OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

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

Article	Citations
What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification	97
The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change	70
‘The economy’ as if people mattered: revisiting critiques of economic growth in a time of crisis	53
Deep Restoration: from The Great Implosion to The Great Awakening	38
Beyond land grabs: new insights on land struggles and global agrarian change	36
Workers’ organizations and the fetishism of the trade union form: toward new pathways for research on the labour movement?	30
Apologists for growth: passive revolutionaries in a passive revolution	30
Reforming global climate governance in an age of bullshit	28
Vaccine nationalism: contested relationships between COVID-19 and globalization	28
In search of a political economy of the postgrowth era	27
The political economies of different globalizations: theorizing reglobalization	22
Bitter sugarification: sugar frontier and contract farming in Uganda	22
Empowered inclusion: theorizing global justice for children and youth	22
Economics and climate emergency	22
COVID-19, markets and the crisis of the higher education regulatory state: the case of Australia	22
Humility in the Anthropocene	21
The political trilemma of contemporary social-ecological transformation – lessons from Karl Polanyi’sThe Great Transformation	21
Philosophies of migration governance in a globalizing world	20
The failure of Integrated Assessment Models as a response to ‘climate emergency’ and ecological breakdown: the Emperor has no clothes	20
The Dasgupta Review deconstructed: an exposé of biodiversity economics	20
Grounding Chinese investment: encounters between Chinese capital and local land politics in Laos	18
Spreading ‘green’ infrastructural harm: mapping conflicts and socio-ecological disruptions within the European Union’s transnational energy grid	18
Information disorder, fake news and the future of democracy	17
The globalization of artificial intelligence: consequences for the politics of environmentalism	17
Contextualizing corporate control in the agrifood and extractive sectors	17

Authoritarian neoliberalism, crisis, and consolidation: the political economy of regime change in Turkey	17
Coloniality and globalization: a decolonial take	17
Shared pretenses for collective inaction: the economic growth imperative, COVID-19, and climate change	15
The global climate of land politics	15
Neoliberalism incites but also restrains revolutionary change in the Third World – why articulating multiple struggles is necessary to confront structures of domination	15
Skilled migration to emerging economies: the global competition for talent beyond the West	14
Network companies, land grabbing, and financialization in South America	14
‘We are not a partnership’ – constructing and contesting legitimacy of global public–private partnerships: the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement	13
Teaching climate complacency: mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education	12
Steering towards reglobalization: can a reformed G20 rise to the occasion?	12
Unthinking knowledge production: from post-Covid to post-carbon futures	12
Land, territory and commons: voices and visions from the struggles	11
Towards a feminist global trade politics	11
Reframing civilization(s): from critique to transitions	11
From the Paris Agreement to the Anthropocene and Planetary Boundaries Framework: an interview with Will Steffen	11
Politicizing hydroelectric power plants in Portugal: spatio-temporal injustices and psychosocial impacts of renewable energy colonialism in the Global North	11
A gendered labour geography perspective on the Cambodian garment workers’ general strike of 2013/2014	10
Unpacking the finance-farmland nexus: circles of cooperation and intermediaries in Brazil	10
Beyond the critical: reinventing the radical imagination in transformative development and global(ization) studies	10
Introduction to ‘Reclaiming democracy from below: from the contemporary state capitalist system to peoples’ sovereignty’	10
Desert geographies: solar energy governance for just transitions	10
Global or local solidarity? That’s the wrong question: relationality, aspiration and the in-between of feminist activism in Southeast Asia	10
Reglobalizing trade: progressive global governance in an age of uncertainty	10
Rule of nature or rule of capital? Physiocracy, ecological economics, and ideology	10
The role of the urban scale in anchoring authoritarian neoliberalism: a look at post-2012 neoliberalization in Belgrade, Serbia	10
From industrial relations research to Global Labour Studies: moving labour research beyond Eurocentrism	10
Beyond traditional trade unionism: innovative worker responses in three African cities	10
Unpacking SDG 15, its targets and indicators: tracing ideas of conservation	9
‘I don’t want your progress! It tries to kill … me!’ Decolonial encounters and the anarchist critique of civilization	9
Empowerment, rights, and global food governance: gender in the UN Committee for World Food Security	9
Labour conflicts in the Global South: an introduction	9
Critical Latin American agroecology as a regionalism from below	9
Brazilian far-right neoliberal nationalism: family, anti-communism and the myth of racial democracy	9
A critique of the Laffer theorem’s macro-narrative consequences for corporate tax avoidance from a Global Wealth Chain perspective	9
Challenging the three faces of extractivism: the Mapuche struggle and the forestry industry in Chile	8
The Arctic mineral resource rush and the ontological struggle for the Viiankiaapa peatland in Sodankylä, Finland	8
The IMF, tackling inequality, and post-neoliberal ‘reglobalization’: the paradoxes of political legitimation within economistic parameters	8
Solidarity across boundaries: a new practice of collectivity among workers in the app-based transport sector in Indonesia	8
The modern/colonial hell of innovation economy: future as a return to colonial mythologies	8
Politically motivated precarization of academic and journalistic lives under authoritarian neoliberalism: the case of Turkey	8
On the question of time, racial capitalism, and the planetary	8
Constructing world society: international organizations, otherhood and the rise of global reporting	8
What was globalization?	8
The new conceptual vocabulary of the social sciences: the ‘globalization debates’ in context	7
Indigeneity as a transnational battlefield: disputes over meanings, spaces and peoples	7
Economics and the climate catastrophe	7
Shared interest or strategic threat? A critical investigation of political debates and regulatory responses to Chinese agricultural investment in Australia	7
The regenerative turn: on the re-emergence of reciprocity embedded in living ecologies	7
Democratizing global climate governance? The case of indigenous representation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)	7
The human development and capabilities approach as a twenty-first century ideology of globalization	7

