OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Sociology is 2. 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
Gender-Based Violence, Twin Pandemic to COVID-19	90
From COVID-19 to the End of Neoliberalism	84
Gender, Class, and the Gig Economy: The Case of Platform-Based Food Delivery	46
Introduction: Solidarities in Motion: Hybridity and Change in Migrant Support Practices	23
War, Heroes and Sacrifice: Masking Neoliberal Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic	23
Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois	19
The Critical Business School and the University: A Case Study of Resistance and Co-optation	19
Conspiracy Theories and the Manufacture of Dissent: QAnon, the ‘Big Lie’, Covid-19, and the Rise of Rightwing Propaganda	19
Things are Getting Worse on Our Way to Catastrophe: Neoliberal Environmentalism, Repressive Desublimation, and the Autonomous Ecoconsumer	18
Japan’s Modernization and Discrimination: What are Buraku and Burakumin?	18
Countering the Asylum Paradox Through Strategic Humanitarianism: Evidence from Safe Passage Activism in Germany	16
Impossible Futures? The Ambivalent Temporalities of Grassroots Humanitarian Action	14
The Algorithmic University: On-Line Education, Learning Management Systems, and the Struggle over Academic Labor	14
Debunking the Myths Behind Nonviolent Civil Resistance	14
The White Right: A Gendered Look at the Links Between “Victim” Ideology and Anti-Black Lives Matter Sentiments in the Era of Trump	14
Does COVID-19 as a Long Wave Turning Point Mean the End of Neoliberalism?	13
“If Only We Are Brave Enough to Be It”: Demanding More from Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts to Support Women Faculty of Color”	12
The Nexus of QAnon and COVID-19: Legitimation Crisis and Epistemic Crisis	12
Ethnicity in Electoral Politics in Ghana: Colonial Legacies and the Constitution as Determinants	10
Building Transversal Solidarities in European Cities: Open Harbours, Safe Communities, Home	10
Impact of COVID-19 on Migrant Labourers of India and China	10
The New Finance Capital: Corporate Governance, Financial Power, and the State	10
QAnon—Religious Roots, Religious Responses	9
Berserk!: Anger and the Charismatic Populism of Donald Trump	9
The Perfect Storm: A Subcultural Analysis of the QAnon Movement	9

Experimenting with Wellbeing: Basic Income, Immaterial Labour and Changing Forms of Productivity	9
The Two Faces of the ‘Global Right’: Revolutionary Conservatives and National-Conservatives	9
A Class Analysis of the Expansion of COVID-19 in Peru: The Case of Metropolitan Lima	9
Human Rights-inspired Governmentality: COVID-19 through a Human Dignity Perspective	8
Contesting Working-Class Politics in Turkey: Social Transformations, Islam, and the Left	8
Rethinking the Link Between Structure and Collective Action. Capitalism, Politics, and the Theory of Social Movements	8
Generating Solidarity in Diversity: The Case of Housing Struggles in Rome	8
Rethinking Economic Security in a Precarious World	8
Marketisation of Academia and Authoritarian Governments: The Cases of Hungary and Turkey in Critical Perspective	8
Place Attachment and Alienation from Place: Cultural Displacement in Gentrifying Ethnic Enclaves	8
Politicized Megaprojects and Public Sector Interventions: Mass Consent Under Neoliberal Statism	8
Urban Solidarity: Perspectives of Migration and Refugee Accommodation and Inclusion	6
Capital, Capitalism and Health	6
On the Urgent Need to Re-Engage Classical Marxism	6
Cornel West and Marxist Humanism	6
Migration Regime and “Language Part of Work”: Experiences of Syrian Refugees as Surplus Population in the Turkish Labor Market	6
Pushed to the Margins: The Crisis Among Tribal Youth in India During COVID-19	6
Twisted Trajectories, Curious Chronologies: Revisiting the Unfree Labour Debate	6
