European Journal of Social Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Social Theory is 0. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Is populism a social pathology? The myth of immediacy and its effects21
Social critique and transformation: Revising Habermas’s colonisation thesis21
The triple problem displacement: Climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration20
Who gets to speak for the environment, how and to what ends?16
Introduction to the special issue on theorizing contemporary capitalism13
Book review11
Theorising political legitimisation: From stasis to processes8
The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures8
Habermas, democracy and the public sphere: Theory and practice8
The moral fog of war and historical sociology7
Politicization after the ‘end of nature’: The prospect of ecomodernism7
I trust (you) therefore I am! From trust to post-trust: Transforming social paradigms6
Book review: The Imposter as Social Theory: Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans6
Labour, capital and the struggle over history: Reconstructing Marxist class theory from the standpoint of alienation5
Technocratic myopia: On the pitfalls of depoliticising the future5
Institutionalized anti-anti-Semitism in Germany and its aporias5
Another unfinished project of modernity from a Latin American perspective5
A sociology of regret5
Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses4
Thinking of war, facing the catastrophe: The Russian-Ukrainian War4
Winning while waning? The cunning of ecological reason4
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
Dramaturgies of change: Staging political transformation4
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 Over4
The separation between ethics and politics: Max Weber on ancient Judaism and modernity4
Rethinking mobility in social theory: Yann Moulier-Boutang and the motor of history4
Response to Hans-Herbert Kögler, Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine4
Social theory, the ecological emergency, and the direction of history: A review essay4
Lessons from Castoriadis: Downsizing critical theory and defusing the concept of society4
Book review: Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893–20203
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain3
Climate change, critical theory and economic democracy: ‘Small is Beautiful’ and the challenge to growth3
From the pluralisation of habitus towards the theory of plural habitus3
Trust in modernity: The case of Adam Smith3
Introduction to the special issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A new European war? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War3
Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age3
The dispositif of a closed future and the paradoxical effects of the eco-emancipatory project3
Book Review: Care and Capitalism Kathleen Lynch, Care and Capitalism . Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. 302 pp. ISBN 9781509543847.3
Black Marxism , Racial Capitalism, and Greek and Balkan Coloniality Studies: Toward an Abolitionist Perspective3
Book review: Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization3
Obituary: Margaret S Archer (1943–2023)3
Claiming solidarity: A multilevel discursive reconstruction of solidarity3
Pandora’s box: The two sides of the public sphere3
Ecological Ungovernability and the Transition to Postliberal Modernity: On the Dialectic of the Eco-Emancipatory Project3
Alter-neoliberal analysis: Abduction, critique, radical imagination2
Book review: In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms2
In search of the common good: The postliberal project Left and Right2
Experimentation and the future(s) of political hope2
Migration theory as social theory: From transnational migration to mobile social ontologies2
Critical theory, Peirce and the theory of society2
Critical theory of racism, antisemitism, and the demonisation of Israel: Understanding their complex interrelations2
Interactive universalism, the concrete other and discourse ethics: A sociological dialogue with Seyla Benhabib’s theories of morality2
Tempering the not-yet: Towards a social theory for the Anthropocene2
Ever again 1918? The threatening return of nationalism2
The quest for transformative politics and the circumstances of social complexity2
Book Review: Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations: Visions of Italy and the Italians in England and Britain from the Renaissance to the Present Day1
Sovereignty cubed: The Arctic as a territorial and ontological volume1
Enrique Dussel (1934–2023)1
Towards a sociology of the future: An exploration in cognitive social theory1
Decolonizing deliberative democracy1
Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis: Critical Theory’s ongoing search for a concept of society1
On the moral significance of military operations: A response to Hans-Herbert Kögler1
Indigenous environmentalism: For a political economy where people (and planet) matter1
Corrigendum to “Synthesis, Dynamis, Praxis : Critical Theory’s Ongoing Struggle with the Concept of Society”1
The critical theory of society: From its Young-Hegelian core to its key concept of possibility1
Better late than modern? Between ‘late capitalism’ and ‘late modernity’1
Contemporary visions of the next apocalypse: Climate change and artificial intelligence1
Does emancipation devour its children? Beyond a stalled dialectic of emancipation1
Understanding war: The sociological perspective revisited1
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
Another Russia: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler1
Capitalism and the state: A new materialist perspective1
Nazism, nationalism and the war in Ukraine: A reply to Kögler1
The progress without “progress”: Critique of Jaeggi's pragmatist theory of progress1
Commentary on Kögler: Analysing the Ukraine war through a ‘new wars’ perspective1
Are you a neoliberal subject? On the uses and abuses of a concept1
Prolegomena to a genealogy of “society”1
Methodological reflections on Foucauldian analyses: Adopting the pointers of curiosity, nominalism, conceptual grounding and exemplarity1
Displacement, women intellectuals and entangled knowledge in the making of global modernity1
A crisis of crisis management: The polycrisis, the organization of pessimism, and the defensive turn0
On algorithmic mediations0
Schumacher against globalism and ecomodernism: Ecology, subsidiarity and the politics of scale0
Can we use the open future? Preparedness and innovation in times of self-generated uncertainty0
Domination through precarization: From Butler’s humanitarian ethics to Marx’s political economy0
Adorno and Habermas: Two varieties of post-metaphysical thinking0
Introduction: Social theory and the idea of the future0
Book Review: Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment TaylorCharles, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Pres0
In defence of maladaptation and its emancipatory promises0
Winch’s Idea at sixty-five: Its point and implications for the prospects of sociology0
The metamorphosis of autonomy in the digital sphere: Implications for the eco-emancipatory project0
Special Section Institutionalized Anti-Anti-Semitism in Germany0
Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine by Hans-Herbert Kögler0
The rise and fall of social movements: A tribute to Alain Touraine (1925–2023)0
International morality and international law0
Book Review: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: Politics of the Pluriverse0
Iconoclastic critics? Understanding the ‘just like a religion’ critique0
A matter of state: The politics of German anti-anti-Semitism0
Meta-economics, scale and contemporary social theory: Re-reading E. F. Schumacher’sSmall is Beautiful0
Wolfgang Streeck on consumption, depoliticisation and neoliberal capitalism0
Reflexive anthropology: On the method-guided construction of premises in social theory0
The governance of possible futures and the regime of modern historicity: Critical theory and the modality of possibility0
Activated. Towards a sociology of reaction0
Book Review: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) TáíwòOlúfẹ´mi, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else). London:0
Reflections on ecological social theory marking 50 years of E. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful0
Polanyi’s discovery of society and the digital phase of the industrial revolution0
Performativity: Model and meaning in a post-Austinian frame0
Schumacher in the age of generative AI: Towards a new critique of technology0
Social theory and migration research in dialog0
Theorising power and resistance under contemporary capitalism: An interview with Nancy Fraser0
Normative power at war in Ukraine: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler0
Book Review: Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World FerdinandMalcom, Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World. Cambridge: Polity, 2022. 319 pp. i–xiv0
Human self-selection as a mechanism of human societal evolution: A critique of the cultural selection argument0
Book Review: Civilization, Modernity, and Critique. Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory DunajĹubomírSmithJeremyMertelKurt Cihan (eds.), Civilization, Modernity, and Critique. Engaging Jóh0
Gramsci, social theory and migration0
Book Review: Sociology in Post-Normal Times ThorpeCharles , Sociology in Post-Normal Times. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. pp.303+i–x.0
Between temporalities, imaginaries and imagination: A framework for analysing futures0
Book Review: Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture0
Postcolonialism as the governmentality of immigration controls0
Introduction to special issue: The critical theory of society0
Democratic socialism or barbarism: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler0
Putin’s Russia: A commentary on Professor Kögler’s perspective0
Postscript: On the moral case for solidarity with Ukraine: A reply0
Too many aporias? A commentary on Heidrun Friese's essay on institutionalized anti-antisemitism0
On the colonization of the environment0
A society of migration: Poststructuralist perspectives on the constitution of society and the production of migration0
Foucauldian perspectives on migration and society: The epistemological-political grids of “people” and “population”0
Erratum to ‘In search of the common good: The postliberal project Left and Right’0
Book Review: Erving Goffman and the Cold War by Gary Jaworski0
Future-cultures: How future imaginations disseminate throughout the social0
Afterword: Thinking futures0
The enlightenment and violenceBook Review: Ethical Violence Review of BordoniCarlo, Ethical Violence. Polity Press, 2024. p 157. (pbk) Cambridge, 14.77£. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-6102-5.0
The rise of digital eco-technocracy: Ecological crisis, digital innovation and legitimacy in the adaptive society0
When did biopolitics begin? Actuality and potentiality in historical events0
Poverty as capability deprivation: Considering the relational approach, group-based analysis, and socio-structural lens0
On the relationships between critical theory and secularisation: The challenges of democratic fallibility and planetary survival0
Book review: Populism in the Civil Sphere0
Book Review: The Making of Meaning: From the Individual to Social Order, Selections from Niklas Luhmann’s Works on Semantics and Social Structure0
Resonance and reflexivity as pathways to eudaimonia in the Anthropocene?0
Between responsibility and escape: The future as an object of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences0
New cold war or ‘world civil war’? Wertkritik and the critical theory of capitalism in an age of conflict0
Emancipatory Politics at its Limits? An Introduction0
From false consciousness to functional necessities: rethinking ideology critique0
Fear of a Black planet: Climate apocalypse, Anthropocene futures and Black social thought0
Social theory: Legacies and future directions – An interview with Gerard Delanty0
Goodbye Foucault’s ‘missing human agent’? Self-formation, capability and the dispositifs0
Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine0
History, sociology and the study of empires: Reflections of a historical sociologist0
Techno-feudalism or platform capitalism? Conceptualising the digital society0
Pacts of democratic truth-telling: Between ascendancy and equality0
Thinking beyond the ecological present: Critical theory on the self-problematization of society and its transformation0
Mind the gap(s): Moral philosophy, international law and interpretative historical sociology0
Book Review: Jeffrey Alexander and Cultural Sociology0
Book review: Communicative Reason: A Sociological Restatement by O’Mahony, Patrick O’MahonyPatrick, Communicative Reason: A Sociological Restatement. London: Routledge, 0
Property, credit, and monetary sabotage: Contemporary capitalism in institutionalist perspective0
The exhaustion of democratic theory0
Book review: The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960–19900
Machine learning and social theory: Collective machine behaviour in algorithmic trading0
Dependency denial in crisis: Revisiting feminist critiques of dualism0
Why (not) suicide: Habitus in hysteresis and the space of possibles0
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