OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Review is 4. 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
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting	26
Following diversity through the university: On knowing and embodying a problem	25
Pandemic modelling and model citizens: Governing COVID-19 through predictive models, sovereignty and discipline	24
Capitals, occupational fields and consumption preferences: An analysis of the British family expenditure survey (2009–2016)	24
Enacting the ‘consuming’ brain: An ethnographic study of accountability redistributions in neuromarketing practices	22
Enacting community health: Obesity prevention policies as situated caring	21
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen	20
Sociography of a curious object: Descriptive research, the #OneLess refill pilot, and practices of hesitation	17
Budgets and biologicals: The bio-economization of HIV governance	17
The (in)visibility of sewage management and problematization as strategy for public awareness	16
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies	16
Commensality: Networks of personal, family, and community social transformation	14
Depoliticisation, hybridisation and dual processes of stigmatisation: An examination of the civilising offensive in China’s rural areas through moral review councils	13
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?	12
W. E. B. Du Bois’s forgotten sociology of morality: Contesting the foundations and informing the future of the sociology of morality	12
Subjects in crisis: Paradoxes of emancipation and alter-neoliberal critique	12
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: ‘To stand in the gap’ as a feminist approach	12
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement	12
Living differently? A feminist-Bourdieusian analysis of the transformative power of basic income	12
Towards a complex conception of progress	11
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 2022	11
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Hauntological cinema: Resisting epistemic erasure and temporal slippage with Sorry to Bother You	11
Frictional rhythms of climate work in city governance	11
(Re)connecting anti-racisms: Islamophobia and the politics of police/prison abolition in contemporary Britain	10

Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk	10
The familiar strange of sociological fiction	10
Cultural repertoires of school choice: Intersections of class, race and culture in Pretoria and Amsterdam	10
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities	10
Cultivating shenti in everyday life: Self, relationality and embodied masculinity in China	9
(Bio)politics of existence and social change: Insights from the Good Food Movement	9
Embodying aesthetic entrepreneurialism: Men, the body and the performing arts	9
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s	9
Financing elite education: Economic capital and the maintenance of class power in English private schools	8
Against culture? Class analysis, strategic essentialism and methodological nationalism after Beverley Skeggs’ Formations of Class and Gender	8
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload	8
Re-animalising wellbeing: Multispecies justice after development	8
Epidemiological plots and the national syndrome	8
Expanding the ‘Third Space’ between Western and non-Western knowledge: Nakane Chie’s Japanese Society as anti-Eurocentric theory	8
Homelessness and becoming a mother: The continuing influence of Beverley Skeggs’ Formations of Class and Gender	8
Of parvenus, priests and prophets: An exploration of transformations of (some) economists and their subject	8
Ambivalent pleasures: Towards narcofeminist alterlife	7
Narcofeminism: A feminist auto-ethnography on drugs	7
Framing stigma as an avoidable social harm that widens inequality	7
Movement meaning of money: Monetary mobilization in Hong Kong’s prodemocracy movement	7
Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability	7
The lines of descent of the present crisis	7
A new middle-class fraction with a distinct subjectivity: Tech workers and the transformation of the entrepreneurial self	7
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID	7
Raising children in hostile worlds in Santiago de Chile: Optimism and ‘hyper-agentic’ mothers	7
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure	7
An ‘unfathomable hatred of Islam’: Ethno/graphing the trial for the Québec City mosque massacre	7
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste	6
Winning quietly: Hong Kong educators’ resistance to National Security Education	6
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK	6
Citizen science and social movements: A case of participatory monitoring of genetically modified crops in Japan	6
Dynasties in the making: Family wealth and inheritance for the first-generation ultra-wealthy and their wealth managers	6
Food in transition: The place of food in the theories of transition	6
Paradoxes of mindfulness: The specious promises of a contemporary practice	6
The coronavirus and the temporal order of capitalism: Sociological observations and the wisdom of a children’s book	6
The spectral material culture in ordinary life: Re-imagining obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)	6
The Russian Revolution and photography: The tragic paradoxes of canonisation	6
The price of the ticket revised: Family members’ experiences of upward social mobility	6
Cards against gamification: Using a role-playing game to tell alternative futures in the gig economy	6
The future of data ownership: An uncommon research agenda	6
Revising modern divisions between blindness and sightedness: Doing knowledge in blind assemblages	6
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future	6
Strategic naturalizing in the Anthropocene: Managing cells, bodies and ecosystems	5
Dark waters, dark waters	5
Valuation ruptures: Breaking and remaking notions of ‘good’ in a US government agency	5
Austerity-driven policification: Neoliberalisation, schools and the police in Britain	5
Animating sociology	5
Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Homing desires: Transnational queer migrants negotiating homes and homelands in Scotland	5
Food movements, agrifood systems, and social change at the level of the national state: The Brazilian Marcha das Margaridas	5

Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination	5
Work aspirations, intellectual disability and ‘cruelling out’ the mark in the job club	5
Grieving academic grant rejections: Examining funding failure and experiences of loss	5
Introducing ‘resonance’: Revisioning the relationship between youth and later life in women born 1939–52	5
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’	5
De-communalising the hot pot: Chinese cuisine in Australia during COVID-19	5
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’	5
In search of a Tawney Moment: Income inequality, financial crisis and the mass media in the UK and the USA	4
The intertwinement of speculative fictions and environmental activism: Towards a sensory sociology of climate fiction	4
Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’	4
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy	4
Sociological writing as resonant writing	4
To confront or not to confront? Seeing minorities’ responses to ethnoracial stigmatisation through Goffman’s ritual interaction order	4
Nostalgic neighborhood belongings: Theorizing the interrelationship among nostalgias, belongings and neighborhood changes	4
Motherhood and money: How motherhood shapes everyday financial practices	4
Rethinking the politics of meditation: Practice, affect and ontology	4
The body as a canvas: Memory, tattoos and the Holocaust	4
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats: (Mis)interpellation and subject positions in the face of citizenship revocation in Norway	4
Narcofeminist ‘chemsex’: Rethinking sexualised drug use in a shifting queer landscape marked by public health emergency	4
Body pedagogics, transactionalism and vélo identities: Becoming a cyclist in motorised societies	4
Contested delegation: Understanding critical public responses to algorithmic decision-making in the UK and Australia	4
Storying the self and self-belonging: (Re)fleshing relational selves beyond limiting individualisms via a feminist fable	4
Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England	4
Rejecting resistance: Everyday resistance and harmony in Chinese hip-hop	4
The caring classes: A socio-demographic and occupational analysis of caring values	4
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal	4