Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
“Making plans through people”: the social embeddedness of informal entrepreneurship in urban South Africa16
“These aren’t the jobs we want”: youth unemployment and anti-work politics in Khayelitsha, Cape Town7
Reading for lyric in the African digital litmag5
‘The mother of all nations’: gendered discourses in Ghana’s 2020 elections4
The problem of epistemological critique in contemporary Decolonial theory4
Post-apartheid melancholia: negotiating loss and (be)longing in South Africa4
Embodiments of love on the margins of Windhoek’s cinematic landscape3
Reading the paratext: posture and self-fashioning in African “little magazines”3
Crediting worker education? Insights from South African experiences3
Examining the meanings of ‘restitution’ for beneficiaries of the Macleantown and Salem restitution cases in the Eastern Cape, South Africa2
The past, present, and future of workers’ education in South Africa2
Precarious employment and precarious life: youth and work in Pretoria’s white working-class suburbs2
Joburg without Joburg: the black South African romcom2
Composition and/as postcolonial shame: Philip Miller’s REwind: a cantata for voice, tape, and testimony2
No time to relax: waithood and work of young migrant street traders in Durban, South Africa2
Speaking for the trees: a study of the relationship between discourse, power and organisational culture in competing constructions of nature2
Hollywood imagines urban Africa, and it’s as bad as you think2
Lagos in contemporary Nigerian music video: Brymo’s “1 Pound (The Documentary)”2
“There is only one place for me. It is here, entabeni”Inxeba(2017),Kalushi(2016) and the difficulties of “the urban” for the New South African Man2
“Reading and writing… loudly”: Ikhide R. Ikheloa, online criticism, and African literary studies2
Out-of-placeness and the city as a space of relation in apartheid-era cinema2
A review of the state of trade union-based worker education2
Cinematic imaginaries of the African city2
The aesthetic politics of fighting for black economic freedom: between militant socialism, fascism and bling-bling1
The gendered character of welfare: reconsidering vulnerability and violence in South Africa1
The politics of decolonial investigations The politics of decolonial investigations , by Walter Mignolo, Durham, Duke University Press, 2021, xxvi + 707 pp., US$39.95 (p1
Ausi told me: why cape herstoriographies matter1
The contradictions of black consciousness: from Biko to RhodesMustFall1
Cape Littoral colonial constructions of barrenness and desire in Therese Benadé’sKites of Good Fortuneand Rayda Jacobs’sThe Slave Book1
Seeing with the “Mother Theatre”: the sea and cinemas of Cape Town’s city centre1
“Dancing on the ceiling” : young Black entrepreneurs leveraging capitals across sub-fields in Johannesburg tourism1
Laughter in the face of police brutality: an analysis of satirical memes on police brutality in Zimbabwe on August 16, 20191
A tribute and a celebration of Bhekizizwe Peterson1
From apartheid to the planetary present: breaching time in Nadine Gordimer’s “Something Out There”1
How is workers’ education responding to the rising precariousness of work? Some international and South African examples1
A re-reading of Ben Kies’s “The Contribution of the Non European Peoples to World Civilisation”1
“That other me, down and dreaming”: an animal perspective critique of decoloniality theory1
J Sai Deepak’s India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution . Bloomsbury 20211
Small and joined in print: Ivan Vladislavić, “Tsafendas’s Diary,” and Staffrider magazine (1988)1
The ears of apartheid1
From “dependency” to “decoloniality”? The enduring relevance of materialist political economy and the problems of a “decolonial” alternative1
The South African Special Branch v The New African 1962–64: censorship by harassment of a radical journal1
Nexus/Busara and the rise of modern Kenyan literature1
Fragments from the History of Loss: The Nature Industry and the Postcolony1
Small magazines in Africa: ecologies and genealogies1
Is decolonisation Africanisation? The politics of belonging in the truly African university1
Rethinking resilience: South Africa and self-reliance1
The native body as blue ground: South Africa’s infrastructural production of race1
Ukuzwa ngenkaba : connecting with African ways of knowing through the umbilical cord1
Under waves of resilience – Dwesa-Cwebe: a case study on environmental policy and the expectation of resilience on South African coastal communities1
Our gods are as powerful as the God of Abraham: analysing the impetus-agitat on the rise of ézéńwànyì in Ǹsúkkà-Ìgbò, Southeastern Nigeria1
My decoloniality is not your decoloniality: the new multiverse – an opinion piece1
Perceived (ir)relevance: resilience and Visual Arts1
Is being itself colonial?1
After the fire: loss, archive and African studies1
Tapestry, ideology and counter voices in Southern Africa during apartheid1
Special Issue Cover Page1
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