European Journal of Social Theory

Papers
(The TQCC of European Journal of Social Theory is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The triple problem displacement: Climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration25
Social critique and transformation: Revising Habermas’s colonisation thesis22
Virtues and vices in the sociology of morality Social Theorists of Morality: Essays on Moral Agency . By AbbottOwen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 3520
The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures16
Introduction to the special issue on theorizing contemporary capitalism15
Who gets to speak for the environment, how and to what ends?15
The moral fog of war and historical sociology15
Marx's three modes of class analysis: A critical reconstruction13
Theorising political legitimisation: From stasis to processes13
A sociology of regret12
Politicization after the ‘end of nature’: The prospect of ecomodernism12
I trust (you) therefore I am! From trust to post-trust: Transforming social paradigms12
Technocratic myopia: On the pitfalls of depoliticising the future10
Dramaturgies of change: Staging political transformation10
Institutionalized anti-anti-Semitism in Germany and its aporias9
Labour, capital and the struggle over history: Reconstructing Marxist class theory from the standpoint of alienation9
Winning while waning? The cunning of ecological reason9
Thinking of war, facing the catastrophe: The Russian-Ukrainian War8
Response to Hans-Herbert Kögler, Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine8
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 Over8
Extra/Ordinary moments: Utopia, everyday life and the method of transduction8
“Fail better”: Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and learning from failure7
Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses7
Carbon societies’ past, present and future: History, crisis and social transformation6
Social theory, the ecological emergency, and the direction of history: A review essay6
Collectivising resonance through ritual: The case of ecological emotions6
Forever failing: Feminist practices of peace in war/violence6
Irretrievable failure: Life in the ruins of utopian dreaming6
Lessons from Castoriadis: Downsizing critical theory and defusing the concept of society5
Revolutionary failure and utopia: William Morris and the Paris Commune5
The dispositif of a closed future and the paradoxical effects of the eco-emancipatory project5
Climate change, critical theory and economic democracy: ‘Small is Beautiful’ and the challenge to growth5
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain5
Rethinking mobility in social theory: Yann Moulier-Boutang and the motor of history5
Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age5
Introduction to the special issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A new European war? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War5
Book Review: Care and Capitalism Kathleen Lynch, Care and Capitalism . Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. 302 pp. ISBN 9781509543847.5
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, 2024.5
Obituary: Margaret S Archer (1943–2023)5
A Tribute to Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026)5
Trust in modernity: The case of Adam Smith5
Pandora’s box: The two sides of the public sphere4
Climate and failure: For a weak utopianism4
Black Marxism , Racial Capitalism, and Greek and Balkan Coloniality Studies: Toward an Abolitionist Perspective4
Alter-neoliberal analysis: Abduction, critique, radical imagination4
From the pluralisation of habitus towards the theory of plural habitus4
The quest for transformative politics and the circumstances of social complexity4
Ecological Ungovernability and the Transition to Postliberal Modernity: On the Dialectic of the Eco-Emancipatory Project4
Migration theory as social theory: From transnational migration to mobile social ontologies4
Experimentation and the future(s) of political hope4
From anomie to order – structural roots and values underpinning anomie in capitalist societies and its political consequences4
Book review: The experience of mutual traumatization BrunnerJNachbarnB, Wie Emotionen den Nahostkonflikt antreiben - und entschärfen können (Brutal Neighbours: How Emotions Drive – and Can Defuse – th4
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