Dr CG Thomas

Qualifications

• BA Hons (UWC)
• M Public Affairs (Indiana)
• MSocSc (UCT)
• PhD (WITS)

Fields of academic interests

• Economic sociology
• Industrial restructuring
• Social and economic rights
• Sociology of poverty
• Sociology of developing countries
• South Africa’s relations with SADC and BRICS
• Race, apartheid and sport
• Decolonising sociology
• Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Technology, and work restructuring
• Social change and political ideologies
• Youth political socialisation and youth development

Books

Book chapters:

“The Right to Housing in post-apartheid South Africa: why some of the nicest plans can sometimes go wrong.” Paper presented at a conference on Adequate and Affordable Housing for All: research, policy, practice. University of Toronto, 24-27 June 2004. Toronto, Canada. http://www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca/pdfs/housingconference/Thomas_Right_to_Housing_Sou.pdf

“Social change”. Chapter contribution to, Sociology. A South African introduction, edited by Paul Stewart & Johan Zaaiman, 2014. Cape Town: Juta. Pp.85-111.

“Poverty and inequality”. Chapter contribution to, Sociology. A South African introduction, edited by Paul Stewart & Johan Zaaiman, 2014. Cape Town: Juta. Pp.417-454.

“Social change”. Chapter contribution to, Sociology. A comprehensive South African introduction, edited by Paul Stewart & Johan Zaaiman, 2021. Cape Town: Juta. Pp.79-106.

“Social inequality”. Chapter contribution to, Sociology. A comprehensive South African introduction, edited by Paul Stewart & Johan Zaaiman, 2021. Cape Town: Juta. Pp.503-522.

“Poverty”. Chapter contribution to, Sociology. A comprehensive South African introduction, edited by Paul Stewart & Johan Zaaiman, 2021. Cape Town: Juta. Pp.523-544.

Panelist response, De Facto Racial Discrimination in South Africa, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, 1992, Discrimination and the Law in South Africa, volume 1 1994: 68-9. 

“Civil society movements and rights discourse in post-apartheid socioeconomic transformation.” In, The political economy of poverty and social transformations of the Global South, edited by Mariano Féliz and Aaron L Rosenberg, 2017. CROP. Pp.229-265.

Journal articles

Thomas, C.G. 2008. Ubuntu: the missing link in the rights discourse in post-apartheid transformation in South Africa. International journal of African renaissance studies, 3(2): 39-62.

Thomas, C.G.2010. Why the homeless rebel: housing struggles in post-apartheid South Africa. African historical review, 42(2): 27-47. 2010.