OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Southern 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Changing Livelihoods in Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa (2002–2016): Diminishing Employment and Expanding Social Protection	21
Artistic Movements: Visual Arts and Cross-Border Exchange on the Central African Copperbelt	14
The Noisy Silence of Gukurahundi: Truth, Recognition and Belonging	12
The Long Road to Compensation for Silicosis Sufferers in South Africa	10
Mobile Money and the (Un)Making of Social Relations in Chivi, Zimbabwe	9
Roots of Contemporary Political Strategies: Ethno-Populism in Zambia during the Late Colonial Era and Early 2000s	8
Traditional Authority in South Africa: Reconstruction and Resistance in the Eastern Cape	7
Modernity on Credit: The Experience of Underground Miners on the Zambian Copperbelt	6
‘Now I Am Not Afraid’: Simon Nkoli, Queer Utopias and Transnational Solidarity	6
Critical Representation of Neoliberal Capitalism and Uneven Development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body	4
‘We Are What We Eat’: Nutrition, African Diets and the State in Colonial Malawi, 1920s–1960	4
The Drive-In and the Desegregation of Cinemas in Apartheid Cape Town	4
Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe	4
Virtue, Motherhood and Femininity: Women’s Political Legitimacy in Zimbabwe	4
Peri-Urban Expansion in the Maputo City Region: Land Access and Middle-Class Advances	3
In Pursuit of Fitness: Bodywork, Temporality and Self-Improvement in Mozambique	3
Language, Resistance and Multilingualism in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe: The Kalanga and their Struggle for Recognition	3
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics	3
Liberating Taste: Memories of War, Food and Cooking in Northern Mozambique	3
Deserving and Undeserving Welfare States: Cash Transfers and Hegemonic Struggles in South Africa	3
The National Party and the Ideology of Welfare in South Africa under Apartheid	3
Informal-Sector Organisations, Political Subjectivity, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe	3
Activism for Migrant Domestic Workers in South Africa: Tensions in the Framing of Labour Rights	3
‘The Diary of a Country in Crisis’: Zimbabwean Censorship and Adaptive Cultural Forms	3
Bulawayo Breaks Ranks: Bureaucratic Battles over African Housing and Urban Citizenship in Late Colonial Zimbabwe, 1949–1977	3

Smuggled Sheep, Smuggled Shepherds: Farm Labour Transformations in Namibia and the Question of Southern Angola, 1933–1975	3
The Emancipation of the Enslaved in the Cape Colony: Historiography and Introduction	3
Land (In)Justice and Ambiguous Conservationisms in Cathy Buckle’s Letters of the Zimbabwean Crisis	3
Tobacco Contract Farming, Crop Diversification and Household Relations in the Central Region of Malawi	2
The Travelling Toyi-Toyi: Soldiers and the Politics of Drill	2
Governing the Ungovernable: Performing and Contesting Chris Hani’s Legacy at the Hani Memorial	2
Editorial Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature	2
Transnational News Audiences and the Limits of Cultural Decolonisation in Zambia: Media Coverage of the Soweto Uprising of 1976	2
Asserting Customary Fishing Rights in South Africa	2
The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts	2
Technical and Vocational Education and the Place of Indigenous Labour in the Mining Industry of Namibia, 1970–1990	2
Afterword Searching for the Constitutional Living Customary Law	2
Narrating a Nation Left Behind: The Innocent Child in Two Novels of Zimbabwe	2
Gender and Decolonisation in Zambia: Re-Examining Women’s Contributions to the Anti-Colonial Struggle	2
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa	2
Chiefly Succession and Democracy in South Africa: Why History Matters	2
Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs	2
Accounting for Climate Change in Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Reflections on Wildlife Conservation in Namibia	2
The In-Between World of Kgosi Nyalala Pilane: (Mis)Appropriation and Accountability among the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela in 21st-Century South Africa	2
Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho	2
Reappraising the 1950s in Zimbabwean History: The Problem of Todd and the Limits of Liberalism	2
Transnational Music Collaborations, Affective Networks and Everyday Practices of Convivial Solidarity in Ujamaa Dar es Salaam	2
China and the Troubled Prospects for Africa’s Economic Take-Off: Linkage Formation and Spillover Effects in Zambia	2
‘But I Know You, You Are Not God’: African Responses to European Colonialism in a Missionary Newspaper	2
Accommodation and Resistance: The Housing of Cape Town’s Enslaved and Freed Population Before and After Emancipation	2
Botswana Votes 2019: Two-Party Competition and the Khama Factor	2
