OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
An Unforgetting Cradling: A Performative Witnessing of a Mother’s Return to a Children’s Orphanage	39
The Unsettled Career of Tami Spry	31
Frank O’Connor’s “Guests of the Nation”: A Civil War Story of Brother Against Brother?	25
Radical Interrelated Qualitative Space in the Midst of Multipandemics: A Collaborative Scholarly Personal Narrative	22
Tugging at the Veil: Critical Race Methods for Analyzing Educational Gag Orders	21
Toward Epistemically-Just Research: A Methodologies Framework	20
Walking Into the Unknown: A Research Journey Through Abuse, Trauma, Motherhood, Poverty, and the Covid Pandemic	20
No Man’s Land: Mutant Natures in Canadian Eco-Horror Film	15
Articulating Apostasy: Crisis-Driven Medical Misbehavior Inspires Disciplinary Interrogation	14
Dream Time With Dad: Autoethnography as Ritual in the Time of COVID-19	12
Show Up, Don’t Just Check In: A Comparative Study of Institutional Statements Released in “Unprecedented Times”	10
There Was a Queer Guy: A Performative Poetic Inquiry Into Heterosexism	10
Affecting Engagements in Justice-Oriented Teacher Preparation: A Psychosocial Intersectional Approach	9
Stretchy and Tense: A Diffractive Auto/Ethnography of Privilege With Yoga Pants	8
Syllabus as Crisis Autoethnography: Performance in Extraordinary Times	7
Tami Spry: The Force of (Co-)Performing	7
Silent Footsteps: Renga Poetry as a Collaborative, Creative Research Method Reflecting on the Immobilities of Gender-Based Violence in the Covid-19 Pandemic	7
On the (Often Western, White, Male) Privilege of Self-Defense	6
Storying the Repertoire: Performing a Slow and Queer Backwardness at the Upstairs Lounge	6
The Heritage Strikes Back: Athlete Activism, Black Lives Matter, and the Iconic Fifth Wave of Activism in the (W)NBA Bubble	6
A Story by Academic Teachers About Distance Education in the Time of Lockdown	6
In Contemplating Loss: The Creative Power and Possibility of Suffering	6
“There Was An Old Lady, She’s Dead”: Reflections on Britishness, Englishness, and What We Do Well	6
“China Virus” and “Kung-Flu”: A Critical Race Case Study of Asian American Journalists’ Experiences During COVID-19	5
Learning to Share the World: Reckoning With the Logistics of Whiteness in Public Galleries and Museums	5

Lessons on Keeping Spry	5
Affectively Entertaining: Dating/Games During a “Limited Military Exercise”	5
University Architectures Re-Invented: Re-Conceptualizing Forced Migration, Historical Consciousness, and Coalition Building in Ukraine After the Full-Scale Russian Invasion	5
Intersections of Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality, and Racial Identity in James Baldwin	5
The Privilege of Control and the Constraint of Presence: Fieldwork and Ontologies of Time	4
Misfits Meet Art and Technology: Cripping Transmethodologies	4
Cultural Humility, Human Research Ethics Review, and Informed Consent	4
Diffractive Respondings and Cutting Together-Apart: Toward More-Than-Human Academic Community	4
What Do Professors Do? Posthumous Letter of Love to Ma	4
Back to the Future: Everything You Wish You’d Asked Derrida About ChatGPT When You Had the Chance!	4
Direct[Message]: Exploring Access and Engagement With the Arts Through Digital Technology in COVID Times	4
Trying to be Good Enough: Exploring Enculturative Intensive Motherhood Discourse	3
Geographies of Affective Knowledge: Site, the Embodied Ethnicity and Transformation	3
Filtering Out My Face: Rethinking Critical Narrative Analysis	3
Asian/American Leadership in Perpetually (Yellow) Perilous Times: On Navigating Academia and/in the Post-2024 World	3
Tripping the Light Fantastic: A Collaborative Autoethnography on Choreography, Dance, and (Black) Experience	3
Decolonization of Post-Soviet Higher Education: Critical Inquiry Through a Reflexive Scholarly Dialogue	3
Cross-Disciplinary Methods in Peace Studies Research: Agency, Uncertainty and Emancipation	3
Relocating Reproductive Justice in Donor Sperm and Egg Capitalism	3
Beyond Reflexivity: Centering Recognition and Relational Dialogue in Social Inquiry	2
Chasing theDragon(Magazine): Gender Erasure Through Discourse inDragonMagazine, 1978–2005	2
Corrigendum to “Methodologizing Transnationality: Relational Writing as Collective Inquiry”	2
It’s Me(me), Revolution Elizabeth: Social Media and a Practice of Critical Social Commentary	2
Diffracting the Special Issue: The Co-Emergence of Response-Able Collaboration	2
Natural / Disaster: Differential Media Portrayals of Wildfire Displacement and Homelessness in Portland, Oregon	2
Theorizing the “Public”—Recognizing Ephemeral and Migrating Publics and the Educative Agent	2
Publication Notice	2
Beyond (and Alongside) Shameful Attachments: The Lived Experience of Critique Within the Entrepreneurial University	2
El Cabal, Vacunas, y Donald Trump: An Analysis of Spanish-Language Disinformation Leading Up to the U.S. Capitol Insurrection	2
Mother’s Eyes	2
Emergent Life: Opening Our Lives to Differenciation and to Response-Ability, as We Turn Our Critical Gaze on the Enunciative Regularities That Hold the World the Same	2
Shifting the Frame: Theoretical and Methodological Explorations of Photography in Educational Research	2
Postcolonial Autoethnography: Healing Wounded Humanities	2
The Big Lie(s): Situating the January 6th Coup Attempt Within White Supremacist Lies	2
