5,481 research outputs found
Comments on Zarina Maharaj's "Subversive intent : a social theory of gender"
No full textCherryl Walker feels that Zarina Maharaj has been less subversive and more contradictory than she would like in theorising gender
Unsettled : re-imagining positionality and place
No full text12 A4 pages in pdf format. Includes bibliographical references.Inaugural address delivered by Prof Cherryl Walker on 8 May 2007
Relocating restitution
No full textCherryl Walker, until recently Land Commissioner for KwaZulu-Natal, looks critically at the work of the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights over the last few years
Disassembling the Square Kilometre Array: astronomy and development in South Africa
No full textThe article poses questions about astronomy and its local, national and global developmental impacts, drawing on ongoing research around the internationally networked Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope in South Africa. The relationship between progress in global science and technology and societal change has traditionally been framed through western-centric notions of progress imbued with universalism; the field of astronomy exemplifies this approach, with its assumptions of an inherently positive correlation between its science and loosely defined notions of ‘development’. We problematise this assumption through an analysis of the multiple notions of development at different scales of analysis in the SKA. We argue that large astronomy projects such as the SKA are best understood as dense assemblages of science, infrastructure, human agency and politics, in which historically rooted local concerns are marginalised in the name of the national or global public interest
Science, astronomy, and sacrifice zones: development trade-offs, and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project in South Africa
No full textWe explore the notion of “sacrifice zones” to reflect critically on the trade-offs between Science & Technology (S&T) policy and inclusive development in South Africa. We draw evidence from one of the country’s flagship projects, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, currently under construction in the semi-arid Northern Cape. The SKA embodies a key tension in the country’s S&T policy, that between the promotion of astronomy, based on national and global priorities (the development of science), and the advancement of local development concerns (science for development), in which the dominant assumption is that local interests are either subsumed or superseded by national and global public goods. Given the extent to which the priorities of local residents have been overlooked in the name of the greater good, we argue that a fruitful way of recasting this relationship is to regard the region around the telescope as astronomy’s terrestrial “sacrifice zone”; this opens up an important space for engaging with issues of mitigation. We conclude by raising questions about who should take responsibility for mitigating the trade-offs in policy and practice, if a more sustainable and inclusive development agenda in the areas affected by the SKA is a real concern
Robert Sparks Walker diary, 1941
No full textDiary authored by Chattanooga author and naturalist, Robert Sparks Walker
Robert Sparks Walker diary, 1941
No full textDiary authored by Chattanooga author and naturalist, Robert Sparks Walker
Robert Sparks Walker diary, 1945
No full textDiary authored by Chattanooga author and naturalist, Robert Sparks Walker
Robert Sparks Walker diary, 1945
No full textDiary authored by Chattanooga author and naturalist, Robert Sparks Walker
Robert Sparks Walker diary, 1953
No full textDiary authored by Chattanooga author and naturalist, Robert Sparks Walker
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