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| Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African culture and the world beyond R Nixon Routledge, 2022 | 475 | 2022 |
| London calling: VS Naipaul, postcolonial mandarin R Nixon Oxford University Press, 1992 | 473 | 1992 |
| Environmentalism and postcolonialism R Nixon Postcolonial studies and beyond, 233-51, 2005 | 400 | 2005 |
| Caribbean and African Appropriations of" The Tempest" R Nixon Critical inquiry 13 (3), 557-578, 1987 | 307 | 1987 |
| The Anthropocene: The promise and pitfalls of an epochal idea R Nixon Edge Effects 6, 2014 | 170 | 2014 |
| Neoliberalism, slow violence, and the environmental picaresque R Nixon MFS Modern Fiction Studies 55 (3), 443-467, 2009 | 153 | 2009 |
| No Names Apart: The Separation of Word and History in Derrida's" Le Dernier Mot du Racisme" A McClintock, R Nixon Critical Inquiry 13 (1), 140-154, 1986 | 115 | 1986 |
| Unimagined communities: Developmental refugees, megadams and monumental modernity R Nixon New Formations 69 (69), 62-80, 2010 | 88 | 2010 |
| Slow violence R Nixon The Chronicle of Higher Education 26, 2011 | 87 | 2011 |
| Slow violence, gender, and the environmentalism of the poor R Nixon Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 13 (2-1), 14-37, 2006 | 80 | 2006 |
| Apartheid on the run: The South African sports boycott R Nixon Transition, 68-88, 1992 | 79 | 1992 |
| The great acceleration and the great divergence: Vulnerability in the Anthropocene R Nixon Profession 14, 2014 | 77 | 2014 |
| Neoliberalism, Genre, and “the Tragedy of the Commons” R Nixon PMLA 127 (3), 593-599, 2012 | 61 | 2012 |
| Pipe dreams: Ken Saro-Wiwa, environmental justice, and micro-minority rights R Nixon Black Renaissance 1 (1), 39, 1996 | 56 | 1996 |
| Refugees and homecomings: Bessie Head and the end of exile R Nixon Travellers' Tales, 111-126, 2005 | 52 | 2005 |
| Mandela, messianism, and the media R Nixon Transition, 42-55, 1991 | 47 | 1991 |
| Border Country: Bessie Head's Frontline States R Nixon Social Text, 106-137, 1993 | 45 | 1993 |
| London Calling: VS Naipaul and the License of Exile R Nixon South Atlantic Quarterly 87 (1), 1-37, 1988 | 38 | 1988 |
| Aftermaths R Nixon TRANSITION-KAMPALA THEN NEW YORK- 1 (72), 64-79, 1997 | 32 | 1997 |
