C Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 12277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2523-6653 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Marxism, feminism and South African studies’ then and now: Some reflections on ‘then’
Science, astronomy, and sacrifice zones: Development trade-offs, and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project in South Africa
We 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…
Karoo Futures: Astronomy in Place and Space - Introduction
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Cosmopolitan Karoo: Land, Space and Place in the Shadow of the Square Kilometre Array
Drawing on insights from critical cosmopolitanism and human geography, this article reflects on the tensions between the local and the global, and ‘space’ and ‘place’ within large areas of South Africa’s arid Karoo region designated as Astronomy Advantage Areas (AAAs), and considers their significance for contemporary identity claims and relationships to land. To date most of the Northern Cape, encompassing some 30 per cent of South Africa, has b…
Disassembling the Square Kilometre Array: Astronomy and development in South Africa
The 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…
Tracing the Distribution of Late 16th and Early 17th Century European Copper Artefacts in Southern Québec and Ontario, Canada
To understand the nature of trade/exchange of ‘Basque’ copper kettles and their fragments among Indigenous communities from Québec to Ontario, Canada, we examined 948 copper samples from 75 archaeological sites. We found that 936 samples were sortable into 11 coarse chemical groups: seven biased towards Ontario, three favouring Québec and only one balanced between the two provinces. This pattern may represent kettles and pieces ‘mostly traded’ or…
Middle Pleistocene subsistence in the Azraq Oasis, Jordan: Protein residue and other proxies
Critical Reflections on South Africa's 1913 Natives Land Act and its Legacies: Introduction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCherryl WalkerCherryl WalkerDepartment of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa. E-mail: [email protected]
Informas ( I nternational N etwork for F ood and O besity/non‐communicable diseases R esearch, M onitoring and A ction S upport): Overview and key principles
Non‐communicable diseases ( NCD s) dominate disease burdens globally and poor nutrition increasingly contributes to this global burden. Comprehensive monitoring of food environments, and evaluation of the impact of public and private sector policies on food environments is needed to strengthen accountability systems to reduce NCD s. The I nternational N etwork for F ood and O besity/ NCD s R esearch, M onitoring and A ction S upport ( INFORMAS ) …
Commemorating or celebrating? Reflections on the centenary of the Natives Land Act of 1913
While no policymaker would claim to be celebrating the centenary of the Natives Land Act, the form and content of the commemoration of this significant event on the website of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform has some unsettling parallels with the celebratory countdown to the Soccer World Cup of 2010. Rather than using the centenary to acknowledge the significant changes in relations to land of the past century, the state is tr…
Uneasy relations: Women, gender equality and tradition
This article addresses the tensions between the struggle for gender equality and the struggle for cultural rights in the particular form championed by traditionalists within the ANC after 1994. While both sets of rights are recognized in the 1996 Constitution, the right to equality takes precedence. Nevertheless, a 'turn to tradition' within the ANC has seen the consolidation of patriarchal traditional institutions in the communal areas. These de…
Finite Land: Challenges Institutionalising Land Restitution in South Africa, 1995-2000
This article addresses a neglected strand in assessments of the failure of ‘delivery’ in South Africa's land reform programme, through an examination of the institutional obstacles to success in the restitution programme between 1995 and 2000. Here it looks in particular at the impact of ‘the sunset clause’ on initial staffing and the definition of claims, at persistent weaknesses in information management, and at conflicts among and within the i…
The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: Restoring What was Ours'- Edited by Derick Fay and Deborah James
Everyday forms of political expression
This is an exciting time to be working in the field of peasant - or agrarian - studies. Around and across the globe, rural actors have organised themselves to protest the dominant trends of commodi
Land claims, land conservation and the public interest in protected areas
