OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Social Theory 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Is populism a social pathology? The myth of immediacy and its effects	22
Social critique and transformation: Revising Habermas’s colonisation thesis	22
The triple problem displacement: Climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration	16
Virtues and vices in the sociology of morality Social Theorists of Morality: Essays on Moral Agency. By AbbottOwen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 352 pp. $139.99 US (hardcover). ISBN: 978-3-031-75	13
Who gets to speak for the environment, how and to what ends?	11
Introduction to the special issue on theorizing contemporary capitalism	10
Theorising political legitimisation: From stasis to processes	8
Book review	8
The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures	8
Book review: The Imposter as Social Theory: Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans	7
Politicization after the ‘end of nature’: The prospect of ecomodernism	7
I trust (you) therefore I am! From trust to post-trust: Transforming social paradigms	7
The moral fog of war and historical sociology	7
Institutionalized anti-anti-Semitism in Germany and its aporias	6
A sociology of regret	6
Another unfinished project of modernity from a Latin American perspective	5
Response to Hans-Herbert Kögler, Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine	5
Winning while waning? The cunning of ecological reason	5
Thinking of war, facing the catastrophe: The Russian-Ukrainian War	5
Dramaturgies of change: Staging political transformation	5
Technocratic myopia: On the pitfalls of depoliticising the future	5
Labour, capital and the struggle over history: Reconstructing Marxist class theory from the standpoint of alienation	5
Social theory, the ecological emergency, and the direction of history: A review essay	4
Rethinking mobility in social theory: Yann Moulier-Boutang and the motor of history	4
Book review: Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization	4

Claiming solidarity: A multilevel discursive reconstruction of solidarity	4
Book Review: The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire GeorgeSteinmetz. 2022. The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Over	4
The separation between ethics and politics: Max Weber on ancient Judaism and modernity	4
Lessons from Castoriadis: Downsizing critical theory and defusing the concept of society	4
Book review: Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893–2020	4
The dispositif of a closed future and the paradoxical effects of the eco-emancipatory project	4
Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses	4
Book Review: The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East ZayaniMohamedKhalilJoe, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.	4
Obituary: Margaret S Archer (1943–2023)	4
Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age	4
Pandora’s box: The two sides of the public sphere	3
Climate change, critical theory and economic democracy: ‘Small is Beautiful’ and the challenge to growth	3
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain	3
Experimentation and the future(s) of political hope	3
Introduction to the special issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A new European war? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War	3
Book Review: Care and Capitalism Kathleen Lynch, Care and Capitalism . Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. 302 pp. ISBN 9781509543847.	3
The quest for transformative politics and the circumstances of social complexity	3
Black Marxism , Racial Capitalism, and Greek and Balkan Coloniality Studies: Toward an Abolitionist Perspective	3
Trust in modernity: The case of Adam Smith	3
From the pluralisation of habitus towards the theory of plural habitus	3
Ecological Ungovernability and the Transition to Postliberal Modernity: On the Dialectic of the Eco-Emancipatory Project	3
From anomie to order – structural roots and values underpinning anomie in capitalist societies and its political consequences	3
In search of the common good: The postliberal project Left and Right	2
Migration theory as social theory: From transnational migration to mobile social ontologies	2
Enrique Dussel (1934–2023)	2
Nazism, nationalism and the war in Ukraine: A reply to Kögler	2
Interactive universalism, the concrete other and discourse ethics: A sociological dialogue with Seyla Benhabib’s theories of morality	2
Critical theory of racism, antisemitism, and the demonisation of Israel: Understanding their complex interrelations	2
Ever again 1918? The threatening return of nationalism	2
Better late than modern? Between ‘late capitalism’ and ‘late modernity’	2
Alter-neoliberal analysis: Abduction, critique, radical imagination	2
Book review: In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms	2
Tempering the not-yet: Towards a social theory for the Anthropocene	2
Critical theory, Peirce and the theory of society	2
Normative power at war in Ukraine: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler	1
On the moral significance of military operations: A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler	1
Indigenous environmentalism: For a political economy where people (and planet) matter	1
Understanding war: The sociological perspective revisited	1
Book Review: Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations: Visions of Italy and the Italians in England and Britain from the Renaissance to the Present Day	1
Sovereignty cubed: The Arctic as a territorial and ontological volume	1
Book review: Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania Across Empires by Anca, Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă AncaParvulescuManuelaBoatcă. Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania A	1
Can we use the open future? Preparedness and innovation in times of self-generated uncertainty	1
Human self-selection as a mechanism of human societal evolution: A critique of the cultural selection argument	1
The first “Unmodern” Nation: Germany and Poland's imperial exclusion from modernity	1
Prolegomena to a genealogy of “society”	1
Corrigendum to “Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis : Critical Theory’s Ongoing Struggle with the Concept of Society”	1
Another Russia: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler	1
Commentary on Kögler: Analysing the Ukraine war through a ‘new wars’ perspective	1
The progress without “progress”: Critique of Jaeggi's pragmatist theory of progress	1
Contemporary visions of the next apocalypse: Climate change and artificial intelligence	1

Decolonizing deliberative democracy	1
Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses: Adopting the pointers of curiosity, nominalism, conceptual grounding and exemplarity	1
Adorno and Habermas: Two varieties of post-metaphysical thinking	1
Book Review: A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion. Wealth, Suffering, Negation Werner Bonefeld. A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion. Wealth, Suffering, Negation	1
Rationalizing the war in Ukraine through religion: The Orthodox Church and Russia’s imperialist motif (A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler)	1
Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis: Critical Theory’s ongoing search for a concept of society	1
Displacement, women intellectuals and entangled knowledge in the making of global modernity	1
Towards a sociology of the future: An exploration in cognitive social theory	1
The critical theory of society: From its Young-Hegelian core to its key concept of possibility	1
Capitalism and the state: A new materialist perspective	1
Interrogating the Interregnum	1
New cold war or ‘world civil war’? Wertkritik and the critical theory of capitalism in an age of conflict	1
A matter of state: The politics of German anti-anti-Semitism	1