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Karl von Holdt
Researcher at University of the Witwatersrand
Publications - 18
Citations - 658
Karl von Holdt is an academic researcher from University of the Witwatersrand. The author has contributed to research in topics: Subaltern & Habitus. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 15 publications receiving 606 citations.
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Mapping movement landscapes in South Africa
Karl von Holdt,Prishani Naidoo +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the concept of a movement landscape is used to analyse continuities and changes in popular mobilization since the end of formal apartheid, focusing on four different episodes of protest since 1997.
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Critical engagement in fields of power: Cycles of sociological activism in post-apartheid South Africa
TL;DR: The authors argues that socially engaged sociology cannot be understood as a practice isolated in the quadrant of "public sociology" as suggested by Michael Burawoy's organization of sociology into four distinct quadrants but that it is closely associated with critical policy sociology as well as critical professional sociology.