| Book Chapter | "The Measure of Mistrust: African Artisanal Gold Mining and the Geopolitics of the Barbarous Relic." In Political Economy and Critical Engagement in South Africa: Essays in Honour of Vishnu Padayachee, edited by Rajend Mesthrie, Robert van Niekerk and Imraan Valodia, 58-75. Pietermaritzburg South Africa: UKZN Press, 2025. |
| Book | Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment and Care In Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024. |
| Book | Apartheid Remains In Errantries. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. |
| Journal Article | "L’invention de « l’âge Kumba ». Comment l’âge des individus est-il devenu dynamique au Cameroun ?" Ethnologie française 54 (2024): 105-116. |
| Book Chapter | "Legal Mobilisation Against State Capture." In State Capture in South Africa: How and why it happened. Wits University Press, 2023. |
| Journal Article | "How Jacob Zuma Revitalized Feminism in South Africa." Politics & Gender (2023): 1-5. |
| Book Chapter | "Grass in the cracks’: Gender, social reproduction and climate justice in the Xolobeni struggle." In Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice, 246-267. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. |
| Book | Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa. University of Michigan Press, 2023. |
| Journal Article | "Subalternization of a Postplantation City." Annals of the American Association of Geographers (2023): 1-5. |
| Book | Gramsci at Sea. U of Minnesota Press, 2023. |
| Journal Article | "Agile Health Governance? The Experiment of Medical Drones in the Management of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ghana." Cahiers detudes africaines 250 (2023): 315-341. |
| Journal Article | "The technicization of electoral rolls and material participation in Cameroon." Reseaux 241 (2023): 239-273. |
| Book Chapter | "Grass in the cracks’: Gender, social reproduction and climate justice in the Xolobeni struggle." In Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice, 246-267. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. |
| Journal Article | "The Post-War Power Sharing and the Legal Politicisation of the Congolese Public Administration." South African Review of Sociology 53 (2023): 150-169. |
| Book | The Reconstruction of Post-War Labour Markets in The Southern African Development Community: Insights from The Democratic Republic of The Congo. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. |
| Book | Brutalism. Duke University Press, 2023. |
| Journal Article | "Black Aesthetics and Deep Water: Fish-People, Mermaid Art and Slave Memory in South Africa." Journal of African Cultural Studies 35 (2023): 121-133. |
| Journal Article | "The redistributed university." Southern African Review of Education 28 (2023): 87-101. |
| Book Chapter | "Introduction: Southern Lodestar: Isabel Hofmeyr’s Life and Work." In Reading from the South: African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s work, 1-32. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2023. |
| Book | Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence. University of Michigan Press, 2023. |
| Book | Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2023. |
| Journal Article | "Swahili Seafarers’ Musings and Sensuous Seascapes in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea." Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (2022): 1-14. |
| Journal Article | "Reforming procurement standards in order to effectively deliver public infrastructure: Rethinking the regulatory environment in post-pandemic South Africa." (2022). |
| Book Chapter | "Pro Bono in South Africa." In Global Pro Bono: Causes, Context, and Contestation, edited by Scott L. Cummings, Fabio de Sa e Silva and Louise G. Trubek, 535-569. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. |
| Journal Article | "Post-apartheid melancholia: negotiating loss and (be)longing in South Africa." Social Dynamics 48 (2022): 275-293. |
| Book | Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling: Forensic Genetics and their Technolegal Worlds. Taylor & Francis, 2022. |
| Journal Article | "‘Creature of statute’: Legal bureaucracy and the performance of professionalism in Johannesburg." Critique of Anthropology 42 (2022): 419-438. |
| Miscellaneous | BOOK DIGEST | Green Shadows in the Kiya Kiya Republic: Money-spitting snakes and heat in Farai Mudzingwa’s climate fiction., 2022. |
| Book | Heritage and Design: Ten Portraits from Goa. Cambridge University Press, 2022. |
| Book Chapter | "Foreword." In WITS: The Early Years: A History of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and its Precursors 1896-1939. Wits University Press, 2022. |
| Journal Article | "Décoloniser les politiques du désastre climatique dans l’estuaire du Sénégal : des pratiques adaptatives entre « passé finissant » et « futur proche »." Global Africa 1 (2022): 130-151. |
| Journal Article | "Labour Relations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: An Epic History of an Anti-Unionism Terrain." South African Review of Sociology (2022): 1-20. |
| Journal Article | "Black Orpheus: Black Internationalism in a Time of Blackness." The Thinker 91 (2022): 25-30. |
| Journal Article | "Water/colour/bead." Multimodality & Society 2 (2022): 131-140. |
| Journal Article | "The Southern Indian Ocean and the Oceanic South." Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 1 (2022): 63-72. |
| Book Chapter | "Nongqayi / Nongqai." In Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South, edited by Dilip M. Menon. Routledge India, 2022. |
| Book Chapter | "Pajuba." In Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South, edited by Dilip M. Menon. Routledge India, 2022. |
| Journal Article | "States of Emergency—The Apartheid Paranoia in South Africa’s Lockdown." Current History 121 (2022): 196-198. |
| Journal Article | "Postcolonial Plumbing." Interventions 24 (2022): 355-368. |
| Journal Article | "Reading for Water." Interventions 24 (2022): 303-322. |
| Book Chapter | "Along the Pink Corridor: Histories of Queer Mobility Between Maputo and Johannesburg (Ca. 1900–2020)." In Queer and Trans African Mobilities : Migration, Asylum and Diaspora. Bloomsbury, 2022. |
| Book Chapter | "Recognizing LGBTQ+ Faces Beyond the Mauritian Nation-State 1." In Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture. Routledge, 2022. |
| Book Chapter | "Un New Deal entre l’Europe et l’Afrique est-il possible ?" In Un New Deal entre l’Europe et l’Afrique est-il possible ?, 1-8. Working papers. Groupe d’études géopolitiques, 2022. |
