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| Land, conflict and radical distributive claims in South Africa's rural mining frontier S Mnwana, A Bowman The Extractive Industries and Society 11, 100972, 2022 | 12 | 2022 |
| Critical engagement with public sociology: A perspective from the global south A Bezuidenhout, S Mnwana, K Von Holdt Policy Press, 2022 | 12 | 2022 |
| Platinum wealth, community participation and social inequality in South Africa’s Royal Bafokeng community–A paradox of plenty SC Mnwana, W Akpan Proceeding 4th International Conference on Sustainable Development …, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| Chiefs, land and distributive struggles on the platinum belt, South Africa S Mnwana Traditional Leaders in South Africa: Resources, Respect and Resistance, 128-52, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| Between ‘Locals’ and ‘Foreigners’ Mining and rural politics of belonging in North West province, South Africa S Mnwana Labour, Capital and Society/Travail, capital et société 48 (1&2), 156-181, 2015 | 10 | 2015 |
| Mine mechanisation and distributional conflict in rural South Africa S Mnwana, A Bowman Resources Policy 59, 227-237, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| Why Giving South Africa’s Chiefs More Power Adds to Land Dispossession S Mnwana The Conversation, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
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| When custom divides ‘community’: Legal battles over platinum in North West Province S Mnwana Land, law and chiefs in rural South Africa: Contested histories and current …, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
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| Land reform, rural inequality and agrarian change: the case of Isidenge, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape W Beinart, S Mnwana, L Wotshela Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 102 (1), 27-48, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| Land reform in South Africa is doomed unless freed from political point-scoring S Mnwana The Conversation, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |