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Defend Truth

Steven Robins

Professor Steven Robins is with the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Stellenbosch.

Latest Work

Steven Robins

3 June 2025

Chief Rabbi Goldstein abuses legal and religious concepts in attack on Ramaphosa

5 min

3

‘Rights of Nature’: A fundamental challenge to the world as we know it

6 January 2022

‘Rights of Nature’: A fundamental challenge to the world as we know it

8 min

1

$River Club: Utopian fantasies of a high-tech concrete jungle in a city of broken infrastructures and fractured communities$

22 November 2021

River Club: Utopian fantasies of a high-tech concrete jungle in a city of broken infrastructures and fractured communities

6 min

4

Lwazi Lushaba and his Hitler analogy: The cul-de-sacs and conundrums of ‘competitive memory’

15 April 2021

Lwazi Lushaba and his Hitler analogy: The cul-de-sacs and conundrums of ‘competitive memory’

8 min

6

How organic farmer Nazeer Sonday became an accidental warrior for land reform and ecological justice

22 February 2021

How organic farmer Nazeer Sonday became an accidental warrior for land reform and ecological justice

8 min

0

Reclaiming the city and building an urban common in Woodstock

Maverick Citizen

6 January 2021

Reclaiming the city and building an urban common in Woodstock

7 min

0

Amazon in Africa: A walk through history in the Two Rivers Urban Park

16 December 2020

Amazon in Africa: A walk through history in the Two Rivers Urban Park

6 min

0

Now we are all Swedes: Covid-19, eugenics and sacrificing the ‘older older’

10 June 2020

Now we are all Swedes: Covid-19, eugenics and sacrificing the ‘older older’

11 min

0

Is the lockdown authoritarian creep or ‘proportionate response’?

Is the lockdown authoritarian creep or ‘proportionate response’?

7 min

0

Beyond the emergency: ‘Slow catastrophes’ after Covid-19

20 April 2020

Beyond the emergency: ‘Slow catastrophes’ after Covid-19

7 min

0

Informal settlements can be better planned

12 February 2020

Informal settlements can be better planned

5 min

0

The real State of the Nation lies underground in broken sewerage and water pipes

6 February 2020

The real State of the Nation lies underground in broken sewerage and water pipes

9 min

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