| Book | The earthly community: reflections on the last utopia, Edited by Steve Corcoran. Rotterdam: V2_Publishing, 2022. |
| Book Chapter | "“We maZimba… There Is Nothing That We Cannot Do”: The Work Ethic of Undocumented Zimbabwean Day Labourers in eMalahleni, South Africa." In Migration in Southern Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader, edited by Pragna Rugunanan and Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama, 231-245. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. |
| Book Chapter | "Oceanic Humanities for Blue Heritage." In The Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage, edited by Rosabelle Boswell, David O’Kane and Jeremy Hills, 31-40. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. |
| Book Chapter | "Chapter 1 - Imagining a New World: A Brief History of the South African Feminist Experiment in Institutionalism." In Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa: Designing for Gender Equality., 2022. |
| Book Chapter | "On Not Apologising: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and the TRC Hearing into the Mandela United Football Club." In On Not Apologising: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and the TRC Hearing into the Mandela United Football Club, 99-118. Bristol University Press, 2022. |
| Journal Article | "La prison ailleurs. Enquête sur les fonctions de l’enfermement carcéral au Cameroun." Nouvelles perspectives en sciences sociales 18 (2022): 331-366. |
| Journal Article | "Being undocumented at home? The mishaps of biometric enrolment in Cameroon." Critique internationale 97 (2022): 113-134. |
| Journal Article | "Capitalism without Surveillance?" Development and Change 51, no. 3 (2020): 921-935. |
| Journal Article | "Receipt of emotional support among rural South African adults." Ageing & Society (2020): 1-25. |
| Journal Article | "Benefit corporations for Africa? A South African perspective on alternative corporate forms." (2020). |
| Journal Article | "South Africa’s COVID-19 Tracing Database: Risks and rewards of which doctors should be aware." South African Medical Journal 110 (2020). |
| Book | Connected lives: families, households, health and care in South Africa, Edited by Nolwazi Mkhwanazi and Lenore Manderson. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2020. |
| Journal Article | "Of dreams and nightmares: implementing medical male circumcision in eSwatini (Swaziland)." Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute 90 (2020): 132-147. |
| Journal Article | "Conflict and care in sexual and reproductive health services for young mothers in urban South Africa." Culture, Health & Sexuality 22 (2020): 459-473. |
| Journal Article | "The trumpet of Armageddon : South Africa-Zimbabwe special permits and the fear of going back home." Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies 1 (2020): 9-26. |
| Book Chapter | "Chapter 7. Crisis, Work and the Meanings of Mobility on the Zimbabwean-South African Border." In Social im/mobilities in Africa: ethnographic approaches, edited by Joël Noret. New York : Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2020. |
| Journal Article | "‘The hardness of the times and the dearness of all the necessaries of life’: class and consumption in bilingual nineteenth-century newspapers." Social History 45 (2020): 453-475. |
| Book Chapter | In Anxious Joburg: The inner lives of a global South city. NYU Press, 2020. |
| Journal Article | "Pluvial Time/Wet Form." New Literary History 51 (2020): 455-472. |
| Thesis | Obedient rebellion: nuclear-weapon-free zones and global nuclear order, 1967–2017 In Politics & International Relations. Vol. DPhil . University of Oxford, 2020. |
| Journal Article | "Diving into the Slave Wreck: The São José Paquete d’Africa and Yvette Christiansë’s Imprendehora." Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (2020): 1-15. |
| Journal Article | "Unmournable bodies, embodied monuments and bodily truths: rethinking reconciliation in Zulu Love Letter." Safundi (2020): 1-4. |
| Journal Article | "Ethnographies of Global Policing." Annual Review of Law and Social Science 16 (2020): 131-145. |
| Book Chapter | "Stories of migration and belonging." In Refuge in a moving world: tracing refugee and migrant journeys across disciplines, edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh. London: UCL Press, 2020. |
| Book Chapter | "Thinking from the Southern Ocean." In Sustaining Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care., 2020. |
| Journal Article | "‘Carpe DM’: Seizing the Afropolitan Day." Current History 119 (2020): 194-196. |
| Book | Genetic afterlives: Black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa In Theory in forms. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. |
| Book Chapter | "Migration control, temporal irregularity and waiting." In Waiting and the temporalities of irregular migration, edited by Christine M. Jacobsen, Marry-Anne Karlsen and Shahram Khosravi. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. |
| Journal Article | "Delirium in intensive care: violence, loss and humanity." Medical Humanities (2020). |
| Book Chapter | In We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions, edited by Henriette Gunkel and kara lynch. transcript publishing, 2020. |
| Book | Ghosts, specters, revenants Hauntology as a means to think and feel future.., 2020. |
| Book | Reincarnating Marechera: notes on a speculative archive. Brooklyn, N.Y: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020. |
| Book Chapter | "Writing South Africa’s Prisons into History." In Prison writing and the literary world: imprisonment, institutionality and questions of literary practice, edited by Claire Westall and Michelle Kelly. Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature. New York: Routledge, 2020. |
| Book | Brutalisme. Paris: La Découverte, 2020. |
| Journal Article | "Pluvial Time/Wet Form." New Literary History 51 (2020): 455-472. |
| Journal Article | "Of Sky, Water and Skin: Photographs from a Zanzibari Darkroom." Kronos 46 (2020): 266-280. |
| Journal Article | "Moving still: Bicycles in Ranchhod Oza’s photographs of 1950s Stone Town (Zanzibar)." Journal of African Cinemas 12 (2020): 191-211. |
| Journal Article | "A Cowrie’s Life: The São Bento and Transoceanic Trade in the Sixteenth Century." Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies 6 (2020): 237-257. |
| Journal Article | "‘Zimbabwe is my home’: Citizenship and Belonging for ‘Malawians’ in Post-Independence Urban Zimbabwe." South African Historical Journal 72 (2020): 299-320. |
