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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing	47
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions	45
Outlining startup culture as a global form	31
A poststructuralist who still believes in structures: interview with John Allen	26
Reflections on representing Black Britain	22
Responsibilization of care: tensions over health, insurance and the family in Brazil	21
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul	19
Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation	18
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour	18
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector	16
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through	16
Alternatives to the performance of economics	13
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms	13
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners	13
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark	11
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand Matory	10
Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries	10
The taste of homemade: trusting ‘healthy’ food on app-based delivery services in Hyderabad, India	10
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold	9
Cryptofinancial imaginaries: how neoliberal theories are materialized in the technical principles of cryptocurrencies	9
Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)	9
From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China	8
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections	8
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands	8
Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa	8

Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling	8
Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization	7
Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy	7
Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device	7
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan	6
Strategic ambiguity: a roundtable on cultural economy and consumer culture	6
Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment	6
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World	6
Introduction: the tale as a special discourse vehicle	6
Socio-technical arrangements, commercial banks’ power, and central banks: the rebuilding of the payment card system in Israel	6
Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values	6
Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination	6
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures	5
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform	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
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy	5
Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program	5
What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form	5
‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA	5
Repoliticising the future of work: automation and the end of techno-optimism	5
The haptic visuality of financial trading	5
The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa	5
Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa	5
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures	5
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur	5
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings	4
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future	4
Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands	4
From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea	4
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam	4
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice	4
Tales of carbon offsets: between experiments and indulgences?	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
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating	4
Engendering assemblages: the constitution of digital health data as an epistemic consumption object	4
Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU	4
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music	4
Shouldn’t we all be doing cultural economy?	4
Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: taxation versus financial inclusion	3
Crowdfunding care in Kenya	3
‘How much is too much?’: dynamically priced tickets and algorithm agency on the Ticketmaster platform	3
Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power	3
Introduction: genre work and the new economy	3
The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life	3
Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process	3
Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment	3
Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China	3
Finance and care	3
How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value	3

Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present	3
Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?	3
Until every pet has a home: fuzzy finances in American animal rescue economies	3
Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park	3
Towards interactive perspectives on information gathering: what are resolvable differences?	3
Come and see Guatemala at Macy’s! Indigenous aesthetics and informal empire on display in the heart of the American home	3
The significance of boring FinTech: technology imaginaries and value vernaculars in established banks	3
Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals	3
Materialising reform: how conservation encounters collection practises in zoos	3
Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging: Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives	3
Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece	3