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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Who Can Capitalize on Capitalism’s Dispossessions?	34
Scholarship Denied: The Phelps Stokes Fund’s Use of the ‘Race Relations’ Paradigm to Silence Du Bois’ Critiques of Racial Capitalism	33
Critical Theory and Universal Basic Income	31
Book Review: Living Well at Others’ Expense: The Hidden Costs of Western Prosperity by Stephan Lessenich	21
Trajectories and Legacies of Outsider Party-Building: The Rise and Fall of Spain’s Podemos	17
About the Authors	17
After a Global Platform Leaves: Understanding the Heterogeneity of Gig Workers through Capital Mobility	17
New Wave of Thinking About Revolutions	16
The Mobility–Immobility Dynamic and the ‘Fixing’ of Migrants’ Labour Power	16
Gramsci in South Africa: On Postcolonial Sociology and Levenson’s Delivery as Dispossession	15
On Digital Fetishism: A Critique of the Big Data Paradigm	15
Book Review: Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia by Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva	14
‘The Fire This Time’: The Long Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalist Accumulation and Spectre of Neofascism	14
Twisted Trajectories, Curious Chronologies: Revisiting the Unfree Labour Debate	14
In Pursuit of the Sociological Imagination: Zygmunt Bauman as Reader	13
When a House Explodes: Remarks on Emancipatory Politics in Times of Crises	13
Media Visibility and Migrant Voices: Representational Segregation in the Nordic Platform Economy	12
Decolonising Disability in Contexts of Illiberalism and Social Abandonment: The Case for a Double-Edged Critique from the Postsocialist Margins	12
Eco-imperial Tensions: Decarbonization Strategies in Times of Geopolitical Upheaval	11
Politics, Crisis, and the Canon: A Commentary on Michael Burawoy’s ‘Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois’	10
Gazacide: Palestinians From Refugeehood to Ontological Obliteration	10
Critical Sociology at 50	10
Turkey’s Rising Tide of Dissent: Charting the Wave of Non-Legal Strikes in the Mid-2010s	9
Trusting by Numbers: An Analysis of a Chinese Social Credit System Governance Infrastructure	9
About the Authors	9

Book Review: Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution, by Rusha Latif	8
Debating Equity through Integration: School Officials’ Decision-Making and Community Advocacy During a School Rezoning in Williamsburg, Virginia	8
Walking on Two Legs: Black Marxism and the Sociological Canon	8
Sociology Faces the Question of Palestine	8
About the Authors	7
Travelling Lite, or the History of (Almost) Everything	7
Book Review: Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease by Alexandre I. R. White	7
Book Review: The Voucher Promise: “Section 8” and the Fate of an American Neighborhood	7
Importance of “the Social”: The Divergent Informal Careers of Chinese Internal Migrants	7
The Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies. Part II: A Systematic Review of Substantive Findings (Revolution Causes, Forms, and Waves)	7
One of the Good Ones: Rhetorical Maneuvers of Whiteness	6
Review of Militarized Global Apartheid by Catherine Besteman	6
About the Authors	6
Culture in the Space of Late Capitalism: The Artist and the Market	6
Framing the Immigrant in Labor Unions and the Military in the United States	6
Is the Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies Still Coming?	6
Demolition, Division and Displacement: Examining the Preservation of Whiteness in Rotterdam Municipal Housing Policy	6
On-Demand and Marketplace Platforms: Gig Care Work Conditions on Two Digital Labour Platform Care Models	5
Capitalism, Class Struggle and/in Academia	5
Passive Revolution in Japan: The Restoration of Hegemony under Abe?	5
After the Foxconn Suicides in China: A Roundtable on Labor, the State and Civil Society in Global Electronics	5
Frankfurt School Legacy and the Critical Sociology of Media: Lifeworld in Digital Capitalism	5
American Ignorance: Covid Comes	5
Book Review: The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Alex Hochuli, George Hoare and Philip Cunliffe	5
Of Elephants and Scholars: From Criticism to Reconstruction in Sociology	5
Land, Body, Language: Corporeal Poetics of Reclaiming in Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love	5
Europeanisation, Devolution and Popular Sovereignty: On the Politics of State Transformation in Scottish Nationalism	5
About the Authors	4
Old and New Organizational Forms in a Complex Society: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective	4
‘Stand Against the Wiles of the Devil’: Interpreting QAnon as a Pseudo-Christian Extremist Movement	4
Running Democracy into the Ground?	4
When Feminism Redefines National Liberation: How Tal’at Movement brought Feminism to the Core of the Palestinian National Liberation Struggle	4
Revolutions and the World-System	4
About the Authors	4
The Politics of Governance by Quantification Infrastructure	4
Indigenous Knowledge and the Social Construction of Patriarchy: The Case of the Bukusu of Kenya	4
After the Arab Uprisings: Rejoinder to Reviewers	4
Exodus, Nakba Denialism, and the Mobilization of Anti-Arab Racism	4
Book Review: Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes the World by Slavoj Zizek!	4