| Book | Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900-1965: Tracing Machona. Springer, 2020. |
| Book Chapter | "Human Rights: Legal Aspects." In International {Encyclopedia} of the {Social} {Sciences} ({Second} {Edition}), edited by James D. Wright, 375-379. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015. |
| Book | Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony: Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860-1895 In Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. |
| Book Chapter | "From Imperial Subjects to Global South Partners: South Africa, India, and the Politics of Multilateralism." In Competing Visions of India in World Politics: India's Rise Beyond the West, 79-93. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. |
| Book Chapter | "The Rise of Third World Diplomacy: Success and Its Meanings at the 1955 Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia." In Foreign Policy Breakthroughs: Cases in Successful Diplomacy, 47-71. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. |
| Journal Article | "Transformation of the Judicial System in South Africa, 2012-2013." George Washington international Law Review 47 (2015): 481-508. |
| Journal Article | "Governing through Crime in South Africa: The Politics of Race and Class in Neoliberalizing Regimes. By Gail Super. Dorchester: PB - Ashgate , 2013. 182 pp. \$98.96, cloth." Law & Society Review 49 (2015): 551-554. |
| Journal Article | "The Judicial Role in Defining National Security and Access to Information in South Africa." Democracy and Security 11 (2015): 275-297. |
| Journal Article | "Hopeless Entanglement: The Short History of the Academic Humanities in South Africa." American Historical Review 120, no. 4 (2015): 1253-1266. |
| Book Chapter | "Babies of the Empire: Science, Nation, and Truby King's Mothercraft in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa." In Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World, 59-73. Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. |
| Journal Article | "Conspicuous disease: The surveillance of silicosis in South Africa, 1910-1970." American Journal of Industrial Medicine 58 (2015): 15-22. |
| Journal Article | "Facts about Ourselves: Negotiating Sexual Knowledge in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa." Kronos 41 (2015): 199-219. |
| Journal Article | "The Pre-history of South African ‘Neo-Liberalism’: The Rise and Fall of Co-operative Farming on the Highveld." Journal of Southern African Studies 41 (2015): 1239-1254. |
| Journal Article | "Consuming the Coast: Mid-Century Communications of Port Tourism in the Southern African Indian Ocean." Comunicação Mídia e Consumo 12, no. 35 (2015): 149-170. |
| Journal Article | "Futures, Fakes and Discourses of the Gigantic and Miniature in ‘The World’ Islands, Dubai." Island Studies Journal 10, no. 2 (2015): 181-196. |
| Journal Article | "Autoethnographic Interventions and ‘Intimate Exposures’ in Ricardo Rangel's Portuguese Mozambique ." Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies 29, no. Supplement 1 (2015): 166-181. |
| Book Chapter | "Decolonization and (Dis)Possession in Lusophone Africa." In Mobility Makes States: Migration and Power in Africa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. |
| Journal Article | "The South African ‘Secrecy Act’: Democracy Put to the Test." Verfassung und Recht in Übersee VRÜ 48 (2015): 284-303. |
| Journal Article | "African corporate lawyering and globalization." International Journal of the Legal Profession 22 (2015): 226-242. |
| Journal Article | "Civil Government Lawyers in South Africa." New York Law School Law Review 60 (2015): 365-377. |
| Journal Article | "On the Trail of Paediatric Liver Transplantation in South Africa – Social Challenges to Equitable Distribution of Organ Transplantation." Health Tomorrow 3, no. 1 (2015). |
| Journal Article | "African Extraction, Indian Ocean Critique." South Atlantic Quarterly 114 (2015): 83-100. |
| Book Chapter | "Mesmer & the Artificial Tide." In Rattle Tales 3., 2015. |
| Journal Article | "Moments of Conceptual Potential: Frantz Fanon, the postcolony, and “nonwar communities”." Politics, Groups, and Identities 3, no. 2 (2015). |
| Journal Article | "Dreaming the Post-Colony: Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony ." Journal of Asian and African Studies 51, no. 6 (2015). |
| Journal Article | "Marikana and the limits of biopolitics: themes in the recent scholarship of South African mining." Africa 84, no. 1 (2014): 151-161. |
| Journal Article | "The sociality of the wage: money rhythms, wealth circulation, and the problem with cash on the Zimbabwean-South African border." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 20 (2014): 113-130. |
| Journal Article | "Transcending the Economic." Africa 84, no. 1 (2014): 142-145. |
| Book Chapter | "Mandela’s Mortality." In The Cambridge companion to Nelson Mandela, edited by Rita Barnard, 267-290. Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
| Journal Article | "The Politics of the Parallel Archive: Digital Imperialism and the Future of Record-Keeping in the Age of Digital Reproduction." Journal of Southern African Studies 40, no. 3 (2014): 499-519. |
| Journal Article | "A Nation Writing Rape." Novel 47 (2014): 330-333. |
| Journal Article | "No Homelike Place: The Lesson of History in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World." Contemporary Literature 55 (2014): 58-88. |
| Journal Article | "Decoloniality of a special type: solidarity and its potential meanings in South African literature, during and after the Cold War." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50 (2014): 466-477. |
| Book | Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
| Book | The Relic State: St Francis Xavier and the Politics of Ritual in Portuguese India In Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. |
| Book Chapter | "The Jam and Matchsticks Problem: Working-Class Girlhood in Late Nineteenth-Century Cape Town." In Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950, 124-140. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. |
| Journal Article | "“Capture the children”: Writing Children into the South African War, 1899-1902." The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 7 (2014): 355-376. |
| Journal Article | "Mourning Mandela." Transition (2014): 167-171. |
| Journal Article | "The Book of Life: The South African Population Register and the Invention of Racial Descent, 1950–1980." Kronos 40 (2014): 225-240. |
