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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen	27
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste	26
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies	26
Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability	25
The familiar strange of sociological fiction	23
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities	21
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?	20
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 2022	18
Financing elite education: Economic capital and the maintenance of class power in English private schools	17
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting	16
Translating ‘Understanding’/ understanding translation: A reflexive approach	15
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats: (Mis)interpellation and subject positions in the face of citizenship revocation in Norway	15
Work aspirations, intellectual disability and ‘cruelling out’ the mark in the job club	14
Who counts in poverty research?	13
Rejecting resistance: Everyday resistance and harmony in Chinese hip-hop	13
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’	13
Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes	13
Creating a safer space: Being safe and doing safety in queer and feminist punk scenes*	12
You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey	12
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care	12
Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making: Indigenous and feminist ecological reflections on the Listening Guide and the Live Methods Manifesto	12
From godkin to oddkin: Love, friendship and kin making beyond the human family	12
Becoming ‘working’ women: Formations of gender, class and caste in urban India	11
Varieties of alternativeness: Relational practices in collaborative housing in Vienna	11
‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community	11

Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure	11
Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’	11
The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments	11
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal	10
Racialised mobilities in China	10
Waiting for Tindaya: Modern ruins and indigenous futures in Fuerteventura	10
Freedom and unfreedom in au pairing: Probing unfree labour from the perspective of social reproduction	10
Foot notes: Retracing the steps towards diagnosis	10
Introduction to Live Methods Revisited: The roots and conjuncture of Live Methods	9
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence	9
Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated’ citizens in post-Brexit Britain	9
Pluriversal intersectionality, critique and utopia	9
Racialised terminologies and the BAME problematic: A perspective from football’s British South Asian senior leaders and executives	9
From Chateau Latour to Chateau Bourdieu: The sociology of wine between empire, class, ethnicity and gender (or, the oenologic of practice)	9
An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism	9
Some stories, more scenes	9
Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies	9
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’	8
The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’	8
Rifted subjects, fractured Earth: ‘Progress’ as learning to live on a self-transforming planet	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
‘When we put our thoughts and ideas together, policy makers are listening to us’: Hope-work and the potential of participatory research	8
Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism: Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s–1980s)	8
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map	8
Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda	8
Fiction in Goffman	8
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum	8
Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis	7
‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities	7
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload	7
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: ‘To stand in the gap’ as a feminist approach	7
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk	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
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID	7
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK	7
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism	7
The lines of descent of the present crisis	7
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Following diversity through the university: On knowing and embodying a problem	7
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s	6
Dark waters, dark waters	6
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure	6
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: Understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture	6
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement	6
Sociologically unspeakable? The ethics of ethnography and live methods	6
Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’	5
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal	5
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK	5
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism	5

Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society	5
The politics of the urban green: Class, morality and attachments to place	5
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally: A toolkit	5
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future	5
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’	5
Habitus in the context of transnationalization: From ‘transnational habitus’ to a configuration of dispositions and fields	5
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy	5
Afterword: Affective histories and class transmission	5
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state	5
Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940	5
The spectral material culture in ordinary life: Re-imagining obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)	5
Organising for Change one year later – Response to the critics	5
Disjunctive writing in the urban skinscape: Bodies, borders and the physiology of attention in a Rio de Janeiro favela	5
Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England	5
Non-binary embodiment and bodily discomfort: Body as social signum	5
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement	5