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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing	56
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector	54
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through	37
Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation	34
A poststructuralist who still believes in structures: interview with John Allen	25
Reflections on representing Black Britain	23
Responsibilization of care: tensions over health, insurance and the family in Brazil	22
Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments	20
Outlining startup culture as a global form	17
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour	15
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms	15
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions	14
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul	13
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners	12
Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries	11
Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)	10
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold	10
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark	10
(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry	10
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands	9
Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy	9
The taste of homemade: trusting ‘healthy’ food on app-based delivery services in Hyderabad, India	9
Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling	9
Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa	8
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections	8

Cryptofinancial imaginaries: how neoliberal theories are materialized in the technical principles of cryptocurrencies	8
From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China	8
Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization	7
Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination	7
Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values	7
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan	7
Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device	7
Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment	7
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World	7
Socio-technical arrangements, commercial banks’ power, and central banks: the rebuilding of the payment card system in Israel	7
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures	6
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy	6
Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa	6
Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program	6
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur	6
The haptic visuality of financial trading	6
The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa	6
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform	6
‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA	5
Entertaining the stock market and speculative communities: South Korea's television-financial complex and Kakao's March of the Ants	5
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam	5
Economic sociology and the far-right	5
What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form	5
Repoliticising the future of work: automation and the end of techno-optimism	5
Engendering assemblages: the constitution of digital health data as an epistemic consumption object	5
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future	5
Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil	5
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings	5
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures	5
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice	5
Crowdfunding care in Kenya	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
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music	4
Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands	4
Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park	4
Finance and care	4
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating	4
Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece	4
Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process	4
‘How much is too much?’: dynamically priced tickets and algorithm agency on the Ticketmaster platform	4
The significance of boring FinTech: technology imaginaries and value vernaculars in established banks	4
From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea	4
Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU	4
Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment	4
Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?	3
Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging: Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives	3
Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: taxation versus financial inclusion	3
Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power	3
Statement of Retraction: Interrogating the traditional ethics and values of religious fundraising strategies of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo (Southwest Nigeria)	3
New genres and obsolete expertise in the new textiles economy	3

The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life	3
Introduction: genre work and the new economy	3
‘Guaranteed contraband’: a cultural biography of kaçak tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian bazaar	3
Until every pet has a home: fuzzy finances in American animal rescue economies	3
Interventions and dissonance in industrial research: dressing the emperor in new clothes?	3
Reading the signs: on inferential semiotics and market imagination	3
Cultural work and contributive justice	3
Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present	3
Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China	3
How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value	3
The politics of climate risk: How the climate issue is turned into a risk issue through the little tools and operations of finance	3
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis	3
‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria	3