| Journal Article | "Review of Piero Gleijeses, 'Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991'." The American Historical Review 119 (2014): 1638-1641. |
| Journal Article | "Human Rights & South African Constitutionalism: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Debates over the past Twenty Years." Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies 38 (2014): 137-153. |
| Journal Article | "Legislating Religious Freedom: An Example of Muslim Marriages in South Africa." Maryland Journal of International Law 29 (2014): 505. |
| Journal Article | "Current Demographics in Large Corporate Law Firms in South Africa." African Journal of Legal Studies 7 (2014): 587-594. |
| Book | Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa In Radical Perspectives. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2014. |
| Book Chapter | "The Civil Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Africa." In Refugee {Law} in {South} {Africa}, edited by Fatima Khan and Tal Schreier. Juta and Company Ltd, 2014. |
| Journal Article | "Some (Not So) Lost Aquatic Traditions: Goans Going Fishing in the Indian Ocean." Interventions 16, no. 6 (2014): 854-876. |
| Book Chapter | "Frozen Vodka and White Skin in Tourist Goa." In Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference. Bristol: Channel View Publications, 2014. |
| Book Chapter | "Chapter 1: Rules Concerning Nationality and Relevance of Nationality." In South Africa, edited by Christina Murray and Coel Kirkby, 195-198. Constitutional Law in the International Encyclopedia of Laws. The Netherlands: Kluwer Wolters, 2014. |
| Book Chapter | "Chapter 5: Legal Position of Foreign Nationals." In South Africa, edited by Christina Murray and Coel Kirkby, 278-280. Constitutional Law in the International Encyclopedia of Laws. The Netherlands: Kluwer Wolters, 2014. |
| Journal Article | "The missing links: A South African perspective on the theories of health in drama therapy." The Arts in Psychotherapy 41 (2014): 302-306. |
| Book | Crítica de la razón negra. Buenos Aires: Futuro Anterior, 2014. |
| Journal Article | "Rationing healthcare in South Africa : renal replacement therapy - a case in point : correspondence." South African Medical Journal 104 (2014): 593. |
| Book | Critique de la raison nègre. Paris: LA DECOUVERTE, 2013. |
| Journal Article | "Wound, Surface, Skin." Cultural Studies 27 (2013): 418-437. |
| Journal Article | "Introduction : Private lives and public cultures in South Africa." Cultural Studies 27 (2013): 307-332. |
| Journal Article | "Transnational Networks and Regional Solidarity: The Case of the Central African Federation, 1953–1963." African Studies 72 (2013): 155-175. |
| Journal Article | "L'esclave, figure de l'anti-musée ?" Africultures n° 91 (2013): 38-42. |
| Journal Article | "Frantz Fanon’s Oeuvres: A Metamorphic Thought." Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 2013 (2013): 8-17. |
| Journal Article | "“Unto Children’s Children”: Clerical families and childrearing advice in the Cape Colony." Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 14 (2013). |
| Book Chapter | "“faded flowers?” Children in the Concentration Camps." In The War at Home: Women and Families in the Anglo-Boer War, 143-167. Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2013. |
| Journal Article | "Crime, Art and Public Culture." Cultural Studies 27 (2013): 357-378. |
| Book Chapter | "Audience Empowerment and the Politics of Representation in Two Radio Talk Shows in Post-Apartheid South Africa." In The Media, Political Participation and Empowerment. London: Routledge, 2013. |
| Book Chapter | "Frankreich provinzialisieren?" In Jenseits des Eurozentrismus: Postkoloniale Perspektiven in den Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, 224-263. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2013. |
| Journal Article | "Sufi narratives of intimacy: Ibn ‘Arabī, gender and sexuality." Social Dynamics 39 (2013): 144-146. |
| Journal Article | "The Indian Ocean during the Cold War: Thinking through a Critical Geography." History Compass 11 (2013): 524-530. |
| Book Chapter | "Between a Moment and an Era: The Origins and Afterlives of Bandung." In The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires: Reactions to Colonialism, 377-418. Vol. IV. The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires IV. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. |
| Book Chapter | "Gender without Groups: Confession, Resistance and Selfhood in the Colonial Archive." In Gender History Across Epistemologies, edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Mary Jo Maynes, 181-197. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013. |
| Journal Article | "Beyond analogy: bare life in the West Bank." Postcolonial Studies 16 (2013): 374-387. |
| Miscellaneous | Bandung Conference, 1955., 2013. |
| Book Chapter | "The Human Right to Information and Transparency." In Transparency in {International} {Law}, edited by Andrea Bianchi and Anne Peters, 223-238. Cambridge University Press, 2013. |
| Book Chapter | "Asylum and refugees." In Routledge {Handbook} of {Constitutional} {Law}, edited by Mark Tushnet, Thomas Fleiner and Cheryl Saunders, 415-425. Routledge, 2013. |
| Journal Article | "“I am happy with one”: Re-evaluating the relationship between gender, breast-cancer surgery, and survival." Agenda 27 (2013): 55-64. |
| Journal Article | "“I am happy with one”: Re-evaluating the relationship between gender, breast-cancer surgery, and survival." Agenda 27 (2013): 55-64. |
| Book | Into Sleep. London: rb&hArts, 2013. |
| Book Chapter | "Intimate Partner Violence in Post Apartheid South Africa: Psychoanalytic Insights and Dilemmas." In Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in South Africa: contexts, theories and applications. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2013. |
| Book | Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2012. |
| Book Chapter | "Registration and Recognition: the Infrastructure of Personhood in World History." In Registration and Recognition: Documenting the person in World History, 1-38. Oxford University Press, 2012. |
| Book Chapter | "14 No Will to Know: The Rise and Fall of African Civil Registration in Twentieth-Century South Africa." In Proceedings of the British Academy, 357-383. Vol. 182. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. |
| Book | Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. |
