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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
On Digital Fetishism: A Critique of the Big Data Paradigm	43
About the Authors	23
Debating Equity through Integration: School Officials’ Decision-Making and Community Advocacy During a School Rezoning in Williamsburg, Virginia	23
Demolition, Division and Displacement: Examining the Preservation of Whiteness in Rotterdam Municipal Housing Policy	22
After the Arab Uprisings: Rejoinder to Reviewers	22
Decolonizing Sociology for Social Justice in Bangladesh: Delta Scholarship Matters	22
Media Visibility and Migrant Voices: Representational Segregation in the Nordic Platform Economy	20
Surging Ahead But Feeling Stupid: Gendered Understandings of Confidence Among Working-Class College Students	20
From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care	17
Dispossession, Accumulation, Anti-Systemic Resistance Capitalist Dispossessions: Redistribution and Capital Expansion in Contemporary Brazil. By BinDaniel. London: Routledge, 2025. 186 pp., $190.00 (h	17
The Disorganization of America: Post-Fordism, Irrational Capitalism, and the Decline of Universalism	16
Book Review: Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital: A Marxist Analysis of Service and Retail Labour by Fabian van Onzen	15
Institutions, Occupations and Connectivity: The Embeddedness of Gig Work and Platform-Mediated Labour Market in Hong Kong	15
Turning Theory to Practice: Palestine as a Sociological Question: ASA Resolution for Justice in Palestine	14
Precarious Participants, Online Labour Platforms and the Academic Mode of Production: Examining Gigified Research Participation	13
Unpacking State Production of Temporal Dispossession: The Intersections of Labour, Asylum and Informalization in Sweden	13
About the Authors	13
About the Authors	13
Degenerations of Democracy: Response to Comments	12
From Black Zionism to Black Nasserism: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Foundations of Black Anti-Zionist Discourse	12
Michael Burawoy’s Path: From North to South, and Back Again	12
Critical Han Studies Through the Lens of Internal Colonialism: China, Guangdong, and Hong Kong	12
Rethinking the Concept of a ‘Financial Elite’: A Critical Intervention	11
Ibn Khaldun and Critical Inquiry: A Response to Christian Fuchs	11
Exit-With-Autonomy or Autonomy-Without-Exit? Divergent Political Trajectories in Rojava and the Kurdish Regional Government	11

About the Authors	9
The Ethics of Seeing Historically: Past, Present, and Future in Dark Times	9
On the Job, Off the Books: Organizing Against Worker Misclassification in the Neoliberal Era	9
Fictionalized Violence and Criminality: Re-evaluating the Burakumin of Japan	8
Last Rites for Development Studies?	8
Book Review: Unequal America: Class Conflict, the News Media, and Ideology in an Era of Record Inequality by Anthony R DiMaggio	8
The Political Economy of Precarious Work in India: A Case of Languishing Social Policy?	8
The Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism (PSSCM): Particular Characteristics, Main Tendencies, and Its Place in the System of Marxist Studies in Post-Soviet Russia	8
COVID-19 Emergency Governance in Croatia: The Case of Perpetual Exception and Securitized Disenfranchisement	8
Criticize and Construct! A Case for Emancipatory Social Theory	8
US Hegemony in Evolutionary Perspective	8
Cracking the Iron Ceiling: On Ethnography as Theory	7
Cybernetic Society and the Demise of Democracy	7
Colorblindness and Free Market Ideologies as Racecraft	7
Historical Alternatives and the Future of the Mass Party Origins of the Mass Party: Dispossession and the Party-Form in Mexico and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective. By AckermanEdwin F.Oxford and New	7
After Trickle Down, Kicking Down: On Jordan Peterson, Naturalizing Inequality, and Neofascist Indirect Apologetics	7
Neoliberal Fatigue: The Effects of Private Refugee Sponsorship on Canadians’ Political Consciousness	7
‘Drawing the Line’: Market Rule and Liberal Planning in the Governance of Capitalism	7
Organising Irresponsibility: Pandemic Management, State Transformation and the Diversion of Class Politics in Scotland’s COVID-19 Response	6
Hegemony, Resistance, and the Cultural Turn: Revisiting the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies	6
Book Review: Agile Against Lean: An Inquiry into the Production System of Hyundai Motor, by Hyung Je Jo, Jun Ho Jeong and Chulsik Kim	6
The Making of a Reserve Army of Labor: Paradoxes of American Disability Policy	6
Epistemic media and critical knowledge about the self: Thinking about algorithms with Habermas	5
Reconstructing Burawoy: Theorizing Migrant Labor, the Politics of Precarity, and Postcolonial/Racial Transformations	5
Soviet and Post-Soviet Marxism: Braving the Challenges of the Technological Revolution	5
The Politics of Identity, the Identity of Politics: Thinking with Badiou and Táíwò	5
