DST/NRF SOUTH AFRICAN RESEARCH CHAIRS INITIATIVE (SARChI)
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Robins S. and Baumgardt L. 2023.“Opening the Black Box of Urban Development: Cultural Heritage and Activism at the Amazon Megaproject in Cape Town”. Theoria: The Journal of Social and Political Theory (in press)

Robins S. 2023. The Pressure of Waste: Technopolitics of Toilet Redesign in South Africa. Third World Quarterly (forthcoming)

Baumgardt L. and Robins S. 2023. “Slow crises: South Africa’s Governmental Responses to Covid-19 in Times of “Crises within crises.’” In Pieter Fourie and Guy Lamb, eds. The South African Government’s Response to COVID-19. London: Routledge. ISBN9781003294931

Robins S. and Redfield P.2023. “Toilet Trouble: Eco Design and Sedimented Injustice in South Africa. In Richard Rottenburg et al. A Reader on Travelling Technologies in Africa. Volume V: Bodies. Brill Publishers (in press)

Robins S. 2023. Decolonizing Cape Town’s rivers, on foot?: “Walks of resistance” in the Empire of Amazon at the tip of Africa. In Nick Shepherd and Christian Ernsten eds. Drift, Pause, Indirection: Walking as embodied research in emergent Anthropocene landscapes. Routledge (in press).

Borchardt, S. and C. Walker, 2023. Cosmopolitan Karoo: Views from the field. DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in the Sociology of Land, Environment and Sustainable Development, Stellenbosch University.

Xaba, M, B. 2022. “A review of the political economy of South African land reform and its contested multifaceted land questions”. Africa Review. https://brill.com/view/journals/bafr/aop/article-10.1163-09744061-tat00002/article-10.1163-09744061-tat00002.xml.

Chinigò, D. 2022. Everyday Practices of State Building in Ethiopia: Power, Scale, Performativity. Oxford:  Oxford University Press

Walker, C. 2022. ‘Out of bounds: Environmental justice and the Square Kilometre Array Radio telescope in South Africa’s Northern Cape Karoo.’ In G Wynn, J Carruthers and N Jacobs (eds), Environment, Power, and Justice; Southern African Histories. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.

Xaba, M, B and Akinola, A, O. 2022. A Reflection of the Nexus between the South African Land Reform Struggles and the Unresolved National Question. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18186874.2022.2095922.

Xaba, MB. 2022. ‘Examining the meanings of ‘restitution’ for beneficiaries of the Macleantown and Salem restitution cases in the Eastern Cape, South Africa’, Social Dynamics.

Marcatelli, M. 2021. Naturalizing inequality: Water, race, and biopolitics in South Africa. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Xaba, M. B. 2021. South African Land Question and the Dilemma of Land Expropriation Without Compensation: A Critical Examination, In Adeoye O. Akinola et al. (Eds): The New Political Economy of Land Reform in South Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Hoffman M.T., Cowling R.M., Petersen H., and Walker C. 2021. Karoo research update: Progress, gaps and threats. South African Journal of Science 117(1/2), https://doi.org/10.17159/ sajs.2021/8695.

Chinigò, D., C. Walker, 2020. ‘Science, astronomy and sacrifice zones: Development trade-offs and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project in South Africa’, Social Dynamics, DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2020.1850626, online:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02533952.2020.1850626?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Chinigò, D., H. Nieber, 2020. ‘Africa’, Society and Space Forum on ‘Deterrestrialising Space and Place’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (in press).

Mwonzora, G and M.B. Xaba. 2020. ‘From the Booth to the dock: 2018 elections in Zimbabwe and the elusive search for electoral integrity’, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14662043.2020.1813457

Wedekind, J., D. Chinigò. 2020. ‘Agrarian Labour Mobilisation and Resistance: contract farming for biofuel production in Ethiopia’, Annales d’Éthiopie, volume 33. (in press)

Xaba, M, B., 2020. ‘The Zimbabwe post-2000 ‘illegal’ sanctions’. In Benyera, E (ed), Breaking the Colonial Contract: From Oppression to Autonomous Decolonial Futures. Maryland: Lexington Books. 