This paper highlights the issue of the public interest in ‘Protected Areas’ in national environmental legislation and policy frameworks. It draws on jacklyn Cock' s critique of ‘ecological modernisation’ to argue that the current orthodoxy for settling land claims in ‘protected areas’ premised on commitment to social justice for those who were dispossessed of their rights in the past tends to downplay or disregard the interests of other constitue…
The impact of HIV/Aids on land rights: Perspectives from Kenya
Women, Gender Policy and land reform in South Africa
This article examines the gender policy of the Department of Land Affairs (DLA) and progress since 1994 in giving content to women's land rights in practice in two major sub-programmes of land reform: land redistribution and communal tenure reform. The article reviews the constitutional negotiations around gender equality and cultural rights between 1993 and 1996. It then summarizes the extent to which the DLA's land redistribution programme has …
Misplaced Agrarianization: Reflections on Ten Years of Land Restitution
Cherryl Walker Misplaced Agrarianization? Reflections on Ten Years of Land Restitution INTRODUCTION: TAKING STOCK TH E R ESTITU TIO N OF LAND RIG H TS ACT WAS THE FIR ST PIECE OF transformative legislation to be passed—amid a standing ovation—by South Africa’s newly democratized Parliament in November 1994. Redressing the massive land dispossessions suffered by black South Africans under white minority rule and protecting established (white) prop…
The Limits to Land Reform: Rethinking 'the Land Question
This article argues that a mismatch exists between the political aspirations and popular expectations that surround 'the land question' in South Africa and the transformative potential of land reform itself. A disjuncture also exists between the national discourse around land reform, in which progress is measured in terms of the speed at which national targets are reached, and the requirements for effective implementation at project level. The ar…
Piety in the Sky? Gender Policy and Land Reform in South Africa
This article examines the disjuncture between high-level commitments to gender equity and practice in South Africa's land reform programme. Weaknesses in implementing the gender policy of the Department of Land Affairs stem largely from limitations within the broader programme, compounded by the inadequate conceptualization and management of the task and an absence of political accountability around women's land rights by the Department and Minis…
Land Reform and Gender in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Women, “Tradition” And Reconstruction
Research Article| May 01 1995 Women, “Tradition” And Reconstruction Cherryl Walker Cherryl Walker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (1): 58–71. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-15-1-58 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cherryl Walker; Women, “Tradition” And Reconstruction. Comparative Stu…
Evidence for an ethnic identity in the life histories of Zulu-speaking Durban township residents
This paper addresses the nature of ethnic consciousness among Zulu‐speaking workers in Natal through an analysis of 24 open‐ended life history interviews with residents in Umlazi township in Durban. The authors are concerned with four main issues: the evidence for Zulu ethnic consciousness in the life stories collected, the situations in which Zulu identity becomes salient, the ways in which ethnic identities are being refashioned under the impac…
Conceptualising motherhood in twentieth century South Africa
This article attempts to move the debate around the political significance of motherhood beyond the two dominant themes in the literature, that of ‘collusion with patriarchy’ and ‘difference’ in black and white women's constructions of motherhood. The first privileges political discourse over an examination of women's own practice and social identity as mothers, while the second ignores historical evidence for overlapping meanings and common cult…
Women, ‘tradition’ and reconstruction
This article discusses the tension between the ANC's commitment to gender equality and its engagement within the new government with what I term ‘the politics of traditionalism’. These politics have been most evident in the deadly struggle to out‐manoeuvre the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), while convincing it to participate in the elections, a struggle in which the Zulu king has been the pre‐eminent (but not the only) representative of the resurge…
Piety in the Sky? Gender Policy and Land Reform in South Africa
This article examines the disjuncture between high-level commitments to gender equity and practice in South Africa's land reform programme. Weaknesses in implementing the gender policy of the Department of Land Affairs stem largely from limitations within the broader programme, compounded by the inadequate conceptualization and management of the task and an absence of political accountability around women's land rights by the Department and Minis…
Conceptualising motherhood in twentieth century South Africa
