Deon Pretorius
Deon Pretorius is a sociologist and specialises in the sociology of development. He holds a PhD from the University of Warwick (UK) and was mentored by the British sociologist Margaret Archer. After 20 years full-time in academia, he has been in private practice since 2007 as a development practitioner and owner of Development Partners. He is attached to the Department of Development Studies at the Nelson Mandela University as a part-time lecturer and to the Jönköping University in Sweden as an affiliated researcher.
A sociological analysis of Breaking the bombers by Mark Shaw
2024-02-23"Shaw provides excellent evidence to show that wherever and whenever different societal agents and agencies started moving towards cooperation and collaboration, they started becoming effective. When the agencies of the state started talking to one another and when leadership compelled the institutional actors to collaborate, the situation changed positively."