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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Defying national homogeneity: Hidden acts ofZainichiKorean resistance in Japan	47
Mobility cause lawyering: Contesting regimes of (im)mobility in the Canary Islands migration route to Europe	17
Fostering sustainability through environmentally friendly coffee production and alternative trade: The case of Café Orgánico de Marcala (COMSA), Honduras	14
Imagine air: Global commons, ‘ecological civilization’, and citizen visions beyond carbon markets in China	13
Navigating Covid-induced (im)mobilities: Human agency during travel restrictions and uncertainties	9
On value and the commons	8
‘We work for the Devil’: Oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier	8
‘Creature of statute’: Legal bureaucracy and the performance of professionalism in Johannesburg	8
We, the receptors: Planning and the politicization of local opposition to fracking in Britain	8
Afterword: The middle class and the capitalist state	7
Peronist bodies: The populist and antipopulist semiotics of protest	7
Missing power: Nostalgia and disillusionment among Southern California water engineers	7
Gaseous politics: contradictions and moral frontiers of the energy transition in Ghana	6
Crafting and maintaining socio-ecological commons: Notes from a city of ruins	6
The reconfiguration of mestizaje and whiteness in the diaspora	5
Shifting terms: Development discourses and moral imaginaries in Indian state service provision	5
Bridging anthropological theory: Accumulating and containing wealth in World of Warcraft landscapes	4
Sensing indigeneity: A sensory ethnography of the presence of the past among newly identifying indigenous people in South Africa	4
In search of a caring state: Migrations of Afghans from Iran to Germany	4
Social reproduction, interrupted? Motherly labour, educational aspirations, and the work for another life	4
‘You’ll be very far from this place’: Temporal and spatial aspirations at Bridge International Academies in Kenya	3
Introduction: Contesting the moral worlds, scales, and epistemics of energy transitions	3
Makeshift activism and the afterlives of refugee welcome in Covid-19 Italy	3
Kinship and the politics of responsibility: An introduction	3
Nun of the river: The material and spiritual economies of small hydropower in rural Tanzania	3

The others’ others: When taking our natives seriously is not enough	2
‘You feel it in your bones’: Mobility, animacy, and the everyday violence of incarceration in the American southwest	2
Introduction: Reconfiguring essential and existential (im)mobilities	2
Challenging the dominant work ethic: Work, naps, and productivity of location-independent workers	2
Lithium scale-making and extractivist counter-futurities in Bolivia	2
How to think about people who don’t want to be studied: Further reflections on studying up	2
‘Love is not tourism’: Navigating immobility through (migrant) resistance	2
Introduction: Ethnographies of power and the powerful	2
Mining the Sun: Coal-to-solar transitions and energetic place-making in Appalachia	2
An anthropology of the social contract: The political power of an idea	2
The politics of dispossession and compensation in the eastern Indian coal belt	2
Born ‘mixed’ in the USA: An emic/etic review	2
Disrupting whiteness: Exclusion and belonging in the Dutch academy, from a mixed-race perspective	2
Looking for the authentic other: Cosmopolitan ethos and orientalism in French migrants’ experiences in Abu Dhabi	2
A feral science? Dangers and disruptions between DIYbio and the FBI	2
When diversity becomes a resource: Managing alterity and everyday cosmopolitanisms in Carlo Pisacane, a primary school in Rome	2
‘It’s up to the market to decide’: Revealing and concealing power in the sustainable tea supply chain	1
Moving around the Synagogue: Responses to COVID Restrictions on Movement for Ritual Purposes in a Liberal Jewish Community	1
The aftermath of gendered violence: Kinship and affect in post-genocide Rwanda	1
Does being Indigenous imply being religious? Anthropology, heritage, and historiography in Mexico	1
Power in a minor key: Rethinking anthropological accounts of power alongside London’s community organisers	1
Ambivalent refusals: Epistemological limits in postcolonial ethnography	1
‘Significant indeterminacy’ in Mexico’s racial identities: Vernacular dynamics of race identification in the era of the ideology of mestizaje (1940s–1950s)	1
Engineering the middle classes: State institutions and the aspirations of citizenship	1
Making valuable energy: Public forums, municipal futures, and infrastructural pathways	1
‘of evident invisibles’: Ethnography as intermediation	1
Scales of disaster: Intimate social contracts on the margins of the postcolonial state	1
‘New’ but ‘Squeezed’: Middle Class and Mortgaged Homeownership in Croatia	1
Desiring the state: Social welfare and kinship in post-socialist Tanzania	1
Lifeline Ferries: Existential dimensions of ‘essential’ mobility	1
Infrastructure, feral waters and power relations in rural Romania	1
