Department of Development Studies
College of Human Sciences |
School of Social Sciences |
Department: Development Studies |
Professor
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Tel: |
012 429 6639
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E-mail: |
stewapds@unisa.ac.za
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Qualifications
- BA Humanities (Malawi)
- BA Honours (Witwatersrand)
- MA (Notre Dame)
- PhD (Witwatersrand)
Fields of academic interests
- Development theory
- Complexity theories
- South African development
- National Development Plan
Books
- Editor (with Shobana Nelasco and Tola Olujuvan) Global outlook on education (363 pp). New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers 2009. ISBN 978-81-8457-125-7.
- Sole author, Segregation and Singularity. Politics and its context among white middle class English-speakers in late apartheid Johannesburg. University of South Africa Press (210pp) ISBN 1-86888-290-X.
- Editor (with Sybert Liebenberg): Participatory Development Management and the RDP. Cape Town: Juta, 1997 (222 pp).
- Editor (with Marylyn Aitken): Relocation: the Churches' report on forced removals in South Africa. SACC and SACBC, Johannesburg, 1984 (65 pp).
Journal articles
- Development and good change Africanus, 41/3 2011.
- Re-envisioning the academic profession in the shadow of corporate managerialism” in The Journal of Higher Education in Africa 2007 vol 5 no 1 pp 131-147
- Quarantine and feel sorry for these barbarous GMO technologies! Umrabulo August 2003 (4pp)
- Complexity theories, social theory and the question of social complexity. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 31(3) 2001, pp323-360.
- Development at the dawn of the twenty first century, in Reflective Public Administration: Views from the South, edited by JS Wessels & JC Pauw. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp100-130.
- Air pollution and coal usage in Soweto. Africanus 28(1) 1998 pp 20-30.
- The RDP 1994-1996, in Participatory development management and the RDP, edited by Peter Stewart and Sybert Liebenberg, Cape Town: Juta, 1997, pp3-20.
- What is development? In Development Administration and Management edited by D.A. Kotze. Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1996, pp1-6.
- The adaptive potential of middle class whites to state transformation and social change in South Africa, in Africanus 24(1) 1996, pp 21-51.
- (with C. Cross, L Cornwell & F de Beer) The fall of centralism? Popular mobilization for post-Apartheid development, in Indicator South Africa 7(3) 1990, pp 47-52.
- What do we need to know about white attitudes: a critique of major surveys of South African opinion, in Africanus 19(1 & 2) 1989 pp 86-97.
Professional positions, fellowships & awards
- 2011-2014 Chair of Department, Development Studies, Unisa
- 1998 Visiting Scholar , Faculty of Social and political studies, Cambridge University
- 1998 Unisa: General Research grant
- 1995 Unisa research bursary for Codesria conference paper.
- 1987 HSRC doctoral bursary.
- 1987 Senior bursary, University of the Witwatersrand.
- 1986 The Frieda Lawenski scholarship for academic excellence.
- 1986 Senior Bursary, University of the Witwatersrand.
- 1982 Senior bursary, University of the Witwatersrand; HSRC honours bursary.
- 1976 - 1977 Full scholarship and stipend for MA, from Notre Dame University.