OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Review is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities	38
The familiar strange of sociological fiction	37
Owing the daughter-in-law: Bridewealth and the dynamics of intergenerational care in rural China	36
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?	36
Neoliberal multiculturalism and ethnic entrepreneurial self: A transnational perspective on ethnicity in China	29
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting	27
Framing optimism sociologically: Temporal complexity, collective affect, and cultures of optimism	25
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 2022	22
Digital hate, health and safety, and the labour politics of public academia: ‘Universities don’t value this sort of work at all’	21
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies	20
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen	20
Translating ‘Understanding’/ understanding translation: A reflexive approach	19
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste	19
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats: (Mis)interpellation and subject positions in the face of citizenship revocation in Norway	19
Dystopian fiction, postcolonialism and non-human biography: Sociological speculatives and crisis complexity	18
Who counts in poverty research?	18
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care	18
Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes	18
Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making: Indigenous and feminist ecological reflections on the Listening Guide and the Live Methods Manifesto	17
Rejecting resistance: Everyday resistance and harmony in Chinese hip-hop	16
War frames and societal transformations in Ukraine: Reframing a wartime nation	16
Freedom and unfreedom in au pairing: Probing unfree labour from the perspective of social reproduction	15
Varieties of alternativeness: Relational practices in collaborative housing in Vienna	15
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’	15
Navigating cultural intimacies: Long-lasting friendships in the Scottish South Asian diasporas	15

Becoming ‘working’ women: Formations of gender, class and caste in urban India	15
You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey	14
Not coming out as affective care: LGBTQ+ individuals navigating the feeling landscape of intergenerational relationships	14
From godkin to oddkin: Love, friendship and kin making beyond the human family	14
Creating a safer space: Being safe and doing safety in queer and feminist punk scenes*	14
‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community	14
The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments	13
Higher education and social recognition: On the moral dimension of pupils’ aspirations and choices in Chile	13
Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’	13
Foot notes: Retracing the steps towards diagnosis	12
Introduction to Live Methods Revisited: The roots and conjuncture of Live Methods	12
Racialised mobilities in China	12
From Chateau Latour to Chateau Bourdieu: The sociology of wine between empire, class, ethnicity and gender (or, the oenologic of practice )	12
Family strains, negative emotions and juvenile delinquency	12
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal	12
An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism	12
Doing a favour or doing one’s job? A relational work perspective on precarious commitment in the digital games industry	12
Children’s food, care and the practices of da pei in urban China	12
The private life approach to the rise of neo-familism in China	12
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence	12
Some stories, more scenes	11
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’	11
Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies	11
Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda	11
Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated’ citizens in post-Brexit Britain	11
What’s love got to do with it? Live methods and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention	11
Racialised terminologies and the BAME problematic: A perspective from football’s British South Asian senior leaders and executives	11
Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism: Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s–1980s)	10
‘When we put our thoughts and ideas together, policy makers are listening to us’: Hope-work and the potential of participatory research	10
Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances	10
The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’	10
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum	9
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism	9
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk	9
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map	9
Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis	9
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload	9
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s	9
Fiction in Goffman	9
‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities	9
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK	9
Following diversity through the university: On knowing and embodying a problem	8
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure	8
Feminist expertise and the political work of building alternative futures	8
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism	8
Dark waters, dark waters	8
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: Understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture	8
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID	8
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy	8

Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England	8
Sociologically unspeakable? The ethics of ethnography and live methods	8
The lines of descent of the present crisis	8
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement	8
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal	8
Queering Southern Italy: Towards a conceptualisation of ‘Meridian Sexualities’	7
Countering anti-Asian violence in a Parisian banlieue: Defensive familism	7
The politics of the urban green: Class, morality and attachments to place	7
War frames: Insights from Eastern Europe and East Asia	7
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement	7
Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940	7
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future	7
Theorizing autonomy in the platform economy: A study of food delivery gig workers in Latvia	7
Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’	7
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’	7
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK	7
Disjunctive writing in the urban skinscape: Bodies, borders and the physiology of attention in a Rio de Janeiro favela	7
Organising for Change one year later – Response to the critics	7
Non-binary embodiment and bodily discomfort: Body as social signum	7