This article attempts to move the debate around the political significance of motherhood beyond the two dominant themes in the literature, that of ‘collusion with patriarchy’ and ‘difference’ in black and white women's constructions of motherhood. The first privileges political discourse over an examination of women's own practice and social identity as mothers, while the second ignores historical evidence for overlapping meanings and common cult…
Middle Pleistocene subsistence in the Azraq Oasis, Jordan: Protein residue and other proxies
Women, ‘tradition’ and reconstruction
This article discusses the tension between the ANC's commitment to gender equality and its engagement within the new government with what I term ‘the politics of traditionalism’. These politics have been most evident in the deadly struggle to out‐manoeuvre the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), while convincing it to participate in the elections, a struggle in which the Zulu king has been the pre‐eminent (but not the only) representative of the resurge…
Women, Gender Policy and land reform in South Africa
This article examines the gender policy of the Department of Land Affairs (DLA) and progress since 1994 in giving content to women's land rights in practice in two major sub-programmes of land reform: land redistribution and communal tenure reform. The article reviews the constitutional negotiations around gender equality and cultural rights between 1993 and 1996. It then summarizes the extent to which the DLA's land redistribution programme has …
The Limits to Land Reform: Rethinking 'the Land Question
This article argues that a mismatch exists between the political aspirations and popular expectations that surround 'the land question' in South Africa and the transformative potential of land reform itself. A disjuncture also exists between the national discourse around land reform, in which progress is measured in terms of the speed at which national targets are reached, and the requirements for effective implementation at project level. The ar…
The impact of HIV/Aids on land rights: Perspectives from Kenya
Science, astronomy, and sacrifice zones: Development trade-offs, and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project in South Africa
We 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…
Tracing the Distribution of Late 16th and Early 17th Century European Copper Artefacts in Southern Québec and Ontario, Canada
To understand the nature of trade/exchange of ‘Basque’ copper kettles and their fragments among Indigenous communities from Québec to Ontario, Canada, we examined 948 copper samples from 75 archaeological sites. We found that 936 samples were sortable into 11 coarse chemical groups: seven biased towards Ontario, three favouring Québec and only one balanced between the two provinces. This pattern may represent kettles and pieces ‘mostly traded’ or…
Finite Land: Challenges Institutionalising Land Restitution in South Africa, 1995-2000
This article addresses a neglected strand in assessments of the failure of ‘delivery’ in South Africa's land reform programme, through an examination of the institutional obstacles to success in the restitution programme between 1995 and 2000. Here it looks in particular at the impact of ‘the sunset clause’ on initial staffing and the definition of claims, at persistent weaknesses in information management, and at conflicts among and within the i…
Everyday forms of political expression
This is an exciting time to be working in the field of peasant - or agrarian - studies. Around and across the globe, rural actors have organised themselves to protest the dominant trends of commodi
Women's studies and the women's movement in South Africa
Karoo Futures: Astronomy in Place and Space - Introduction
no
Cosmopolitan Karoo: Land, Space and Place in the Shadow of the Square Kilometre Array
Drawing on insights from critical cosmopolitanism and human geography, this article reflects on the tensions between the local and the global, and ‘space’ and ‘place’ within large areas of South Africa’s arid Karoo region designated as Astronomy Advantage Areas (AAAs), and considers their significance for contemporary identity claims and relationships to land. To date most of the Northern Cape, encompassing some 30 per cent of South Africa, has b…
Namibia: Women in War
Disassembling the Square Kilometre Array: Astronomy and development in South Africa
The 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…
Uneasy relations: Women, gender equality and tradition
This article addresses the tensions between the struggle for gender equality and the struggle for cultural rights in the particular form championed by traditionalists within the ANC after 1994. While both sets of rights are recognized in the 1996 Constitution, the right to equality takes precedence. Nevertheless, a 'turn to tradition' within the ANC has seen the consolidation of patriarchal traditional institutions in the communal areas. These de…
Evidence for an ethnic identity in the life histories of Zulu-speaking Durban township residents
