An Australian case study	1
Belonging in England today: Schools, race, class and policy	1
Welcoming immigrants in Istanbul: Gendering faith-based and professionalised hospitality	1
Political structures and trust in markets: A comparative examination of consumer trust in 28 EU member states and the effects of consumer policy on trust	1
Moral cosmopolitanism, civic action and ethical consumption: Social differences in young Australians’ global citizenship	1
Educators’ hands are tied: The impact of heteronormative and cisnormative discourses on students in faith-based schools in Australia	1
Young, unauthorised and Black: African unaccompanied minors and becoming an adult in Italy	1
Towards a minor sociology of futures: Shifting futures in Mass Observation accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic	1
The role of an equity policy in the reproduction of social inequalities: High School Ranking and university admissions in Chile	1
‘It's very hard to have a future when you can’t travel’: Meaning, mobility and mortality after a cancer diagnosis	1