Afterlives of Land Dispossession and Patterns of Climate Change: Intersections in South African Contemporary Art	2
Student ‘Fallism’ in South Africa, 2015–16: Some Diverging Analyses	2
The CONCP in Southern Africa and the OAU’s Liberation Committee: Settling Internal Disputes for the Independence of Angola and Mozambique	1
Bondsmen: Slave Collateral in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	1
Facing Familiar Strangers and Potential Friends: Rumours of Betrayal, Ambiguous Friendships and the Dangers of Poison in Urban Madagascar	1
Editorial Citizenship and Accountability: Customary Law and Traditional Leadership under South Africa’s Democratic Constitution	1
How polygamy became queer	1
‘My Husband is No Husband to Me’: Divorce, Marriage and Gender Struggles in African Communities of Colonial Natal, 1869–1910	1
‘Satanbic Stop Stealing Our Money’: Zambia Mine Workers’ Struggles against Finance	1
Piping Away Development: The Material Evolution of Resource Nationalism in Mtwara, Tanzania	1
Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe	1
Slavery, Banks and the Ambivalent Legacies of Compensation in South Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean	1
Political Repression and Human–Animal Transformation in Ian Holding’s Of Beasts and Beings	1
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out	1
Simango, Gwenjere and the Politics of the Past in Mozambique	1
‘Under the Thumb of the Party’: The Limits of Tanzanian Socialism and the Decline of the Student Left	1
Civilising the Ex-Colonisers? Counter-Hegemonic Discourses at Workplaces in Maputo	1
Social Differentiation and ‘Accumulation from Above’ in Zimbabwe’s Politicised Agrarian Landscape	1
Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa	1
Towards Living Customary Administrative Law	1
Balancing the Scales: Re-Centring Labour and Labourers in Namibian History	1
From Labour Elites to Garveyites: West African Migrant Labour in Namibia, 1892–1925	1
Building Peace among Monitors? The Monitoring and Implementation of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement	1
Violence, Political Strategy and the Turn to Guerrilla Warfare by the Congress Movement in South Africa	1

A Very South African Plot? The 1987 London Kidnap Plan	1
Liberation Beyond the Nation: An Introduction	1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe	1
ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–2018	1
The Ethics of Reading and Writing across Time in South Africa	1
‘Stealing Dingane’s Title’: The Fatal Significance of Saguate Gift-Giving in Zulu King Dingane’s Killing of Governor Ribeiro (1833) and Piet Retief (1838)	1
The Reception of Covid-19 Denialist Propaganda in Tanzania	1
The Mueda Massacre Retold: The ‘Matter of Return’ in Portuguese Colonial Intelligence	1
Hewing Fiction from History: The Writing of History, Conflict and Trauma in House of Stone	1
‘A country can only have a foreign policy it can afford’: South Africa’s Economic Reaction to Zimbabwe’s Independence, 1980–1982	1
On Renamo ‘War’, Entrepreneurial Synergies and Everyday Life in the Honde Valley Borderlands, c.1980s–2020	1
The Role of SADC in Transboundary Water Interactions: The Case of the Incomati International River Basin	1
Negotiating Modernity by Concepts of Relatedness: Towards the Construction of Malagasy Solidarity (Fihavanana Gasy)	1
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid	1
‘van die oorspronklike lippe’ (‘from the original lips’): The 19th-Century Cape Colony, Holographic Archaeology and the Historicity of Gideon von Wielligh’s /xam–Afrikaans Collection	1
Building Angola: A Political Economy of Infrastructure Contractors in Post-War Angola	1
Petitioning the State: Group Councils and the Development of Political Consciousness in Malawi, 1940s–1950s	1
Constitutions without Constitutionalism, Government without Governance: Critique and Hope for Malawi	1
Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco: Limitations of Radical Land Reforms in a Neoliberal Economic Environment – the Case of Zvimba, Zimbabwe	1
Tobacco Farming and Agrarian Change in Contemporary Southern Africa – An Introduction	1
Liberation and Biographical Narrative in Mozambican Historiography: The Struggle in Cabo Delgado, 1962–1974	1
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation	1
‘Our Bushes Are the Houses’: People’s War and the Underground during the Insurrectionary Period in the Vaal Triangle, South Africa	1
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community	1
The Madando Rhetoric: Musical Critiques of Electoral Management in Malawi	1
Medi-Caring on the Colonial Margins: The Position of African Medical Assistants in Rural Colonial Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia, 1930s–1960s	1
Resource Nationalism in Zambia 1964–2020 and the Liquidation of Konkola Copper Mines	1
Pamela Reynolds’s field diary in the Zambezi valley	1
A history of sexual violence and political authority in South Africa	1