OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical 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
Affective relatedness, temporalities, and the politics of care in a medical South-South partnership	23
Enlisted in struggle	13
Managing problem debt in Europe	11
“Trapped in horror transactions”	10
Everyone's an artist?	10
Land and ocean grabs and the relative surplus population in Ghana	9
The making of a racialized surplus population	9
The ethics of ESG	7
The Janus face of austerity politics	6
Whose death, whose eco-revival?	5
Planning, state building, and the days after in Palestine	5
Entrenched provisionality	4
F*ck the Police!	3
Beyond debt and equity	3
Struggling for home where home is not meant to be	3
“All we need is a home”	3
National self-identifications and coexistence in war-affected Ukraine	3
“It is as if one may not be clean”	2
In the shade of the chinar	2
Christopher Krupa: A feast of flowers review essays	2
Dreams and reality in the tubuan and the corporation	2
The politics of foreign-currency housing debt in Hungary's authoritarian capitalist reconfiguration after 2010	2
The antimonies of the PAH (Platform of Mortgage Victims) in Spain	2
Trading Futures	2
The household and family as refuge?	2

The proxy war in Ukraine	2
From breadwinner to bedridden	1
On self-reliant masculinities and rural returnees in ethnic China	1
The war on indeterminacy	1
Ethnographies of the super-rich	1
Acteon's tears reversed	1
Exemplifying political ideas	1
Afterlives of depopulated places	1
Building a life as a beneficiary of philanthrocapitalism	1
Audit failure and corporate corruption	1
The economic anthropologist as romantic bricoleur	1
Infrapolitical mobilities	1
Aesthetic politics in contemporary India	1
Fantasy constitutions	1
The Integration Spectacle	1
Imagined individuality	1
Rethinking affects of care through power	1
Mobility rules	1
Denunciations of dependence	1
A politicized ecology of resilience	1
At the time of the “backway”	1
Rejoinder	1
The bystander and the passerby	1
Social reproduction as the reproduction of capitalism	1
Careers and climates	1
“It is through struggle that we may write of structure”	1
Siberia, protest, and politics	1
Container life in post-earthquake Croatia	0
The Focaal 100	0
War on the horizon	0
Vulnerable homes on the move	0
The proxy war in Ukraine	0
Commoning and publicizing	0
Theorizing peripheral labor	0
Where is population in “surplus population”?	0
A manifesto against property	0
The peasant is dead, long live the peasant!	0
Revolutionary circles	0
Making, taking, relating, and planning	0
Postsocialist Mediterranean	0
The Russia/China border	0
A mother’s hope in the midst of existential immobility from state and stigma	0
NGOs, NGO-ing, and NGO-graphy in Serbia	0
A “becoming logistical” of anthropology?	0
The nothingness myth	0
A mutable space	0
Affordability and relationality	0
How to understand power from below without romanticism but with commitment	0
More than a glitch in the platforms	0
Toward a planetary ethnography?	0

Along the twilights of care	0
People without history in financial capitalism	0
Social housing and feminist commoning in urban Vietnam	0
“I am a dead woman”	0
Italian alliances between commoning and law	0
On difference and combination	0
After the boom	0
Waiting, planning, and tricking the future	0
Bridging “green” asymmetries through crises	0
Very sneaky crimes	0
A moral turn in finance?	0
Surplus population in-situ	0
Claiming village commons by “militarizing the ancestors” in urbanizing Fuzhou, China	0
Surplus populations, migration, and collective action	0
Desired formality	0
Halaqas, relational subjects, and revolutionary committees in Syria	0
Is civilizational primordialism any better than nationalist primordialism?	0
Ruling out rescue at sea?	0
Care as political revolution?	0
Revolutionary abandon	0
Dissenting poses	0
Between loss and opportunity	0
Connections and contradictions	0
Wolf's Marxian Marxism and the contradictory unity of theory and practice	0
Battlegrounds of dependence	0
(Un)ruly relationalities	0
Introduction	0
Class, values, and revolutions in the Russia-Ukraine war	0
The “system” as another sea	0
Spirits of displacement	0
Two theories of money	0
Disappointment and awkwardness as ugly feelings	0
Relocating exploitation	0
“While it lasts”	0
In/ter/dependence: An afterword	0
Class and kinship in problem debt	0
Navigating the sustainability landscape	0
The stable stranger	0
The anthropology of infrastructure	0
The “awkwardnesses” of aid and exchange	0
Digging into deep reality	0
Islamic piety as sovereign transcendence in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan	0