The January 6 Insurrection: Historical and Global Contexts	5
The Good and the Bad in David Harvey’s Popular Marxism	5
Landholding and the Creation of Lumpen Tenants in Freetown: Youth Economic Survival and Patrimonialism in Postwar Sierra Leone	5
About the Authors	5
Subalternity and the Integral State Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City. By LevensonZachary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 296pp. £23.99 (paper).	5
Book review: Social Security in the Balkans Volume 2: An Overview of Social Policy in the Republics of North Macedonia and Montenegro edited by Marzena Żakowska and Dorota Domalewska	5
Why Should We?	5
Crisis Feminisms: How Convenient Forgetting, Feminist Ambivalence, and Racial Gaslighting Maintain the Status Quo	5
Techno-Feudalism as Primitive Accumulation: A Marxist Perspective on Digital Capitalism	4
Vaccine Hesitancy and Attitudes Toward Elite Knowledge in the United States During COVID-19	4
‘The West Is Trying Too Hard’: Gender and the Right-Wing Critique of Globalization	4
The Paradox of Upgrading: Standards of Social Reproduction and the Gendered Precarization of Garment Work in China	4
‘No South Asian Riders, Please’: The Politics of Visibilisation in Platformed Food Delivery Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong	4
Evolving Publics and the Practice of Public Sociology	4
Worker Co-Operatives for the 21^st Century	4
Party, Empire, and Flowers: A Comment on Taylor, Calhoun and Goankar’s Degenerations of Democracy	4
Deglobalization and Resilience: A Historical Perspective	4
‘People Like Us’: Discourse on Class Identity in Residential Compounds	4
Contesting Racial Capitalism in the Postcolonial City: A Response Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City. By LevensonZachary. Oxford: Oxford University Press	4
Census Tract and Neighborhood Racial Change and the Locational Decisions of Financial Services in Metro Detroit	4
Between Hope and Failure: Refusing Precarity and Building Solidarity in South Korea Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest. By ChunJennifer JihyeHanJu Hui Judy. Stanfor	4
Global Appeal: Colorblindness, Neoliberalism, and Neighborhood Branding	4
Postmodernizing the Peasantry (Again)	4
Turkey’s Road to Capitalism: Issues in Multilinear Historical Sociology Capitalism, Jacobinism, and International Relations: Revising Turkish Modernity. By DuzgunEren. New York: Cambridge University P	4

Digital Intermediation in Paid Domestic Work in Argentina: An Analysis of Ambivalent Effects on Working Conditions	4
No Dispossession, No Mass Party AckermanEdwin F, Origins of the Mass Party: Dispossession and the Party-Form in Mexico and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press: Oxford and New Y	4
Redistribution and Exclusion: Value Articulations in the Populist Moment	4
When a House Explodes: Remarks on Emancipatory Politics in Times of Crises	4
Politics, Crisis, and the Canon: A Commentary on Michael Burawoy’s ‘Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois’	3
Dependency Theory and Marxism in Latin America: Between Convergences and Contradictions	3
Sociology Faces the Question of Palestine	3
Trajectories and Legacies of Outsider Party-Building: The Rise and Fall of Spain’s Podemos	3
CORRIGENDUM to “From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care”	3
Between De-Growth and Eco-Modernism: Theorizing a Green Transition	3
Hong Kong’s Precarious Young Workers and Contradictions of Capital	3
Walking on Two Legs: Black Marxism and the Sociological Canon	3
Book Review: A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa edited by Joel Beinin, Bassam Haddad, and Sherene Seikaly	3
Running Democracy into the Ground?	3
News Sources in the Sociology of the Media: A Critical Re-Examination	3
The Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies. Part II: A Systematic Review of Substantive Findings (Revolution Causes, Forms, and Waves)	3
Changing, But Not in Decline: Globalization From a Sociometabolic Perspective	3
New Wave of Thinking About Revolutions	3
From Labour Process Theory to Organisational Political Economy: A Response to Benassi, Ikeler and Wood	3
The Tribal Games: Tribalist Foundations of Trump Supporters	3
Book Review: Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century: The New Waves of Revolutions, and the Causes and Effects of Disruptive Political Change, by Jack A. Goldstone, Leonid Grinin and Andrey	3
Moral Disapproval: The Political Consciousness of the Demobilized Working Class	3
Reading Burawoy’s The Politics of Production Now: On the Political after Post-Politics	3
The Politics of Governance by Quantification Infrastructure	3
Critical Reflection on Strategies for Widening Acceptance to Emancipatory Sociology Engaging with Employers and Workers in the Good Jobs Project	3
The Fragmented Labor Power Composition of Gig Workers: Entrepreneurial Tendency and the Heterogeneous Production of Difference	3
