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Staff book publications:

• Roy, Srila (2026) . µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø University Press
• Lodge, Tom and Roger Southall (2026) . Jacana Media
• Dickenson, David (2025) . James Currey
• Satgar, Vishwas and Michelle Williams (2025) . µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø University Press.
• Nkosi, Mbuso (2023) . µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø University Press

Staff publications:

2026

• Katsaura, Obvious (2026) On desirous Pentecostalism in African cities. Religion. DOI: .
• Kenny, Bridget (2026) Exploiting the labour of logistics: circulation and the reproduction of racialised capitalism in Gauteng, South Africa. New Political Economy 31(1):18-36. DOI:
• Machinya, Johannes (2026) The   Pacing   Problem   in   mHealth   Regulation: Rethinking   the   ‘Intended   Use’   Rule   in   the Governance of mHealth Apps in South Africa. Law, Technology and Humans. DOI:
• Machinya, Johannes (2026) The (mis)Representation of “Illegal” Migrant Life: Counter-narratives of Undocumented Zimbabwean Migrants in South Africa. South African Review of Sociology DOI:
• WeNkosi, uMbuso and Daniella Rafaely (2026) The ‘Reckless’ White Father: The Violent Deaths of Farmworkers in South Africa and their Saliences. Journal of Southern African Studies. DOI:

2025

• Bischoff, Christine and Geoffrey Wood (2025) "Financialization". In: Smith, Dibben, Wilkinson (Eds) Theories and Concepts in Work and Employment Relations. Edward Elgar. DOI:
• Bischoff, Christine and Geoffrey Wood (2025) "SDGs and HRM from a comparative institutional theory perspective". In: Aust, Cooke, Semeijn (Eds) The Elgar Companion to Human Resource Management Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals. Edward Elgar. DOI:
• Kenny, Bridget (2025) South African e-commerce logistics: Reproducing racialised capitalism through warehouse work. Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation 19(2):190-208. DOI:
• Kenny, Bridget (2025) "Labour Process Theory". In: Smith, Dibben, Wilkinson (Eds) Theories and Concepts in Work and Employment Relations. Edward Elgar. DOI:
• Kenny, Bridget (2025) "Prishani, With You, Together". South African Review of Sociology 55(3):343-344. DOI:
• Andanda, Pamela, Johannes Machinya, and Takudzwa Mutomba (2025) Equitable Data Sharing in Collaborative Health Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Translational Bioethics Perspective. Ethics & Human Research 47(3):40-45. DOI:
• Dube, T. N., Mboniswa, F., Qwana, S. E., Charalambous, S., Ndlovu, N., Grant, A. D., ... & Machinya, J. (2025). ““If we lose it, we are worried”: Individual and provider level perceptions towards weight change among people living with HIV who undergo TB screening in routine health care settings in Gauteng Province, South Africa. PloS one, 20(9), e0331904. DOI:
• Nunez Carrasco, Lorena, Kezia Rose Lewins, and Silvie Cooper (2025) Excess of death and the experiential disruption of death and mourning rituals during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. Medical Humanities 51(4): 474-483. DOI:
• weNkosi, uMbuso (2025) “The Gate”: Spirituality and the Contestation for Land by the Dispossessed Farmworkers. South African Review of Sociology 55(2):198-216. DOI:
• Daniel, Antje and Josh Platzky Miller (2025) ‘Must Fall’ movements globally: transnational flows of South African student activism. Third World Quarterly 46(10):1210-1229. DOI: .
• Roy, Srila (2025) "South African transformation must not slide into academic xenophobia". Times Higher Education. URL:  
• Schoots, Jonathan (2025) Big text analysis in isiXhosa: Religion, politics, and nationhood in the isiXhosa press, 1870-1890. In: Maseko, Magoqwana, Odendaal, Mkize (Eds) Power and the Pen in a Colonial Setting: Centring 200 Years of Indigenous Writing in South Africa. HSRC Press. URL:  
• Ashman, Sam and Ben Scully (2025)  South Africa’s economic response to the Covid-19 crisis: a post-pandemic shift or more of the same?. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies 22(1):89-102. DOI:
• Castel-Branco, Ruth and Thabang Sefalafala (2025) Reclaiming Wage-Work: Power, Subordination and Contestation among Africa’s Precarious Workers. South African Review of Sociology 55(2):217-233. DOI:
• Williams, Michelle (2025) The Tree of Michael Burawoy's Sociological Marxism. Global Dialogue 15(3):16-18. URL:

Publications by emeritus staff, affiliates, and students in the department:

