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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing	40
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector	38
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions	29
Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation	29
Outlining startup culture as a global form	24
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms	23
A poststructuralist who still believes in structures: interview with John Allen	22
Reflections on representing Black Britain	19
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour	18
Responsibilization of care: tensions over health, insurance and the family in Brazil	17
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul	17
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through	16
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners	12
Alternatives to the performance of economics	12
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold	11
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark	11
Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)	11
The taste of homemade: trusting ‘healthy’ food on app-based delivery services in Hyderabad, India	10
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand Matory	10
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands	9
Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy	9
The fabrication of environmental intangibles as a questionable response to environmental problems	9
Cryptofinancial imaginaries: how neoliberal theories are materialized in the technical principles of cryptocurrencies	8
Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling	8
From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China	8

Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device	7
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections	7
Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization	7
Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa	7
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan	6
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World	6
Introduction: the tale as a special discourse vehicle	5
Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment	5
The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa	5
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy	5
Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil	5
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform	5
Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination	5
Strategic ambiguity: a roundtable on cultural economy and consumer culture	5
Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa	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
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures	5
Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values	5
The haptic visuality of financial trading	5
Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program	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
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future	4
Engendering assemblages: the constitution of digital health data as an epistemic consumption object	4
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice	4
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating	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
Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands	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
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam	4
Shouldn’t we all be doing cultural economy?	4
Tales of carbon offsets: between experiments and indulgences?	4
Towards interactive perspectives on information gathering: what are resolvable differences?	3
Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: taxation versus financial inclusion	3
Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece	3
Until every pet has a home: fuzzy finances in American animal rescue economies	3
Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?	3
The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life	3
Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China	3
Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park	3
From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea	3
The significance of boring FinTech: technology imaginaries and value vernaculars in established banks	3
Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals	3
Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present	3
Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power	3
How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value	3

‘How much is too much?’: dynamically priced tickets and algorithm agency on the Ticketmaster platform	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
Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process	3
Crowdfunding care in Kenya	3
Finance and care	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
Introduction: genre work and the new economy	3
Come and see Guatemala at Macy’s! Indigenous aesthetics and informal empire on display in the heart of the American home	3
Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment	3