2024

Baumgardt, L. & Robins, S. 2024. “‘We reject concrete as our heritage’: Contesting Corporate Heritage-making Through indigenous Activism at the River Club Development in Cape Town.” Duane Jethro et al eds. Heritage Reimagined: 30 Years After Democracy. London: Routledge (forthcoming).

Beinart, William and S. Robins, Environmental entrepreneurship and the ‘green energy’ business: Socio-economic implications of the ‘greening’ of the Karoo. Anthropology Southern Africa (AsnA) Special Issue edited by Steven Robins and Matthew Wingfield, The Trade-Offs and Conundrums of the Just Transition and the Shift to “Green Futures.”

Borchardt, S. 2024. “Shedding light on energy poverty: Household energy challenges in De Aar, a renewable energy hub in the Northern Cape.” In C Walker and MT Hoffman (eds), Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa’s drylands. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. Open-access: https://openuctpress.uct.ac.za/uctpress/catalog/book/130

Malope, B. 2024. “A just transition in the Karoo? Renewable energy and the limits of job creation and community development In Loeriesfontein.” In C Walker and MT Hoffman (eds), Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa’s drylands. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. Open-access: https://openuctpress.uct.ac.za/uctpress/catalog/book/130.

Manyani, CRS. 2024. “Beyond livestock farming: Game farming and sustainable development in the Ubuntu Local Municipality of the Northern Cape.” In C Walker and MT Hoffman (eds), Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa’s drylands. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. Open-access: https://openuctpress.uct.ac.za/uctpress/catalog/book/130

Marcatelli, M. 2024. “Surplus populations in the Upper Karoo: A historical perspective from Prieska.” In C Walker and MT Hoffman (eds), Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa’s drylands. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. Open-access: https://openuctpress.uct.ac.za/uctpress/catalog/book/130.

Mohlakoana, N, Rathupetsane, A, Malope, B, Jacob, M. 2024. “Demystifying employment in South Africa’s Just Energy Transition: Exploring emerging decent work themes.” Development Southern Africa, May, 1-17, doi:10.1080/0376835X.2024.2352074.

Robins, S. & Baumgardt, L. 2024. “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, 71(178):24-47.

Robins, S. & Redfield, P. 2024. “The Pressure of Waste: Technopolitics of Toilet Redesign in South Africa.” Third World Quarterly (forthcoming).

Robins, S. & Redfield, P. 2024. “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. & Wingfield, W. “Activism on the move: Decolonial walking at Bremen’s Bürgerpark and Cape Town’s Two Rivers Urban Park. In Nick Shepherd and Christian Ernsten eds. Walking as embodied research: Drift, Pause, Indirection: Routledge.

Robins, S. 2024. 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).

Terblanche, R, Kruger, Q and de Waal, H. 2024. ‘Farming with a jackal’: Power relations in Black-backed jackal (Canidae: Lupulella mesomelas) management around the Square Kilometre Array core site in South Africa. Indago 39: 15-32. https://nationalmuseumpublications.co.za/indago-downloads

Terblanche, R. 2024. “Ongedierte: Commercial farmers, black-backed jackals and human–wildlife conflict around the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), 2016-2019.” In C Walker and MT Hoffman (eds), Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa’s drylands. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. Open-access: https://openuctpress.uct.ac.za/uctpress/catalog/book/130

Walker, C. 2024. ‘Marxism, feminism and South African studies’ then and now: Some reflections on ‘then’. In Agenda 38. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2024.2425280.

Walker, C and Hoffman, MT (eds). 2024. Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa’s drylands. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. Open-access: https://openuctpress.uct.ac.za/uctpress/catalog/book/130

Walker, C and Hoffman, MT. 2024. “Change and continuity in the Karoo: Concluding reflections.” In C Walker and MT Hoffman (eds), Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa’s drylands. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. Open-access: https://openuctpress.uct.ac.za/uctpress/catalog/book/130

Walker, C and Hoffman, MT. 2024. “Contested Karoo: An introduction.” In C Walker and MT Hoffman (eds), Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa’s drylands. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. Open-access: https://openuctpress.uct.ac.za/uctpress/catalog/book/130

Walker, C and Vorster, J. 2024. “Karoo ‘dorpscapes’: Social change and continuity in three small towns – Sutherland, Loeriesfontein and Vanwyksvlei.” In C Walker and MT Hoffman (eds), Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa’s drylands. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. Open-access: https://openuctpress.uct.ac.za/uctpress/catalog/book/130

Walker, C. 2024. “Land reform and beyond in times of social-ecological change: Perspectives from the Karoo.” In O Zenker, C Walker, Z Boggenpoel (eds), Beyond Expropriation without Compensation: Law, Land and Redistributive Justice in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Open-access: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/beyond-expropriation-without-compensation/land-reform-and-beyond-in-times-of-socialecological-change/FD8586A409C89992527CCDF4BC3B0A20

Xaba, MB. 2024. “Shale gas and sacrifice zones: Local perspectives on the costs and benefits of fracking in the Central Karoo District of the Western Cape.” In C Walker and MT Hoffman (eds), Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa’s drylands. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. Open-access: https://openuctpress.uct.ac.za/uctpress/catalog/book/130

Zenker O, Walker C, Boggenpoel Z (eds). 2024. Beyond Expropriation without Compensation: Law, Land and Redistributive Justice in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Open-access: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/beyond-expropriation-without-compensation/00D7E03A4D13812F1A793C844C62F638

2023

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

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.

Malope, B. 2023. How renewable energy can help uplift small, poor South African towns. Daily Maverick, 29 May 2023.

Robins, S. and Andrew Spiegel, “Unequal Genocide Memorialisation: A hindrance to achieving post-colonial equality?”. 47(1) of Dialectical Anthropologydoi.org/10.1007/s10624-022-09672-71. https://rdcu.be/cYqYB.

2022

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, 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.

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.

2021

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.

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.

2020

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.

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).

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.

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.

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/

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.

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.

2019

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. 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

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).

2018

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

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.

2017

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.

2016

Chinigò, D (ed.). 2016. The New Harvest. Agrarian Policies and Rural Transformation in Southern Africa. 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.

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

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.

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.