Topic · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

Most cited papers in Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

What are the most cited papers in Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies?

The most cited paper in Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies is "blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state" (Akhil Gupta, 1995), with 2,515 citations. Next come "Resilience: A Bridging Concept or a Dead End?“Reframing” Resilience: Challenges for Planning Theory and PracticeInteracting Traps: Resilience Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern AfghanistanUrban Resilience: What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?Resilience as a Useful Concept for Climate Change Adaptation?The Politics of Resilience for Planning: A Cautionary Note" (1,852) and "Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal" (1,820).

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Showing 50 of 101 papers. Every paper with more than 311 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state Akhil Gupta · American Ethnologist	May 1995	2,515
2	Resilience: A Bridging Concept or a Dead End?“Reframing” Resilience: Challenges for Planning Theory and PracticeInteracting Traps: Resilience Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern AfghanistanUrban Resilience: What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?Resilience as a Useful Concept for Climate Change Adaptation?The Politics of Resilience for Planning: A Cautionary Note Simin Davoudi, Simin Davoudi, Keith Shaw et al. · Planning Theory & Practice Open access	24 May 2012	1,852
3	Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal Sherry B. Ortner · Comparative Studies in Society and History Open access	1995	1,820
4	INDIGENOUS COSMOPOLITICS IN THE ANDES: Conceptual Reflections beyond “Politics” Marisol de la Cadena · Cultural Anthropology Open access	15 Apr 2010	1,787
5	Culture sits in places: reflections on globalism and subaltern strategies of localization Arturo Escobar · Political Geography	Feb 2001	1,659
6	Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples John Overton · Development in Practice	Jun 2013	1,361
7	Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel? New Data and Analysis Lars‐Erik Cederman, Andreas Wimmer, Brian Min · World Politics Open access	18 Dec 2009	1,360
8	Patron-Client Politics and Political Change in Southeast Asia James C. Scott · American Political Science Review Open access	Mar 1972	1,246
9	Does Multiculturalism Menace? Governance, Cultural Rights and the Politics of Identity in Guatemala Charles R. Hale · Journal of Latin American Studies	Aug 2002	1,229
10	Beyond the suffering subject: toward an anthropology of the good Joel Robbins · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute	7 Aug 2013	1,218
11	The Global Situation Anna Tsing · Cultural Anthropology Open access	Aug 2000	1,178
12	Colonial archives and the arts of governance Ann Laura Stoler · Archives and Museum Informatics	Mar 2002	1,110
13	Decolonising Methodologies Research and Indigenous Peoples Dennis Foley · The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education Open access	Jul 2000	1,081
14	Putting Hierarchy in Its Place Arjun Appadurai · Cultural Anthropology Open access	Feb 1988	1,029
15	Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot Tania Murray Li · Comparative Studies in Society and History Open access	2000	1,029
16	Territorialization and state power in Thailand Peter Vandergeest, Nancy Lee Peluso · Theory and Society	Jun 1995	932
17	Getting Ahead in the Communist Party: Explaining the Advancement of Central Committee Members in China Victor Shih, Christopher Adolph, Mingxing Liu · American Political Science Review	Feb 2012	864
18	The Difficult Transition from Clientelism to Citizenship: Lessons from Mexico Jonathan Fox · World Politics	1994	860
19	The Ontology of “Political Violence”: Action and Identity in Civil Wars Stathis N. Kalyvas · Perspectives on Politics	28 Aug 2003	803
20	INTRODUCTION Keinosuke Fukunaga · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter	1990	786
21	The Consequences of Negotiated Settlements in Civil Wars, 1945–1993 Roy E. Licklider · American Political Science Review	Sep 1995	747
22	Activist Research v. Cultural Critique: Indigenous Land Rights and the Contradictions of Politically Engaged Anthropology Charles R. Hale · Cultural Anthropology Open access	Feb 2006	707
23	The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen Sanford F. Schram · Political Science Quarterly	2005	687
24	Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance: Jumping Scale in Southeast Asia Willem van Schendel · Environment and Planning D Society and Space Open access	25 Nov 2002	682
25	Playing the Field: Questions of Fieldwork in Geography Cindi Katz · The Professional Geographer	Feb 1994	657
26	Why Ethnic Parties Succeed, Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India Kanchan Chandra	2004	606
27	Radical Worlds: The Anthropology of Incommensurability and Inconceivability Elizabeth A. Povinelli · Annual Review of Anthropology Review	Oct 2001	588
28	The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia Abraham D. Lavender · American Anthropologist	29 Nov 2006	585
29	“Neoliberal Agency” Ilana Gershon · Current Anthropology	Aug 2011	582
30	Representing communities: Histories and politics of community‐based natural resource management J. Peter Brosius, Anna Tsing, Charles Zerner · Society & Natural Resources	Mar 1998	581
31	Moral breakdown and the ethical demand Jarrett Zigon · Anthropological Theory	Jun 2007	565
32	Suffering for water, suffering from water: Emotional geographies of resource access, control and conflict Farhana Sultana · Geoforum	8 Jan 2011	557
33	The Enchantments of Infrastructure Penny Harvey, Hannah Knox · Mobilities	14 Sep 2012	550
34	Disposable Ties and the Urban Poor Matthew Desmond · American Journal of Sociology	Mar 2012	545
35	Relational ethnography Matthew Desmond · Theory and Society	26 Aug 2014	541
36	The Power of Instability: Unraveling the Microfoundations of Bargained Authoritarianism in China Ching Kwan Lee, Yonghong Zhang · American Journal of Sociology	May 2013	530
37	Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusions in Colonial Southeast Asia Ann Laura Stoler · Comparative Studies in Society and History	Jul 1992	525
38	Fluid Signs. Being a Person the Tamil Way Milton Eder · Pacific Affairs	Mar 1986	523
39	meaning and feeling in the anthropology of emotions John Leavitt · American Ethnologist	Aug 1996	518
40	What is missing? Cultural processes and causal pathways to inequality Michèle Lamont, Stefan Beljean, Mary Clair · Socio-Economic Review	2 Apr 2014	512
41	Neopatrimonialism Reconsidered: Critical Review and Elaboration of an Elusive Concept Gero Erdmann, Ulf Engel · Commonwealth and Comparative Politics	Feb 2007	506
42	Towards a relational comparative approach to the study of cities KEVIN G. WARD · Progress in Human Geography	Dec 2009	500
43	Elementary strategies of ethnic boundary making Andreas Wimmer · Ethnic and Racial Studies	12 May 2008	497
44	Rethinking ethnicity: Identity, categorization and power Richard Jenkins · Ethnic and Racial Studies	Apr 1994	496
45	Compromising Power:Development,Culture, and Rule in Indonesia Tania Murray Li · Cultural Anthropology Open access	Aug 1999	495
46	Social Movements: Changing Paradigms and Forms of Politics Marc Edelman · Annual Review of Anthropology Review	Oct 2001	493
47	The Comparative City: Knowledge, Learning, Urbanism Colin McFarlane · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Open access	25 Mar 2010	488
48	The Mexican-US Border: The Making of an Anthropology of Borderlands ROBERT R. ÁLVAREZ · Annual Review of Anthropology	Oct 1995	479
49	(Re-)Conceptualizing water inequality in Delhi, India through a feminist political ecology framework Yaffa Truelove · Geoforum	25 Feb 2011	474
50	Demonstrated Benefits from Social Capital: The Productivity of Farmer Organizations in Gal Oya, Sri Lanka Norman T. Uphoff, C. M. Wijayaratna · World Development Open access	Nov 2000	468

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