OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Critique of Anthropology is 0. 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
The village bank of a Lisu community: Indigenous belief, economic practices, and environmental conservation in Southwest China	37
Makeshift activism and the afterlives of refugee welcome in Covid-19 Italy	14
Power and precariousness in the expert hierarchies of the US hydrocarbon industry	12
When diversity becomes a resource: Managing alterity and everyday cosmopolitanisms in Carlo Pisacane, a primary school in Rome	9
In search of a caring state: Migrations of Afghans from Iran to Germany	8
‘You’ll be very far from this place’: Temporal and spatial aspirations at Bridge International Academies in Kenya	7
Mobility cause lawyering: Contesting regimes of (im)mobility in the Canary Islands migration route to Europe	7
Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana	6
A cosmopolitan bubble? Constructions of locality at an international school in China	6
The perils of utopia: Between ‘ethical static’ and moral perfectionism in Iran	6
From ‘beasts of burden’ to ‘backbone of society’: The fiscal forging of a new Bolivian middle class	5
‘Occupying’ the womb: Disrupted kinship futures and sovereign logics in sexual violence during wars	5
Incidental sustainability? Notes from a thrift store in Germany	5
Defying national homogeneity: Hidden acts ofZainichiKorean resistance in Japan	5
Bridging anthropological theory: Accumulating and containing wealth in World of Warcraft landscapes	4
Fostering sustainability through environmentally friendly coffee production and alternative trade: The case of Café Orgánico de Marcala (COMSA), Honduras	4
‘It’s up to the market to decide’: Revealing and concealing power in the sustainable tea supply chain	4
Lithium scale-making and extractivist counter-futurities in Bolivia	4
The politics of percentage: Informating justice in the US clean energy rush	4
Actually existing post-socialism: Producing ideological others in eastern Germany	3
Moving forward – staying put: Social science postgraduates’ Covid-19 (im)mobilities	3
Imagine air: Global commons, ‘ecological civilization’, and citizen visions beyond carbon markets in China	3
Socialising resources: State-encouraged commoning and the making of scarce social goods in Shenzhen (China)	3
Navigating Covid-induced (im)mobilities: Human agency during travel restrictions and uncertainties	2
Desiring the state: Social welfare and kinship in post-socialist Tanzania	2

Global tourism and local ethnicity: Reconfiguring racial and ethnic relations in central Laos	2
‘New’ but ‘Squeezed’: Middle Class and Mortgaged Homeownership in Croatia	2
Breaking the Contract: Digital Nomads and the State	2
Audit as confession: The instrumentalisation of ethics for management control	2
Lifeline Ferries: Existential dimensions of ‘essential’ mobility	2
‘Creature of statute’: Legal bureaucracy and the performance of professionalism in Johannesburg	2
The time of post-socialism: On the future of an anthropological concept	2
Introduction: Contesting the moral worlds, scales, and epistemics of energy transitions	2
Moving around the Synagogue: Responses to COVID Restrictions on Movement for Ritual Purposes in a Liberal Jewish Community	2
Making valuable energy: Public forums, municipal futures, and infrastructural pathways	2
The anthropology of post-socialism: Theoretical legacies and conceptual futures – An introduction	2
Nun of the river: The material and spiritual economies of small hydropower in rural Tanzania	2
Entangled navigations: Intergenerational care relations in neoliberal eduscapes in Benin	1
Kinship and the politics of responsibility: An introduction	1
Liminal states: Propertied citizenship and gendered kin work in middle-class Kolkata families	1
Making others (un)equal: The social ethics of Scandinavian enclaving in Maputo, Mozambique	1
We, the receptors: Planning and the politicization of local opposition to fracking in Britain	1
Afterword	1
Who alone can ‘see’? Christian humanitarianism, aspect-perception and political critique	1
Problem solving as selective blindness	1
On value and the commons	1
Introduction: Seeding change – the importance of small sustainable projects and activities	1
Afterword: Kill the petrostate	1
Cosmopolitan enclaves: An introduction	1
Engineering the middle classes: State institutions and the aspirations of citizenship	1
How to think about people who don’t want to be studied: Further reflections on studying up	1
Engineering gender, engineering the Jordanian State: Beyond the salvage ethnography of middle-class housewifery in the Middle East	1
The aftermath of gendered violence: Kinship and affect in post-genocide Rwanda	1
Political uncommoning through anti-gender mobilization by radical right-wing online voices	1
Rich man, poor man, middleman, thing: Distributing power	0
