OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Studies in Society and History 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Ghosts and Miracles: The Volkswagen as Imperial Debris in Postwar West Germany	10
Colony and Empire, Colonialism and Imperialism: A Meaningful Distinction?	10
Terroir and Territory on the Colonial Frontier: Making New-Old World Wine in the Holy Land	7
The Sufi and the Sickle: Theorizing Mystical Marxism in Rural Pakistan	6
Subterranean Properties: India's Political Ecology of Coal, 1870–1975	6
Reconnecting Language and Materiality in Christian Reading: A Comparative Analysis of Two Groups of Protestant Women	5
Freeport and the States: Politics of Corporations and Contemporary Colonialism in West Papua	5
Hegemonic Muslim Masculinities and Their Others: Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia	5
Liberty Time in Question: Historical Duration and Indigenous Refusal in Post-Revolutionary Bolivia	5
The Plantation's Outsides: The Work of Settlement in Kalimpong, India	4
The Evolution of Social Darwinism in China, 1895–1930	4
Making Reliable Persons: Managing Descent and Genealogical Computation in Pakistan	4
Gacaca, Genocide, Genocide Ideology: The Violent Aftermaths of Transitional Justice in the New Rwanda	4
Ceremony, Medicine, Caffeinated Tea: Unearthing the Forgotten Faces of the North American Stimulant Yaupon (Ilex vomitoria)	3
The Very Grounds Underlying Twentieth-Century Authoritarian Regimes: Building Soil Fertility in Italian Libya and the Brazilian Cerrado	3
Can Muslims Drink? Rumi Vodka, Persianate Ideals, and the Anthropology of Islam	3
“Their debts follow them into the afterlife”: German Settlers, Ethnographic Knowledge, and the Forging of Coffee Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Guatemala	3
“Tomorrow belongs to us”: Pathways to Activism in Italian Far-Right Youth Communities	3
Nationalist Spirits of Islamic Law after World War I: An Arab-Indian Battle of Fatwas over Alcohol, Purity, and Power	3
The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Making History in a Tight Corner	3
The Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies	3
The Slippages of Exemplary Action: The Case of Ataman Semenov	2
The Things They Carried (and Kept): RevisitingOstalgiein the Global South	2
Reassessing Reification: Ethnicity amidst “Failed” Governmentality in Burma and India	2
Erosion by Design: Rethinking Innovation, Sea Defense, and Credibility in Guyana	2

Toward a Comparative History of Racial Thought in Africa: Historicism, Barbarism, Autochthony	2
“Mau Mau are Angels … Sent by Haile Selassie”: A Kenyan War in Jamaica	2
A Tale of Two Coffee Colonies: Environment and Slavery in Suriname and Saint-Domingue, ca. 1750–1790	2
When Palestinians Became Human Shields: Counterinsurgency, Racialization, and the Great Revolt (1936–1939)	2
“A question of bank notes, cars, and houses!” Matchmaking and the Moral Economy of Love in Urban China	2
Defining the True Hunter: Big Game Hunting, Moral Distinction, and Virtuosity in French Colonial Indochina	2
Ordinary Exemplars: Cultivating “the Everyday” in the Birthplace of Fascism	2
Scientific Ghostwriting in the Amazon? The Role of Experts in the Lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador	2
Francisco Franco Is Back: The Contested Reemergence of a Fascist Moral Exemplar	2
Toward Early Modern Archivality: The Perils of History in the Age of Neo-Eurocentrism	2
Indonesia’s Cigarette Culture Wars: Contesting Tobacco Regulations in the Postcolony	2
Editorial Foreword	1
Mapping Urban “Mixing” and Intercommunal Relations in Late Ottoman Jerusalem: A Neighborhood Study	1
Burying “Zik of Africa”: The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis	1
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran	1
TheKaččāand thePakkā: Disenchanting the Film Event in Pakistan	1
Hindu: A History	1
Religious Authority beyond Domination and Discipline: Epistemic Authority and Its Vernacular Uses in the Shi‘i Diaspora	1
Hitler, for Example: Registers of National Socialist Exemplarity in Contemporary Germany	1
Naming Others: Translation and Subject Constitution in the Central Highlands of Angola (1926–1961)	1
The Fallen Soldier as Fascist Exemplar: Military Cemeteries and Dead Heroes in Mussolini’s Italy	1
Black Police Power: The Political Moment of the Jamaica Constabulary	1
Building Merit: The Moral Economy of the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Rural, Post-Socialist Eastern Mongolia	1
Differences over Difference: Sino-Russian Friendship at Interstate and Interpersonal Scales	1
The Environmental Transformation of “Empty Space”: From Desert to Forest in the Landes of Southwestern France	1
Becoming Armenian: Religious Conversions in the Late Imperial South Caucasus	1
Botánica Sephardica	1
Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–1565	1
Monarchism with a Human Face: Balkan Queens and the Social Politics of Nursing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	1
Prison of the Womb: Gender, Incarceration, and Capitalism on the Gold Coast of West Africa, c. 1500–1957	1
In the Name of the Cross: Christianity and Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy	1
Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters: Alaska Natives, Taxation, and Settler Colonialism	1
Slavery and Its Transformations: Prolegomena for a Global and Comparative Research Agenda	1
The Politics of “Greater India,” a Moral Geography: Moveable Antiquities and Charmed Knowledge Networks between Indonesia, India, and the West	1
The Rise of Islamic Society: Social Change, State Power, and Historical Imagination	1
Cultivating “Care”: Colonial Botany and the Moral Lives of Oil Palm at the Twentieth Century’s Turn	1
Signs of Risk: Materiality, History, and Meaning in Cold War Controversies over Nuclear Contamination	1
Editorial Foreword	1
Brutalism and the People: Architectural Articulations of National Developmentalism in Mid-Twentieth-Century São Paulo	1
“Why don’t I forgive? They didn’t ask for forgiveness!”: Manich Msamah and Tunisia’s Politics of Unforgiveness	1
Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits	1
The Sociological Idea of the State: Legal Education, Austrian Multinationalism, and the Future of Continental Empire, 1880–1914	1
Deception and Violence in the Ottoman Empire: The People's Theory of Crowd Behavior during the Hamidian Massacres of 1895	1
Legal Liminalities: Conflicting Jurisdictional Claims in the Transition from British Mandate Palestine to the State of Israel	1
Blagoustroistvo: Infrastructure, Determinism, (Re-)coloniality, and Social Engineering in Moscow, 1917–2022	1
Megasthenes on the Military Livestock of Chandragupta and the Making of the First Indian Empire	1
The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate	1