OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Review is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen	29
Neoliberal multiculturalism and ethnic entrepreneurial self: A transnational perspective on ethnicity in China	27
Financing elite education: Economic capital and the maintenance of class power in English private schools	26
Owing the daughter-in-law: Bridewealth and the dynamics of intergenerational care in rural China	23
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies	22
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste	20
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?	18
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting	18
The familiar strange of sociological fiction	17
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities	16
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 2022	16
Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability	16
Translating ‘Understanding’/ understanding translation: A reflexive approach	15
Work aspirations, intellectual disability and ‘cruelling out’ the mark in the job club	15
Who counts in poverty research?	14
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’	14
Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes	13
Rejecting resistance: Everyday resistance and harmony in Chinese hip-hop	13
Higher education and social recognition: On the moral dimension of pupils’ aspirations and choices in Chile	12
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats: (Mis)interpellation and subject positions in the face of citizenship revocation in Norway	12
Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure	12
‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community	12
Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making: Indigenous and feminist ecological reflections on the Listening Guide and the Live Methods Manifesto	12
Creating a safer space: Being safe and doing safety in queer and feminist punk scenes*	12
Becoming ‘working’ women: Formations of gender, class and caste in urban India	12

Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care	12
Navigating cultural intimacies: Long-lasting friendships in the Scottish South Asian diasporas	12
The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments	11
Not coming out as affective care: LGBTQ+ individuals navigating the feeling landscape of intergenerational relationships	11
Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’	11
Freedom and unfreedom in au pairing: Probing unfree labour from the perspective of social reproduction	10
Waiting for Tindaya: Modern ruins and indigenous futures in Fuerteventura	10
Varieties of alternativeness: Relational practices in collaborative housing in Vienna	10
Foot notes: Retracing the steps towards diagnosis	10
You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey	10
From godkin to oddkin: Love, friendship and kin making beyond the human family	10
Racialised mobilities in China	10
Pluriversal intersectionality, critique and utopia	9
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal	9
From Chateau Latour to Chateau Bourdieu: The sociology of wine between empire, class, ethnicity and gender (or, the oenologic of practice)	9
Racialised terminologies and the BAME problematic: A perspective from football’s British South Asian senior leaders and executives	9
An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism	9
Introduction to Live Methods Revisited: The roots and conjuncture of Live Methods	9
Some stories, more scenes	9
Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies	9
The private life approach to the rise of neo-familism in China	9
Children’s food, care and the practices of da pei in urban China	9
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence	9
Family strains, negative emotions and juvenile delinquency	9
Rifted subjects, fractured Earth: ‘Progress’ as learning to live on a self-transforming planet	8
Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda	8
Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism: Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s–1980s)	8
The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’	8
Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated’ citizens in post-Brexit Britain	8
‘When we put our thoughts and ideas together, policy makers are listening to us’: Hope-work and the potential of participatory research	8
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum	8
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’	8
What’s love got to do with it? Live methods and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention	8
Fiction in Goffman	7
‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities	7
Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis	7
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map	7
Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances	7
The conviviality of the overpoliced, detained and expelled: Refusing race and salvaging the human at the borders of Britain	7
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload	7
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism	7
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure	7
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s	6
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID	6
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: Understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture	6
The spectral material culture in ordinary life: Re-imagining obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)	6
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK	6
The lines of descent of the present crisis	6
Sociologically unspeakable? The ethics of ethnography and live methods	6

Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England	6
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk	6
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: ‘To stand in the gap’ as a feminist approach	6
Following diversity through the university: On knowing and embodying a problem	6
Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’	6
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement	6
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally: A toolkit	5
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism	5
Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society	5
Disjunctive writing in the urban skinscape: Bodies, borders and the physiology of attention in a Rio de Janeiro favela	5
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state	5
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’	5
Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940	5
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy	5
Afterword: Affective histories and class transmission	5
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future	5
Organising for Change one year later – Response to the critics	5
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement	5
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal	5
The politics of the urban green: Class, morality and attachments to place	5
Queering Southern Italy: Towards a conceptualisation of ‘Meridian Sexualities’	5
Dark waters, dark waters	5
Non-binary embodiment and bodily discomfort: Body as social signum	5
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment	5
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK	5