This paper addresses the nature of ethnic consciousness among Zulu‐speaking workers in Natal through an analysis of 24 open‐ended life history interviews with residents in Umlazi township in Durban. The authors are concerned with four main issues: the evidence for Zulu ethnic consciousness in the life stories collected, the situations in which Zulu identity becomes salient, the ways in which ethnic identities are being refashioned under the impac…
Commemorating or celebrating? Reflections on the centenary of the Natives Land Act of 1913
While no policymaker would claim to be celebrating the centenary of the Natives Land Act, the form and content of the commemoration of this significant event on the website of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform has some unsettling parallels with the celebratory countdown to the Soccer World Cup of 2010. Rather than using the centenary to acknowledge the significant changes in relations to land of the past century, the state is tr…
Caerphilly and Speedwell collaborative heart disease studies. The Caerphilly and Speedwell Collaborative Group
The Caerphilly and Speedwell studies are based on representative samples of over 3000 subjects in South Wales and over 2000 in Bristol. They include cross sectional studies of risk factors for prevalent ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and of determinants of those risk factors. Prospective studies based on over 2000 men aged 45-59 in each area have been set up. In addition to the examination of lipid and thrombosis factors of possible relevance to I…
Large-scale Oral Testing
The ability to speak English is a valued skill in English-medium universities overseas and is a major aim of their English for academic purposes (EAP) programmes. But it is rarely tested in these institutions because the task is considered too difficult with such large numbers of students. Failing to test the speaking skill results in inaccurate assessment of students and negative washback effects on the teaching of oral skills. An oral examinati…
Namibia: Women in War
Women's studies and the women's movement in South Africa
Women, ‘tradition’ and reconstruction
This article discusses the tension between the ANC's commitment to gender equality and its engagement within the new government with what I term ‘the politics of traditionalism’. These politics have been most evident in the deadly struggle to out‐manoeuvre the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), while convincing it to participate in the elections, a struggle in which the Zulu king has been the pre‐eminent (but not the only) representative of the resurge…
Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945
Women, “Tradition” And Reconstruction
Research Article| May 01 1995 Women, “Tradition” And Reconstruction Cherryl Walker Cherryl Walker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (1): 58–71. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-15-1-58 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cherryl Walker; Women, “Tradition” And Reconstruction. Comparative Stu…
Evidence for an ethnic identity in the life histories of Zulu-speaking Durban township residents
This paper addresses the nature of ethnic consciousness among Zulu‐speaking workers in Natal through an analysis of 24 open‐ended life history interviews with residents in Umlazi township in Durban. The authors are concerned with four main issues: the evidence for Zulu ethnic consciousness in the life stories collected, the situations in which Zulu identity becomes salient, the ways in which ethnic identities are being refashioned under the impac…
Conceptualising motherhood in twentieth century South Africa
This article attempts to move the debate around the political significance of motherhood beyond the two dominant themes in the literature, that of ‘collusion with patriarchy’ and ‘difference’ in black and white women's constructions of motherhood. The first privileges political discourse over an examination of women's own practice and social identity as mothers, while the second ignores historical evidence for overlapping meanings and common cult…
Land Reform and Gender in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Piety in the Sky? Gender Policy and Land Reform in South Africa
This article examines the disjuncture between high-level commitments to gender equity and practice in South Africa's land reform programme. Weaknesses in implementing the gender policy of the Department of Land Affairs stem largely from limitations within the broader programme, compounded by the inadequate conceptualization and management of the task and an absence of political accountability around women's land rights by the Department and Minis…
Women, Gender Policy and land reform in South Africa
This article examines the gender policy of the Department of Land Affairs (DLA) and progress since 1994 in giving content to women's land rights in practice in two major sub-programmes of land reform: land redistribution and communal tenure reform. The article reviews the constitutional negotiations around gender equality and cultural rights between 1993 and 1996. It then summarizes the extent to which the DLA's land redistribution programme has …
