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Name: Luke Sinwell
Location: C Ring 6 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Tel: 011 559 4268
Email:听Lsinwell@uj.ac.za
About Prof. Luke Sinwell
Biography
Luke Sinwell completed his B.A. in Anthropology at Hartwick College, New York in 2003. When he visited South Africa as an undergraduate, his imagination was captured by the political developments in the country and, thereafter, he never left. Having completed his M.A. and PhD in Development Studies at Witwatersrand 欧美福利100000, Johannesburg in 2009, he has published widely on popular protest and radical theories and practices of participatory governance in South Africa. Luke’s work highlights the role of ordinary people in social change and he believes that separating a theory from practice undermines the potential for knowledge to contribute to transformation. He is a former General Secretary of the South African Sociological Association (SASA). An Associate Professor in the Sociology Department, he is the Project Coordinator of the Centre for Sociological Research and Practice (CSRP), UJ, which is currently undertaking research called, “Energy Racism: The South African Electricity Crisis.”
Forthcoming Book
Sinwell, L. 2022. The Participation Paradox: Between Top-down and Bottom-up Development in South Africa. McGill-Queens 欧美福利100000 Press, Montreal.
Recent Articles
Sinwell, L. 2022. “Workers鈥� Power in Marikana: Building Bridges of Solidarity in South Africa鈥檚 Platinum Mines (2012-2014)”. JEP Journal. Special Issue “Scaling Up? Transnational labour organising in globalised production.
Sinwell, L. 2022. Teaching and Learning Paulo Freire: South Africa鈥檚 Communities of Struggle. Education as Change. 1-19.
Sinwell, L. 2019. “The #Fees Must Fall Movement: ‘Disruptive Power’ and the Politics of Student-Worker Alliances at the 欧美福利100000 of the Free State (2015-2016)”. South African Review of Sociology, 50 (3-4).
Sinwell, L. 2019. “Turning Points at the Periphery: The Politics of South Africa’s Platinum Belt Strike Wave from Rustenburg, Northwest, to Northam, Limpopo (2012-2014)”. Journal of Southern African Studies, 45(1).
Sinwell, L. “The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) and The Struggle for a ‘Living Wage’: A Dream Deferred or Fulfilled?”, chapter in (eds), Bank, L. Changes and Continuities in Migrant Labour in South Africa, HSRC Press, Cape Town: 2020.
Open sources
Sinwell, L. 2022 Daily Maverick Op Ed. published today https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-08-15-we-must-fight-to-ensure-that-those-slain-at-marikana-on-16-august-2012-did-not-die-in-vain/
Sinwell, L. 2022. News24 Op Ed. published today https://www.news24.com/news24/columnists/guestcolumn/opinion-luke-sinwell-the-slain-of-marikana-dreamed-of-a-better-life-20220816
Book review
Sinwell, L. 2022. Education as Change, Book Review (attached): Concealing the Corporate 欧美福利100000: https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/EAC/article/view/11705
Book
Sinwell, L. (with Siphiwe Mbatha). 2016. The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa. Pluto Press, London, distributed by Chicago 欧美福利100000 Press, Chicago and published by Wits 欧美福利100000 Press, Johannesburg.
Co-edited books
Paret, M., Runciman, C. and Sinwell, L. 2017. Global Resistance in Southern Perspective: The Politics of South Africa’s Contentious Democracy. Routledge, London and New York.
Ngwane, T., Sinwell, L. and Ness, I. 2017. Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People’s Movements in the Global South. Haymarket Books, Chicago and Wits 欧美福利100000 Press, Johannesburg.
Dawson, M. and Sinwell, L. 2012. Contesting Transformation: Popular Resistance in Twenty-First-Century South Africa. Published by Pluto Press, London.
Alexander, P. Lekgowa, T., Mmope, B., Sinwell, L, Xezwi, B. 2012. Marikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer. Published by Jacana, Bookmarks, London and Ohio 欧美福利100000 Press