OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Cultural Studies is 3. 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
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture	62
Journeying into the liminal unknown: Making connections and finding spaces within the communitas of zines	48
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome	38
Hermann Bausinger (1926–2021): An appreciation	37
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers	30
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis	28
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value	20
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games	20
Past imperfect: Transition narratives, popular discourses and The Informant	19
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector	18
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities	17
Who are Shunzhi ? Subaltern politics and the making of ‘the other’ in Chinese queer activism	16
The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender	16
Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade	16
Soft nationalism in China: The case of Hanfu style	15
Music and dance beyond boundaries? Emphasizing Muslim–Jewish North African commonalities, avoiding politics	14
‘He should’ve killed your ass’: Notes on Black women deserving death in the Black manosphere	14
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies	14
Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads	12
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips	12
Lolcows and the mediation of digital freakshows	11
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy	11
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	11
‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong	11
The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry	11

Laughter in times of distress: Pandemic humor and satire in Iran	10
Anti-naturalism, technoscientific empowerment and rage: Insurgent feminist knowledge in an online menopause forum	10
Urban renewal, contested memories and the politics of cultural production: The case of Jewish–Muslim encounters in Germany	9
Special Cultural Commons section: Roundtable discussion of Catherine Rottenberg’s This Is Not a Feminism Textbook , Goldsmiths University Press (2023)	9
AI Séance: Recounts from designing artificial intelligence for transcendence, interpretive lenses and chance	9
Art in hospitals: The aesthetic-cultural turn of caring space	8
‘ Je te crois ’ (‘I believe you’): Pragmatics of a feminist slogan, or silencing and the scene of address in post-#MeToo France	8
Haunted spaces and unsettling predicaments: An interrogation of (capitalist) sport via the work of Mark Fisher	8
Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics	8
Backlash, white privilege and anger: Resistance to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda in the British television industry	8
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors	8
The unexpected consequences of a pandemic: Crypto-finance as cultural commons	7
‘I’m just not gay-gay’: Exploring same-sex desire and sexual minority identity formation in SKAM and its Western European remakes	7
The unprotectables: A critical discourse analysis of older people’s portrayal in UK newspaper coverage of Covid-19	7
Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives	7
High art on a mug: Art merchandise in China’s contemporary art market	7
Research on power in musical practices and institutions	7
Publication Notice	6
Anokha emerging: The Asian Underground, new ethnicities, and diversity conservatism	6
‘We live in a capitalist world, we need to survive!’: Feminist cultural work, platform capitalism, and pandemic precarity	6
Between exploitation and autonomy: How participants position themselves within reality television production in the post-socialist Czech Republic	5
The irony of aging graffiti writers: Negotiating subcultural identities through Internet memes	5
Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces	5
Confinement, imagination, and resistance in Palestine: The caricatures and graphic art of Mohammed Sabaaneh	5
The travelogue cooking show in a sub-state nation: Representing Scotland in British food television	5
Beefed-up feeds: Young men interpreting meat-masculinity scripts on Instagram	5
Book Review: Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North Africa BoumAomarBerberNadjib, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journe	5
Serial repetition, imperfection and the time loop narrative in women-centric US TV	5
Work in sustainability crisis: The ecological spirit of capitalism and the spectre of sleepwalking	5
Book Review: Johnny Walker, Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978–92	5
Influencers as emerging actors in global digital propaganda	5
Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity	5
Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries	5
‘It’s almost as good as going to a very good concert!’: But is everyone invited? Examining the cultural world of the Death Café neo-tribe	5
Mattering on the margin: Thoughts on cultural participation in creative digital media	5
International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects: The case of Budapest, Hungary	5
The racialisation of AIDS in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion	5
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity	5
POD goes to Westminster: Makeover television, AI discipline, and the classed politics of Hannah Spencer’s body	5
Immigrant Audience: Understanding Global Cultural Flow Through Somali Immigrants in Turkey	5
Brexit, ugly feelings and the power of participatory art in Grayson Perry: Divided Britain	5
A care continuum: Food waste challenge in Hong Kong and its narration in action	5
Negative justice: The case of the human rights museum	5
The digital pregnancy: A qualitative study of Danish women’s use of pregnancy apps	4
Culturalist and neo-propagandist politics at Eurovision: A triptych analysis of cultural diplomacy approaches of the European Broadcasting Union vis-à-vis Belarus, Russia and Israel	4
Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right	4
Equity, diversity and inclusivity: Once more, with feeling	4
Weaving the network of collectivism – Kuqing as affective glue in China: Analyzing the reality show X-Change	4
‘Nobody would believe the protagonist of my story’: From assessing credibility to co-creating (un)reliability in the context of queer asylum narratives	4
‘The last thing I would think about is how to dispose of it’: Fashion competence and the circularity of inactive wardrobe items	4

Ticking off the (pink) diversity box? Production views on LGBT+ in children’s fiction	4
Social mobility is a joke: Working-class women and British TV comedy on ‘the social floor’	4
Tell the story of a virus	4
Book review: Lin Zhang, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	4
Book review: Joanne Hollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating JoanneHollows, Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating	4
Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present ChengYa-Hui, The Evolution of Chi	4
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?	4
The performative body of disabled women: Toward the politics of visibility in China	4
Challengers : A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires	4
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow	4
Fungi in popular culture reconsidered: Four more-than-human entanglements	4
ECS-Ecrea Early Career Scholar Prize winner - An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction	4
The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide	4
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism	4
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media	3
‘The small girl with the huge dildo is what we needed’: The politics of sex toy in Cocks Not Glocks protest	3
Towards luminescent ethnography of creative work: Purity, dirt and social inequality in Russian art institutions	3
Book review: Jessica Martin, Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis: The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity MartinJessica, Feminisms and Domesticity i	3
Theory, culture, care	3
Moving with affects in Finnish academia: Resistance practices of social science and humanities researchers and a possibility of change	3
Book review: Zahra Stardust, Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance StardustZahra, Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance. Durham	3
Woman, Life, Freedom: Revolting space invaders in Iran	3
Desired or disillusioned urban dreams? How Weibo discursively construct digitalized cruel mobility for Chinese skilled migrants	3
Silver-haired heroines: Representations of ageing femininities in Belgian fiction films (1945–2022)	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
Exploring the gendered experiences of British lifestyle migrants in Spain in the context of Brexit	3
Afro-Italian voices: Podcasting and sonic resistance	3
Unforgetting a desirable future: Hauntological lessons for a foundational culture	3
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	3
Surveillance and self-care: Performing beauty labor in online video content	3
Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries	3
Space invaders in US immigration courts: Reflections on embodiment, complicities, and the possibility and limits of resistance	3
Making the invisible visible	3
‘Were they nice people? Were they asking good questions?’: Searching for an ethics of love in the history of communication research	3
Recast(e)ing sports on screen: A critical study of popular postmillennial sports films in India	3
Zine-making the commons: Reflections on a DIY workshop	3
Book review: Glyn Davis and Jaap Kooijman (eds), The Richard Dyer Reader DavisGlynKooijmanJaap (eds), The Richard Dyer Reader. London: Bloomsbury, 2023,	3
Aligning to ambivalence: White petty bourgeois masculinities, leisure and the contemporary cultural politics of gender in the UK	3
‘Rocking the establishment’: Subculture, authenticity and the populist radical right in Sweden	3
Trans experiences of epistemic recognition against the backdrop of the Finnish trans act reform	3
Dancing on a tightrope: Uncertainty, risk perception and trust relationships in the live music industry	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
Netflix teen series and the globalization of difference	3
No room! Of course there’s room	3