95 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
Cherryl Walker, Landmarked: Land Claims and Land Restitution in South Africa: An outstanding contribution to the study of land restitution
No full textCherryl Walker\u27s insightful and authoritative monograph, in part a reworking of material published over the course of the last eight years, explores and assesses the work of South Africa\u27s land restitution programme since its formal inception in the early 1990s. A central project ties together a range of well-informed and superbly articulated critiques of restitution, that is, the "unstable authority" and meaning of land in national politics and local contexts
Two books, two decades, two agendas: Cherryl Walker and Nomboniso Gasa’s edited volumes on Women’s History in South Africa
No full textThis article was prompted by the question of what had happened to women’s history from 1990. At that time, according to an assessment by Bozzoli and Delius, it had not (yet) developed into a “recognisable separate field of scholarship in South Africa”. The aim of this investigation is to explore the ways in which two collections of essays that appeared from 1990 onwards interpret the task of writing women’s history: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945, edited by Cherryl Walker and published in1990 and Women in South African History, edited by Nomboniso Gasa and published in 2007. While these collections of essays are by no means the only post-1990 publications with a focus on women’s and gender history, few others claim the samecomprehensiveness in their titles. This study attempts to show how these two books functioned in the process of interpreting women’s history and whether or not each contributed to configuring the remit and the subject of South African women’s historyand its status as a separate field. The agency (will power / instrumentality) required to produce and promote the books, the approaches taken in the two collections and the ways the former influenced the latter, will be investigated. This is done by tracingthe reception of the two books in scholarly publications (with reference to book reviews as well as citations), and also by interviewing academics invested in the field
Two books, two decades, two agendas : Cherryl Walker and Nomboniso Gasa's edited volumes on Women's history in South Africa
No full textThis article was prompted by the question of what had happened to women’s history from 1990. At that time, according to an assessment by Bozzoli and Delius, it had not (yet) developed into a “recognisable separate field of scholarship in South Africa”. The aim of this investigation is to explore the ways in which two collections of essays that appeared from 1990 onwards interpret the task of writing women’s history: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945, edited by Cherryl Walker and published in 1990 and Women in South African History, edited by Nomboniso Gasa and published in 2007. While these collections of essays are by no means the only post-1990 publications with a focus on women’s and gender history, few others claim the same comprehensiveness in their titles. This study attempts to show how these two books functioned in the process of interpreting women’s history and whether or not each contributed to configuring the remit and the subject of South African women’s history and its status as a separate field. The agency (will power / instrumentality) required to produce and promote the books, the approaches taken in the two collections and the ways the former influenced the latter, will be investigated. This is done by tracing the reception of the two books in scholarly publications (with reference to book reviews as well as citations), and also by interviewing academics invested in the field.https://journals.co.za/content/journal/histVisual Art
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