‘The Girls are Alright’: Beauty work and neoliberal regimes of responsibility among young women in Urban India	1
‘A vision for the future’: Professional ethos as boundary work in Mozambique’s public sector	1
Dynastic aura: Proximity to the powerful and its promise in corporate South Korea	0
Frontiers of cosmopolitanism: Educational enclaves and the extractive roots of international schools	0
Political uncommoning through anti-gender mobilization by radical right-wing online voices	0
Introduction: Seeding change – the importance of small sustainable projects and activities	0
Elites invoking the commons: The techno-utopias of the Indian national knowledge portals	0
Entangled navigations: Intergenerational care relations in neoliberal eduscapes in Benin	0
Ecologies of quantification in waste management: Landfilling, e-waste recycling, and car breaking	0
Power and precariousness in the expert hierarchies of the US hydrocarbon industry	0
Gender and the politics of maternalisms: Kinship-based imaginaries, responsibility and care in Australian refugee advocacy	0
A mixed-race imagination	0
Real dystopias: Over-commoning and elite capture in Austria	0
Socialising resources: State-encouraged commoning and the making of scarce social goods in Shenzhen (China)	0
Rich man, poor man, middleman, thing: Distributing power	0
A cosmopolitan bubble? Constructions of locality at an international school in China	0
Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain	0
Psychedelic assemblages	0
Extending the reach of ‘post-socialism’: A commentary	0

Moving forward – staying put: Social science postgraduates’ Covid-19 (im)mobilities	0
Mixed-race thought – making and unmaking (mixed) race	0
Incidental sustainability? Notes from a thrift store in Germany	0
‘South-Working’: Return mobilities and remote work during COVID-19	0
Afterword: Kill the petrostate	0
The anthropology of post-socialism: Theoretical legacies and conceptual futures – An introduction	0
Liminal states: Propertied citizenship and gendered kin work in middle-class Kolkata families	0
Engineering gender, engineering the Jordanian State: Beyond the salvage ethnography of middle-class housewifery in the Middle East	0
Living kindness: Re-imagining kinship for a more humane future	0
Breaking the Contract: Digital Nomads and the State	0
State aesthetics and the Other–Nature in disaster memorials	0
Concerning distributive labour: Exploring the pragmatics of globalised interdependence	0
Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana	0
The perils of utopia: Between ‘ethical static’ and moral perfectionism in Iran	0
‘We were not emotional enough’: Cultural liberalism and social contract imaginaries in the Colombian peace process	0
Making others (un)equal: The social ethics of Scandinavian enclaving in Maputo, Mozambique	0
Current demands in the Nepali electricity sector: For a social reproduction theory of infrastructure	0
“All great warriors have long hair”: Tourism and shifting Indigenous masculinities in Napo, Ecuador	0
Audit as confession: The instrumentalisation of ethics for management control	0
Actually existing post-socialism: Producing ideological others in eastern Germany	0
The village bank of a Lisu community: Indigenous belief, economic practices, and environmental conservation in Southwest China	0
Post-socialism as an experience of distancing and dispossession in rural and transnational Estonia	0
Migrants as subject-citizens: Identity affirmation and domestic concealment among Venezuelans living in Santiago, Chile	0
A decolonial anthropology: You can dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools	0
“The economy of trust”? Competing grassroots economics and the mobilization of (mis-)trust in a Catalonian cooperative	0
Swiss commoners’ struggles for the right balance: Ontologies, identities and responses to market and state pressures	0
Afterword	0
Rule by glorification: The imposition of state honours and ‘grateful coerced subjects’ in contemporary Vietnam	0
The politics of percentage: Informating justice in the US clean energy rush	0
Socialist fragments East and West: Towards a comparative anthropology of global (post-)socialism	0
Problem solving as selective blindness	0
Resisting renewable energy transitions: Innovation as a moral trope in the US oil and gas industry	0
The time of post-socialism: On the future of an anthropological concept	0
Distributed agency: Care, human needs, and distributive struggles in Portugal	0
Cosmopolitan enclaves: An introduction	0
True selves, suspicious lives: Public deceits, hopes of restoration, and existential troubles in misdocumented pasts	0
The value of dignity: Health insurance, ethics and court cases in Brazil	0
Introduction: Strategic entanglements – un/commoning as relational labour of articulating resource modalities	0
Global tourism and local ethnicity: Reconfiguring racial and ethnic relations in central Laos	0
‘Occupying’ the womb: Disrupted kinship futures and sovereign logics in sexual violence during wars	0
From ‘beasts of burden’ to ‘backbone of society’: The fiscal forging of a new Bolivian middle class	0