Sonwabile Mnwana
Biographic Data
| ID | 230682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonwabile Mnwana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonwabile |
| FAMILY NAME | Mnwana |
| SIGNATURE | MNWANA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0721-9633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On patience and the burden of waiting
The Expansion of African Private Land Ownership in Isidenge, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape 1994–2024
Critical Engagement with Public Sociology
The idea of public sociology, as introduced by Michael Burawoy, was inspired by the sociological practice in South Africa known as ‘critical engagement’. This volume explores the evolution of critical engagement before and after Burawoy’s visit to South Africa in the 1990s and offers a Southern critique of his model of public sociology. Involving four generations of researchers from the Global South, the authors provide a multifaceted exploration…
Critical Engagement with Public Sociology
The idea of public sociology in its global form was inspired by sociological practice in South Africa, conceptualized as ‘critical engagement’, when the US sociologist Michael Burawoy visited the country in the 1990s. This volume explores the trajectory of critical engagement before and after Burawoy’s visit, comparing this to the trajectory of ‘public sociology’, which was forged in the very different context of US sociology. Contributors to the…
When Custom Divides ‘Community’
Land, conflict and radical distributive claims in South Africa's rural mining frontier
Custom' and fractured 'community
Drawing on a recent study carried out in the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela tribal authority area in South Africa’s North West province, this article demonstrates that rural-based platinum mining generates intense struggles over ‘communal’ property – land and mining revenues. Competing versions of custom and contrasting group identities dominate these struggles. Since rights to communal property are secured through group membership and defined through custo…
Mining and ‘community’ struggles on the platinum belt
Claims from below
Drawing on a detailed study of three village-level disputes in the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela traditional authority area, this article explores how intensifying land struggles on the platinum belt around Rustenburg are being mediated through conflicts over group boundaries and identities, and how this in turn is articulating a potentially new yet contradictory rural class politics. In a context where chiefly authorities are themselves becoming major sha…
Democracy, development and chieftaincy along South Africa's ‘Platinum Highway’
South Africa's ‘Platinum Highway’ (Generally referred to as ‘the platinum belt’.) – ‘a 150 km continuation of platinum group metals (PGM)-bearing reefs’ [Havenstein, R. (2004). “The Platinum Highway – Where Does It Lead?” Accessed May 10, 2011. http://web.up.ac.za/sitefiles/file/EBIT-Innovate/The_Platinum_Highway-where_does_it.pdf, 1] – has ushered in a new era of considerable accumulation of mineral revenues by a few traditional authorities on w…
Claims from below
Drawing on a detailed study of three village-level disputes in the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela traditional authority area, this article explores how intensifying land struggles on the platinum belt around Rustenburg are being mediated through conflicts over group boundaries and identities, and how this in turn is articulating a potentially new yet contradictory rural class politics. In a context where chiefly authorities are themselves becoming major sha…
Mining and ‘community’ struggles on the platinum belt
Land, conflict and radical distributive claims in South Africa's rural mining frontier
Custom' and fractured 'community
Drawing on a recent study carried out in the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela tribal authority area in South Africa’s North West province, this article demonstrates that rural-based platinum mining generates intense struggles over ‘communal’ property – land and mining revenues. Competing versions of custom and contrasting group identities dominate these struggles. Since rights to communal property are secured through group membership and defined through custo…
Mining and ‘community’ struggles on the platinum belt
Claims from below
Drawing on a detailed study of three village-level disputes in the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela traditional authority area, this article explores how intensifying land struggles on the platinum belt around Rustenburg are being mediated through conflicts over group boundaries and identities, and how this in turn is articulating a potentially new yet contradictory rural class politics. In a context where chiefly authorities are themselves becoming major sha…
Democracy, development and chieftaincy along South Africa's ‘Platinum Highway’
South Africa's ‘Platinum Highway’ (Generally referred to as ‘the platinum belt’.) – ‘a 150 km continuation of platinum group metals (PGM)-bearing reefs’ [Havenstein, R. (2004). “The Platinum Highway – Where Does It Lead?” Accessed May 10, 2011. http://web.up.ac.za/sitefiles/file/EBIT-Innovate/The_Platinum_Highway-where_does_it.pdf, 1] – has ushered in a new era of considerable accumulation of mineral revenues by a few traditional authorities on w…
Custom' and fractured 'community
Drawing on a recent study carried out in the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela tribal authority area in South Africa’s North West province, this article demonstrates that rural-based platinum mining generates intense struggles over ‘communal’ property – land and mining revenues. Competing versions of custom and contrasting group identities dominate these struggles. Since rights to communal property are secured through group membership and defined through custo…
When Custom Divides ‘Community’
Land, conflict and radical distributive claims in South Africa's rural mining frontier
Critical Engagement with Public Sociology
The idea of public sociology, as introduced by Michael Burawoy, was inspired by the sociological practice in South Africa known as ‘critical engagement’. This volume explores the evolution of critical engagement before and after Burawoy’s visit to South Africa in the 1990s and offers a Southern critique of his model of public sociology. Involving four generations of researchers from the Global South, the authors provide a multifaceted exploration…
Critical Engagement with Public Sociology
The idea of public sociology in its global form was inspired by sociological practice in South Africa, conceptualized as ‘critical engagement’, when the US sociologist Michael Burawoy visited the country in the 1990s. This volume explores the trajectory of critical engagement before and after Burawoy’s visit, comparing this to the trajectory of ‘public sociology’, which was forged in the very different context of US sociology. Contributors to the…
The Expansion of African Private Land Ownership in Isidenge, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape 1994–2024
On patience and the burden of waiting
Political science (9 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (4 works) · Mining and Resource Management (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works)