| Journal Article | "Monsoon fever." Social Dynamics 38 (2012): 516-527. |
| Journal Article | "Metamorphic Thought: The Works of Frantz Fanon." African Studies 71 (2012): 19-28. |
| Journal Article | "At the centre of the knot." Social Dynamics 38 (2012): 8-14. |
| Journal Article | "Pensare oltre. Perchè è utile la prospettiva postcoloniale." Aut aut (2012): 89-135. |
| Book Chapter | "necropolÍtica, una revisión crÍtica." In estética y violencia: necropolÍtica, militarización y vidas lloradas, 130-139. Mexico City: {MUAC}, 2012. |
| Book Chapter | "violencia, re-composición, superficie: cultura visual en johannesburgo." In estética y violencia: necropolÍtica, militarización y vidas lloradas. Mexico City: {MUAC}, 2012. |
| Book Chapter | "Romancing the Colonial on Ilha de Mozambique." In Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation, 247-266. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. |
| Journal Article | "The Art of Evasion: Writing and the State in J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K." Journal of Literary Studies 28 (2012): 55-76. |
| Book Chapter | "Support for Children: Social Services and Social Security." In Child Health for All. 5th ed. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 2012. |
| Journal Article | "The humanities unplugged." Social Dynamics 38 (2012): 20-25. |
| Book Chapter | "The Rise of the Surface: Theorising New Directions for Reading and Criticism in South Africa." In Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa, 408-421. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2012. |
| Journal Article | "Gender without Groups: Confession, Resistance and Selfhood in the Colonial Archive." Gender & History 24 (2012): 701-717. |
| Book Chapter | "Aftermath." In The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories, 601-615. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. |
| Journal Article | "The Story of O." Transition (2012): 117-129. |
| Book Chapter | "Judicious Transparency." In Is this {Seat} {Taken}?: {Conversations} at the {Bar}, the {Bench} and the {Academy} about the {South} {African} {Constitution}, edited by Stu Woolman and David Bilchitz, 423-436. Pretoria University Law Press, 2012. |
| Journal Article | "Singing classes for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized controlled trial." BMC Pulmonary Medicine 12 (2012). |
| Book Chapter | "Capitaliser sur les pauvres: les enjeux de l’adoption de services financiers biométriques au Nigeria." In L’identification Biométrique: Champs, Acteurs, Enjeux Et Controverses, edited by Ayse Ceyhan and Pierre Piazza. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2011. |
| Book Chapter | "Special Rights in Property: Why Modern African Economies are Dependent on Mineral Resources." In History, Historians and Development Policy: A Necessary Dialogue, edited by C. A. Bayly, Vijayendra Rao, Simon Szreter and Michael Woolcock. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. |
| Journal Article | "Gandhi's Progressive Disillusionment: Thumbs, Fingers, and the Rejection of Scientific Modernism in Hind Swaraj." Public Culture 23, no. 2 (2011): 331-348. |
| Book | Stranger at Home: The Praise Poet in Apartheid South Africa. Witwatersrand University Press, 2011. |
| Journal Article | "Saving the Child to Save the Nation: Poverty, Whiteness and Childhood in the Cape Colony, c.1870–1895." Journal of Southern African Studies 37 (2011): 229-245. |
| Journal Article | "Gandhi and the Goa question." Public Culture 23 (2011): 321-330. |
| Journal Article | "‘Onschuldig vermaak’: The Dutch Reformed Church and Children's Leisure Time in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony." South African Historical Journal 63 (2011): 495-513. |
| Book Chapter | "“Education for Every Son and Daughter of South Africa”: Race, Class, and the Compulsory Education Debate in the Cape Colony." In Mass Education and the Limits of State Building, c.1870-1930, 261-282. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. |
| Journal Article | "Talking to the Polls: Power, Time and the Politics of Representation in Two South African Radio Talk Shows." African Studies 70 (2011): 437-454. |
| Book Chapter | "Friction and Fragments: Local Cosmopolitanism in Postcolonial Mozambique." In Traversing Transnationalism: The Horizons of Literary and Cultural Studies. Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature. New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. |
| Book Chapter | "'Going for a Sunday Drive': Angolan Decolonization, Learning Whiteness and the Portuguese Diaspora of South Africa." In Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora: Piecing Things Together, 135-152. Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures. New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2011. |
| Journal Article | "Religion and Revival in Post-Apartheid South Africa." Focus (2011): 39-46. |
| Journal Article | "Penny Siopis’s scripted bodies and the limits of alterity." Social Dynamics 37 (2011): 289-298. |
| Book Chapter | "Self Styling." In Global Visual Cultures: An Anthology. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. |
| Book Chapter | "The Invisible City: Surfaces and Underneaths in Ivan Vladislavić's 'Portrait with Keys'." In Marginal Spaces: Reading Ivan Vladislavić. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2011. |
| Journal Article | "Framing the Debate on Race: Global Historiography and Local Flavour in Berni Searle's Colour Me Series." Image & Text: A Journal for Design (2011): 120-136. |
| Journal Article | "Photography and the Archive: 15th ACASA Triennial Conference, 2011." African Arts 44 (2011): 1-9. |
| Journal Article | "Decolonization of a Special Type: Rethinking Cold War History in Southern Africa." Kronos (2011): 6-11. |
| Journal Article | "Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis in the Colonies: The Interwar Politics of Race, Culture, and Multiracial Legal Status in British Africa." Law and History Review 29 (2011): 497-522. |
| Journal Article | "Do colonial people exist? Rethinking ethno-genesis and peoplehood through the longue durée in south-east central Africa." Social History 36 (2011): 169-191. |
| Journal Article | "Locating Hannah Arendt within Postcolonial Thought: A Prospectus." College Literature 38 (2011): 95-114. |
| Journal Article | "Jerusalem Day, 2011." Jerusalem Quarterly (2011): 39-45. |
| Miscellaneous | Steve Chimombo., 2011. |
| Journal Article | "Public Interest Litigation in South Africa: Special Issue Introduction." South African Journal on Human Rights 27 (2011): 1-7. |