Vorster, J. and Walker, C. 2020. Covid-19 grants are making a difference in this little Namaqualand town. Daily Maverick, 13 July 2020.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-07-13-covid-19-grants-are-making-a-difference-in-this-little-namaqualand-town/

Chinigò, D., 2020. ‘Critical reflections on astronomy and development. The case of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project in South Africa’, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Volume 14, Issue A30, August 2018: 594-595. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2020.

Xaba, M.B. 2020. South African land restitution and development: the capabilities approach to an understanding of the Macleantown and Salem restitution projects in the Eastern Cape. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 102: 49-72. doi:10.1353/trn.2020.0002.

Marcatelli, M. 2020. Medupi Power Station and the Water-Energy Nexus in South Africa. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 102: 1-26. doi:10.1353/trn.2020.0000.

Walker, C., Chinigò, D. and Dubow, S. (eds). 2019. Karoo Futures: Astronomy in Place and Space. Special issue, Journal of Southern African Studies 45(4).

Walker, C. 2019. Cosmopolitan Karoo: Land, Space and Place in the Shadow of the Square Kilometre Array. Journal of Southern African Studies 45(4). https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2019.1645493

Chinigò, D. 2019. From the ‘Merino Revolution’ to the ‘Astronomy Revolution’: Land Alienation and Identity in Carnarvon, South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies 45(4). https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2019.1642028

Marcatelli, M. and Büscher, B. 2019. Liquid violence: The politics of water responsibilisation and dispossession in South Africa. Water Alternatives 12(2): 760-773.

Walker, C, SJ Milton, TG O’Connor T, J Maguire, WRJ Dean, 2018. Drivers and trajectories of social and ecological change in the Karoo, South Africa, Lead article, African Journal of Range & Forage Science, 35 (3&4): 157-177.

Henschel, J, MT Hoffman & C Walker (eds), 2018. ‘Karoo Special Issue: Trajectories of change in the Anthropocene’, special double issue, African Journal of Range & Forage Science, 35 (3&4).

Hoffman, MT, C Walker & J Henschel, 2018. ‘Reflections on the Karoo Special Issue: towards an interdisciplinary research agenda for South Africa’s drylands’. African Journal of Range & Forage Science, 35 (3&4): 387-393.  

Walker, C and  Chinigò, D. 2018. ‘Disassembling the Square Kilometre Array: astronomy and development in South Africa’, Third World Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2018.1447374

Chinigò, D. 2017. Market-driven land redistribution and resettlement in Malawi. The returnees of the Community Based Rural Land Development Project. In Bettina Engels, Kristina Dietz (eds.) Contested extractivism, society and the state: Struggles over mining and land. Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Walker, C. 2017. The Land Question in South Africa: 1913 and Beyond. In Spear, Thomas (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Chinigò, D. 2016. Rural Radicalism and the Historical Land Conflict in the Malawian Tea Economy. Journal of Southern African Studies, 2016 42(2):283-297.

Chinigò, D (ed.). 2016. The New Harvest. Agrarian Policies and Rural Transformation in Southern Africa. Afriche e Orienti, Special Issue 2016.

Chinigò, D. 2016. Land policies and customary rights in Malawi in comparative perspective. Afriche e Orienti, Special Issue 2016.

Chinigò, D. 2016. ‘The Peri-Urban Space At Work’. Micro and Small Enterprises, Collective Participation, and the Developmental State in Ethiopia. Africa.

Walker, C. 2016. Does it matter? Reflections on twenty years of land reform. In: Arrigo Pallotti, Ulf Engel (eds.) Unfinished Business: South Africa Twenty Years after the End of Apartheid. Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, 2016.