- Nationality
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Affiliation
- Department of Sociology, University of Fort Hare
- Field of study
- Social Sciences
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2019 2nd Semester
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Land struggle and the contestation over knowledge production
Register here before 3 March 2023 Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the Global South – edited by Andries Bezuidenhout, Sonwabile Mnwana, Karl von Holdt (Bristol University Press) Sociological practice in South Africa, conceptualised as ‘critical engagement’ by Edward Webster at SWOP, inspired the idea of public sociology in its global form.
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Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the Global South
Bezuidenhout, Andries, Sonwabile Mnwana and Karl von Holdt. (Eds). 2022. Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the Global South. Br...
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When Custom Divides “Community”: Legal Battles over Platinum in North West Province
Mnwana, Sonwabile. 2021. When Custom Divides “Community”: Legal Battles over Platinum in North West Province. In W. Beinart, R. Kingwill, & G. Capps (E...
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When Custom Divides ‘Community’: In Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa
Mnwana, Sonwabile. 2021. When Custom Divides ‘Community’: In Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa. pp. 60–80. Wits University Press. https://doi.org/...
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Land, conflict and radical distributive claims in South Africa’s rural mining frontier
Mnwana, Sonwabile and Andrew Bowman. 2021. Land, conflict and radical distributive claims in South Africa’s rural mining frontier. The Extractive Industrie...
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Land reform, rural inequality and agrarian change: the case of Isidenge, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape
Beinart, William, Sonwabile Mnwana and Luvuyo Wotshela. 2020. Land reform, rural inequality and agrarian change: the case of Isidenge, Stutterheim, Eastern...
public lecture / seminar
Demanding a ‘rightful share’? ‘Custom’, law and distributive claims on South Africa’s rural mining frontier - Fellows' seminar by Sonwabile Mnwana
South Africa’s post-apartheid state, despite nationalising all mineral resources, has failed to ensure that the benefits of mining accrue to the historically excluded Black population and to local communities where the industry’s operations occur, said Sonwabile Mnwana of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Fort Hare.