| Peace versus justice?: The dilemma of transitional justice in Africa CL Sriram, S Pillay University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009 | 78 | 2009 |
| Crime, community and the governance of violence in post-apartheid South Africa S Pillay Politikon 35 (2), 141-158, 2008 | 67 | 2008 |
| Peace versus justice CL Sriram, S Pillay The dilemma of transitional justice in Africa, 2010 | 45 | 2010 |
| Problematising the making of good and evil: gangs and PAGAD S Pillay Critical Arts 16 (2), 38-75, 2002 | 31 | 2002 |
| Citizenship, violence and xenophobia in South Africa: Perceptions from South African communities S Pillay, V Barolsky, V Naidoo, N Mohlakoana, A Hadland | 29 | 2008 |
| Violence and violence research in Africa South of the Sahara A Veit, V Barolsky, S Pillay International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV) 5 (1), 13-31, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| Anxious urbanity: Xenophobia, the native subject and the refugee camp S Pillay Social Dynamics 39 (1), 75-91, 2013 | 21 | 2013 |
| Where do you belong? Natives, foreigners and apartheid South Africa S Pillay African Identities 2 (2), 215-232, 2004 | 19 | 2004 |
| Translating ‘South Africa’: Race, Colonialism and Challenges of Critical Thought after Apartheid’ S Pillay Re-Imagining the Social in South Africa: Critique, Theory and Post-Apartheid …, 2009 | 18 | 2009 |
| The problem of colonialism: Assimilation, difference, and decolonial theory in Africa S Pillay Critical times 4 (3), 389-416, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
| Thinking the state from Africa: Political theory, eurocentrism and concrete politics S Pillay Decolonisation after Democracy, 32-47, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| Decolonising the humanities S Pillay Mail & Guardian 5, 2013 | 15 | 2013 |
| Locations of violence: Political rationality and death squads in apartheid South Africa S Pillay Journal of contemporary African studies 23 (3), 417-429, 2005 | 14 | 2005 |
| Experts, terrorists, gangsters: problematising public discourse on a post-apartheid showdown S Pillay Shifting Selves: Post-Apartheid Essays on Mass Media, Culture and Identity …, 2003 | 14 | 2003 |
| Why I am no longer a non-racialist: Identity and difference S Pillay The Colour of Our Future: Does race matter in post‑apartheid South Africa, 2015 | 13 | 2015 |
| Peace Versus Justice?: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and War Crimes Tribunals in Africa S Pillay, H Scanlon Centre for Conflict Resolution, 2007 | 13* | 2007 |
| A call for comparative thinking: Crime, citizenship and security in the global South V Barolsky, S Pillay SA Crime Quarterly 2009 (27), 15-21, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| Dangerous Ordinary Discourse: Preliminary reflections on xenophobia, violence and the public sphere in South Africa S Pillay Trabalho apresentado à 12ª Assembleia Geral do CODESRIA realizada entre, 7-11, 2008 | 11 | 2008 |
| Xenophobia, violence and citizenship S Pillay Violence and Xenophobia in South Africa: Developing consensus, moving to …, 2008 | 11 | 2008 |
| The Marikana Massacre: South Africa's Post-Apartheid Dissensus S Pillay Economic and Political Weekly, 32-37, 2013 | 9 | 2013 |
