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Steven Robins

Professor Steven Robins is the SARChI Project Leader in the Sociology of Land, Environment and Sustainable Development Research Programme in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University.

Latest Work

OPINIONISTA

14 September 2026

The Amandelboom Basters’ forgotten Northern Frontier story: A 19th-century tragedy

Steven Robins

8 min

Where has all the water gone? Reflections on a visit to the Groot Karoo drylands

RAVAGES OF DROUGHT OP-ED

2 February 2026

Where has all the water gone? Reflections on a visit to the Groot Karoo drylands

Steven Robins

8 min

OPINIONISTA

4 November 2025

Beyond Zionism – will an alternative Judaism replace violent, illiberal Kahanism?

Steven Robins

7 min

OPINIONISTA

27 August 2025

Balancing social justice and the ‘Rights of Nature’ in the shadow of Table Mountain

Steven Robins

5 min

OPINIONISTA

3 June 2025

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

Steven Robins

5 min

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

Environment crisis OP-ED

6 January 2022

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

Steven Robins

8 min

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

UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OP-ED

22 November 2021

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

Steven Robins

6 min

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

OP-ED

15 April 2021

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

Steven Robins

8 min

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

OUR BURNING PLANET OP-ED

22 February 2021

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

Steven Robins

8 min

Reclaiming the city and building an urban common in Woodstock

MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED

6 January 2021

Reclaiming the city and building an urban common in Woodstock

Steven Robins

7 min

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

OP-ED

16 December 2020

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

Steven Robins

6 min

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

COVID-19: OP-ED

10 June 2020

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

Steven Robins

11 min

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Latest Work

The Amandelboom Basters’ forgotten Northern Frontier story: A 19th-century tragedy

Where has all the water gone? Reflections on a visit to the Groot Karoo drylands

Beyond Zionism – will an alternative Judaism replace violent, illiberal Kahanism?

Balancing social justice and the ‘Rights of Nature’ in the shadow of Table Mountain

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

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

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

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

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

Reclaiming the city and building an urban common in Woodstock

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

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