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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
We have never been human: Staging subjectivity from Diderot and Artaud to the aesthetics of the European refugee crisis	90
‘I can live without you’: Self-branding as individuation in young Chinese women’s transnational mobilities	37
The Good, the Bad and the Disney: Employing princesses to examine Hungarian tweens’ understanding of gender	30
The revival of radical popular education in Italy as a new form of cultural and class struggle: The case of popular schools in Rome	21
Black cultural intermediaries: Difference, neoliberalism and the negotiation of Black cultural value	19
Becoming apart: Drag and the practice of immanent resistance in postsocialist Belgrade	19
Reality offsets: Climate meets capitalism at the Olympic Games	18
Journeying into the liminal unknown: Making connections and finding spaces within the communitas of zines	18
Soft nationalism in China: The case of Hanfu style	16
Past imperfect: Transition narratives, popular discourses and The Informant	15
Cultural omnivorousness in Ukraine: Examining relationships with social indicators via literary preferences among readers	14
When in Camelot: Space invaders, neurodiversity and popular culture	13
Glitch, the Post-digital Aesthetic of Failure and Twenty-First-Century Media	13
Networks revisited: Social media, inequality and network culture in the independent television production sector	13
‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign	12
Music and dance beyond boundaries? Emphasizing Muslim–Jewish North African commonalities, avoiding politics	12
‘The problem is the system’: Luis Rubiales, Jenni Hermoso and the sound of sealed lips	12
‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong	11
Rethinking the foundations: Global cultural policy at the crossroads	10
Laughter in times of distress: Pandemic humor and satire in Iran	10
Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics	9
The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry	9
Book review: Štětka V and Mihelj S, The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies	9
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy	9
Space invaders: “Dissonant bodies” in positions of power: A conversation with Nirmal Puwar	9

Urban renewal, contested memories and the politics of cultural production: The case of Jewish–Muslim encounters in Germany	7
‘Je te crois’ (‘I believe you’): Pragmatics of a feminist slogan, or silencing and the scene of address in post-#MeToo France	7
AI Séance: Recounts from designing artificial intelligence for transcendence, interpretive lenses and chance	7
Special cultural commons section: Roundtable discussion of Catherine Rottenberg’s This Is Not a Feminism Textbook, Goldsmiths University Press (2023)	6
Art in hospitals: The aesthetic-cultural turn of caring space	6
Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives	6
I was never in it for the money: Media narratives of celebrity chefs and the gastro-capitalist social entrepreneur	6
High art on a mug: Art merchandise in China’s contemporary art market	6
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors	6
Book Review: Johnny Walker, Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978–92	6
‘We live in a capitalist world, we need to survive!’: Feminist cultural work, platform capitalism, and pandemic precarity	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
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
Backlash, white privilege and anger: Resistance to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda in the British television industry	5
Publication Notice	5
‘I’m just not gay-gay’: Exploring same-sex desire and sexual minority identity formation in SKAM and its Western European remakes	5
The unprotectables: A critical discourse analysis of older people’s portrayal in UK newspaper coverage of Covid-19	4
A care continuum: Food waste challenge in Hong Kong and its narration in action	4
From Cinéfondation’s Résidence to film production: The experience of Brazilian filmmakers in an international labour market	4
Dirt(y) media: Dirt in ecological media art practices	4
The performative body of disabled women: Toward the politics of visibility in China	4
Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity	4
The travelogue cooking show in a sub-state nation: Representing Scotland in British food television	4
Mattering on the margin: Thoughts on cultural participation in creative digital media	4
Immigrant Audience: Understanding Global Cultural Flow Through Somali Immigrants in Turkey	4
Tell the story of a virus	4
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity	4
Ticking off the (pink) diversity box? Production views on LGBT+ in children’s fiction	4
Book Review: Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North Africa BoumAomarBerberNadjib, Undesirables. A Holocaust Journey through North	4
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
Fatherhood and gender relations in the manosphere: Exploring an Italian non-resident fathers’ online forum	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
Logbook of a researcher in sociology in times of crisis: Investigating Jews and Muslims after the 7th of October and the following days	3
The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide	3
Surveillance and self-care: Performing beauty labor in online video content	3
Book review: Ya-Hui Cheng, The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present	3
‘Rocking the establishment’: Subculture, authenticity and the populist radical right in Sweden	3
‘The last thing I would think about is how to dispose of it’: Fashion competence and the circularity of inactive wardrobe items	3
Challengers : A cultural studies commentary on the fire and ice of filmic desires	3
Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces	3
Religious migrant women as builders of the new ummah in the Netherlands: A belonging path for Muslims?	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
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media	3
Romantic opportunism: Doing the work of structures in post-feminist creative industries	3
ECS-Ecrea Early Career Scholar Prize winner - An astrological genealogy of artificial intelligence: From ‘pseudo-sciences’ of divination to sciences of prediction	3
Making the invisible visible	3

No room! Of course there’s room	3
‘Grand designs?’ Investigating the cultural and spatial logics of Channel 4’s media hub workspaces in Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow	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
Book review: Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism	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
Moving with affects in Finnish academia: Resistance practices of social science and humanities researchers and a possibility of change	3
Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right	3
No more jokes: Comic complexity, Adult Swim and a political aesthetic model of humour	3
Weaving the network of collectivism –Kuqingas affective glue in China: Analyzing the reality showX-Change	3
From femcels to ‘femcelcore’: Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism	3
Netflix teen series and the globalization of difference	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
Influencers as emerging actors in global digital propaganda	3
Mediating American hospitality: Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge to Donald Trump?	3
Space invaders in US immigration courts: Reflections on embodiment, complicities, and the possibility and limits of resistance	3
‘The small girl with the huge dildo is what we needed’: The politics of sex toy in Cocks Not Glocks protest	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
Theory, culture, care	2
Science as an ‘object of love’ – affective milieus in the neoliberal university	2
Wounded men of feminism: Exploring regimes of male victimhood in the Spanish manosphere	2
Book review: Margreth Lünenborg and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (eds), Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media	2
Book review: Nahuel Ribke, Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographies and Performances	2
Remembering voices: Singing and critical cosmopolitan memory in the Bengali diaspora	2
Telephone networks and transactional motherhood in Channel 4’s It’s A Sin	2
Marginalized disappearances: Shaping the power relations of the search for the missing	2
No such thing as peacetime: Notes on Gaza, Hannah Arendt and cultural studies	2
Afro-Italian voices: Podcasting and sonic resistance	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
Woman, Life, Freedom: Revolting space invaders in Iran	2
More than perfect: Cosmetic surgery and ageing single women in contemporary China	2
Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries	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
Book review: Fong Siao Yuong, Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy	2
Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university: From timeliness to timelessness	2
Zine-making the commons: Reflections on a DIY workshop	2
On joining the editorial team of European Journal of Cultural Studies in its 25th year	2
Aligning to ambivalence: White petty bourgeois masculinities, leisure and the contemporary cultural politics of gender in the UK	2
Dancing on a tightrope: Uncertainty, risk perception and trust relationships in the live music industry	2
‘Were they nice people? Were they asking good questions?’: Searching for an ethics of love in the history of communication research	2
Trans experiences of epistemic recognition against the backdrop of the Finnish trans act reform	2
Religion and faith: The missing index of inequality in culture and the arts	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
Affective capitalism and the (new) entrepreneurial mood: Slush as a field configuring event	2
Peripheral allegories of platform capitalism: Carnival Row , Prague and the materiality of local labor	2
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation	2
Introduction: Boundary work in Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban Europe	2