Misplaced Agrarianization: Reflections on Ten Years of Land Restitution
Cherryl Walker Misplaced Agrarianization? Reflections on Ten Years of Land Restitution INTRODUCTION: TAKING STOCK TH E R ESTITU TIO N OF LAND RIG H TS ACT WAS THE FIR ST PIECE OF transformative legislation to be passed—amid a standing ovation—by South Africa’s newly democratized Parliament in November 1994. Redressing the massive land dispossessions suffered by black South Africans under white minority rule and protecting established (white) prop…
The Limits to Land Reform: Rethinking 'the Land Question
This article argues that a mismatch exists between the political aspirations and popular expectations that surround 'the land question' in South Africa and the transformative potential of land reform itself. A disjuncture also exists between the national discourse around land reform, in which progress is measured in terms of the speed at which national targets are reached, and the requirements for effective implementation at project level. The ar…
The impact of HIV/Aids on land rights: Perspectives from Kenya
Land claims, land conservation and the public interest in protected areas
This paper highlights the issue of the public interest in ‘Protected Areas’ in national environmental legislation and policy frameworks. It draws on jacklyn Cock' s critique of ‘ecological modernisation’ to argue that the current orthodoxy for settling land claims in ‘protected areas’ premised on commitment to social justice for those who were dispossessed of their rights in the past tends to downplay or disregard the interests of other constitue…
Everyday forms of political expression
This is an exciting time to be working in the field of peasant - or agrarian - studies. Around and across the globe, rural actors have organised themselves to protest the dominant trends of commodi
The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: Restoring What was Ours'- Edited by Derick Fay and Deborah James
Finite Land: Challenges Institutionalising Land Restitution in South Africa, 1995-2000
This article addresses a neglected strand in assessments of the failure of ‘delivery’ in South Africa's land reform programme, through an examination of the institutional obstacles to success in the restitution programme between 1995 and 2000. Here it looks in particular at the impact of ‘the sunset clause’ on initial staffing and the definition of claims, at persistent weaknesses in information management, and at conflicts among and within the i…
Informas ( I nternational N etwork for F ood and O besity/non‐communicable diseases R esearch, M onitoring and A ction S upport): Overview and key principles
Non‐communicable diseases ( NCD s) dominate disease burdens globally and poor nutrition increasingly contributes to this global burden. Comprehensive monitoring of food environments, and evaluation of the impact of public and private sector policies on food environments is needed to strengthen accountability systems to reduce NCD s. The I nternational N etwork for F ood and O besity/ NCD s R esearch, M onitoring and A ction S upport ( INFORMAS ) …
Commemorating or celebrating? Reflections on the centenary of the Natives Land Act of 1913
While no policymaker would claim to be celebrating the centenary of the Natives Land Act, the form and content of the commemoration of this significant event on the website of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform has some unsettling parallels with the celebratory countdown to the Soccer World Cup of 2010. Rather than using the centenary to acknowledge the significant changes in relations to land of the past century, the state is tr…
Uneasy relations: Women, gender equality and tradition
This article addresses the tensions between the struggle for gender equality and the struggle for cultural rights in the particular form championed by traditionalists within the ANC after 1994. While both sets of rights are recognized in the 1996 Constitution, the right to equality takes precedence. Nevertheless, a 'turn to tradition' within the ANC has seen the consolidation of patriarchal traditional institutions in the communal areas. These de…
Critical Reflections on South Africa's 1913 Natives Land Act and its Legacies: Introduction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCherryl WalkerCherryl WalkerDepartment of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa. E-mail: [email protected]
Middle Pleistocene subsistence in the Azraq Oasis, Jordan: Protein residue and other proxies
Disassembling the Square Kilometre Array: Astronomy and development in South Africa
The 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…
Political science (23 works) · Geography (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (9 works) · South African History and Culture (9 works) · Agriculture (7 works)