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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
TERF wars: An introduction	111
Sex wars and (trans) gender panics: Identity and body politics in contemporary UK feminism	57
A critical commentary on ‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria’	45
The toilet debate: Stalling trans possibilities and defending ‘women’s protected spaces’	34
Brexit as heredity redux: Imperialism, biomedicine and the NHS in Britain	29
Care and affective relations: Social justice and sociology	27
Verbing meahcci: Living Sámi lands	27
Dis-mantling stigma: Parenting disabled children in an age of ‘neoliberal-ableism’	26
Towards an adventurous institutional politics: The prefigurative ‘as if’ and the reposing of what’s real	25
Race and racism in Poland: Theorising and contextualising ‘Polish-centrism’	25
Whose feminism is it anyway? The unspoken racism of the trans inclusion debate	22
More than ‘canaries in the gender coal mine’: A transfeminist approach to research on detransition	20
‘Neoliberal feminism’: Legitimising the gendered moral project of austerity	17
The ‘Boomer remover’: Intergenerational discounting, the coronavirus and climate change	17
Autogynephilia: A scientific review, feminist analysis, and alternative ‘embodiment fantasies’ model	17
The coronavirus and the temporal order of capitalism: Sociological observations and the wisdom of a children’s book	16
Social movements as agents of change: Fighting intersectional food inequalities, building food as webs of life	15
Millennial ‘YIMBYs’ and boomer ‘NIMBYs’: Generational views on housing affordability in the United States	15
‘Under attack’: Responsibility, crisis and survival anxiety amongst manager-academics in UK universities	15
A selfish generation? ‘Baby boomers’, values, and the provision of childcare for grandchildren	14
Sensory sociological phenomenology, somatic learning and ‘lived’ temperature in competitive pool swimming	14
(Un)making illegality: Border control, racialized bodies and differential regimes of illegality in Morocco	14
Harraga: Burning borders, navigating colonialism	14
Words to think with: An introduction	14
Punk is just a state of mind: Exploring what punk means to older punk women	13

‘The student experience’ and the remaking of contemporary studenthood: A critical intervention	13
Afterword: TERF wars in the time of COVID-19	13
Responsibility, resilience and symbolic power	13
Habitus in the context of transnationalization: From ‘transnational habitus’ to a configuration of dispositions and fields	13
Feminism will be trans-inclusive or it will not be: Why do two cis-hetero woman educators support transfeminism?	12
The conviviality of the overpoliced, detained and expelled: Refusing race and salvaging the human at the borders of Britain	11
Food in transition: The place of food in the theories of transition	11
Situating class in workplace and community environmentalism: Working-class environmentalism and deindustrialisation in Porto Marghera, Venice	11
Philanthrocapitalism as wealth management strategy: Philanthropy, inheritance and succession planning among the global elite	11
Problematizing a popular panacea: A critical examination of the (continued) use of ‘social generations’ in youth sociology	11
The ontological woman: A history of deauthentication, dehumanization, and violence	10
Clutter in domestic spaces: Material vibrancy, and competing moralities	10
Exploring the racial habitus through John’s story: On race, class and adaptation	10
Imposed volunteering: Gender and caring responsibilities during the COVID-19 lockdown	10
The role of asylum in processes of urban gentrification	10
Feminised concern or feminist care? Reclaiming gender normativities in zero waste living	10
A new middle-class fraction with a distinct subjectivity: Tech workers and the transformation of the entrepreneurial self	9
Independence and relationality in notions of adulthood across generations, gender and social class	8
The case for creative, visual and multimodal methods in operationalising concepts in research design: An examination of storyboarding trust stories	8
Postcolonial sociology as a remedy for global diffusion theory	8
Counter-talk as symbolic boundary drawing: Challenging legitimate cultural practices in individual and focus group interviews in the lower regions of social space	8
Framing stigma as an avoidable social harm that widens inequality	8
Painting with data: Alternative aesthetics of qualitative research	8
Surveilling the marginalised: How manual, embodied and territorialised surveillance persists in the age of ‘dataveillance’	8