‘Race might be a unicorn, but its horn could draw blood’: Racialisation, Class and Racism in a Non-Western Context	6
Politization in Labor Conflict: Analyzing the Demands of Post-Authoritarian Chilean Strikes	6
A Sociological Analysis of “OK Boomer”	6
Failing to Plan Is Planning to Fail: Toward an Expanded Notion of Democratically Planned Postcapitalism	6
The Spatial Politics of Far-right Populism: VOX, Anti-fascism and Neighbourhood Solidarity in Madrid City	6
Institutions, Occupations and Connectivity: The Embeddedness of Gig Work and Platform-Mediated Labour Market in Hong Kong	6
The Indebted and Silent Worker: Paternalistic Labor Management in Foreign Labor Policy in Japan	6
The Artisan Economy and the New Spirit of Capitalism	6
Super-circulation: Towards a Political Economy of Platformisation	6
Normalizing and Resisting the New Precarity: A Case Study of the Indonesian Gig Economy	6
From Grievance to Insurrection: Authoritarian Populism Today	6
Work Faster, Harder, Cheaper? Global, Local and Sectoral Co-Configurations of Job Insecurities Among Hong Kong Creative Workers	5
Law, Code and Exploitation: How Corporations Regulate the Working Conditions of the Digital Proletariat	5
How Race Counts for Latinx Homeownership	5
On Transversal Solidarity: An Approach to Migration and Multi-Scalar Solidarities	5
Towards a Postcolonial Critical Realism	5
Law and Corporate Malfeasance in Neoliberal India	5
The Protests in Belarus: Context, Causes and Lessons	5
Reflections on the Decline of Academia: Large Problems and Small Minds	5
Lest We Forget: Politics of Multiculturalism in Canada Revisited during COVID-19	5
Women’s Solidarity, Communicative Space, the Gig Economy’s Social Reproduction and Labour Process: The Case of Female Platform Drivers in China	5
The Broken Promise of Human Capital Theory: Social Embeddedness, Graduate Entrepreneurs and Youth Employment in China	5
COVID-19 and Other Challenges: A Case Study of Certified Organic Green Tea Producers in China	5
Ethno-Nationality of Caste in Pakistan: Privileged Caste Morality in Sindhi Progressive Literature and Politics	5
Manufacturing Distress: Race, Redevelopment, and the EB-5 Program in Central Brooklyn	5
“Almost Equal”: Confronting Norms and Normality in Experiencing Visual Disability	5
After a Global Platform Leaves: Understanding the Heterogeneity of Gig Workers through Capital Mobility	5
The Indefatigable Worker: From Factory Floor to Zoom Avatar	4
‘No South Asian Riders, Please’: The Politics of Visibilisation in Platformed Food Delivery Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong	4
Donald Trump in Power: Discourse, Performativity, Identification	4
Social Movements in Iran: How Well Does the Dominant Narrative Work?	4
Solidarity Stalled: When Chinese Activists Meet Social Movements in Democracies	4

Rethinking Capitalism, Crisis, and Critique: An Interview With Nancy Fraser	4
(Re)enacting Settler Colonialism via White Resident Utterances	4
Neoliberal Fatigue: The Effects of Private Refugee Sponsorship on Canadians’ Political Consciousness	4
Walking on Two Legs: Black Marxism and the Sociological Canon	4
Learning from Criticisms of Civil Resistance	4
Democracy Against Labor Movement: Japan’s Anti-Labor Developmental State and Aftermaths	4
Hong Kong’s Precarious Young Workers and Contradictions of Capital	4
For Sociology: May Our Arguments Unite Us	3
Profit, Self, and Agency: A Reevaluation	3
Epistemic and Social Diversity as Sociology’s Strengths	3
Structural Labor Precariousness in Peru	3
The Making of a Work-ready Individual: The Political Economy of Time in a Workfare Program in Israel	3
Theorizing Regulation-in-City for Homeless People’s Subaltern Strategy and Informality: Societalization, Metabolism, and Classes With(out) Housing	3
Labor Unions and Undocumented Immigrants: Local Perspectives on Transversal Solidarity During DACA and DAPA	3
