OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Globalizations is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Confronting multiple global crises: a political economy approach for the twenty-first century	36
Che Guevara and continental revolution	35
The landscape and conjuncture of the land rush in the Colombian Amazon: failed and pin-prick land deals	31
Advancing emigrants' rights in India: strategies of civil society in spaces for engagement	26
The EU global gateway and energy infrastructure: navigating varieties of economic statecraft	25
Unfreedom in labour relations: from a politics of rescue to a politics of solidarity?	25
Reprocessing and remining as grey extractivism: the example of cobalt from the Southeast Missouri Lead Belt	23
Knowing dissent: the Enlightenment subject within contemporary politics of subjectivity	22
The trilemma of corporate taxation in a globalized world	22
The geopolitical economy of state-led intelligence-commerce: two examples from Iraq and West Germany	20
Enacting the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) Triple Nexus: civic ecosystems at the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war	19
Tell me where you live and I’ll tell you the repression you face: Venezuelan authoritarianism across borders	19
The right words: mapping the ideological language of authoritarian populism in post-apartheid South Africa	19
A green transition orchestrated from Big Tech clouds?	19
The political practices of gender experts: repurposing women's empowerment	18
The politics of the anti-politics machine of agricultural commercialization: Uganda and Tanzania in the Longue Durée	17
Compartmentality, commonist impulses, and the path to pluriversal transformation: an Australian perspective	17
Water utilities as debt emitters: the commercialization of development funding and services provision in Kenya’s water sector	16
COVID-19 crisis and crisis management in South Korea, 2020–2021	16
Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state	14
From organic to climate solidarity: challenges for climate change mitigation	14
Capital redefined: a commonist value theory for liberating life	13
AI for peace: new wine in old bottles?	13
Epilogue: the ethico-politics of attention	13
The geoeconomics of infrastructures: viewing globalization and global rivalry through a lens of infrastructural competition	13

Correction	13
Bridging divides against erratic democratic trajectories: the politics of rural and urban social movements in Southern Africa	13
The green-digital transition in the German automotive sector: dysfunctional strategies of distributive forces – negative transition effects for employees	12
From sacred spaces to imperial glory: a deconstruction of civilizational discourses in Türkiye and Saudi Arabia	12
The lying flat movement, global youth, and globality: a case of collective reading on Reddit	12
Norm spoiling, gender washing and the pushback against women’s rights in Brazilian foreign policy	12
The adoption of earth-observation technologies for deforestation monitoring by Indigenous people: evidence from the Amazon	12
Attacking gender education in Latin America: an ambiguous consensus?	11
Confronting international organizations on social media? Understanding digital self-representation of liminal youth in global governance	11
Neoliberalisation, dissensus, and the demise of tripartite bargaining in Italy after the 2011 debt crisis: a Gramscian ‘common sense’ approach	11
Transnational migrant entrepreneurs: understanding their dependencies, fragilities, and alternatives	11
Is Jair Bolsonaro a classic populist?	11
The transnational dimension of the Pakistani ethnic economy in Barcelona	11
Work futures: globalization, planetary markets, and uneven developments in the gig economy	10
Unpacking the ideational foundations of South American migration governance: a systematic analysis of the South American conference on migration (SACM)	10
Education and socio-environmental justice in the pluriverse: decolonial perspectives	10
From liberal to state feminism? Exploring gender politics amid political transition in Hong Kong	10
The distant proximity of infrastructural harm: the contested and (in)visible dynamics of waste politics in Athens, Greece	10
Prefiguring politics: transregional energy infrastructures as a lens for the study of authoritarian practices	10
‘Not too high, not too low’: transparency, opacity and the politics of poverty measurement in Jordan	10
Containing change: the politics of transitional aid in Egypt after the Arab uprisings	10
Security, left populism, and abolitionist politics in the age of neo-fascism	10
Contested geographies of localization(s): towards open-locales	9
Desert geographies: solar energy governance for just transitions	9
Decolonizing AI rationality in the Ecuadorian Amazon	9
Labour and migration in the games industry: circulation of workers and struggles across Brazilian and British contexts	9
The ties that bind: reassessing the political significance of the BRICS amid Russia’s War on Ukraine	9
Legitimation struggles in international organizations: the case of the African Union	9
Digital markets and the commercialization of healthcare in Africa: the case of Kenya	9
‘Speak of the devil and he shall appear’: unpacking the practices of security brokers in West Africa	8
