Professor Sonwabile Mnwana
Job Title
Honorary Fellow
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Email
mnwanasc@gmail.com
Research interests
Research themes
Research interests
Sociology of land and local politics of resource extraction
Custom and traditional leadership
Agrarian change
Rural development theory
Environment and society
Theories of rural development
Background
Sonwabile Mnwana is Professor in the department of sociology at Rhodes University, and an honorary fellow at the Centre of African Studies, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh (UK). Prof Mnwana has spent several years researching and publishing on critical issues around land, extractives, and local politics of distribution in rural South Africa. His research has attracted support from a number of high-profile research foundations, with publications that have appeared in leading journals and other academic publishers.