Introduction: Ethnographies of power and the powerful	0
Power in a minor key: Rethinking anthropological accounts of power alongside London’s community organisers	0
Living kindness: Re-imagining kinship for a more humane future	0
Mining the Sun: Coal-to-solar transitions and energetic place-making in Appalachia	0
Gaseous politics: contradictions and moral frontiers of the energy transition in Ghana	0
Current demands in the Nepali electricity sector: For a social reproduction theory of infrastructure	0
Distributed agency: Care, human needs, and distributive struggles in Portugal	0
Postcolonial social drama: The case of Brazilian dentists in Portugal	0
‘We were not emotional enough’: Cultural liberalism and social contract imaginaries in the Colombian peace process	0
‘of evident invisibles’: Ethnography as intermediation	0
A decolonial anthropology: You can dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools	0
“All great warriors have long hair”: Tourism and shifting Indigenous masculinities in Napo, Ecuador	0
Afterword: The middle class and the capitalist state	0
‘Love is not tourism’: Navigating immobility through (migrant) resistance	0
Crafting and maintaining socio-ecological commons: Notes from a city of ruins	0
Ecologies of quantification in waste management: Landfilling, e-waste recycling, and car breaking	0
Frontiers of cosmopolitanism: Educational enclaves and the extractive roots of international schools	0
Elites invoking the commons: The techno-utopias of the Indian national knowledge portals	0
The others’ others: When taking our natives seriously is not enough	0
An anthropology of the social contract: The political power of an idea	0

‘We work for the Devil’: Oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier	0
Extending the reach of ‘post-socialism’: A commentary	0
Looking for the authentic other: Cosmopolitan ethos and orientalism in French migrants’ experiences in Abu Dhabi	0
Introduction: Reconfiguring essential and existential (im)mobilities	0
Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain	0
Socialist fragments East and West: Towards a comparative anthropology of global (post-)socialism	0
Post-socialism as an experience of distancing and dispossession in rural and transnational Estonia	0
‘The Girls are Alright’: Beauty work and neoliberal regimes of responsibility among young women in Urban India	0
Shifting terms: Development discourses and moral imaginaries in Indian state service provision	0
Infrastructure, feral waters and power relations in rural Romania	0
Real dystopias: Over-commoning and elite capture in Austria	0
Does being Indigenous imply being religious? Anthropology, heritage, and historiography in Mexico	0
Introduction: Strategic entanglements – un/commoning as relational labour of articulating resource modalities	0
Swiss commoners’ struggles for the right balance: Ontologies, identities and responses to market and state pressures	0
Resisting renewable energy transitions: Innovation as a moral trope in the US oil and gas industry	0
Concerning distributive labour: Exploring the pragmatics of globalised interdependence	0
State aesthetics and the Other–Nature in disaster memorials	0
Scales of disaster: Intimate social contracts on the margins of the postcolonial state	0
Dynastic aura: Proximity to the powerful and its promise in corporate South Korea	0
Social reproduction, interrupted? Motherly labour, educational aspirations, and the work for another life	0
The politics of dispossession and compensation in the eastern Indian coal belt	0
‘You feel it in your bones’: Mobility, animacy, and the everyday violence of incarceration in the American southwest	0
Sensing indigeneity: A sensory ethnography of the presence of the past among newly identifying indigenous people in South Africa	0
True selves, suspicious lives: Public deceits, hopes of restoration, and existential troubles in misdocumented pasts	0
‘A vision for the future’: Professional ethos as boundary work in Mozambique’s public sector	0
Rule by glorification: The imposition of state honours and ‘grateful coerced subjects’ in contemporary Vietnam	0
Challenging the dominant work ethic: Work, naps, and productivity of location-independent workers	0
Gender and the politics of maternalisms: Kinship-based imaginaries, responsibility and care in Australian refugee advocacy	0
The value of dignity: Health insurance, ethics and court cases in Brazil	0
“The economy of trust”? Competing grassroots economics and the mobilization of (mis-)trust in a Catalonian cooperative	0
‘South-Working’: Return mobilities and remote work during COVID-19	0
Missing power: Nostalgia and disillusionment among Southern California water engineers	0
Migrants as subject-citizens: Identity affirmation and domestic concealment among Venezuelans living in Santiago, Chile	0
A feral science? Dangers and disruptions between DIYbio and the FBI	0