| The most hysterical of masters: Lacan’s capitalist discourse and contemporary styles of interpellation M Pauwels Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 24, 53-71, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
| Anti-Racist Critique Through Racial Stereotype Humour: What Could Go Wrong? M Pauwels Theoria 68 (169), 85-113, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| Cultural Activism Today: The Art of Over-identification M Pauwels, G Boie Episode Publishers, 2007 | 11* | 2007 |
| In defense of decolonial philistinism: Jameson, Adorno, and the redemption of the hatred of art M Pauwels Cultural Politics 13 (3), 326-347, 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
| Lacan and the subversion of the discourse of the capitalist M Pauwels Paper (unpublished, to the best of my knowledge) presented at PSSA …, 2008 | 8 | 2008 |
| Urban Politics Now: Re-imagining democracy in the neoliberal city N Lakides Nai010 Publishers, 2007 | 7 | 2007 |
| Intersections of Queer art and African Indigenous Culture: The Case of Inxeba (The Wound) M Pauwels Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 51 (4), 366-380, 2020 | 5 | 2020 |
| Agonistic Entanglements of Art and Activism: #RhodesMustFall and Sethembile Msezane’s Chapangu Performances M Pauwels de arte 54 (3), 3-22, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| The spectre of radical aesthetics in the work of Jacques Rancière MFA Pauwels PQDT-Global, 2015 | 4 | 2015 |
| Too active to act: cultureel activisme na het eind van de geschiedenis G Boie, M Pauwels Valiz; Amsterdam, 2010 | 4 | 2010 |
| White Laughter, Black Pain? On the Comic and Parodic Enactment of Racial-Colonial Stereotypes M Pauwels The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research, 227-241, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| Emancipatory politics between identity and disidentification: Rancière and the Black Consciousness Movement M Pauwels Acta Academica 52 (2), 14-36, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
| Portrait of the Artist as Colonised Subject: Fanon, Rancière and the Struggle Toward Decolonisation on the Aesthetic Front M Pauwels Theoria 65 (155), 72-97, 2018 | 3 | 2018 |
| Neo-liberalism with Dutch Characteristics: the Big Fix-Up of the Netherlands and the Practice of Embedded Cultural Activism G Boie, M Pauwels JRP Ringier; Zürich, 2007 | 2 | 2007 |
| The aesthetic politics of fighting for black economic freedom: between militant socialism, fascism and bling-bling M Pauwels Social Dynamics 48 (2), 357-375, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
| White Laughter, Black Pain? M Pauwels On the Comic and Parodic, 2021 | 1 | 2021 |
| Disinfect This! Scato-Aesthetic Indictments of South Africa’s Cultural, Social, and Spatial Divisions M Pauwels African somaesthetics: Cultures, feminisms, politics, 207-228, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| Post-struggle art: Its vicissitudes and atavisms Reconsidering the political value of Brett Murray’s Hail to the Thief works M Pauwels South African Journal of Philosophy 35 (2), 171-183, 2016 | 1 | 2016 |
| To be or not to be modern? B Hofmeyr, M Pauwels Journal of Literary Studies 18 (1-2), 132-153, 2002 | 1 | 2002 |
| White Laughter, Black Pain? On the Comic and Parodic Enactment of Racial-Colonial Stereotypes M Pauwels The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research, 341-355, 2024 | | 2024 |
