OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

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

Article	Citations
Justice Through a Multispecies Lens	49
Listening to Black lives matter: racial capitalism and the critique of neoliberalism	42
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory	33
The politics of care	21
James Baldwin and the politics of white identity	13
Epistemic oppression, resistance, and resurgence	13
After (post) hegemony	12
Politics in the Time of COVID	11
Backward-looking reparations and structural injustice	9
Theorizing the Politics of Protest: Contemporary Debates on Civil Disobedience	8
Political Theory with an Ethnographic Sensibility	7
Carl Schmitt as a theorist of the 1933 Nazi revolution: “The difficult task of rethinking and recultivating traditional concepts”	7
Political Agency in Humans and Other Animals	7
The political technology of the ‘Camp’ in historical capitalism	7
Mourning work: Death and democracy during a pandemic	6
Being Present: Embodying Political Relations in Indigenous Encounters with the Crown	6
How and Why to Do Just War Theory	5
Empire and its afterlives	5
The politics of repair	5
People die in six ways and each is politics: Infrastructure and the possible	5
Beyond populism and technocracy: The challenges and limits of democratic epistemology	5
Ella Baker and the challenge of black rule	5
The boundary problem of democracy: A function-sensitive view	4
Listening obliquely: Listening as norm and strategy for structural justice	4
Democratic philanthropy	4

The Political Force of the Comedic	4
The model of the legislator: Political theory, policy, and realist utopianism	3
The animal condition in the human condition: Rethinking Arendt’s political action beyond the human species	3
Foucault on psychagogy and the politics of education	3
Spinoza: thoughts on hope in our political present	3
Cannibal capitalism: how our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet—and what we can do about it	3
On canons and question marks: The work of women’s international thought	3
‘After Auschwitz’: Writing history after injustice in Adorno and Lyotard	3
Valuation practices and the cooptation charge: Quantification and monetization as political logics	3
Breaking billboards: protest and a politics of play	3
Beyond technofix: Thinking with Epimetheus in the anthropocene	3
Bataille’s anti-fascism	3
Constituent power and its institutions	2
A hard case for the ethics of supported voting: Cognitive and communicative disabilities, and incommunicability	2
The politics of precarity	2
Comparative political theory, indigenous resurgence, and epistemic justice: From deparochialization to treaty	2
Against instinctual reason: Alain Badiou on the disinterested interest of truth procedures in the post-truth era	2
The Epistemic Value of Testimony	2
Abjection and mourning in the struggle over fetal remains	2
The political implication of the ‘untraceability’ of structural injustice	2
The architectures of waiting: Helmut Puff and Bernardo Zacka in conversation	2
Necropolitics	2
Legitimacy crises in embedded democracies	1
The enduring significance of cruelty	1
From the theater to the hippodrome: A critique of Jeffrey Green’s theory of plebiscitary democracy and an alternative	1
‘A fruit of every clime’? Rousseau’s environmental politics	1
The persistence of myth: Brazil’s undead ‘racial democracy’	1
The inter-est between us: Ontology, epistemology, and the failure of political representation	1
Authoritarian Populism, Democracy and the Long Counter-Revolution of the Radical Right	1
The open society and the challenge of populism: Solution and problem	1
Slavery with extra steps: conceptualising impersonal market domination	1
Laughter as dissensus: Kant and the limits of normative theorizing around laughter	1
Police abolition	1
The consequences of liberal modernity: Explaining and resisting neoliberalism through Alasdair MacIntyre	1
Oppression and racial slavery: Abolitionist challenges to neo-republicanism	1
Security and democratic equality	1
Truth versus ignorance in democratic politics: An existentialist perspective on the democratic promise of political freedom	1
Companion Ecologies: A New Theory of the Subject	1
Politics as ‘Sinister Wisdom’: Reparation and responsibility in lesbian feminism	1
Ecologizing democratic theory: Agency, representation, animacy	1
Sartre antihumaniste: Antisujectivisme, marxisme critique, postcolonialisme	1
Cloud ethics: Algorithms and the attributes of ourselves and others	1
The limits of subtractive politics: Agamben and Rousseau’s inheritance	1
Violence and Revolutionary Change	1
A green theory of technological change: Ecologism and the case for technological scepticism	1
The sumud within: Walid Daka’s abolitionist decolonization	1
The green case for a randomly selected chamber	1
Justice beyond repair: Negative Dialectics and the politics of guilt and atonement	1
Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory	1