Caught In-Between: Diversifying Tamil Women’s Voices From the Sri Lankan Civil War	2
Poems Upon Reading “Say Goodbye to the Toddler Stars of the Pandemic Office Zoom” in Bloomberg Law	2
Scenes From a Collective Biography of Cold War Childhoods: A Decolonial Ethnodrama	2
Trump and the De(con)struction of Society	2
Cartography, Conversation, and Critical Cultural Justice Inquiry: Participatory Mapping and the Reimagining of Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area, Norfolk Island	2
Listening to a Voice From the Periphery: A Female German Life 1934–2022	2
Decolonizing Relationality: Reflections From the Summer Institute in Anti-Racist and Decolonizing Research Methods	2
“They don’t Want Your Dead Life, They Want Your Living Life”: Ethnography in the Wake	2
Bodies of Walking: Trans-Materializing the Experiences of Racial Harassment	2
Haecceity of Becoming-Mother: A Diffractive Analysis of Babywearing Through a Global Pandemic	2
An Intersectionality-Based Research Framework and Methodology That Emphasizes Systemic Inequities in Public Schooling, Including Racism, Sexism, and Classism	2
Obstinate Memory: A Radical Participatory Film-Based Research Approach	2
Autoethnographically Interrogating School-Based Anti-“Asian” Racism in Post(?)-Pandemic Times: An AsianCrit-Informed Composite Palimpsest	2
Existential Recovery: Re-making and Remembering Through Geo-Storytelling	1
Humanizing Methodologies in a Digital World: A Critical Awareness of Ubuntu- Informed Approaches in Participatory Visual Research in Malawi	1
A Crisis of Identity: A Collage of Emerging Scholars in the Crucible of Academe	1

Rising Authoritarian Practice in Early Childhood Curriculum: A Case Study	1
The Hands That Keep History: Black and Mexican Women’s Archival and Epistemological Legacies	1
‘I don’t know why she swallowed the fly’: On Dubious Cures and Drastic Measures in Post (?) Pandemic Times (An Introduction to the Special Issue)	1
The Lion Refugee in Europe: A Critical Race/Anti-Blackness Counterstory	1
Heidegger and the Technocratic Warping of the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Selling Spectacular Spaces: Hybridized Sport and Space in the Imagination of Enclaved Residential Living in India	1
The Aversion to Theory	1
Doing Ethnographic Research in the Fiji Islands: Research Method and Research Ethics Issues	1
The First Time I Heard: Black Feminist Approaches to Hip Hop Methodologies	1
Childhoods, Lives, and Histories of Critical Qualitative Inquiry	1
“Oh Shit!” Moments: Motorcycling, “Thrownness,” and the Startle Effect	1
The End of the Séance: “Master’s” Tools and Modes of Bodily Practices for Complex Times	1
Human Bodies in Motion: The Performative Intra-Actions of Materialization	1
Everyday Practices, Unaffordable Rights, Radical Liberation: Reproductive Justice Direct Service Activism	1
Chronic Pain Performance and Knowledge: Toward a Process With Ecological Pain	1
Forty Acres and a Mule: Reparation Blues	1
Spinning Futures: Interrogating Feminist Pedagogy and Methodology With Speculative Fiction	1
Speculative Futures and “Found” Artifacts: Using Fiction for Defamiliarization and Analysis	1
My High Horse Is Dying: Agitating Internalized Neoliberalism in Higher Education With(Out) Compassion	1
“If You Don’t Fight Like Hell, You’re Not Going to Have a Country”: An Intersectional Settler Colonial Analysis of Trump’s “Save America” Speech and Other Messages of (Non)belonging	1
Tools My Mother Gave Me: Four Autoethnographic Poems	1
Critical Knowledge Interventions—Relevance Beyond Foundations	1
We Story: Decoloniality in Practice and Theory	1
Shapeless Listening to the More-Than-Human World: Coherence, Complexity, Mattering, Indifference	1
Ethnography in Revision: Black Ethnography and Notes From Kiese Laymon	1
Swallowing Words	1
A Warning/A Call: The Spectacle of (In)Visibility in the Vernacular Response to DEI-A Work	1
F*CK CORONA: Digital Pedagogy, Pandemic Parenting, and Dramatic Acts of Performative Decolonization in the Year 2020	1
Reflection as a Method: Asian Racialization in White Sport	1
Critical Race Theory, Methodology, and Semiotics: The Analytical Utility of a “Race” Conscious Approach for Visual Qualitative Research	1
The Biopolitical Kindergarten: A Critical Qualitative Examination of the Intersection Between Policymakers’ Neoliberal Reforms and Children’s Figuring of Themselves as Learners	1
Nā Limu O Ke Kai: Inspiring Kānaka Health and Wellbeing	1
Learning How to Drive: Rites of Passage in Being and Becoming (A Collaborative Autoethnography Not Just About Driving)	1
Mā Muri, Mā Mua: Use the Past to Inform Our Future	1
This Land is La Bamba Land Autoethnographic Encounters With Mexico’s Son Jarocho	1
Black Women, Black Girls, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Autoethnography of a Health Disparity	1
Frame Genealogy as an Approach to Tracing Ideology in Education Policy Discourse	1
The Reverberations of War: Ukrainian and Polish Academics Write a Collective Autoethnography of Experiencing War in Ukraine	1
Utopian Hopes? Dystopian Fears?	1
There Was an Old Woman Who . . . Lost Patience With the Academy and Performed Her Frustration at a Public Meeting	1
Methodologizing Transnationality: Relational Writing as Collective Inquiry	1
Childhoods, Cultures, and Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Researching the Political and Life Worlds of Children	1