| Book Chapter | "Citizenship, xenophobic violence and law's dark side." In Exorcising the {Demons} {Within}: {Xenophobia}, {Violence}, and {Statecraft} in {Contemporary} {South} {Africa}, edited by Loren Landau, 135-149. Wits University Press, 2011. |
| Book Chapter | "A delicate dialogue: Courts, the executive and social policy in South Africa." In Future inheritance: building state capacity in democratic {South} {Africa}, edited by Daniel Plaatjies, 118-130. Auckland Park , South Africa: Jacana Media, 2011. |
| Book | Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. |
| Book | Le politique par le bas en Afrique noire. KARTHALA Editions, 2008. |
| Book Chapter | "The Elusive Panopticon: The HANIS Project and the Politics of Standards in South Africa." In Playing the ID card: Surveillance, security and identity in global perspective, edited by Colin Bennett and David Lyon, 39-56. London: Routledge, 2008. |
| Journal Article | "Power without Knowledge: Three Nineteenth Century Colonialisms in South Africa." Journal of Natal and Zulu History 26 (2008): 2-30. |
| Book | A useable past: the search for history in chords. Nordik Afrika Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, 2008. |
| Book | The Fred de Vries Interviews: From Abdullah to Zille. Witwatersrand University Press, 2008. |
| Journal Article | "Le futur de la nostalgie, ou rumination sur les ruines." Ecologie & politique N°37 (2008): 87-90. |
| Journal Article | "About Beauty." Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 22 (2008): 136-145. |
| Book Chapter | "I Love You, I Hate You." In Load Shedding. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2008. |
| Book Chapter | "Introduction: Afropolis." In Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis, 1-36. Public Culture. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2008. |
| Book Chapter | "Stylizing the Self." In Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis. Public Culture. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2008. |
| Book Chapter | "Literary City." In Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis, 195-220. Public Culture. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2008. |
| Journal Article | "‘Causes’ versus ‘Conditions’: Imperial Sovereignty, Postcolonial Violence and the recent Re-Emergence of Arendtian Political Thought in African Studies." South African Historical Journal 60 (2008): 124-146. |
| Book | Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa, Edited by Jeff Handmaker, Lee Anne de la Hunt and Jonathan Klaaren. Berghahn Books, 2008. |
| Book Chapter | "Introduction." In Advancing {Refugee} {Protection} in {South} {Africa}, edited by Jeff Handmaker, Lee Anne de la Hunt and Jonathan Klaaren, 1-8. Berghahn Books, 2008. |
| Book Chapter | "Talking a New Talk: A Legislative History of the Refugees Act 130 of 1998." In Advancing {Refugee} {Protection} in {South} {Africa}, edited by Jeff Handmaker, Lee Anne de la Hunt and Jonathan Klaaren, 47-60. Berghahn Books, 2008. |
| Book Chapter | "Refugee Status Determination Procedures in South African Law." In Advancing {Refugee} {Protection} in {South} {Africa}, edited by Jeff Handmaker, Lee Anne de la Hunt and Jonathan Klaaren, 61-86. Berghahn Books, 2008. |
| Book Chapter | "Conclusion." In Advancing {Refugee} {Protection} in {South} {Africa}, edited by Jeff Handmaker, Lee Anne de la Hunt and Jonathan Klaaren, 47-60. Berghahn Books, 2008. |
| Book Chapter | "An Unsuitable Girl." In Load Shedding. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2008. |
| Book Chapter | "Citizenship." In Constitutional Law of South Africa, edited by Stu Woolman, 60-1 to 60-. 2nd Revised & enlarged edition. Kenwyn, South Africa: Juta Legal and Academic Publishers, 2008. |
| Book Chapter | "Movement and Residence." In Constitutional Law of South Africa, edited by Stu Woolman, 66-1 to 66-13. 2nd Revised & enlarged edition. Kenwyn, South Africa: Juta Legal and Academic Publishers, 2008. |
| Book Chapter | "Just Administrative Action." In Constitutional Law of South Africa, edited by Stu Woolman, 63-1 to 63-128. 2nd Revised & enlarged edition. Kenwyn, South Africa: Juta Legal and Academic Publishers, 2008. |
| Book | Transplant. rb&hArts, 2008. |
| Book | The development reader, Edited by Sharad Chari and Stuart Corbridge. London ; New York: Routledge, 2008. |
| Journal Article | "Fighting for a White South Africa: White working-class racism and the 1922 Rand Revolt The Rand Revolt: The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa, Jeremy Krikler: book review." South African Historical Journal 57 (2007): 228-243. |
| Journal Article | "Book Review: Special Issue of Culture, Health and Sexuality." Sexualities 10, no. 2 (2007): 263. |
| Book | Khabzela: The Life and Times of a South African. Jacana Media, 2007. |
| Journal Article | "Mapping Portuguese Decolonisation in the Indian Ocean: A Research Agenda." South African Historical Journal 57 (2007): 93-112. |
| Book Chapter | "Under What Conditions? Social Security for Children in South Africa." In Notes on Social Protection Initiatives for Children, Women and Families. New York: The New School and {UNICEF}, 2007. |
| Book Chapter | "Support for Children: Social Services and Social Security." In Child Health for All, 258-265. 4th ed. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| Book Chapter | "Poverty and Young Children in South Africa." In Early Childhood Education: An International Encyclopedia, 1199-1203. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2007. |
| Journal Article | "Faithfully Secular: Secularism and South African Political Life." Journal for the Study of Religion 20 (2007). |
| Book | At Risk: Writing on and Over the Edge of South Africa. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2007. |
| Book | Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2007. |
| Journal Article | "Afropolis: From Johannesburg." {PMLA} 122 (2007): 281-288. |
| Book Chapter | "Youth Cultures of Consumption in Johannesburg." In Youth Moves: Identities and Education in Global Perspective. Critical Youth Studies. New York: Routledge, 2007. |
| Book Chapter | "Rethinking Beauty." In {Beautiful/Ugly:} African and Diaspora Aesthetics, 6-29. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2007. |
| Journal Article | "Crisis as Catalyst: Contemporary Zimbabwe and the Reinstatement of Region in a Global Era." Safundi 8 (2007): 117-138. |
