OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Cultural Economy 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing	39
A poststructuralist who still believes in structures: interview with John Allen	31
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector	26
Reflections on representing Black Britain	26
Responsibilization of care: tensions over health, insurance and the family in Brazil	23
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms	22
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour	22
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul	21
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through	21
Outlining startup culture as a global form	17
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions	16
Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation	16
Alternatives to the performance of economics	15
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners	14
The taste of homemade: trusting ‘healthy’ food on app-based delivery services in Hyderabad, India	12
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold	12
The mutability of economic things	12
The fabrication of environmental intangibles as a questionable response to environmental problems	11
Infrastructural power: discretion and the dynamics of infrastructure in action	11
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand Matory	10
Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa	9
Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)	9
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark	9
Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy	8
From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China	8

Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling	8
Cryptofinancial imaginaries: how neoliberal theories are materialized in the technical principles of cryptocurrencies	7
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections	7
Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination	7
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands	7
Introduction: the tale as a special discourse vehicle	6
Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization	5
Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values	5
Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device	5
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform	5
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan	5
Strategic ambiguity: a roundtable on cultural economy and consumer culture	5
The haptic visuality of financial trading	5
Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program	5
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World	5
Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa	5
The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa	5
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures	5
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy	4
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings	4
‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA	4
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam	4
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur	4
Repoliticising the future of work: automation and the end of techno-optimism	4
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures	4
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future	4
What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form	4
Engendering assemblages: the constitution of digital health data as an epistemic consumption object	4
Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil	4
Entertaining the stock market and speculative communities: South Korea's television-financial complex and Kakao's March of the Ants	4
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice	4
Crowdfunding care in Kenya	3
Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: taxation versus financial inclusion	3
Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands	3
Tales of carbon offsets: between experiments and indulgences?	3
Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process	3
Come and see Guatemala at Macy’s! Indigenous aesthetics and informal empire on display in the heart of the American home	3
‘How much is too much?’: dynamically priced tickets and algorithm agency on the Ticketmaster platform	3
Towards interactive perspectives on information gathering: what are resolvable differences?	3
Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece	3
Shouldn’t we all be doing cultural economy?	3
Chasing Innovation Chasing Innovation , by Lilly Irani, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2019, 304 pp., £44.00(hardback), ISBN 978-0-691-17513-3 / £14.00 (pape	3
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music	3
Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park	3
Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment	3
Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU	3
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating	3
From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea	3
The significance of boring FinTech: technology imaginaries and value vernaculars in established banks	3