The complexities of the urban [the case of Delhi]	8
Between abolition and opium: civility and force across Asian and Caribbean British imperialisms	8
Learning by doing: a role theoretical approach to learning of inter-governmental organizations	8
‘Neoliberalism, far-right politics, and the shrinking White middle class in Southern California’s Inland Empire’	8
Tejiendo palabras – weaving words liaising with the Mexican national indigenous council communities:	8
Filling the descriptive representation gap? Youth platforms in global environmental governance	8
Reaching for the past: North Korea’s engagement with Koreans in Japan	8
Linking geoeconomic and financial de-risking in European energy infrastructure	8
Transformation of the global digital labour marketplace: the challenges to digital service delivery via mediating platforms	7
Representation, regulation and voice of immigrant couriers and platform drivers in Portugal	7
Father state and its migrant daughters	7
Environment, space, and identity in the Eurasian region	7
‘Throwing in my two cents’: Burundian diaspora youth between conventional and transformative forms of mobilization	7
Climate great power under geopolitical pressures: the EU’s trajectory and response to Russia–Ukraine war, 2014 and 2022	7
Afro-optimism and progressive modernity: the Fintech story in the African press	7
Between land and the market: farmers’ mobilizations in Chhattisgarh and western Uttar Pradesh	7
‘Andizi’: black women remaking the university in KwaZulu-Natal	7
Uneven development and labour super-exploitation in regional automotive formations. Insights from Mexico and Morocco	7
‘My parents told me to love my country’: positionalities of second-generation diaspora Eritreans in a transnational setting	7
Decentring the West? Civilizational solidarity and (de)colonization in theories of the Russia-Ukraine War	6

‘Band aid’ for women in the ready-made garment industry: self-help and surveillance in Bangladesh	6
Reclaiming the politics of South-South cooperation	6
Re-embedding Polanyi’s double movement thesis – the non-ideological and destructive countermovement	6
The political economy of hipsters in Kazakhstan: mobilization, hybridity and class	6
Correction	6
Dispossession of the commons: the Chaiya community forest and the creation of special economic zones	6
Global benchmarking: contestations from a localized everyday perspective	6
Climate change, global population and the capitalist axiomatic: making sense of Malthus	6
A segregated rootedness : the integration pattern of the global south immigration in Spain and its causes	6
Embeddedness and entanglement between the methods of Articulation and Calibration	6
Decentring narratives of (de)globalization and crisis: Uzbekistan’s ‘everyday’ political economy amidst Russia’s war in Ukraine	6
Organizing against mining companies during the COVID-19 pandemic: frames, tactics and the digital divide in southern Mexico	6
Negotiating the public: re-municipalization, water politics and social reproduction	6
‘We’ll be like Che’ Foquismo and sacrificial ethics within the Latin American revolutionary activism	6
Youth responses to state-manufactured diaspora mobilization: Turkey’s diaspora governance and the politics of selective engagement	6
Regional governance, gender and the COVID-19 pandemic in the global south	6
Introduction: political subjectivity in times of crisis	5
Tackling terricide, not (only) ecocide: further exploring the nexus between social-ecological destruction	5
Global cinema in an era of deglobalization: trans-territorial compulsions and the plenipotentiary potential of human activities in Cloud Atlas and Okja	5
Growth models and the question of popular legitimacy	5
Residual unprotection: aflatoxin research and regulation in Senegal's postcolonial peanut infrastructures	5
Fossil fuel companies’ duty of reparation: why the industry must concur to foot the climate bill	5
Sites, stakes, and scales: radical relationalism and the shifting nature of food sovereignty mobilization	5
The global (health) governance of antimicrobial resistance	5
The roles they play: change in China’s climate leadership role during the post-Paris era	5
Decolonial dialogues: COVID-19 and migrant women's remembrance as resistance	5
Business as usual: framing labour exploitation in the UN global compact	5
When autocratization backfires: how overreach sparked mass resistance in Thailand and Bangladesh	5
Contract farming and the broken promises of rural development: inequality, resistance, and disruption in Tanzania’s export horticulture	5
Total extractivism: welcome to the open cabal of ‘more is more’ & ‘all energy’	5
Che as minister: the promotion of science and technology for Cuba’s socialist development	5
Silent revolution/passive revolution: Europe's COVID-19 recovery plan and green deal	5
For a global sociology of social movements. Beyond methodological globalism and extractivism	5
Non-state legitimation as practice: the multiplicit making of public authority in Afro-Chinese engagements	5
Hypermarketization: standardized shopping in emerging economies	5
E. F. Schumacher and the natural capital paradigm: rethinking approaches to conservation through non-violence	5
Geostrategic globalization: US–China rivalry, corporate strategy, and the new global economy	5
Gender-based digital transnational repression as a global authoritarian practice	5