OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Southern African Studies is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Land Reform, Growth and Equity: Emerging Evidence from Zimbabwe's Resettlement Programme	68
Tracking Livelihood Change: Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Perspectives from North-East Ghana	65
Amnesty International? The Nature, Scale and Impact of Capital Flight from South Africa	50
Growing from the roots: reflections on peasant research in central and Southern Africa	47
Sophiatown: the view from afar	33
‘Day Zero’, Hydraulic Citizenship and the Defence of the Commons in Cape Town: A Case Study of the Politics of Water and its Infrastructures (2017–2018)	33
Ethnic identity as performance: lessons from Namaqualand	32
Migrants and mothers: case‐studies from Botswana	31
From May 2008 to 2011: Xenophobic Violence and National Subjectivity in South Africa	29
Land for Housing: A Political Resource – Reflections from Zimbabwe’s Urban Areas	29
From a Phone Call to the High Court: Wayeyi Visibility and the Kamanakao Association's Campaign for Linguistic and Cultural Rights in Botswana	28
Male Attitudes to Family Planning in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	25
Resistance to ‘betterment’ in the Transkei: a case study from Willowvale district	25
'CAMPFIRE is not for Ndebele Migrants': The Impact of Excluding Outsiders from CAMPFIRE in the Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe	24
Joyini inkomo: cattle advances and the origins of migrancy from Pondoland	22
Ekhayeni: Rural–Urban Migration, Belonging and Landscapes of Home in South Africa	22
NGOs and the Constitutional Debate in Zimbabwe: from Inclusion to Exclusion	22
Land Reform, Growth and Equity: Emerging Evidence from Zimbabwe's Resettlement Programme ‐ A Sequel	21
Shifts from Old to New Social and Ecological Environments in the Lesotho Highlands Water Scheme; Relocating Residents of the Mohale Dam Area	19
Governance in Public–Private Partnerships in South Africa: Some Lessons from the Gautrain	16
Belonging, Indigeneity, Land and Nature in Southern Africa under Neoliberal Capitalism: An Overview	16
Mental Colonisation or Catharsis? Theatre, democracy and cultural struggle from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe	15
From Top-down to Bottom-up: The Difficult Case of the Blantyre City Fuelwood Project	15
From Family Solidarity to Social Classes: Urban Stratification in Angola (Luanda and Ondjiva)*	15
The Mnangagwa Era? Periodisation and Politics in Zimbabwe	12

Between ‘Artificial Economics’ and the ‘Discipline of the Market’: Sasol from Parastatal to Privatisation	12
Civil Society in Southern Africa – Transformers from Below?	12
‘Our respect for water is what you have termed fear’: The Ocean in the Poetry of Ronelda S. Kamfer and Koleka Putuma	12
From Reserve to Homeland: Local Identities and South African Policy in Southern Namibia	10
From Diamonds to Gold: The Making of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, 1880–1890	10
Bokoni: Old Structures, New Paradigms? Rethinking Pre-colonial Society from the Perspective of the Stone-Walled Sites in Mpumalanga	10
Early Struggles over Water: From Private to Public Water Utility in the City of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 1894–1924*	9
Institutional Arrangements for Water Resource Use: A Case Study from Southern Zimbabwe*	9
Cultural Entrepreneurs, Proto-Nationalism and Women's Testimony Writings: From the South African War to 1940*	8
Power-Sharing in Zanzibar: From Zero-Sum Politics to Democratic Consensus?	8
Durban and Cape Town as Port Cities: Reconsidering Southern African Studies from the Indian Ocean	8
Marikana Commission of Inquiry: From Narratives Towards History	8
Public and Private Space in Contemporary South Africa: Perspectives from Post-Apartheid Literature	7
Giving Land (Back)? The Meaning of Land in the Indigenous Politics of the South Kalahari Bushmen Land Claim, South Africa	7
‘From confusion to Lusaka’: the youth revolt in Sekhukhuneland	7
Karoo Futures: Astronomy in Place and Space – Introduction	7
Review article — lessons from America: the writings of David Roediger	7
Afrophobia in Mzansi? Evidence from the 2013 South African Social Attitudes Survey	6
Land from the Ancestors: Popular Religious Pilgrimage along the South Africa–Lesotho Border	6
The ‘Partnership’ Hoax: How the British Government Deprived Central Africans of their Rights	6
Victims of the Rhodesian Immigration Policy: Polish Refugees from the Second World War	5
Constitutional Courts as Democratic Consolidators: Insights from South Africa after 20 Years	5
Crowd Renting or Struggling from Below? The Concerned Citizens' Forum in Mpumalanga Township, Durban, 1999–2005	5
Translating the Nation: From Plaatje to Mpe	5
‘Far from home’: the origins and significance of the Afro‐Caribbean community in South Africa to 1930	5
The flight from politics: an analysis of the South African reception of ‘poppie nongena‘	5
Elusive Identities: Karoo \|Xam Descendants and the Square Kilometre Array	5