OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ethnography 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One’s dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections	16
Becoming ‘international’: Transgressing national identity as a ritual for class identification	14
Matrilineal practices among muslims: An ethnographic study of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra	13
The passion of aging: The representation of localism in spiritual eldercare of Naxi in Lijiang	11
Close encounters with a third leg: Including fieldwork experiences of sexual harassment as research data	9
Im/material and intimate relations: Considering ethnographic methodologies for already-surveilled communities	7
‘Hand-to-hand sports and the struggle for belonging’	6
Negotiating diasporic leisure among Zimbabwean migrants in Britain	6
Concrete sectarianism: Revisiting the Lebanese civil war through Beirut’s built environment	6
“Been there, done that but also not quite:” Discoveries and limitations in an evaluative, short-term, and multi-sited ethnography of the boy scouts of America	6
Lebensraum, geopolitics and race—Palestine as a feminist issue in German-speaking academia	6
The ‘desired state of mind’: Emotional labor and the hidden cost of symbolic power in 911 emergency response in the U.S	6
A Chinese woman’s journey to the “west”: Ethnographic knowledge production amid ambiguous power dynamics	5
The (un)celebrated asylum centre: How Danish media hijacked an ethnographic fieldwork and altered local realities	5
Immersive scholarship: Inhabiting and crafting storied lifeworlds through ethnographic research retreats	5
Humanitarian Sovereignty, Exceptional Muslims, and the Transnational Making of Kuwaiti Citizens	5
Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre	5
Men in aprons versus men in suits: Reshaping masculinities within a Japanese nonprofit promoting fatherhood	5
Snap-along ethnography: Studying visual politicization in the social media age	5
Composite ethnography: Collective encounters with emergent objects in the anthropocene	4
‘Say it in Swedish!’: Babies, belonging and multilingualism in an integration initiative activity in Sweden	4
Interstitial position or ‘bastard’ status? Interpreters at the French National Court of Asylum	4
Social participation of youth through volunteering: Case study of Centre for Peace Studies in Zagreb	4
Firsthand practice: Resolving structure and change in Japanese regional cuisine	4
From strangers to families?: Post-reunion kin relationships in Spanish-Nepali adoptions	3

Observations from the field: On the body, gender, and Al wehdat camp in Amman, Jordan	3
The field site as a religious frontier: Negotiating blasphemy accusations and reflexive tensions in Pakistan	3
The Halfie Predicament in the Ethnography of Religion: Fieldwork with Iranian-Americana Muslim Women in Los Angeles	3
The sensing eye: Intimate vision in couple dancing	3
Making mistakes in ethnography	3
Close quarters. Sailing the murky waters of an ethnography ‘at-home’	3
Love and agency in ethnographic fieldwork with children	3
“Tying your ngemb”: Negotiating identity in Senegalese wrestling	3
Bolognina gym	3
Beyond Big Brother: How to Study Tech-Driven Authoritarianism With Restricted Access to State Institutions	2
Ambiguous interventions: The social consequences of assistance in the field	2
Fostering contemplative ethnographers: A tale of fieldwork ethics, vulnerability, and trauma in neoliberal academia	2
Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil	2
Autonomous care? Muslim transnational giving networks and perceptions of welfare responsibilities in India	2
The antifascist boxing body: Political somatics in boxe popolare	2
Sacrificial heroes: Masculinity, class, and waste picking in Iran	2
Affective encounters with waste: The role of affects in trash activism	2
Learning to (depoliticize) critique: Critical knowledge and the formation of elite habitus in a predominantly White institution	2
The gaze in tourism settings: An ethnographical approach above and beyond the theory of the tourist gaze	2
The activism of young muslims in Italy: Citizens ‘crossing borders’ in search of recognition	2
BROAD DATA: Ethnographic methods in the age of interdisciplinary collaboration	2
Institutional adaptation of managerialism in Chinese higher education: A faculty-centered ethnographic analysis of everyday practices	2
America materialis: Things and meaning in a donation warehouse	2
“We are simply being pressed out, slowly but surely” - Unhoused peoples’ experience with exclusionary design	2
Presence from another world. An ethnography on paranormal investigation and the social interaction with ghosts	2
New forms of home blindness: Rethinking fieldwork methods in digitalized environments	1
The sakan shababiyy, or the world improvised: Displacement and masculine domestic space in Lebanon	1
Ethnographic experiences of participating in a correctional officer training program: An exploration of values, ethics, and role conflict	1
The embodiment of fear: Reproductive health and migrant women’s choices, in Verona, Italy	1
Walking with bread in Cairo: Ethnographic collaboration between a researcher and a research assistant	1
‘A Punch Has No Paternity!’: techniques, belonging and the Mexicanidad of Xilam	1
Being invited. Ethics in participant-researcher relationships	1
Of human bondage: Tales of migrant fishermen in Thailand	1
Texas wildfire survivors’ narratives and the meaning of everyday objects	1
Tales from the (disrupted) field: Contemplating interruptions, disruptions, and ethnography amidst a pandemic	1
Scholarly engagements in times of catastrophe	1
“Why should we have to eat the chicken’s butt?” - Everyday consumption, deservingness and inclusion in rural Hungary	1
‘Why study cinema?’ experiences of crisis and future making in the Portuguese film production sector	1
Chop money life: Joblessness, unretirement, and dependence among transport workers in urban Ghana	1
Resisting the future: Preparedness, degradation, and “inquietude” among survivalists in contemporary France	1
All-encompassing ethnographies: Strategies for feminist and equity-oriented institutional research	1
The rule of the anus? Queer imaginaries of power in central Africa	1
Teaching Myanmar students under the Gaokao policy in a borderland school: Teachers’ challenges and agency	1
Of devotion and disgust: Method, belief and power in anthropological research on religion	1
Ruination in the ring: Habitus in the making of a professional “opponent”	1
Security and heritage in the making of urban futures: A new research avenue	1
Tangier heat: On migrant vulnerability and social thermology	1
Being Breton through wrestling: Traditional gouren as a distinctive Breton activity	1
Turning newcomers into locals: Kinship practices and belonging in low-income neighborhoods in Finland	1
Echoes of liminality: Hidden transcripts and subtle resistance in Bhojpuri-speaking women’s Kajari folksongs	1

The unspoken experiences of ethnography: Overcoming boundaries of (un)accepted behaviours	1
The construction of the anamnestic-political field or the possibility of ethnography	1
Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity	1
Online workouts and fitness instructors’ physical autonomy in times of the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka	1
Toward a non-individualistic analysis of neoliberalism: the stay-fit maternity trend in Taiwan	1
Danger on my mind: Dangerous imaginaries and their effect on epistemologies	1
Elites, bodies, and gender: Women’s appearance as class distinction	1
Building community through hospitality: Indirect obligations to reciprocate in a transnational speech community	1
Jala Role: Normative Practice of Collaborative Ethnography in a Hostile Research Frontier, South Omo, Ethiopia	1
Let me take a photo with the Shabaken: Reflections on Ikam among the Bujuur Naga	1
Escaping the house of secrets: Auto-ethnographic reflections on the complexities of field exit	1
‘Team ethnography visual maps’: Methods for identifying the ethnographic object in multiple sites of fieldwork	1
Yokozuna Hakuhō—Japanese Mongolian hero	1
I am anthropologist – But where is the field? On fieldwork, intimacy, and home	1
“We take responsibility!”: Governing the neighborhood—governing the self	1
The communitarian stigma: Stigmatization as a mechanism of institutional racism in France	1