OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ethnography 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Migration, mobility and the dynamics of kinship: New barriers, new assemblages	17
Imagining and living new worlds: The dynamics of kinship in contexts of mobility and migration	16
Research ethics committees, ethnographers and imaginations of risk	12
Labour of love: Secrecy and kinship among Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch in The Netherlands	10
“The African family is large, very large” mobility and the flexibility of kinship – examples from Cameroon	7
Ethnographic experiences of participating in a correctional officer training program: An exploration of values, ethics, and role conflict	7
Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly	6
Transnational hair (and turban): Sikh masculinity, embodied practices, and politics of representation in an era of global travel	5
Getting respect: How minority boxers build a hybrid masculinity in a French Banlieue	5
‘Lean on me': Sifarish, mediation & the digitisation of state bureaucracies in India	5
Carceral ethnography in a time of pandemic: Examining migrant detention and deportation during COVID-19	5
Temporalities at sea: Fast time and slow time onboard ocean-going merchant vessels	5
The communitarian stigma: Stigmatization as a mechanism of institutional racism in France	5
Navigating the ‘field’: Reflexivity, uncertainties, and negotiation along the border of Bangladesh and India	5
Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method	5
Dynamic embodied positionalities: The politics of class and nature through a critical ethnography of homelessness	5
Introduction Special Issue “Paradoxical orders: Parenting encounters, the welfare state, and difference in Europe”	5
Frontera Sur: Behind and beyond the fences of Ceuta and Melilla	4
Snap-along ethnography: Studying visual politicization in the social media age	4
Toward a non-individualistic analysis of neoliberalism: the stay-fit maternity trend in Taiwan	4
Emotional risk assessments in the field: Leaving Tanzania during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The Independence Day as a nationalist ritual: Framework of the March of Independence in Poland	4
“No! I Can’t!”: Noise and silence as everyday resistance at a Chinese suburban middle school	4
The construction of gender identity in Alevi organisations: Discourses, practices, and gaps	3
‘Team ethnography visual maps’: Methods for identifying the ethnographic object in multiple sites of fieldwork	3

Genealogies across the cold war divide: The case of the Pontic Greeks from the former Soviet Union and their ‘affinal repatriation’	3
Ethnographic (dis) locations: An approach for studying marginalisation in the context of socio-economic change	3
Unearthing conscious intent in women’s everyday resistance to mining in Indonesia	3
Examining healthcare institutions by bringing qualitative data from two eras into empirical dialogue	3
Scaling proximity to whiteness: Racial boundary-making on São Tomé Island	3
The interpretation of relationships: Fieldwork as boundary-negotiation	3
Company brokers: Human resources managers in foreign mining projects in the Congolese Copperbelt	3
Towards a politics of collaborative worldmaking: ethics, epistemologies and mutual positionalities in conflict research	3
From East Harlem to Cape Town: Tupac Shakur’s legacy as a globalised oppositional repertoire	3
Memeing a conspiracy theory: On the biopolitical compression of the great replacement conspiracy theories	3
Follow the computers: Entangled mobilities of people and things in transnational recycling	2
The merits of context: Unfolding mental vulnerability as category and experience	2
Chinese rural left-behind elderly: Their individualization, descending familism and difficulties	2
‘Then we decided not to tell the adults’. Fieldwork among children in an international school	2
Between militants and “mafia”: Interrupting dispossession in rural Pakistan	2
The antifascist boxing body: Political somatics in boxe popolare	2
Reflections on ethnographic fieldwork across a lifetime	2
Food for the body and soul: Veganism, righteous male bodies, and culinary redemption in the Kingdom of Yah	2
Prepared in pots, served in plastics: Rural Ethiopian women’s responses to the global economy	2
‘It’s the noise of the snacks!’: School meals on the fringes and frail food pedagogies	2
A Chinese woman’s journey to the “west”: Ethnographic knowledge production amid ambiguous power dynamics	2
Walking with bread in Cairo: Ethnographic collaboration between a researcher and a research assistant	2
Marrying the perfect child — Middle class norms and intergenerational arrangements in the marriage corners of urban China	2
“La racaille,” a performed figure in French contemporary youth	2
“Politics of emotion”: Everyday affective circulation of women’s resistance and grief in Kashmir	2
Between narrative and practice: Storytelling as a way of knowing how to be in nature	2
Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre	2