Affective labour and class distinction in the night-time economy	8
Enacting efficient care within a context of rationalisation	7
Kindred spirits: Doing family through craft entrepreneurship	7
The coloniality of distinction: Class, race and whiteness among post-crisis Italian migrants	7
Reconceptualising Judith Butler’s theory of ‘grievability’ in relation to the UK’s ‘war on obesity’: Personal responsibility, biopolitics and disposability	7
Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework: Scouring away the crisis?	7
Open-ended transitions to adulthood: Metaphorical thinking for times of stasis	7
COVID labour: Making a ‘livable’ life under lockdown	6
The Safe Standing movement: Vectors in the post-Hillsborough timescape of English football	6
Reaching in: Meaning-making, receiving context and inequalities in refugees’ support networks	6
Body pedagogics, transactionalism and vélo identities: Becoming a cyclist in motorised societies	6
Ugly progress: W. E. B. Du Bois’s sociology of the future	6
In Colombia some cows have raza, others also have breed: Maintaining the presence of the translation offers analytical possibilities	6
Ways to care: Forms and possibilities of compassion within UK food banks	6
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state	6
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK	6
After progress: Experiments in the revaluation of values	6
Nobody becomes stigmatised ‘all at once’: An interactionist account of stigma on a modernist council estate	6
Food for social change in Peru: Narrative and performance of the culinary nation	6
Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability	6
The neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia and its ethnicity problem	5
Exploring legacies of the baby boomers in the twenty-first century	5
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment	5
Strategies of public intellectual engagement	5
Political intersectionality and disability activism: Approaching and understanding difference and unity	5
Sex work abolitionism and hegemonic feminisms: Implications for gender-diverse sex workers and migrants from Brazil	5

Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Re-animalising wellbeing: Multispecies justice after development	5
Immigrants, inclusion, and the role of hard work: Exploring anti-immigrant attitudes among young people in Britain	5
The idea of community and its practice: Tensions, disruptions and hope in Glasgow’s urban growing projects	5
Commoning beyond ‘commons’: The case of the Russian ‘obshcheye’	5
Getting ‘creative’ under capitalism: An analysis of creativity as a dominant keyword	4
Cultures of risk: On generative uncertainty and intergenerational memory in post-Yugoslav migrant narratives	4
Quiet politics: Queer organizing in corporate Singapore	4
Nation building and social change in the United Arab Emirates through the invention of Emirati cuisine	4
Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure	4
The future of data ownership: An uncommon research agenda	4
The value of the serious leisure perspective in understanding cultural capital embodiment in festival settings	4
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste	4
Time structures in ethnomethodological and conversation analysis studies of practical activity	4
Ecological uncivilisation: Precarious world-making after progress	4
Social reproduction, labour and austerity: Carrying the future	4
Attitudes towards Australia’s baby boomers and intergenerational equity	4
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy	4
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement	4
Dynasties in the making: Family wealth and inheritance for the first-generation ultra-wealthy and their wealth managers	4
Citizen science and social movements: A case of participatory monitoring of genetically modified crops in Japan	4
Raising children in hostile worlds in Santiago de Chile: Optimism and ‘hyper-agentic’ mothers	4
Situating decolonial strategies within methodologies-in/as-practices: A critical appraisal	4
Displaying family at a women’s refuge	4
The EU and the social sciences: A fragile relationship	4
COVID-19, young people and the futures of work: Rethinking global grammars of enterprise	4
Border regimes and temporal sequestration: An autoethnography of waiting	4
Commensality: Networks of personal, family, and community social transformation	4
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally: A toolkit	4
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: ‘To stand in the gap’ as a feminist approach	4
Enacting community health: Obesity prevention policies as situated caring	4