| Book Chapter | "Race and Bureaucracy Revisited: Hannah Arendt's Recent Re-Emergence in African Studies." In Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History: Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide, 68-86. New York: Berghahn, 2007. |
| Journal Article | "How to Do Things with Words: African Oral History and Its Textual Incarnations." Words and Silences: The Journal of the International Oral History Association 4 (2007): 1-5. |
| Book Chapter | "Institutional Transformation and the Choice Against Vetting in South Africa’s Transition." In Justice as {Prevention}: {Vetting} {Public} {Employees} in {Transitional} {Societies}, edited by A Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo De Greiff, 146-179. Social Science Research Council, 2007. |
| Journal Article | "The art of health." Breathe: 4, no. 2 (2007): 140-7. |
| Journal Article | "«Qu’est-ce que la pensée postcoloniale." Esprit 12, no. 2006 (2006): 117-134. |
| Book Chapter | "Reasons for writing: African working-class letter-writing in early-twentieth century South Africa." In Africa's Hidden Histories: everyday literacy and making the self, edited by Karin Barber. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. |
| Journal Article | "The Letters of Louisa Mvemve." Africa's hidden histories: everyday literacy and making the self (2006): 78-112. |
| Journal Article | "From New Women to College Girls at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895-1910." Historia 51 (2006): 1-27. |
| Book Chapter | "Policies to live by: targeted poverty alleviation in South Africa." In Poverty and Children: Policies to Break the Vicious Cycle. New York: The New School and {UNICEF}, 2006. |
| Journal Article | "A Politics of the Emergent: Cultural Studies in South Africa." Theory, Culture & Society 23 (2006): 263-278. |
| Book Chapter | "What the Blood Remembers." In At Risk. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2006. |
| Journal Article | "Entre la rue et le musée : le problème du « moment présent » en Afrique du Sud." Politique Africaine 103 (2006): 81-99. |
| Journal Article | "Voices from the Margins: The Coloured Factor in Southern African History." South African Historical Journal 56 (2006): 201-218. |
| Journal Article | "Desperately Seeking Tsitsi." Transition (2006): 128-150. |
| Journal Article | "Arendt's Lesson: The Challenge and Need for Teaching Empire in the Present." Radical History Review 95 (2006): 129-144. |
| Book | A Delicate Balance: The Place of the Judiciary in a Constitutional Democracy. SiberInk, 2006. |
| Journal Article | "Southern Africa: as seen through sexuality, mobility and citizenship." African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie 9 (2006): 168-183. |
| Book Chapter | "Post-Apartheid South Africa: Gender, Rights and the Politics of Recognition." In The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. HSRC Press, 2006. |
| Journal Article | "Psychoanalysis and Community." Psychoanalysis, Culture {&} Society 11 (2006): 199-216. |
| Journal Article | "A la lisière du monde. Frontières, territorialité et souveraineté en Afrique." Le territoire est mort vive les territoires. Paris: IDR (2005): 47-77. |
| Journal Article | "The Biometric State: The promise and peril of digital government in the New South Africa." Journal of Southern African Studies 31, no. 2 (2005): 267-282. |
| Journal Article | "Verwoerd's Bureau of Proof: Total Information in the Making of Apartheid." History Workshop Journal 59 (2005): 83-109. |
| Journal Article | "Silencing the Present." passages, no. June (2005). |
| Book | Sex and politics in South Africa. Double Storey Books, 2005. |
| Book | Still beating the drum: critical perspectives on Lewis Nkosi. Vol. 81. Rodopi Bv Editions, 2005. |
| Journal Article | "“Writing on the face of architecture”: Travel and translation in Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana." English Academy Review 22 (2005): 89-99. |
| Journal Article | "'Oh! for a blessing on Africa and America', the Mount Holyoke system and the Huguenot Seminary, 1874 - 1885." New Contree 50 (2005): 21-45. |
| Book Chapter | "Beyond Identity Politics: Homosexuality and Gayness in South Africa." In Performing Queer: Shaping Sexualities 1994-2004. Vol. 1. Cape Town: Kwela, 2005. |
| Journal Article | "A Blasé Attitude: A Response to Michael Watts." Public Culture 17 (2005): 193-202. |
| Book Chapter | "The Shock of Beauty: Penny Siopis' Pinky Pinky and Shame Series." In Penny Siopis. Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery Editions, 2005. |
| Book Chapter | "Subjectivities of Whiteness." In Rethinking Settler Colonialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005. |
| Journal Article | "The 'Native' Undefined: Colonial Categories, Anglo-African Status, and the Politics of Kinship in British Central Africa, 1929-1938." The Journal of African History 46 (2005): 455-478. |
| Journal Article | "The Uses of the Comparative Imagination: South African History and World History in the Political Consciousness and Strategy of the South African Left, 1943–1959." Radical History Review 92 (2005): 31-61. |
| Journal Article | "Subaltern Studies and African Studies." History Compass 3 (2005): 1-13. |
| Journal Article | "A Second Look at the South African Human Rights Commission, Access to Information, and the Promotion of Socioeconomic Rights." Human Rights Quarterly 27 (2005): 539-561. |
| Book Chapter | "South African Human Rights Commission." In Constitutional Law of South Africa, edited by Stu Woolman, 24C-1 to 24C-19. 2nd Revised & enlarged edition. Kenwyn, South Africa: Juta Legal and Academic Publishers, 2005. |
| Journal Article | "Necropolitics." Public culture 15, no. 1 (2003): 11-40. |
| Book | Louisa Mvemve: A "Little Woman's" Advice to the Public. Feminist Press, 2003. |
| Book | Commissioning the Past: Understanding South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Edited by Deborah Posel and Graeme Simpson. Witwatersrand University Press, 2003. |
| Journal Article | "The Promotion of Access to and Protection of National Security Information in South Africa." Center for the Study of Law and Society Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program (2003). |
| Journal Article | "War, gender and culture: Mozambican women refugees." Social Science & Medicine (1982) 56 (2003): 713-724. |
| Journal Article | "African modes of self-writing." Public culture 14, no. 1 (2002): 239-273. |
| Journal Article | "A Long Conversation: The Calling of Katie Makanya." Agenda 54 (2002): 133-140. |
| Journal Article | "A Commentary on the Colloquium Instituting Gender Equality in Schools: Working in an HIV/AIDS Environment." Agenda 53 (2002): 6-10. |