The January 6 Insurrection: Historical and Global Contexts	3
Patterns of Reflective Solidarity and Migrant Resistance in Copenhagen and Berlin	3
Rosa Luxemburg in Mexico: On the Return of Primitive Accumulation	3
Old and New Organizational Forms in a Complex Society: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective	3
The Affective Ambiguity of Solidarity: Resonance Within Anti-Deportation Protest in the German Radical Left	3
Suicidal Economy of Turkey in Times of Crisis: 2018 Crisis and Beyond	3
The Extremism Industry: A Political Logic of Post-Hegemonic Liberalism	3
V.I. Lenin’s Theory of Socialist Revolution	3
Managerialism – A Social Order on the Rise	3
The Perfect Storm: US Missteps, Belligerence, and Racial Legacies	3
After the Foxconn Suicides in China: A Roundtable on Labor, the State and Civil Society in Global Electronics	3
News, Nations, and Power Relations: How Neoliberal Media Reproduce a Hierarchical World Order	3
Rethinking the Concept of a ‘Financial Elite’: A Critical Intervention	2
Both sides of the Paycheck: Recommending Thrift to the Poor in Job Readiness Programs	2
Politics, Crisis, and the Canon: A Commentary on Michael Burawoy’s ‘Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois’	2
Black Femininity and Stand Your Ground: Controlling Images and the Elusive Defense of Self-Defense	2
Democracy and Capitalism in the Interregnum: Trump’s Failed Self-Coup and After	2
Marx’s Theories and Beyond: Understanding Working-Class Solidarity in China	2
Capitalism, Critique and Social Freedom: An Interview With Axel Honneth on Freedom’s Right	2
Decolonizing Voices From Rojhelat: Gender-Othering, Ethnic Erasure, and the Politics of Intersectionality in Iran	2
“The Whole Damn System Is Guilty”: Urban Violence, the Principal Contradiction of Racial Capitalism, and the Production of Premature Death in Oakland, California	2
Financialization and income inequality: bringing class struggle back in	2
Zombie Sociology: Why Our Discipline Is so Susceptible to the Undead	2
Reinventing the People’s House: Time, Space and Activism in Multiethnic Stockholm	2
‘Cheap Merchandise’: Atrocity and Undocumented Migrants in Transit in Mexico’s War on Drugs	2
Indigenous Knowledge and the Social Construction of Patriarchy: The Case of the Bukusu of Kenya	2
Worker Co-Operatives for the 21^st Century	2
The Policy Road to Socialism	2
Elite Communities and Polarization in Neoliberal Society: Consecration in Australia’s and Sweden’s Wealthy Neighbourhoods	2
Epistemic media and critical knowledge about the self: Thinking about algorithms with Habermas	2
Toward a Critical Understanding of the Japanese State and Capitalism	2
New Labor Actors Under Corporatism: Complementarity and the Renewal of Class Representation for Precarious Workers	2
Transversal Solidarities and the City: An Introduction to the Special Issue	2
On the Job, Off the Books: Organizing Against Worker Misclassification in the Neoliberal Era	2
The Palestine Exception, Racialization and Invisibilization: From Israel (Palestine) to North America (Turtle Island)	2
One of the Good Ones: Rhetorical Maneuvers of Whiteness	2
Professionalism and Parents: A New Frame for Color-Blind Racism in Schooling	2
Political Imaginations of Community Kitchens in Sweden	2
The Toxic Other: The Palestinian Critique and Debates About Race and Racism	2
Stratification in a Neoliberal Society: The Making of Elites and Occupationally Disabled in Contemporary Sweden	2
Detention as Social Space: Waiting, Social Relations, and Mundane Resistance of Asylum Seekers in Detention	2
The State of US Sociology: From Crisis to Renewal	2
Detached Attachment: Burnout and Commitment among Caregivers in the Immigrant Rights Movement	2
Negotiating Space and Making Place: Punjabi-Sikh Cabbies in New York City	2