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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing	21
Post-neoliberal bananas	20
Reflections on representing Black Britain	20
Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments	20
From Malthus to planetary boundaries: the genealogy of ‘carrying capacity’ as a political technology	17
The CEO myth on social media: how digital entrepreneurship transforms aspirations among marginalised workers	16
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector	16
Outlining startup culture as a global form	14
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms	14
Responsibilization of care: tensions over health, insurance and the family in Brazil	14
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions	13
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul	13
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour	12
Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries	12
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through	12
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners	12
Paranoid Finance, Paranoid Media, Paranoid Readings	12
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark	11
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold	11
Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)	10
The taste of homemade: trusting ‘healthy’ food on app-based delivery services in Hyderabad, India	10
(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry	10
Cryptofinancial imaginaries: how neoliberal theories are materialized in the technical principles of cryptocurrencies	9
Marketing: A Sociological Approach	9
Making life ‘platform ready’: care and platform economy beyond the multisided market	9

From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China	8
Interrogating ‘healthy markets’ as a collectively concerned market: humanitarian procurement and market shaping for global nutrition outcomes	8
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections	8
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World	7
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands	7
Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization	7
Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling	7
Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment	7
Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy	7
Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values	6
The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa	6
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan	6
Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program	6
The haptic visuality of financial trading	6
Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device	6
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures	6
Socio-technical arrangements, commercial banks’ power, and central banks: the rebuilding of the payment card system in Israel	6
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform	5
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur	5
Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil	5
Entertaining the stock market and speculative communities: South Korea's television-financial complex and Kakao's March of the Ants	5
Economic sociology and the far-right	5
Market-Oriented Disinformation Research: Digital Advertising, Disinformation, and Fake News on Social Media	5
‘On its arse!’ – interrogating the state of the UK’s plastic packaging recycling market	5
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings	5
Conditions of emergence for compliance capitalism: competition, climate, and the politics of future-oriented valuation devices	5
‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA	5
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy	5
Ruling by valuations: market-making, and property assessment in data-scarce occupied East Jerusalem	5
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam	5
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures	5
The role of training institutions in fostering embedded local knowledge and production skills: the cultural economy of fashion in Toronto and Montreal	4
From universal taxpayer to fiscal hierarchies: personal income tax reform in Poland’s transformation	4
A good drainage economy: the elemental politics of Dutch carbon farming	4
A response to comments on Marketing: A Sociological Approach	4
Symposium on ‘Do ethnographers make markets?’	4
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future	4
Racial imaginaries: death, family, and the future in life insurance sales	4
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating	4
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	4
Banal entrepreneurialism: the media-cultural idolization of startup entrepreneurship and its saturation in Finland	4
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice	4
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music	4
Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece	4
Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process	4
From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea	4
The algorithmic principal: agencement, infrastructure, and the material construction of AI economic sovereignty	3
Traditional banks go digital: how incumbents are shaping digital financialisation in Brazil	3
How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value	3
Finance and care	3

‘Guaranteed contraband’: a cultural biography of kaçak tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian bazaar	3
Do ethnographers make markets? Cultural economy after collaboration	3
The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life	3
‘How much is too much?’: dynamically priced tickets and algorithm agency on the Ticketmaster platform	3
Crowdfunding care in Kenya	3
Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging: Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives	3
Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?	3
Statement of Retraction: Interrogating the traditional ethics and values of religious fundraising strategies of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo (Southwest Nigeria)	3
Until every pet has a home: fuzzy finances in American animal rescue economies	3
After abundance: bringing ends, limits and geopolitics back into sociological thinking about marketing	3
More trouble than previously thought	3
Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park	3
Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China	3
Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present	3
Introduction: genre work and the new economy	3
Criticism and schizophrenia	3
Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power	3