Critical Engagement with Public Sociology

Andries Bezuidenhout is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa. Sonwabile Mnwana is Professor of Development Studies in the Department of Sociology at Rhodes University, South Africa. Karl von Holdt is Professor and former Director of the Society, Work and Politics Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

1. Critical Engagement in South Africa and the Global South: An Introduction - Andries Bezuidenhout, Sonwabile Mnwana and Karl von Holdt


2. Critical Engagement and SWOP’s Changing Research Tradition - Andries Bezuidenhout and Karl von Holdt


3. Choosing Sides: The Promise and Pitfalls of a Critically Engaged Sociology in Apartheid South Africa - Edward Webster


4. The Decline of Labour Studies and the Democratic Transition - Sakhela Buhlungu


5. From ‘Critical Engagement’ to ‘Public Sociology’ and Back: A Critique from the South - Karl von Holdt


6. The Antinomies and Opportunities of Critical Engagement in South Africa’s Rural Mining Frontier - Sonwabile Mnwana


7. Sociological Engagement with the Struggle for a Just Transition in South Africa - Jacklyn Cock


8. Feminist Participatory Action Research in African Sex Work Studies - Ntokozo Yingwana


9. Participatory Action Research for Food Justice in Johannesburg: Seeking a More Immediate Impact for Engaged Research - Brittany Kesselman


10. Dilemmas and Issues Confronting Socially Engaged Research within Universities - Aninka Claassens and Nokwanda Sihlali


11. Experiences of Meetings and Cooperation between Academics and Unions: The Work Studies Group from the South (GETSUR) - Dasten Julián Vejar


12. Critically Engaging Public Sociology in Turkey and 'Sociology across the South' - Ercüment Çelik


13. Reflections on Critical Engagement - Michael Burawoy


14 Conclusion: Towards a Southern Sociology - Karl von Holdt