OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Cultural Economy is 3. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing	44
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector	42
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions	30
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms	26
Outlining startup culture as a global form	22
A poststructuralist who still believes in structures: interview with John Allen	20
Responsibilization of care: tensions over health, insurance and the family in Brazil	18
Reflections on representing Black Britain	18
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through	17
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul	16
Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation	14
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour	13
Alternatives to the performance of economics	12
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners	11
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold	11
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark	10
Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)	10
The taste of homemade: trusting ‘healthy’ food on app-based delivery services in Hyderabad, India	9
Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy	9
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand Matory	9
Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries	9
From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China	8
Cryptofinancial imaginaries: how neoliberal theories are materialized in the technical principles of cryptocurrencies	8
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections	8
Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling	7

Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa	7
Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization	6
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World	6
Strategic ambiguity: a roundtable on cultural economy and consumer culture	6
Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device	6
Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values	6
Socio-technical arrangements, commercial banks’ power, and central banks: the rebuilding of the payment card system in Israel	6
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands	6
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan	6
Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa	6
The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa	5
The haptic visuality of financial trading	5
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform	5
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur	5
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures	5
Introduction: the tale as a special discourse vehicle	5
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures	5
Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination	5
Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil	5
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy	5
Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment	5
Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program	5
What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form	5
‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA	5
Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands	4
Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU	4
Entertaining the stock market and speculative communities: South Korea's television-financial complex and Kakao's March of the Ants	4
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings	4
Shouldn’t we all be doing cultural economy?	4
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music	4
Repoliticising the future of work: automation and the end of techno-optimism	4
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future	4
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating	4
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice	4
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam	4
Engendering assemblages: the constitution of digital health data as an epistemic consumption object	4
From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea	3
Tales of carbon offsets: between experiments and indulgences?	3
Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park	3
Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: taxation versus financial inclusion	3
Crowdfunding care in Kenya	3
Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?	3
Until every pet has a home: fuzzy finances in American animal rescue economies	3
Finance and care	3
Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece	3
Towards interactive perspectives on information gathering: what are resolvable differences?	3
Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment	3
Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China	3
Come and see Guatemala at Macy’s! Indigenous aesthetics and informal empire on display in the heart of the American home	3
Introduction: genre work and the new economy	3

How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value	3
The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life	3
Chasing Innovation Chasing Innovation , by Lilly Irani, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2019, 304 pp., £44.00(hardback), ISBN 978-0-691-17513-3 / £14.00 (pape	3
The significance of boring FinTech: technology imaginaries and value vernaculars in established banks	3
‘How much is too much?’: dynamically priced tickets and algorithm agency on the Ticketmaster platform	3
Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process	3
Materialising reform: how conservation encounters collection practises in zoos	3
Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging: Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives	3
Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals	3