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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
“Making plans through people”: the social embeddedness of informal entrepreneurship in urban South Africa14
Transdisciplinary co-production of climate services: a focus on process13
South Africa’s settler-colonial present: Khoisan revivalism and the question of indigeneity11
“These aren’t the jobs we want”: youth unemployment and anti-work politics in Khayelitsha, Cape Town6
‘The mother of all nations’: gendered discourses in Ghana’s 2020 elections4
Kinship capital: young mothers, kinship networks and support in urban South Africa3
Reading for lyric in the African digital litmag3
Reading the paratext: posture and self-fashioning in African “little magazines”3
Technology, policy and politics: critical success factors in high-technology infrastructure projects3
A review of the state of trade union-based worker education2
Composition and/as postcolonial shame: Philip Miller’s REwind: a cantata for voice, tape, and testimony2
The ebb and flow of the fortunes of African studies at the University of Cape Town: an overview2
“Reading and writing… loudly”: Ikhide R. Ikheloa, online criticism, and African literary studies2
Crediting worker education? Insights from South African experiences2
Joburg without Joburg: the black South African romcom2
Post-apartheid melancholia: negotiating loss and (be)longing in South Africa2
Science, astronomy, and sacrifice zones: development trade-offs, and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project in South Africa2
Out-of-placeness and the city as a space of relation in apartheid-era cinema2
Lagos in contemporary Nigerian music video: Brymo’s “1 Pound (The Documentary)”2
Towards a policy on teacher use of language during science teaching and learning in South Africa2
Against memory-as-remedy to the traumatic aftermaths of Nigeria-Biafra war past: whither justice?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
The past, present, and future of workers’ education in South Africa2
Anti-Afropolitan ethics and the performative politics of online scambaiting2
Nexus/Busara and the rise of modern Kenyan literature1
Laughter in the face of police brutality: an analysis of satirical memes on police brutality in Zimbabwe on August 16, 20191
Small magazines in Africa: ecologies and genealogies1
Between cosmopolitanism and ethnic dissolution: Politics, religion and iconic reappropriation in the cult of theMother of God of Bisilain Equatorial Guinea and Catalonia1
Special Issue Cover Page1
Rethinking resilience: South Africa and self-reliance1
The native body as blue ground: South Africa’s infrastructural production of race1
The contradictions of black consciousness: from Biko to RhodesMustFall1
“That other me, down and dreaming”: an animal perspective critique of decoloniality theory1
Seeing with the “Mother Theatre”: the sea and cinemas of Cape Town’s city centre1
Cape Littoral colonial constructions of barrenness and desire in Therese Benadé’s Kites of Good Fortune and Rayda Jacobs’s The Slave Book1
Perceived (ir)relevance: resilience and Visual Arts1
“Dancing on the ceiling” : young Black entrepreneurs leveraging capitals across sub-fields in Johannesburg tourism1
Tapestry, ideology and counter voices in Southern Africa during apartheid1
Fragments from the History of Loss: The Nature Industry and the Postcolony1
From apartheid to the planetary present: breaching time in Nadine Gordimer’s “Something Out There”1
Hollywood imagines urban Africa, and it’s as bad as you think1
How is workers’ education responding to the rising precariousness of work? Some international and South African examples1
Embodiments of love on the margins of Windhoek’s cinematic landscape1
Ausi told me: why cape herstoriographies matter1
Our gods are as powerful as the God of Abraham: analysing the impetus-agitat on the rise of ézéńwànyì in Ǹsúkkà-Ìgbò, Southeastern Nigeria1
Small and joined in print: Ivan Vladislavić, “Tsafendas’s Diary,” and Staffrider magazine (1988)1
Undutiful daughter(s): troubling geographies of the gendered nation and belonging in Adichie’sAmericanahand Atta’sEverything Good Will Come1
The South African Special Branch v The New African 1962–64: censorship by harassment of a radical journal1
Is being itself colonial?1
Doing things with “nothing”: the pragmatics of democratic multilingualism in South African parliamentary debate1
The ruins of the rural idyll: reconfiguring the image of the farm in Homeland and Five Fingers for Marseilles1
A tribute and a celebration of Bhekizizwe Peterson1
Precarious employment and precarious life: youth and work in Pretoria’s white working-class suburbs1
The becoming of an archive: perspectives on a music archive and the limits of institutionality1
Frantz Fanon, poet: pleasure of the text, power of the text1
A re-reading of Ben Kies’s “The Contribution of the Non European Peoples to World Civilisation”1
Under waves of resilience – Dwesa-Cwebe: a case study on environmental policy and the expectation of resilience on South African coastal communities1
The gendered character of welfare: reconsidering vulnerability and violence in South Africa1
My decoloniality is not your decoloniality: the new multiverse – an opinion piece1
Examining the meanings of ‘restitution’ for beneficiaries of the Macleantown and Salem restitution cases in the Eastern Cape, South Africa1
No time to relax: waithood and work of young migrant street traders in Durban, South Africa1
Speaking for the trees: a study of the relationship between discourse, power and organisational culture in competing constructions of nature1
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