| Book | The Promotion of Access to Information Act, Commentary. Siber Ink {CC}, 2002. |
| Book Chapter | "Access to Information." In Constitutional Law of South Africa, edited by Stu Woolman, 62-1 to 62-24. 2nd Revised & enlarged edition. Kenwyn, South Africa: Juta Legal and Academic Publishers, 2002. |
| Book | On the Postcolony. Studies on the history of society and culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. |
| Journal Article | "Ways of seeing: beyond the new nativism. Introduction." African Studies Review 44, no. 2 (2001): 1-14. |
| Journal Article | "Inside Illegality: Migration Policing in South Africa after Apartheid." Africa Today 48 (2001): 35-47. |
| Book Chapter | "Rape in War and Peace: Social Context, Gender, Power and Identity." In The Aftermath Women in Post-Conflict Transformation. Zed Books, 2001. |
| Book Chapter | "Problems of Identity, Solidarity and Reconciliation." In The Aftermath Women in Post-Conflict Transformation . Zed Books, 2001. |
| Journal Article | "At the edge of the world: boundaries, territoriality, and sovereignty in Africa." Public Culture 12, no. 1 (2000): 259-284. |
| Book | De La Postcolonie: Essai Sur L'imagination Politique Dans l'Afrique Contemporaine. Les Afriques. Paris: Karthala, 2000. |
| Book | On Private Indirect Government. State of literature series. Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2000. |
| Journal Article | "Entre Coups D’État, Élections Reportées et Mouvements Sociaux: Esquisses d’une démocratie à l’africaine." Le Monde Diplomatique 559 (2000): 20-21. |
| Journal Article | "A propos des écritures africaines de soi." Politique africaine (2000): 16-43. |
| Book | Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. |
| Journal Article | "Rape in war and peace: some thoughts on social context and gender roles." Agenda 16 (2000): 41-45. |
| Book | Du Gouvernement Privé Indirect. Série Etat de la littérature. Dakar, Sénégal: Codesria, 1999. |
| Journal Article | "Mouvements de Populations, Éclatement des États, Recompositions Géopolitiques: Les frontières mouvantes du continent africain." Le monde diplomatique (1999): 22-23. |
| Magazine Article | "Gender, Culture and Trauma. Mozambican Women War Refugees’ Experiences of War, Dislocation and Survival." International Feminist Magazine (1999). |
| Journal Article | "The allure of violence: men, race and masculinity on the South African goldmines, 1900Â1950." Journal of Southern African Studies 24, no. 4 (1998): 669-693. |
| Journal Article | ""We Must Speak for Ourselves": The Rise and Fall of a Public Sphere on the South African GoldMines, 1920 to 1931." Comparative Studies in Society and History 40, no. 1 (1998): 71-108. |
| Journal Article | "‘A man is a clumsy thing who does not know how to handle a sick person’: aspects of the history of masculinity and race in the shaping of male nursing in South Africa, 1900–1950." Journal of Southern African Studies 24, no. 4 (1998): 695-717. |
| Book | Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. |
| Magazine Article | "Women and Apartheid. Collective Trauma and Social Reconstruction." The Way Supplement Autumn (1998). |
| Book | La Naissance Du Maquis Dans Le Sud-Cameroun, 1920-1960: Histoire Des Usages De La Raison En Colonie. Collection "Hommes et sociétés". Paris: Karthala, 1996. |
| Journal Article | "Une Economie de predation. Les rapports entre la rareté matérielle et la démocratie en Afrique subsaharienne." Foi et Developpement, no. 241 (1996). |
| Journal Article | "La" chose" et ses doubles dans la caricature camerounaise (The" Thing" and Its Doubles in Cameroonian Caricatures)." Cahiers d'études africaines (1996): 143-170. |
| Journal Article | "Louisa Mvemve: A Woman's Advice to the Public on the Cure of Various Diseases." Kronos, no. 23 (1996): 108-134. |
| Journal Article | "Sex lessons from the post?" Agenda 12, no. 29 (1996): 79-91. |
| Book | Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. |
| Journal Article | "Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis." Public Culture 7, no. 2 (1995): 323-352. |
| Journal Article | "Notes provisoires sur la postcolonie." Politique africaine 60 (1995): 76-109. |
| Journal Article | "'Money with Dignity': Migrants, Minelords and the Cultural Politics of the South African Gold Standard Crisis, 1920-33." The Journal of African History 36, no. 2 (1995): 271-304. |
| Thesis | Reproductive labors: the politics of women's health in South Africa, 1900-1960. Northwestern University, 1995. |
| Journal Article | "«Crise de légitimité, restauration autoritaire et déliquescence de l’État»." Itinéraires d’accumulation au Cameroun, Paris, Karthala (1993). |
| Journal Article | "Afrique des comptoirs ou Afrique du développement? in." Le Monde diplomatique, janvier (1992). |
| Journal Article | "«Traditions de l’autoritarisme et problèmes de gouvernement en Afrique sub-saharienne»." Africa development 17, no. 1 (1992): 37-64. |
| Journal Article | "Provisional notes on the postcolony." Africa (1992): 3-37. |
| Journal Article | "The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony." Public Culture 4, no. 2 (1992). |
| Book | Le Politique Par Le Bas En Afrique Noire: Contributions à Une Problématique De La Démocratie, Edited by Jean-François Bayart, Achille Mbembe and Comi M. Toulabor. Les Afriques. Paris: Karthala, 1992. |
| Journal Article | "Domaines de la Nuit et Autorité Onirique dans les Maquis du Sud-Cameroun (1955–1958)." The Journal of African History 32, no. 01 (1991): 89-121. |
| Journal Article | "Pouvoir, violence et accumulation." Politique africaine 39 (1990): 7-24. |
| Book | Afriques Indociles: Christianisme, Pouvoir Et Etat En Société Postcoloniale. Chrétiens en liberté. Paris: Karthala, 1988. |
| Journal Article | "Etat, violence et accumulation. Leçons d'Afrique noire." Foi et développement 164, no. 165 (1988): 1-8. |
| Journal Article | "«Pouvoir des morts et langage des vivants. Les errances de la mémoire nationaliste au Cameroun»." Politique africaine 22 (1986): 37-72. |
| Book | Les Jeunes Et L'ordre Politique En Afrique Noire. Logiques sociales. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 1985. |
| Book | Le Problème National Kamerunais, Edited by Achille Mbembe. Racines du présent. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1984. |
| Report | Sifuna Imali Yethu - An Oral History of the Life and Struggles of Durban Dockers In Oral History Series No. 3, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, Archives Department., 1983. |