The Fragmented Labor Power Composition of Gig Workers: Entrepreneurial Tendency and the Heterogeneous Production of Difference	4
Book Reviews: Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival by LaShawnDa Pittman	4
Overextension and Globalization: The Dynamics of Hegemonic Decline	4
Colonial Capitalist Heterochronicity: Socio-Ecological Rhythms of the Sugar Plantation and the Formal Subsumption of Historical and Cultural Difference	4
Institutional and Ideational Forces of Contentious Politics in Chile (2006–2019)	4
Decolonizing Sociology for Social Justice in Bangladesh: Delta Scholarship Matters	3
A ‘Romantic Public Tragedy’? COVID Pandemic and the Changes of Governance in Poland	3
From Labour Process Theory to Organisational Political Economy: A Response to Benassi, Ikeler and Wood	3
Canon Fodder and the Intimacy of Dialogues	3
The Hispanic Outreach: Network Analysis of a Community-Based Policing Program in South Los Angeles	3
Women’s Solidarity, Communicative Space, the Gig Economy’s Social Reproduction and Labour Process: The Case of Female Platform Drivers in China	3

Book Review: Passport Island: The Market for EU Citizenship in Cyprus by Theodoros Rakopoulos	3
Book Review: Understanding the War Industry by Christian Sorensen	3
Crisis Governance, (De)Mobilisation and New Inequalities: The Legacy of COVID-19	3
The Dilemma of Foxconn Moms: Social Reproduction and the Rise of ‘Gig Manufacturing’ in China	3
News Sources in the Sociology of the Media: A Critical Re-Examination	3
Towards a Postcolonial Critical Realism	3
The Ethics of Seeing Historically: Past, Present, and Future in Dark Times	3
Institutions, Occupations and Connectivity: The Embeddedness of Gig Work and Platform-Mediated Labour Market in Hong Kong	3
The Broken Promise of Human Capital Theory: Social Embeddedness, Graduate Entrepreneurs and Youth Employment in China	3
From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care	3
Searching for the Ariadne Thread in Zygmunt Bauman’s Early Contributions to Social Analysis	3
From Social Sphere to Intermediary Association: A Critical Analysis of Civil Society’s Neoliberal Transformation	3
Trump’s Charisma	3
Exit-With-Autonomy or Autonomy-Without-Exit? Divergent Political Trajectories in Rojava and the Kurdish Regional Government	3
Criticize and Construct! A Case for Emancipatory Social Theory	3
Derailed and Denaturalized: The Case of East Palestine, Ohio	3
The Hegemony Crisis, the Neoliberal Model, and the United States Power Structure	3
Professionalization from above in domestic work: Accessing work on marketplace platforms	2
Governing Mobility Through Exemptions: Cross-National Dependencies, Immigration Policy, and Migrant Labour in South African Historical Perspective	2
Making Sense of the Republic in Turkey at Its Centennial: A Jacobinist Route to Modernity?	2
Walls, Cracks and Change: The Challenges and Opportunities of Critically Engaged Research Within Current Academic and Refugee Research Structures	2
Challenging Capitalism Begins in Everyday Lives: The Culture of Meci, the Gift and the Commons	2
The Defamiliarization of Childcare in Uruguay: What Factors Contribute to the Use of Care Centers?	2
About the Authors	2
The Shock Doctrine Comes to Canada: Laurentian University’s Insolvency Claim and the Neoliberal Tide	2
From Black Zionism to Black Nasserism: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Foundations of Black Anti-Zionist Discourse	2
Changing, But Not in Decline: Globalization From a Sociometabolic Perspective	2
Book Review: Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital: A Marxist Analysis of Service and Retail Labour by Fabian van Onzen	2
About the Authors	2
Book Reviews: Marx’s Literary Style by Ludovica Silva	2
Book Review: Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays	2
Unpacking State Production of Temporal Dispossession: The Intersections of Labour, Asylum and Informalization in Sweden	2
Dependency Theory and Marxism in Latin America: Between Convergences and Contradictions	2
Addiction	2
Double the Tasks, Double the Control: An Analysis of Workers’ Practices to Increase Visibility in Cleaning, Care, and Accommodation Platforms in Spain	2
Organised Violence, Inequality and Work: Violence Specialists as a Classed Occupation	2
Expanding Sanctuary: The City of Sanctuary Movement in London	2
Turning Theory to Practice: Palestine as a Sociological Question: ASA Resolution for Justice in Palestine	2
Garrison Take this job	2
Unpacking Social Order: Toward a Novel Framework That Goes Beyond Organizations, Institutions, and Networks	2
Between (Conceptual) Crisis and Critique: Reclaiming the Critical Epistemic Value of Publicness	2
Contradictions of Neoliberal Urbanism: The Case of Paid Domestic Workers in Indian Cities	2
Neoliberalism and the Global Migrant Crisis: A World-Ecology Perspective	2
Placing Mexican Ethnic Enclaves: Toward a Recursive Model of Place Attachment	2
Constructing Conflict: The Politics of Job Creation Policy, Precarious Work, and Citizenship in South Africa’s Construction Industry	2
Book Review: Sociology in Post-Normal Times by Charles Thorpe	2
Degenerations of Democracy: Response to Comments	2
Coming from México ‘for a Better Life Here’: Street Gangs, American Violence, and the Spatialized Contours and Historical Continuity of Racial Capitalism	2