• Pillay, Devan (2026) "The limits of Marxist-Leninism and the democratic ecosocialist alternative". Review of African Political Economy, 53(187): 93–113. DOI: 10.62191/ROAPE-2026-0004
• Pillay, Devan (2026) "In Search of a Democratic Eco-Socialist Politics". Global Partnerships and Neocolonialism, pp.255-273. Palgrave Macmillan. []
• Machingura, Francis and Shamiso Christine Madzivire (2026) . Routledge.
• Bowman, Andrew and Andrew Bennie (2026) The Industrialisation of Meat and its Implications: Exploring Governance, Power, and Inclusion in the South African Beef Value Chain. The European Journal of Development Research. DOI:
• Cock, Jacklyn (2025) "Review of Vishwas Satgar. 2024. A Love Letter to the Many: Arguments for Transformative Left Politics in South Africa. Jacana." Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 116. URL:  
• Jackson, Emma and Agata Lisiak (2025) You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey. The Sociological Review 74(1):216-232. DOI:
• Mnisi, Amu (2025). “Where you want her, how you want her”: Understanding the violence of deepfake pornography. In A Gerber & A. Pillay (Eds). (pp. 307- 322).
• Mosoetsa, Sarah, Charles Hongoro, and Nompumelelo Zungu (2025) . De Gruyter Brill.
• Pillay, Devan (2025) In Search of a Democratic Eco-Socialist Politics. In: Ziai, Jha, Lümmen (Eds) Global Partnerships and Neocolonialism. Springer. DOI:
• Burawoy, Michael (2025) Why and how should sociologists speak out on Palestine?. The Sociological Review 73(2):249-260. DOI:

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Please contact Zimbili Zulu and/or Josh Platzky Miller if you have recent publications to share.

Dr Mbuso Nkosi has been awarded the prestigious from the (STIAS, 2026-2028), to work on the project .

Dr Josh Platzky Miller has been awarded a research grant (2025-2027), to work on the project .

Dr Johannes Machinya has been awarded an (2025-2027) to work on the project AI-Powered Voice Interfaces to Improve Financial Inclusion of Visually Impaired People When Using USSD Powered Mobile Money Services in Rwanda and Beyond. Johannes will be working with Kizito Nkurikiyeyezu (University of Rwanda and Carnegie Mellon University Africa) and Eric Umuhoza (Carnegie Mellon University Africa).

Dr Johannes Machinya has also been awarded a visiting fellowship through the African Fellowship Programme at the , University of Edinburgh. As part of the fellowship, he'll spend two months in Edinburgh from 1 December 2026 to 31 January 2027.

SASA Annual Conference: Solidarity: Possibilities and Pitfalls (6-9 July 2026)

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We live in a contradictory moment where increased nationalism and economic de-globalisation unfold alongside increased expressions of global political solidarity. From Congo to Sudan to Palestine, global solidarity has been an important and highly contested aspect of political action. These contestations have seen the emergence of robust transnational consciousness and revolutionary energies, but also widespread repression and intensified surveillance, alongside the closure of spaces for critique. The university has been a central site in which the contestation of contemporary solidarity politics is playing out. Student movements have been at the forefront of solidarity struggles, while facing repression, victimisation, and criminalisation.

The re-emergence of solidarity is not limited to the political left. Solidarity as a political act is also being used in service of exclusionary and oppressive politics. Xenophobic, ethno-nationalist, and far-right movements have shifted from stray vigilante groups on the street to the policies of mainstream political parties and to parliaments, both in South Africa and around the world. These questions of solidarity are intensified by the ongoing planetary crisis. Environmental destruction and the risk of ecological collapse force us to reckon not merely with our human relations to one and another, but also to our relation to the earth. This raises the question of what planetary solidarity might mean in a time of ecological precarity.

This conference invites critical reflections and reconfigurations of the concept and practices of solidarity, and the challenges posed in this critical conjuncture. Questions of freedom and repression, disparate geographies and marginalised histories, connection across difference and boundaries, all assume significance and require collective, committed thought and action. Which solidarities endure, which falter, and how does power and hegemony reassert themselves against collective resistance?

Questions to consider:

• What is solidarity? What are the requisites of acts of real solidarity?
• How does solidarity across difference work? What are its possibilities and pitfalls?
• How is solidarity different from charity, benevolence, or allyship? 
• What is the relationship between solidarity and care, love, and friendship, especially from a queer feminist perspective? What might embodied and affective forms of solidarity look like?
• What are racial and ethnic solidarities? Are these progressive, regressive, or something else?
• What does it mean to show solidarity in the digital world?
• How do we make sense of solidarity and academic freedom, especially when both are threatened?
• How does informal or grassroots solidarity compare to state-to-state relationships?
• How to build can solidarity be built, locally and globally?
• How can informal solidarity ignite wider revolutionary consciousness and change, if at all?
• Why and how do some solidarities endure, over while others are more fragile or short-term?
• Why is solidarity so troubling to hegemonic powers? 

How to submit an abstract:

Abstracts should be submitted through the online submission portal, which is available .

Panels at SASA are organised through thematic working groups. You can find the full list of working groups here: . You should indicate which working group you are submitting to in the submission portal. All submissions need to be associated to one working group.

There are two formats of presentation, panels and roundtables. The roundtable format is intended as a developmental space, especially for Honours or MA students who are presenting work which is at the proposal stage. Each roundtable will be chaired by a senior academic who will provide feedback and encourage conversation across papers. Panel presentations are intended for papers based on completed research or more advanced projects. However, you are free to choose which format you prefer.

For any questions please email: SASA2026.Sociology@wits.ac.za.

Timeline:

Online portal for submissions: Abstract Submissions have now closed.

Conference dates: 6-9 July 2026.

Registration website: . Registration Closed 1 July.

Conference programme available .

Statement from the Sociology Department at µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø University on Prof Srila Roy's post on X (Twitter) on 19 February 2026: available here.