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Luke Sinwell

Luke Sinwell is a Senior Researcher at the University of Johannesburg. He is co-author of The Spirit of Marikana (Pluto, 2016) and Marikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer (Jacana, 2013), co-editor of Contesting Transformation: Popular Resistance in Twenty-First-Century South Africa (Pluto, 2014). He is the General Secretary of the South African Sociological Association (SASA).

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The Spirit of Marikana

The Spirit of Marikana

The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa

Luke Sinwell

A comprehensive examination of the contemporary mineworkers’ movement in South Africa, in a vivid ethnographic narrative
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Contesting Transformation

Contesting Transformation

Popular Resistance in Twenty-First Century South Africa

Luke Sinwell

A sober and critical reflection of the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-Apartheid South Africa.
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South Africa’s Massacre: An Ethnography in the Midst of Militancy

Luke Sinwell went to a small mining town in Marikana to understand the massacre of thirty-four black mineworkers who were gunned down by police on 16 August 2012, nearly twenty years into the post-apartheid South African period.

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