OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Cultural Studies 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Past imperfect: Transition narratives, popular discourses and The Informant	89
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis	35
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture	29
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome	20
Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade	19
The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender	18
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities	18
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers	16
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games	15
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value	13
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector	13
Soft nationalism in China: The case of Hanfu style	13
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	12
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy	12
Glitch, the Post-digital Aesthetic of Failure and Twenty-First-Century Media	11
Music and dance beyond boundaries? Emphasizing Muslim–Jewish North African commonalities, avoiding politics	10
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies	10
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips	10
‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign	10
The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry	9
Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads	9
Laughter in times of distress: Pandemic humor and satire in Iran	9
Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics	9
‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong	9
‘Je te crois’ (‘I believe you’): Pragmatics of a feminist slogan, or silencing and the scene of address in post-#MeToo France	8

Special cultural commons section: Roundtable discussion of Catherine Rottenberg’s This Is Not a Feminism Textbook, Goldsmiths University Press (2023)	8
Urban renewal, contested memories and the politics of cultural production: The case of Jewish–Muslim encounters in Germany	7
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors	7
I was never in it for the money: Media narratives of celebrity chefs and the gastro-capitalist social entrepreneur	7
Book Review: Johnny Walker, Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978–92	6
Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives	6
Resilience is a feminist issue: A response to Angela McRobbie’s Feminism and the Politics of Resilience in the context of Britain during the coronavirus pandemic	6
‘We live in a capitalist world, we need to survive!’: Feminist cultural work, platform capitalism, and pandemic precarity	6
‘I’m just not gay-gay’: Exploring same-sex desire and sexual minority identity formation in SKAM and its Western European remakes	6
High art on a mug: Art merchandise in China’s contemporary art market	6
Backlash, white privilege and anger: Resistance to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda in the British television industry	5
The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons	5
Anokha emerging: The Asian Underground, new ethnicities, and diversity conservatism	5
The racialisation of AIDS in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion	5
Publication Notice	5
Negative justice: The case of the human rights museum	4
Brexit, ugly feelings and the power of participatory art in Grayson Perry: Divided Britain	4
Dirt(y) media: Dirt in ecological media art practices	4
Immigrant Audience: Understanding Global Cultural Flow Through Somali Immigrants in Turkey	4
Ticking off the (pink) diversity box? Production views on LGBT+ in children’s fiction	4
Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity	4
The unprotectables: A critical discourse analysis of older people’s portrayal in UK newspaper coverage of Covid-19	4
The travelogue cooking show in a sub-state nation: Representing Scotland in British food television	4
Tell the story of a virus	4
Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject	4
The digital pregnancy: A qualitative study of Danish women’s use of pregnancy apps	4
Book Review: Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North Africa BoumAomarBerberNadjib, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North	4
Mattering on the margin: Thoughts on cultural participation in creative digital media	4
From Cinéfondation’s Résidence to film production: The experience of Brazilian filmmakers in an international labour market	4
Fatherhood and gender relations in the manosphere: Exploring an Italian non-resident fathers’ online forum	4
The performative body of disabled women: Toward the politics of visibility in China	4
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity	4
Netflix teen series and the globalization of difference	3
Trans experiences of epistemic recognition against the backdrop of the Finnish trans act reform	3
No room! Of course there’s room	3
Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right	3
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow	3
Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces	3
Making the invisible visible	3
Book review: Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism	3
No more jokes: Comic complexity, Adult Swim and a political aesthetic model of humour	3
Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries	3
Book review: Joanne Hollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating JoanneHollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating. London: Blooms	3
The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide	3
Weaving the network of collectivism –Kuqingas affective glue in China: Analyzing the reality showX-Change	3
Equity, diversity and inclusivity: Once more, with feeling	3
Fat shaming, feminism and Facebook: What ‘women who eat on tubes’ reveal about social media and the boundaries of women’s bodies	3
Challengers : A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires	3
Mediating American hospitality: Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge to Donald Trump?	3
Logbook of a researcher in sociology in times of crisis: Investigating Jews and Muslims after the 7th of October and the following days	3

‘Rocking the establishment’: Subculture, authenticity and the populist radical right in Sweden	3
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism	3
‘I want to be judged on my work, I don’t want to be judged as a person’: Inequality, expertise and cultural value in UK craft	3
ECS-Ecrea Early Career Scholar Prize winner - An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction	3
‘The last thing I would think about is how to dispose of it’: Fashion competence and the circularity of inactive wardrobe items	3
Book review: Lin Zhang, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	3
Platformed intimacies: Professional belonging on social media	3
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?	3
Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present	3
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media	3
Woman, Life, Freedom: Revolting space invaders in Iran	3
‘The small girl with the huge dildo is what we needed’: The politics of sex toy in Cocks Not Glocks protest	2
Introduction: Boundary work in Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban Europe	2
Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university: From timeliness to timelessness	2
No such thing as peacetime: Notes on Gaza, Hannah Arendt and cultural studies	2
Book Review: Antonio A Casilli, Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation CasilliAntonio A, Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation. Chicago, IL: The U	2
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation	2
Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries	2
Telephone networks and transactional motherhood in Channel 4’s It’s A Sin	2
The consequences of the television closet: It’s a Sin (Red Production Company for Channel 4/HBO Max, 2021) as a meditation on the presence and absence of queer lives on British television	2
Marginalized disappearances: Shaping the power relations of the search for the missing	2
Book Review: Michelle Phillipov and Katherine Kirkwood (eds), Alternative Food Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream	2
Dancing on a tightrope: Uncertainty, risk perception and trust relationships in the live music industry	2
Aligning to ambivalence: White petty bourgeois masculinities, leisure and the contemporary cultural politics of gender in the UK	2
Book review: Fong Siao Yuong, Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy	2
The continuum of regaining one’s body: Childbirth and reproductive choice under beauty pressure in Taiwan	2
Wounded men of feminism: Exploring regimes of male victimhood in the Spanish manosphere	2
Remembering voices: Singing and critical cosmopolitan memory in the Bengali diaspora	2
Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event	2
#MeToo in British schools: Gendered differences in teenagers’ awareness of sexual violence	2
Book review: Margreth Lünenborg and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (eds), Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media	2
Religion and faith: The missing index of inequality in culture and the arts	2
Personal stories in migration museums and our notions of hospitality: A case study from France’s National Museum of the History of Immigration	2
Towards luminescent ethnography of creative work: Purity, dirt and social inequality in Russian art institutions	2
Moving with affects in Finnish academia: Resistance practices of social science and humanities researchers and a possibility of change	2
More than perfect: Cosmetic surgery and ageing single women in contemporary China	2
Afro-Italian voices: Podcasting and sonic resistance	2
Book review: Nahuel Ribke, Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographies and Performances	2
Disavowing dependency: On Angela McRobbie’s Feminism and the Politics of Resilience	2
Screen agencies as cultural intermediaries: Delivering gender equality in the film and television sectors?	2
The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage	2
Peripheral allegories of platform capitalism: Carnival Row , Prague and the materiality of local labor	2
On joining the editorial team of European Journal of Cultural Studies in its 25th year	2
Science as an ‘object of love’ – affective milieus in the neoliberal university	2
Surveillance and self-care: Performing beauty labor in online video content	2
Theory, culture, care	2
Space invaders in US immigration courts: Reflections on embodiment, complicities, and the possibility and limits of resistance	2