Luke Sinwell is a senior researcher with the Research Chair in Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. He obtained a PhD in Development Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2009. His interests include the politics and conceptualization of participatory development and governance, direct action, and action research. He is coeditor of Contesting Transformation: Popular Resistance in Twenty-First-Century South Africa published by Pluto Press at the end of 2012.
ARTICLES FEATURING LUKE

The Marikana Massacre: Five Years Later
Alex Lichtenstein reviews two new books on the Marikana Massacre....

Marikana, Part II: Looking For Answers to a South African Massacre
In a September 1, 2012 article for the Los Angeles Review of Books, historian Alex Lichtenstein examined the background of the ...
