OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Political Sociology 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward a Critique of Algorithmic Violence	33
“We Closed the Ports to Protect Refugees.” Hygienic Borders and Deterrence Humanitarianism during Covid-19	28
Families First? The Mobilization of Family Norms in Refugee Resettlement	25
Colonial Lives of the Carceral Archipelago: Rethinking the Neoliberal Security State	23
Collective Discussion: Toward Critical Approaches to Intelligence as a Social Phenomenon	16
The Everyday Life of Security: Capturing Space, Practice, and Affect	16
The Cruel Optimism of Militarism: Feminist Curiosity, Affect, and Global Security	13
Reimagining EUrope through the Governance of Migration	13
Digital Humanitarianism and the Visual Politics of the Refugee Camp: (Un)Seeing Control	13
Racial Capitalism, Islamophobia, and Austerity	12
Machine Learning and the Platformization of the Military: A Study of Google's Machine Learning Platform TensorFlow	12
Outsourcing Hotspot Governance within the EU: Cultural Mediators as Humanitarian–Border Workers in Greece	10
Thinking with Diplomacy: Within and Beyond Practice Theory	10
Visual Appropriation: A Self-reflexive Qualitative Method for Visual Analysis of the International	9
Of Love and Frustration as Post-Yugoslav Women Scholars: Learning and Unlearning the Coloniality of IR in the Context of Global North Academia	9
Interpreting the Uninterpretable: The Ethics of Opaqueness as an Approach to Moments of Inscrutability in Fieldwork	9
Affect and the Response to Terror: Commemoration and Communities of Sense	9
“We Can Do This”: Merkel, Migration and the Fantasy of Control	9
Periods, Pregnancy, and Peeing: Leaky Feminine Bodies in Swedish Military Marketing	8
Exclusivity and Circularity in the Production of Global Governance Expertise: The Making of “Global Mental Health” Knowledge	8
Practice Theory and Postsocialist Civil Society: Toward a New Analytical Framework	7
Sovereign Wives? An Emotional Politics of Precarity and Resistance in the UK's Military Wives Choir	7
The Politics of the Anthropocene: Temporality, Ecology, and Indigeneity	7
“Supermaids”: Hyper-resilient Subjects in Neoliberal Migration Governance	7
Extractive Governmentality at Work: Native Appropriations of Oil Labor in the Amazon	6

Decolonizing Trauma with Frantz Fanon	6
What Can a Critical Cybersecurity Do?	6
Unpacking the Role of Metrics in Global Vaccination Governance	6
How Do Metrics Shape Polities? From Analogue to Digital Measurement Regimes in International Health Politics	5
Reporting Security: Postcolonial Governmentality in the United Nations’ Trusteeship System	5
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health	4
The Nakba in a Livestream: Empathic Encounters and the Solidarity of Shared Precariousness	4
Who Owns a Deadly Virus? Viral Sovereignty, Global Health Emergencies, and the Matrix of the International	4
International Political Sociology as a Mode of Critique: Fracturing Totalities	4
“Videogames Saved My Life”: Everyday Resistance and Ludic Recovery among US Military Veterans	4
More than Extraction: Rethinking Data's Colonial Political Economy	4
Making Digital Surveillance Unacceptable? Security, Democracy, and the Political Sociology of Disputes	4
Transversal Politics of Big Tech	3
Deprivation of Citizenship as Colonial Violence: Deracination and Dispossession in Assam	3
Security beyond Biopolitics: The Spheropolitics, Co-Immunity, and Atmospheres of the Coronavirus Pandemic	3
Terrain of Contestation: Complicating the Role of Aid in Border Diplomacy between Europe and Morocco	3
“Citizenship Cheaters” before the Law: Reading Fraud-Based Denaturalization in Norway through Lenses of Exceptionalism	2
Political Subjectivation and the In/Visible Politics of Migrant Youth Organizing in Germany and the United States	2
Midwives and Humanitarian Bureaucracy: Managing Migration at a Postcolonial Border	2
Occupation, Sight, Landscape: Visibility and the Normalization of Israeli Settlements	2
Seeing Islamophobia in Black: Contesting Imperial Logics in the Anti-Racist Moment	2
Sound Matters: How Sonic Formations Shape the Nuclear Deterrence and Non-Proliferation Regimes	2
Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and the Politics of Culinary Zionism	2
Field Heteronomy and Contingent Expertise: The Case of International Tax Justice	2
It Just Feels Right. Visuality and Emotion Norms in Right-Wing Populist Storytelling	2
The Exemplary in Transnational Social Movements: The Legacies of the Alterglobalization Movement	2
Inking Wartime: Military Tattoos and the Temporalities of the War Experience	2
Walking the International	2
The Dislocation of LGBT Politics: Pride, Globalization, and Geo-Temporality in Uganda and Serbia	2
Donor Love Will Tear Us Apart: How Complexity and Learning Marginalize Accountability in Peacebuilding Interventions	2
Perceiving and Controlling Maritime Flows. Technology, Kinopolitics, and the Governmentalization of Vision	2
Killing Reindeer: A Spatial Analysis of Nordic States and Nomadic Forms of Life in the Arctic	2