The OECD and Ritualized Isomorphism: Anti-Corruption Monitoring, the ‘Narrow View’ of Corruption and the Transnational Political Order	3
Frankfurt School Legacy and the Critical Sociology of Media: Lifeworld in Digital Capitalism	3
Nadir of the Dialectic: A Review of Descent and Nihilism	3
‘Everything We Do Is About Our History’: Indigenous Resurgence and Its Critique of History	3
Are Services Post-Capitalist? A Marxian Interrogation	3
Precarity and the Predatory Inclusion of Black Women by For-Profit Colleges	3
About the Authors	3
Review of Neoliberal Transformations of the Italian State: Understanding the Roots of the Crises by Adriano Cozzolino	3
Doing Things Differently? Potentialities and Limitations for Enacting Radical Cosmopolitanism Among Citizen-led initiatives for Refugees in the Netherlands	3
Platforms Don’t Care – Qualified and Experienced Women Do: A Case Study on Self-Employment and On-Demand Platforms in Eldercare	3
Video Game Concerts: Unending Consumption on Video Game Platforms	2
Book review: The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?	2
Media Tropes and the Legacy of Settler Colonialism in Chile’s Constitutional Reform Process	2
Men Who Wear Make-up: Young Korean Men’s Masculinity Management in the Neoliberal Korea	2
A Forgotten History: Marxist Ecology after Marx	2
Death Positivity, White Respectability: A Critical History of Cicely Saunders and the Hospice Model of Care	2
About the Authors	2
Book Review: With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation by Dominique Routhier	2
‘You Can’t Sacrifice Nothing’: Exploring the Lived Realities of Chronic Poverty in a Cost-of-Living Crisis Through Participatory Research	2
Recovering the Local Without Falling Into Explanatory Localism: Participative Democracy in Venezuela and Bolivia Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn. By HetlandGabriel	2
Revisiting Turkish Modernity or Uneven and Combined Development? Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Revisiting Turkish Modernity, by DuzgunEren. New York: Cambridge University Press,	2
Mapping the Coercive Turn: Universal Credit, Social Crisis, and the Politics of Welfare in Austerity Britain, 2010–2019	2
‘Knowing’ Palestinian Women: Interrogating Western International Feminist Assumptions, Governance, and Social Science Discourses	2
(Non) Cooperative and (Non) Digital Modalities in Home Care Provision in the Basque Country: Implications for Labor Autonomy of Domestic Workers	2
Against Imperial Social Policy: Recasting Mkandawire’s Transformative Ideas for Africa’s Liberation	2
Contesting Power From the Periphery: The Latin American Sociological Imagination and the Media	2
Book Review: The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game, by Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva	2
Alienation, Racial Capitalism, and the Racialization of Palestinians	2
Feminicide: Unravelling the State’s Data Infrastructures	2
Democracy and Populism	2
Conspiracies and Restorative Violence in American Culture	2
Visioning Alternatives to Segregated Education: A Disability Justice and Access-Centered Pedagogy Approach	2
Book Review: Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice , by Aaron Kupchik Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial	2
The Rise of the First-Generation College Student: A Ubiquitous Category in Need of Critical Analysis	2
About the Authors	2
Book Review: Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty: Studies of Social Phenomena and Social Theory Across 6 Continents by Patrick R. Brown and Jens O. Zinn	2
Managerial Contradictions and Satisficing in the Lean Workplace	2
Labor Market Theory as a Tautology or Theoretical Construct? Toward a Marxist Labor Market Theory	2
Politicized Megaprojects and Public Sector Interventions: Mass Consent Under Neoliberal Statism	2
Society of Trauma as a Third Modality of Development (Debatable Problems of Russia’s Present and Future From the Standpoint of Critical Marxism)	2
Still Informal? Care Platforms in a Loosely Regulated Context, the Italian Case	2
Spiking the Sociological Canon	2
Book Review: Artificial Intelligence in the Capitalist University: Academic Labour, Commodification, and Value by John Preston	2
Politization in Labor Conflict: Analyzing the Demands of Post-Authoritarian Chilean Strikes	2
The Toxic Other: The Palestinian Critique and Debates About Race and Racism	2
Breaking the ‘Tradition’: Race, Violence, and Gender in The Tradition	2
Capital , Capitalism and Health	2
Mediating the Cost-of-Living Crisis: The Meaning of a ‘Keyphrase’ in UK Contemporary Cultural Discourse	2
A Critical Realist Model for Organizational Sociology	2
Revisiting Marcuse’s Technological Rationality: Nuclear Fusion Advancement in the Age of Climate Change	2
Gregory Pardlo’s Digest Seen Through Bonilla-Silva’s Criticism of Color-Blind Racism	2
Normalizing and Resisting the New Precarity: A Case Study of the Indonesian Gig Economy	2
From Africa to Amazon.com: Racialized Labor and Global Supply Chains	2