| CrossFit: Fitness cult or reinventive institution? MC Dawson International review for the sociology of sport 52 (3), 361-379, 2017 | 258 | 2017 |
| Rehumanising the university for an alternative future: Decolonisation, alternative epistemologies and cognitive justice MC Dawson Identities 27 (1), 71-90, 2020 | 83 | 2020 |
| Popular politics and resistance movements in South Africa MC Dawson, W Beinart, T Simpson, MF Sihlongonyane, C Sato, ... Wits University Press, 2010 | 74 | 2010 |
| Ethical and political challenges of participatory action research in the academy: reflections on social movements and knowledge production in South Africa MC Dawson, L Sinwell Research Ethics and Social Movements, 43-56, 2016 | 61 | 2016 |
| Contesting transformation: Popular resistance in twenty-first-century South Africa MC Dawson, L Sinwell EBSCO eBooks, 2012 | 48 | 2012 |
| The cost of belonging: exploring class and citizenship in Soweto's water war M Dawson Citizenship Studies 14 (4), 381-394, 2010 | 46 | 2010 |
| Identity formation among learners at a South African high school: Assessing the interaction between context and identity MC Dawson Race Ethnicity and Education 10 (4), 457-472, 2007 | 41 | 2007 |
| Protest, performance and politics: The use of ‘nano-media’in social movement activism in South Africa MC Dawson Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance …, 2012 | 39 | 2012 |
| Globalisation and new identities: a view from the middle P Alexander, MC Dawson, M Ichharam Jacana Media, 2006 | 32 | 2006 |
| Introduction: student activism, structural adjustment and the democratic transition in Africa L Zeilig, M Dawson Journal of Higher Education in Africa/Revue de l'enseignement supérieur en …, 2008 | 30 | 2008 |
| Crafting a one-dimensional identity: Exploring the nexus between totalisation and reinvention in an elite sports environment YJ Kim, MC Dawson, T Cassidy Sport, education and society 25 (1), 84-97, 2020 | 29 | 2020 |
| Phansi privatisation! Phansi!: The Anti-Privatisation Forum and ideology in social movements MC Dawson Popular politics and resistance movements in South Africa, 266-285, 2010 | 29 | 2010 |
| Resistance and repression: Policing protest in post-apartheid South Africa MC Dawson Mobilising Social Justice in South Africa: Perspectives from Researchers and …, 2010 | 20 | 2010 |
| Global Resource Scarcity: Catalyst for Conflict or Cooperation MC Dawson, N Rosin, Chris. & Wald | 19 | 2018 |
| Identity and context: Friendship and friction in a South African high school MC Dawson University of Johannesburg, 2003 | 15 | 2003 |
| IOC-state-corporate nexus : corporate diplomacy and the Olympic coup d’état SJ Jackson, MC Dawson South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and …, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| Tacticians in the struggle for change? Exploring the dynamics between legal organisations and social movements engaged in rights-based struggles in South Africa K Tissington, M Dawson, L Sinwell Contesting Transformation: Popular Resistance in Twenty-First-Century South …, 2012 | 13 | 2012 |
| Sports reforms, interaction (dis) order and stigma: coaching identities in context YJ Kim, MC Dawson Sport, Education and Society 27 (7), 830-843, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
| Social movements in contemporary South Africa: the anti-privatisation forum and struggles around access to water in Johannesburg MC Dawson University of Oxford, 2008 | 11 | 2008 |
| Students, activism and identity MC Dawson Alexander, Dawson, and Ichharam, 275-294, 2006 | 11 | 2006 |
