OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cultural Studies is 1. 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
‘Stress-testing’ the system: speculations on the Hong Kong protests from afar	31
Looking for the clown in the 1980s: the melancholy clients in the Taiwan teahouse and their memories of being a ‘nobody’	23
Playing politics digitally: young Chinese people’s political feelings on social media platforms	19
The use of historical ponds in political campaigns in the Czech Republic	18
Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program	14
The problematization of consumers in Swedish financial literacy education	13
The fire this time: a conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Josh Kun	13
How black is African Noir?: defining blackness through crime fiction	13
Rearticulating football fans in Hong Kong: between activism, localism, and consumerism	11
Male youth’s self-narrative and the discourse of meritocracy in South Korea	10
Communication totalitarianism in Japan: ‘Decontextualisation’ and ‘Recontextualisation’ and the digital communication environment	10
A new model of distilling religion: culturalization as marginality	9
Viral justice: how we grow the world we want	9
Writing our stories with hooks and needles: literary women's voices in textiles	8
Artificial flavors: nostalgia and the shifting landscapes of production in Sino-Japanese animation	8
Disrupting the closet: radically recontextualizing sexuality and wildness	7
The hashtag: the most conspicuous sign of our times	7
Conjunctures	7
COVID-19 and the affective politics of congestion: an exploration of population density debates in Australia	6
Word and action: the many routes through Jesús Martín-Barbero	6
Psy-drama from Martín-Barbero’s perspective	6
COVID bread-porn: social stratification through displays of self-management	5
The epiphanic moments of COVID-19: the revelation of painful national truths	5
Oceanic bellies and liquid feminism in Fatou Diome’sLe Ventre de l’Atlantique	5
Affect, Protest, Pandemic: Conversations from the crises of 2020	5

Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: brokering crisis or brokers in crisis	5
Regulation of pornography and criminalization of BL readers and authors in contemporary China (2010–2019)	5
‘They abscond’: migration and coloniality in the contemporary conjuncture in Europe	5
Witch camps and witchcraft discourse in Africa: critiquing development practices	4
Settler colonial ways of seeing: documentation, administration, and the interventions of Indigenous art	4
COVID-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’: pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies	4
Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power	4
Streaming Black to the future: post-soul aesthetics & competing nostalgia in FX’s Snowfall and Pose	4
Editors’ introduction: remembering blackly	4
Tech money in civil society: whose interests do digital rights organisations represent?	4
From mass popular to bastardized popular	3
Stirring the sugar in the English cup of tea: more notes on the continuing relevance of Stuart Hall	3
COVID-19 at sea: ‘the world as you know it no longer exists’	3
From media to mediations: unexpected readings	3
Hangtime melancholia	3
Cultural physics	3
Anticipation, abolition, possibility: on riots, networked communication, and listening	3
Black, white, & read all over: is wearing a keffiyeh enough for Palestinian justice?	2
Violent spectre of ghost limbs	2
Asian Americans as racial contagion	2
Turks against orientalist discourse	2
Sonic masquerading in Israeli popular music: self-Imitation, accent, and mockery	2
‘Comrade unknown to me’: colonialism, modernity, and conjunctural translation in Familiar Stranger	2
Dissonance and defensiveness: orienting affects in online feminist cultures	2
The spectacle of competence: global pandemic and the redesign of leadership in a post neo-liberal world	2
How concepts do activism: as worlds, aids, cells, and currents	2
The cultural politics of teacher strikes in the United States	2
Introduction: commoning as unthinkable politics: Hong Kong against hard times	2
Guarani-kaiowa’s political ontology: singular because common	2
NFTs and the financialization of art	2
Suburban vogue and other queer survival strategies	2
Zombie capitalism and coronavirus time	2
Afterword: engendering new century black transnationalisms	2
Mexican migration and the struggle for visibility in NYC A Mexican state of mind: New York City and the new borderlands of culture , by Melissa Castillo Planas, New Brun	2
Gender perspectives on professional and everyday creativities: introduction to the special issue	2
Tuning machines: an approach to exploring how Instagram’s machine vision operates on and through digital media’s participatory visual cultures	2
Tiffany Pollard GIFs and nostalgia for the negative	1
Transnational reproductive brokers in crisis	1
Repressive suspicion, or: the problem with conspiracy theories	1
MOIRA: (Re)making Algarve’s culture(s) of water through mixed media arts	1
Streaming services and brokerage in the music industry crisis in Nigeria	1
Keywords and keywording	1
Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower	1
Amphibious subjects: sasso and the contested politics of queer self making in neo-liberal Ghana	1
Dancing with Coronaspheres: Expanded Breath Bodies and the Politics of Public Movement in the Age of COVID-19	1
Changes in the understandings and practices of village commoning in Hong Kong	1
A narrative of suffering and soil: Swedish migration and settler colonialism in northeast Argentina	1
New normals, from talk to gesture	1
The predicaments of craftsmanship in the knowledge economy: the rise and fall of Caminha’s boatyards in Caminha, Portugal	1
Aqua/geopolitical conjuncture and disjuncture: invasion, resources, and mining the deep dark sea	1

Fashion in ‘crisis’: consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown	1
Girl spaces: images of girlhood on the internet	1
Dangerous memories and entangled temporalities: Irish republicanism and the postcolonial politics of time	1
Crisis vision: race and the cultural production of surveillance	1
‘The end of the common world’: COVID anxieties, bordered lives and democratic censorship in Taiwan	1
The more, the better: queer urban spatialities of Seoul in three films	1
Acknowledgements	1
Lithium’s buzz: extractivism between booms in Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile	1
Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka	1
Between knowing and understanding: Israeli Jews and the memory of the Palestinian Nakba	1
Waste commons in motion	1
The Rebel's clinic: the revolutionary lives of Frantz Fanon	1
The future of religious pasts: religion and cultural heritage-making in a secular age – introduction	1
‘Blood Money’: a cultural history of the menstrual economy	1