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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Psy-drama from Martín-Barbero’s perspective	32
Viral justice: how we grow the world we want	16
Male youth’s self-narrative and the discourse of meritocracy in South Korea	11
Women marrying women in northern Ghana: wading into the homosexuality debate from a Ghanaian perspective	9
Settler colonial ways of seeing: documentation, administration, and the interventions of Indigenous art	8
Anticipation, abolition, possibility: on riots, networked communication, and listening	6
Changes in the understandings and practices of village commoning in Hong Kong	6
Tiffany Pollard GIFs and nostalgia for the negative	6
Artificial flavors: nostalgia and the shifting landscapes of production in Sino-Japanese animation	6
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	6
Crisis vision: race and the cultural production of surveillance	5
The predicaments of craftsmanship in the knowledge economy: the rise and fall of Caminha’s boatyards in Caminha, Portugal	5
‘Comrade unknown to me’: colonialism, modernity, and conjunctural translation in Familiar Stranger	5
The community forming potential of Cartonera publishing	5
Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition	4
Toward a reparative history: an interview with Catherine Hall	4
Between consciousness and conscience: on ‘restorative commoning’ among moderate youth	4
Streaming Black girlhood: biculturality, nostalgia and hypervisibility in Cuties	4
‘Water, asylum, metamorphosis, freak show’: flourishing through streaming karaoke play in China	4
Correction	3
Written on the subaltern body: Gramsci and the material politics of Sardinian and Italian prison lives	3
Seven theses about the so-called culture war(s) (or some fragmentary notes on ‘cancel culture’)	3
Registering the gang body in pain: violence and haunting in Central America	3
The broken others of the nation state: debility, capacity and dissent	3
Translating Familiar Stranger into German: the particularities of the historical, cultural and political context	3

Food and the class politics of pleasure	3
Ecomodernism, cultured meat and the search for the ‘Middle landscape’	3
Black media nostalgia in Britain	3
Capturing news, capturing democracy: Trump and the Voice of America	2
Challenging the displacement of colonial histories? Isolated memories of colonial deportations from Libya to Italy in Europe’s ‘periphery’	2
The genealogy of the Moroccan cultural studies turn and the postcolonial politics of scholarly emancipation: re-edit to subvert	2
Feminist economicus : popular feminism, popular finance, and the making of the economic woman in South Korea	2
Black Mediterranean hauntings: border violence, burial, and anti-racist care work in Strange Fish	2
Rewriting the queer potential of She’s Gotta Have It	2
Meet the Savarnas: Indian millennials whose mediocrity broke everything	2
From mass popular to bastardized popular	2
Playing the waiting game: Temporal violence of asylum seeking	2
On nostalgia, haunting and postsocialism: reading the panel story project	2
Conjunctures	2
We don’t need a map: on Australian Aboriginal philosophy and critique	2
A new model of distilling religion: culturalization as marginality	2
The last mixtape: physical media and nostalgic cycles	2
How should the non-Indigenous speak? A discussion of decolonizing academia, positioning, and freedom of speech	2
Cloned Buddhas: mapping out the DNA of Buddhist heritage preservation	2
Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances	2
Marry My Dead Body , and the queer trouble of confucian-liberal enclosure	2
Religion to culture: who is the ‘Us’?	2
Settler colonial bordering and post-pandemic futures: disrupting the nation state in Aotearoa/New Zealand	2
How concepts do activism: as worlds, aids, cells, and currents	2
Witch camps and witchcraft discourse in Africa: critiquing development practices	2
Policing the Borribles: conjunctural crisis and moral panic in children’s literature	2
More than just ‘working from home’: domestic space, economies and living infrastructures during and beyond pandemic times	2
Afropolitanizing the local: how cultural imperialism is rewriting the narratives of African entertainment industries	2
Toward the Nth Space: unfixing spatial epistemologies	2
When was the ‘smart border’? Towards an agenda for historicising the technopolitics of migration and border control	1
Amphibious subjects: sasso and the contested politics of queer self making in neo-liberal Ghana	1
Dangerous memories and entangled temporalities: Irish republicanism and the postcolonial politics of time	1
Afterword: engendering new century black transnationalisms	1
‘They abscond’: migration and coloniality in the contemporary conjuncture in Europe	1
The ruse of impurity: Paul Gilroy’sThe Black Atlanticand the politics of hybridity	1
Through a southern prism: translating Stuart Hall into Spanish	1
‘It was a departure of sorts’: glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka Arimah	1
Anti-Nafta: imagining a continental unification centred on abundance	1
Border matters: situations, technopolitics, and inscriptions	1
Streaming services and brokerage in the music industry crisis in Nigeria	1
Black, white, & read all over: is wearing a keffiyeh enough for Palestinian justice?	1
Editors’ introduction: remembering blackly	1
Wulumuqi Road	1
Modern slavery legislation and the limits of ethical fashion	1
The politics of media scarcity	1
Neon signs and the red-light district of Hong Kong: from the 1960s to the present	1
Brokering war: Afghan interpreters, western soldiers and unequal encounters in crisis	1
Letter zero to the director of the Moroccan cultural studies centre: toward a decolonial turn in English studies in Morocco – part I	1
Violent spectre of ghost limbs	1
Making the human: race, allegory, and Asian Americans	1

Reordering human waste. Public restrooms as a sign of socialist modernity in China	1
Melodies of the toppling trees: the tree farm pastoral, extractivism, and attachment in British Columbia, Canada	1
Radical motherhood ecologies: towards a mapping of social life, death and resistance in the southwest borderlands	1
The decolonization that could have been but never was	1