| Is ‘another world’really possible? Re-examining counter-hegemonic forces in post-apartheid South Africa L Sinwell Review of African Political Economy 38 (127), 61-76, 2011 | 99 | 2011 |
| The spirit of Marikana: The rise of insurgent trade unionism in South Africa L Sinwell, S Mbatha Pluto Press, 2016 | 75 | 2016 |
| Ethical and political challenges of participatory action research in the academy: Reflections on social movements and knowledge production in South Africa MC Dawson, L Sinwell Social Movement Studies 11 (2), 177-191, 2012 | 56* | 2012 |
| Marikana: Voices from South Africa’s mining massacre P Alexander, T Lekgowa, B Mmope, L Sinwell, B Xezwi Ohio University Press, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
| Contesting transformation: Popular resistance in twenty-first-century South Africa MC Dawson, L Sinwell Pluto Press, 2012 | 48 | 2012 |
| What Factors Do Motivate Employees at the Workplace? Evidence from Service Organizations MA RAHAMAN, MJ ALI, HM WAFIK, ZR MAMOON, MM ISLAM The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics, and Business 7 (12), 515-521, 2020 | 45 | 2020 |
| Service delivery protests: Findings from quick response research on four ‘hot-spots’–Piet Retief, Balfour, Thokoza, Diepsloot L Sinwell, J Kirshner, K Khumalo, O Manda, P Pfaffe, C Phokela, ... Johannesburg: Centre for Sociological Research, University of Johannesburg, 2009 | 43 | 2009 |
| Transformative left-wing parties’ and grassroots organizations: Unpacking the politics of “top-down” and “bottom-up” development L Sinwell Geoforum 43 (2), 190-198, 2012 | 37 | 2012 |
| The Alexandra Development Forum (ADF): the tyranny of invited participatory spaces? L Sinwell Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 74 (1), 23-46, 2010 | 33 | 2010 |
| Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South T Ngwane, I Ness, L Sinwell Haymarket Books, 2017 | 30 | 2017 |
| Rethinking South Africa's transition: From transformative to mainstream approaches to participatory development L Sinwell African studies 70 (3), 359-375, 2011 | 28 | 2011 |
| Conceptualizing direct action as a form of participation in development: a South African case L Sinwell Politikon 37 (1), 67-83, 2010 | 28 | 2010 |
| Participatory spaces and the Alexandra Vukuzenzele Crisis Committee (AVCC): reshaping government plans L Sinwell Social dynamics 35 (2), 436-449, 2009 | 28 | 2009 |
| ‘AMCU by day, workers’ committee by night’: Insurgent Trade Unionism at Anglo Platinum (Amplats) mine, 2012–2014 L Sinwell Review of African Political Economy 42 (146), 591-605, 2015 | 27 | 2015 |
| Participation as popular agency: The limitations and possibilities for transforming development in the Alexandra Renewal Project L Sinwell University of the Witwatersrand, 2009 | 27 | 2009 |
| Obtaining ‘Peace’, searching for justice: evaluating civil society and local government responses to xenophobia in Alexandra L Sinwell Politikon 38 (1), 131-148, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| Using Giddens's theory of ‘structuration’and Freirean philosophy to understand participation in the Alexandra Renewal Project L Sinwell Development Southern Africa 25 (3), 245-258, 2008 | 18 | 2008 |
| Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective: The Politics of Protest in South Africa's Contentious Democracy M Paret, C Runciman, L Sinwell Taylor & Francis, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| Alexandra P Harrison, A Masson, L Sinwell Changing Space Changing City: Johannesburg After Apartheid, 342-369, 2014 | 13 | 2014 |
| From Radical Movement to Conservative NGO and Back Again? A Case Study of the Democratic Left Front in South Africa L Sinwell NGOization: Complicity, contradiction and Prospects. London: Zed Books, 102-117, 2013 | 12 | 2013 |