Economics, the climate change policy-assemblage and the new materialisms: towards a comprehensive policy	6
Critical development studies and the study of globalization(s): introduction	6
Indigenous resistance, planetary dystopia, and the politics of environmental justice	6
The production of leisure: understanding the social function of football development in China	6
Postscript, an end to the war on nature: COP in or COP out?	6
The Trump administration, the far-right and world politics	6
Taxing the ‘crop of the century’: the role of institutions in governing the soy boom in South America	6
Eurasian globalization: past and present	6
Who wins and who loses from renewable energy transition? Large-scale solar, land, and livelihood in Karnataka, India	6
Work in the post-COVID-19 pandemic: the case of South Korea	6
Innovation in the era of generalized monopolies: the case of the US–Mexico automotive industrial complex	6
Reciprocal empowerment for civil society peacebuilding: sharing lessons between the Korean and Northern Ireland peace processes	5
What does Degrowth mean? Some comments on Jason Hickel’s ‘A few points of clarification’	5
Land grabbing, power configurations and trajectories of China’s investments in Argentina	5
Bridging the gap between overseas and Chinese perceptions on Sino-Middle Eastern relations: a Chinese perspective	5
Landed value grabbing in the terroir of post-socialist specialty wine	5
Creating a race to the top in global tax governance: the political case for tax spillover assessments	5
From climate change to economic change? Reflections on ‘feedback’	5
Reforming in a democratic vacuum: the authoritarian neoliberalism of the Temer administration from 2016 to 2018	5
Humanity for itself? Reflections on climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic	5
‘A virtuous industry’: the agrarian work-family ethic in US rulemaking on child agricultural labour	4
Revisiting the ‘boomerang effect’: the international relations of the trade unions in Turkey under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule	4
Becoming ‘active labour protestors’: women workers organizing in India’s garment export factories	4
In the name of the nation: Authoritarian practices, capital accumulation, and the radical simplification of development in China’s global vision	4
Climate emergency and securitization politics: towards a climate politics of the extraordinary	4
The impact of moral injury on social movements: the demobilization of Jordan’s ‘Arab Spring’ protestors	4
Norm convergence and collision in regime overlaps. Business and human rights in the UN and the EU	4
Beyond the premise of conquest: Indigenous and Black earth-worlds in the Anthropocene debates	4
On living in an already-unsettled world: COVID as an expression of larger transformations	4
‘Welcome to Mars’: space colonization, anticipatory authoritarianism, and the labour of hope	4
The credibility of regional policymaking: insights from South America	4
Relational governance in rhetoric and reality: explanations and problems of China’s Belt and Road Initiative from the relational perspective	4
Inclusive globalization or old wine in a new bottle? China-led globalization in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Labour conflicts in the Global South: towards a new theory of resistance?	4
What is ‘business as usual’? Towards a theory of cumulative sociomaterial change	4
Neoliberalism and state formation in Iran	4
Blockchain-driven digital nomadism in the Basque e-Diaspora	4
‘We need to organise millions of people’ – how Alter Summit and DiEM25 struggle to create a European ‘modern prince’	4
Goodbyelabouring man, long livehomo economicus: the new precarity in the world of work	4
Conflicting securities: contributions to a critical research agenda on climate security	4
Multiple Anthropocenes: pluralizing space–time as a response to ‘the Anthropocene’	4
The reconfiguration of twenty-first century Latin American regionalism: actors, processes, contradictions, and prospects	4