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Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

Posthumanist Ethics and Activism is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of posthumanism, performativity, affect, and new materialism in social sciences. It delves into topics such as autoethnography, reflexivity, the ontological turn, and feminism within the context of the Anthropocene. The papers critically examine the implications of these theoretical frameworks on qualitative research and offer new perspectives on understanding human-nonhuman relationships.

  • Posthumanism
  • Performativity
  • Affect
  • Autoethnography
  • New Materialism
  • Reflexivity
  • Ontological Turn
  • Feminism
  • Anthropocene
  • Qualitative Research
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

Which countries lead Posthumanist Ethics and Activism research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.1k and 561 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 561 works
  3. 3 Canada 293 works
  4. 4 Australia 217 works
  5. 5 Germany 141 works
  6. 6 India 99 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 81 works
  8. 8 Italy 77 works
  9. 9 Finland 73 works
  10. 10 China 70 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 41.6%United Kingdom: 20.3%Canada: 10.6%Australia: 7.9%6 others listed: 19.6%42%largest
United States1,149 · 41.6%United Kingdom561 · 20.3%Canada293 · 10.6%Australia217 · 7.9%6 others listed541 · 19.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Posthumanist Ethics and Activism research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Cambridge publishes the most Posthumanist Ethics and Activism research, followed by University of Toronto and University of British Columbia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 27 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 25 works
  3. 3 University of British ColumbiaCanada 25 works
  4. 4 Film IndependentUnited States 22 works
  5. 5 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 19 works
  6. 6 The University of MelbourneAustralia 19 works
  7. 7 York UniversityCanada 19 works
  8. 8 City University of New YorkUnited States 19 works
  9. 9 University of AlbertaCanada 18 works
  10. 10 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Posthumanist Ethics and Activism?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Posthumanist Ethics and Activism include Michel Foucault and Roy Frederick Baumeister.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Posthumanist Ethics and Activism?

The most cited paper in Posthumanist Ethics and Activism is "Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter" (Karen M. Barad, 2003), with 7,005 citations. Next come "The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure" (3,993) and "Autoethnography: An Overview" (3,060).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter Karen M. Barad · Signs Mar 2003 7,005
2 The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure Brian R. Larkin · Annual Review of Anthropology Review 28 Aug 2013 3,993
3 Autoethnography: An Overview Carolyn Ellis, Tony E. Adams, Arthur P. Bochner · Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Open access 24 Nov 2010 3,060
4 On Face-Work Erving Goffman · Psychiatry Aug 1955 2,865
5 Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom Walter D. Mignolo · Theory Culture & Society Dec 2009 2,336
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Where is Posthumanist Ethics and Activism research done?

The largest centres of Posthumanist Ethics and Activism research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Toronto (Canada) and Melbourne (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 141 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 73 works
  3. 3 TorontoCanada 58 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 58 works
  5. 5 Los AngelesUnited States 44 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 43 works
  7. 7 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 31 works
  8. 8 MontrealCanada 31 works
  9. 9 BerlinGermany 28 works
  10. 10 ChicagoUnited States 27 works
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Where is the best place to study Posthumanist Ethics and Activism?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Manchester, University of Cambridge and University of Toronto score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 68.124.5%4.5×12 +44.7%
2University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 67.58.9%7.0×27 +113.3%
3University of TorontoCanada 66.710.4%3.9×25 +21.0%
4University of BristolUnited Kingdom 65.922.4%6.8×12 +96.0%
5University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 65.517.5%6.8×19 +7.3%
6Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 65.524.8%25.0×13 -44.7%
7University of HelsinkiFinland 65.415.9%7.1×16 +228.9%
8University of AmsterdamNetherlands 65.012.9%8.4×16 +128.9%
9University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 61.218.5%8.8×12 +58.1%
10University of British ColumbiaCanada 61.05.0%6.5×25 +20.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Posthumanist Ethics and Activism, country by country

Is Posthumanist Ethics and Activism research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Posthumanist Ethics and Activism.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Posthumanist Ethics and Activism as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Posthumanist Ethics and Activism over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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