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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis	93
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome	33
Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade	23
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities	22
The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender	21
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value	20
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games	19
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers	16
Soft nationalism in China: The case of Hanfu style	15
Past imperfect: Transition narratives, popular discourses and The Informant	14
Journeying into the liminal unknown: Making connections and finding spaces within the communitas of zines	13
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector	13
Glitch, the Post-digital Aesthetic of Failure and Twenty-First-Century Media	13
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture	13
Music and dance beyond boundaries? Emphasizing Muslim–Jewish North African commonalities, avoiding politics	12
‘He should’ve killed your ass’: Notes on Black women deserving death in the Black manosphere	12
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips	12
‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign	12
‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong	10
Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads	10
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy	9
Laughter in times of distress: Pandemic humor and satire in Iran	9
The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry	9
Special cultural commons section: Roundtable discussion of Catherine Rottenberg’s This Is Not a Feminism Textbook, Goldsmiths University Press (2023)	7
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	7

Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics	7
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies	7
Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives	6
Art in hospitals: The aesthetic-cultural turn of caring space	6
‘We live in a capitalist world, we need to survive!’: Feminist cultural work, platform capitalism, and pandemic precarity	6
Urban renewal, contested memories and the politics of cultural production: The case of Jewish–Muslim encounters in Germany	6
‘Je te crois’ (‘I believe you’): Pragmatics of a feminist slogan, or silencing and the scene of address in post-#MeToo France	6
Haunted spaces and unsettling predicaments: An interrogation of (capitalist) sport via the work of Mark Fisher	6
AI Séance: Recounts from designing artificial intelligence for transcendence, interpretive lenses and chance	6
I was never in it for the money: Media narratives of celebrity chefs and the gastro-capitalist social entrepreneur	6
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors	6
‘I’m just not gay-gay’: Exploring same-sex desire and sexual minority identity formation in SKAM and its Western European remakes	5
Anokha emerging: The Asian Underground, new ethnicities, and diversity conservatism	5
Publication Notice	5
Book Review: Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North Africa BoumAomarBerberNadjib, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North	5
The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons	5
Book Review: Johnny Walker, Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978–92	5
High art on a mug: Art merchandise in China’s contemporary art market	5
The unprotectables: A critical discourse analysis of older people’s portrayal in UK newspaper coverage of Covid-19	5
The travelogue cooking show in a sub-state nation: Representing Scotland in British food television	4
The racialisation of AIDS in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion	4
A care continuum: Food waste challenge in Hong Kong and its narration in action	4
Brexit, ugly feelings and the power of participatory art in Grayson Perry: Divided Britain	4
Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity	4
The performative body of disabled women: Toward the politics of visibility in China	4
Mattering on the margin: Thoughts on cultural participation in creative digital media	4
Backlash, white privilege and anger: Resistance to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda in the British television industry	4
Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries	4
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity	4
Tell the story of a virus	4
Immigrant Audience: Understanding Global Cultural Flow Through Somali Immigrants in Turkey	4
Negative justice: The case of the human rights museum	4
International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects: The case of Budapest, Hungary	4
From Cinéfondation’s Résidence to film production: The experience of Brazilian filmmakers in an international labour market	4
Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject	4
Weaving the network of collectivism –Kuqingas affective glue in China: Analyzing the reality showX-Change	3
Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right	3
Moving with affects in Finnish academia: Resistance practices of social science and humanities researchers and a possibility of change	3
Netflix teen series and the globalization of difference	3
Making the invisible visible	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
Ticking off the (pink) diversity box? Production views on LGBT+ in children’s fiction	3
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?	3
Platformed intimacies: Professional belonging on social media	3
The digital pregnancy: A qualitative study of Danish women’s use of pregnancy apps	3
Fat shaming, feminism and Facebook: What ‘women who eat on tubes’ reveal about social media and the boundaries of women’s bodies	3
Mediating American hospitality: Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge to Donald Trump?	3
No more jokes: Comic complexity, Adult Swim and a political aesthetic model of humour	3
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism	3
Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present	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
‘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
Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces	3
Challengers : A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires	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 ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide	3
‘Rocking the establishment’: Subculture, authenticity and the populist radical right in Sweden	3
Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries	3
No room! Of course there’s room	3
Equity, diversity and inclusivity: Once more, with feeling	3
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow	3
Influencers as emerging actors in global digital propaganda	3
Peripheral allegories of platform capitalism: Carnival Row , Prague and the materiality of local labor	2
Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event	2
Aligning to ambivalence: White petty bourgeois masculinities, leisure and the contemporary cultural politics of gender in the UK	2
Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries	2
More than perfect: Cosmetic surgery and ageing single women in contemporary China	2
Woman, Life, Freedom: Revolting space invaders in Iran	2
Theory, culture, care	2
‘Were they nice people? Were they asking good questions?’: Searching for an ethics of love in the history of communication research	2
Marginalized disappearances: Shaping the power relations of the search for the missing	2
‘The small girl with the huge dildo is what we needed’: The politics of sex toy in Cocks Not Glocks protest	2
Book review: Nahuel Ribke, Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographies and Performances	2
Screen agencies as cultural intermediaries: Delivering gender equality in the film and television sectors?	2
Remembering voices: Singing and critical cosmopolitan memory in the Bengali diaspora	2
Afro-Italian voices: Podcasting and sonic resistance	2
#MeToo in British schools: Gendered differences in teenagers’ awareness of sexual violence	2
Book Review: Michelle Phillipov and Katherine Kirkwood (eds), Alternative Food Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream	2
On joining the editorial team of European Journal of Cultural Studies in its 25th year	2
Dancing on a tightrope: Uncertainty, risk perception and trust relationships in the live music industry	2
Space invaders in US immigration courts: Reflections on embodiment, complicities, and the possibility and limits of resistance	2
Silver-haired heroines: Representations of ageing femininities in Belgian fiction films (1945–2022)	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
Book review: Fong Siao Yuong, Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy	2
No such thing as peacetime: Notes on Gaza, Hannah Arendt and cultural studies	2
Zine-making the commons: Reflections on a DIY workshop	2
Introduction: Boundary work in Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban Europe	2
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media	2
Towards luminescent ethnography of creative work: Purity, dirt and social inequality in Russian art institutions	2
Surveillance and self-care: Performing beauty labor in online video content	2
Trans experiences of epistemic recognition against the backdrop of the Finnish trans act reform	2
Logbook of a researcher in sociology in times of crisis: Investigating Jews and Muslims after the 7th of October and the following days	2
Science as an ‘object of love’ – affective milieus in the neoliberal university	2
Religion and faith: The missing index of inequality in culture and the arts	2