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| ‘But we were thousands’: dispossession, resistance, repossession and repression in Mandela Park A Desai, R Pithouse Journal of Asian and African studies 39 (4), 239-269, 2004 | 106 | 2004 |
| A Progressive Policy without Progressive Politics: Lessons from the failure to implement ‘Breaking New Ground R Pithouse Town and Regional Planning, 2009 | 92 | 2009 |
| Struggle is a school: The rise of a shack dwellers' movement in Durban, South Africa R Pithouse Monthly Review 57 (9), 30, 2006 | 69 | 2006 |
| Our struggle is thought, on the ground, running” the University of Abahlali Basemjondolo R Pithouse Centre for Civil Society Research Report 40, 1-30, 2006 | 63 | 2006 |
| The university of Abahlali baseMjondolo R Pithouse Voices of resistance from occupied London 2, 17-20, 2007 | 59 | 2007 |
| ‘That the tool never possess the man’: taking Fanon's humanism seriously R Pithouse Politikon 30 (1), 107-131, 2003 | 56 | 2003 |
| Producing the poor: The World Bank's new discourse of domination. R Pithouse African Sociological Review 7 (2), 26, 2003 | 44 | 2003 |
| Abahlali baseMjondolo and struggle for the city in Durban, South Africa RM Pithouse Cidades 6 (9), 241-270, 2009 | 43 | 2009 |
| An urban commons? Notes from South Africa R Pithouse Community Development Journal 49 (suppl_1), i31-i43, 2014 | 41 | 2014 |
| Conjunctural remarks on the political significance of ‘the local’ R Pithouse Thesis Eleven 115 (1), 95-111, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| Asinamali: University struggles in post-apartheid South Africa R Pithouse Africa World Press, 2006 | 40 | 2006 |
| Solidarity, Co-option and Assimilation: The Necessity, Promises and Pitfalls of Global Linkages for South African Movements R Pithouse Challenging Hegemony, 2006 | 36 | 2006 |
| Rethinking public participation from below R Pithouse Critical Dialogue 2 (2), 24-30, 2006 | 34 | 2006 |
| " What Stank in the Past Is the Present's Perfume": Dispossession, Resistance, and Repression in Mandela Park A Desai, R Pithouse The South Atlantic Quarterly 103 (4), 841-875, 2004 | 34 | 2004 |
| Living learning L Figlan, R Mavuso, B Ngema, Z Nsibande, S Sibisi, S Zikode Pietermaritzburg: Church Land Programme, 2009 | 31 | 2009 |
| Writing the decline R Pithouse Jacana Media, 2016 | 29 | 2016 |
| Thinking Resistance in the Shantytown R Pithouse People, Place, and Space: A Reader,, 2013 | 29* | 2013 |
| The Service Delivery Myth R Pithouse Pambazuka News, February 3, 110209, 2011 | 29 | 2011 |
| The shack settlement as a site of politics: Reflections from South Africa R Pithouse Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy 3 (2), 179-201, 2014 | 26 | 2014 |