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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Reading Rostow in a Rhodesian Prison: Anticolonialism and the Reinvention of Modernization in British Central Africa	12
Sovereignty as Care: Acquaintances, Mutuality, and Scale in the Wa State of Myanmar	6
Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation	6
Whose Museum Is It? Jewish Museums and Indigenous Theory	6
CSS volume 63 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
The Iconic Paths of La Verge de Montserrat in Catalonia and Beyond: A Comparative Approach from History and Anthropology	5
Between Global History and Microhistory: Rethinking Histories of “Small Spaces” and Cities	5
The Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies	4
The Evolution of Social Darwinism in China, 1895–1930	4
The Things They Carried (and Kept): RevisitingOstalgiein the Global South	4
Monarchism with a Human Face: Balkan Queens and the Social Politics of Nursing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	4
CSS volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
Purifying Istanbul: The Greek Revolution, Population Surveillance, and Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire	3
Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–1565	3
Popular Theopolitics and the Last Russian Tsar’s Intangible Remains	3
Editorial Foreword	3
Religion in the Folded City: Origami and the Boundaries of the Chronotope	3
“Why don’t I forgive? They didn’t ask for forgiveness!”: Manich Msamah and Tunisia’s Politics of Unforgiveness	3
A Slippery Sovereignty: International Law and the Development of British Cochin	3
Slavery, Freedom Suits, and Legal Praxis in the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1590–1710	3
Style on Trial: The Gendered Aesthetics of Appearance, Corruption, and Piety in Indonesia	2
Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism	2
The Decay-Life of Things	2
Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries	2
Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany	2

Editorial Foreword	2
The Subterranean Unsettling of Science, Race, and Religion: Obeah, Petroleum Geology, and Risk in Trinidad	2
The Suffering Subject: Colonial Flogging in Northern Nigeria and a Humanitarian Public, 1904–1933	2
The Paradox of Black Incomes in Puerto Rico in the Early Decades of U.S. Colonialism	2
Hindu: A History	2
Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Afterlives of Genocide in Anatolia	2
Editorial Foreword	2
Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa	2
Hitler, for Example: Registers of National Socialist Exemplarity in Contemporary Germany	2
Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism	2
Editorial Foreword	2
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983	1
The Architecture of Politics and the Politics of Architecture: A Comparative Approach to Parish Church Building and Civic Government in Late-Medieval Europe	1
Making Sense of “Senseless Violence”: Thoughts on Agrarian Elites and Collective Violence during “Reconstruction” in South Africa and the American South	1
CSS volume 63 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Editorial Foreword	1
The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy	1
Scientific Ghostwriting in the Amazon? The Role of Experts in the Lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador	1
Law’s Logistical Media: The Installation of the File System in the Postwar Japanese Prosecutor’s Office	1
CSS volume 64 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
Runes and Rye: Administration in Denmark and the Emergence of the Younger Futhark, 500–800	1
Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa	1
The Political Force of Memory: The Making and Unmaking of Brexit as an Event	1
“Child of Koevoet”: Counterinsurgency, Crisis, and the Rise of Private Security in South Africa	1
The Sufi and the Sickle: Theorizing Mystical Marxism in Rural Pakistan	1
Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States	1
The Ottoman Model: Basra and the Making of Qajar Reform, 1881–1889	1
Hegemony by Adaptation: Decolonizing Ghana’s Construction Industry	1
Ordinary Exemplars: Cultivating “the Everyday” in the Birthplace of Fascism	1
Global Territorialization and Mining Frontiers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Capitalist Anxieties and the Circulation of Knowledge between British and Habsburgian Imperial Spaces, ca. 1820–1850	1
The Slippages of Exemplary Action: The Case of Ataman Semenov	1
Holy Infrastructures: Catholicism, Detroit Borderlands, and the Elements	1
CSS volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
The Sick Vines of Europe: Raisins, Phylloxera, and the Politics of Place in the Late Ottoman Aegean	1
A Tale of Two Coffee Colonies: Environment and Slavery in Suriname and Saint-Domingue, ca. 1750–1790	1
Mussolini between Hero Worship and Demystification: Exemplary Anecdotes,Petite Histoire, and the Problem of Humanization	1
CSS volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
Editorial Foreword	1