Ruth Hall (born March 19, 1973) is the Director of and also a professor at PLAAS (the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies) at the University of the Western Cape, which she joined in 2002. A political scientist by training, she specialises in the politics and the political economy of agrarian reform, land redistribution, and poverty.
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Education
Hall holds a BSocSc from Cape Town University in Political Studies. She proceeded to the UK where she obtained a MPhil in Development Studies and DPhil in Politics both from Oxford University in 1998 and 2011 respectively.
Select publications
Edited books
Ruth Hall, ed. (2009). Another Countryside? Policy Options for Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa. Cape Town: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape.
Lungisile Ntsebeza; Ruth Hall, eds. (2007). The Land Question in South Africa: The Challenge of Transformation and Redistribution. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press.
Journal articles
Ruth Hall (2004). "A Political Economy of Land Reform in South Africa". Review of African Political Economy. 31 (100): 213–227. doi:10.1080/0305624042000262257. hdl:10.1080/0305624042000262257. JSTOR 4006888. S2CID 152468872.
Ruth Hall (2011). "Land Grabbing in Southern Africa: The many faces of the investor rush". Review of African Political Economy. 38 (128): 193–214. doi:10.1080/03056244.2011.582753. S2CID 154145307.
Ruth Hall; Wendy Wolford; Saturnino M. Borras; Ian Scoones; Ben White (2013). "Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land". Development and Change. 44 (2): 189–210. doi:10.1111/dech.12017. hdl:10566/3197.