Past Event

The Institute of African Studies Presents

Beyond “the lights of the past”: Reflections on land restitution in contemporary South Africa*

 with

Professor Cherryl Walker,
Stellenbosch University (South Africa)

Monday, 3 October 2011,12:30– 2:00 pm

A715 Loeb Building, Carleton University** 

Cherryl Walker is Professor of Sociology. She has extensive research as well as applied experience in land reform, rural development and gender studies, spanning the academic, state and NGO sectors. Current research interests include land claims, land restitution and land reform in South Africa; women’s land rights in Africa; and environmental conservation in the context of land claims and environmental and social change.  Her most recent books are Landmarked; Land Claims and Land Restitution in South Africa (2008) and a co-edited collection, Land, Memory, Reconstruction and Justice: Perspectives on Land Claims in South Africa (2010).  Previous books are Women and Resistance in South Africa (1982, 1991); an edited collection, Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 (1990), and the co-authored study of forced removals in South Africa, The Surplus People (1985, with Laurine Platzky (for the Surplus People Project).   Between 1995 and 2000 she served on South Africa’s Commission on Restitution of Land Rights as Regional Land Claims Commissioner for the province of KwaZulu-Natal.

*If you are attending the seminar, please register at African_Studies@carleton.ca . Registered participants will be sent a copy of Professor Walker’s paper.