Research

Books

Charlotte Walker-Said, Faith, Power, and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon (Oxford: James Currey, 2018).

Between the two World Wars, the radical innovations of African Catholic and Protestant evangelists repurposed Christianity to challenge local and foreign governments operating in the French-administered League of Nations Mandate of Cameroon. This book explores how African believers transformed foreign missionary societies into profoundly local religious institutions with indigenous ecclesiastical hierarchies and devotional social and charitable networks, devising novel authority structures to control resources and govern social and cultural life.Throughout the interwar period in Cameroon, African Christian religious leaders transformed social and labor relations, contesting forced labor and authoritarian decentralized governance as threats to family stability and community integrity. Inspired by Catholic and Protestant doctrines on conjugal complementarity and social equilibrium, as well as by local spiritual and charismatic movements, African Christians re-evaluated and renovated family and community authority structures to address the devastating changes colonialism wrought in the private sphere. The history of these reform-minded believers reveals how family intimacies and kinship ties constituted the force of community resistance to oppression and also demonstrates the relevance of faith in the midst of a tumultuous series of forces arising out of the colonial situation peculiar to Cameroon.

Reviews of Faith, Power, and Family

      Studies in World Christianity

      International Journal of African Historical Studies  

     Journal of African History

      H-Net

      Nordic Journal of African Studies

      The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

      Cahiers d’Études Africaines

      Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute

      American Academy of Religion Book Reviews-Reading Religion

 

Charlotte Walker-Said and John Kelly, Corporate Social Responsibility? Human Rights in the New Global Economy (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

        Chapters:   

                        Charlotte Walker-Said, “Introduction: Power, Profit, and Social Trust,” pp. 1-26.

                        Charlotte Walker-Said, “Corporate and State Sustainability in Africa: The Politics of Stability in the Post-           

                                                               Revolutionary Age,” pp. 278-296.

        Section Introductions:

                        Charlotte Walker-Said, “Corporate Social Responsibility as Controlled Negotiation: A Hierarchy of Values,”        

                                                                pp. 27-29.

                        Charlotte Walker-Said, “Africa as CSR Laboratory: Twenty-First Century Corporate Strategy and State

                                                               Building,” pp. 255-257.

                        John D. Kelly and Charlotte Walker-Said, “Final Thoughts and Acknowledgments,” pp. 340-343.

Reviews of Corporate Social Responsibility

      Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

       Business Ethics Quarterly

       Business and Human Rights Journal

       PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review

 

Articles and Book Chapters

Charlotte Walker-Said and Laure Nadeige Ngo Nlend, “Policing Christianity in Angola, Cameroon, and Nigeria: Spiritual Incorporation as Therapy and Threat in Africa,” special issue on Race, Religion, Violence, and Policing in the Journal of Africana Religions, ed. by Danielle Boaz, 11, 1 (2023): 27-56, 
 
Charlotte Walker-Said, “Human Dignity and Economic Rights in Barthélemy Boganda’s Ethical Discourse on Decolonization in Central Africa” in Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity, eds. Elizabeth A. Foster and Udi Greenberg (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023): 104-30.
 
Charlotte Walker-Said and Walter Gam Nkwi, “Female Mobility and the Specter of Prostitution in the British Cameroon Province and Coastal French Cameroon,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 55, 2 (2022): 161-182.
 
Charlotte Walker-Said, “Homophobia as Public Violence: Politics, Religion, Identity and Rights in the Lives of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Asylum Seekers from Cameroon,” in Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora, eds. B. Camminga and John Marnell (with the African LGBTQI+ Migration Research Network (ALMN) African Centre for Migration & Society, University of Witwatersrand, (London: Zed Books/Bloomsbury, 2022): 115-134.
 
Charlotte Walker-Said, “Family Violence in Cases of Asylum Seekers from West Africa,” Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa: Rights, Society and the State in Interdisciplinary Perspective, eds. Emily Burrill and Lydia Boyd (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020): 125-149
 
Charlotte Walker-Said, “Expanding Wealth and Expanding Inequality in the Economic History of Equatorial Africa After World War I.” Counting the Cost of War: The Economic Impact of the First World War and Its Aftermath on African Societies, special issue of Afriche e Orienti, ed. by Karin Pallaver and Massimo Zaccaria, no. 3 (2019): 98-117. 
 
 
Charlotte Walker-Said, “Christian Social Movements in Cameroon at the End of Empire: Transnational Solidarities and the Communion of the World Church” in Relocating World Christianity: Interdisciplinary Studies in Universal and Local Expressions of Christianity, eds. Joel Cabrita, Emma Wild-Wood, and David Maxwell (Leiden: Brill, 2017): 189-212
 
Charlotte Walker-Said “Fabrique du genre et sens national dans les organisations de la jeunesse chrétienne au Cameroun (années 1940-1950).” Femmes africaines et mobilisations collectives (années 1940-1970), special issue of Le Mouvement Social, edited by Emmanuelle Bouilly and Ophélie Rillion, 255, 2 (2016): 119-135.
 
Benjamin N. Lawrance and Charlotte Walker-Said, “Fleeing Patriarchy, Contesting Heteronormativity: Expert Testimony, Asylum, and Forced Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa,” in Marriage by Force? Contestation Over Consent and Coercion in Africa, eds. Annie Bunting, Benjamin N. Lawrance, and Richard L. Roberts (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016): 199-224
 
Charlotte Walker-Said, “Wealth, Law, and Moral Authority: Marriage and Christian Mobilization in Interwar Cameroon.” Wealth in Pluralities. Intersections of Money, Gender, and Multiple Values across African Societies, special issue of International Journal of African Historical Studies, edited by Charlotte Walker-Said and Andrea Seligman, 48, 3 (2015): 393-424.
 
Charlotte Walker-Said and Andrea Seligman, “Wealth in Pluralities: Intersections of Money, Gender, and Multiple Values across African Societies,” special issue of International Journal of African Historical Studies 48, 3 (2015): 387-392.
 
Charlotte Walker-Said, “Science and Charity: Rival Catholic Visions for Humanitarian Practice at the End of French Rule in Cameroon.” Decolonization and Religion in the French Empire, special issue of French Politics, Culture & Society edited by Giuliana Chamedes and Elizabeth A. Foster, 33, 2 (2015): 33-54.
 Reprinted in Volker Heins, Kai Koddenbrock, and Christine Unrau, eds. Humanitarianism and Challenges of Cooperation (London: Routledge, 2015): 115-134.
 
Charlotte Walker-Said, “Sexual Minorities Among African Asylum Claimants: Human Rights Regimes, Bureaucratic Knowledge, and the Era of Sexual Rights Diplomacy,” in African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights, eds. Benjamin Lawrance, Iris Berger, Trish Redeker-Hepner, Jo Tague, and Meredith Terretta (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015): 203-224.
 
Charlotte Walker-Said, “The Trafficking and Slavery of Women and Girls: The Criminalization of Marriage, Tradition, and Gender Norms in French Colonial Cameroon, 1914-1945,” in Sex Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice, ed. Tiantian Zheng (New York: Routledge, 2011): 150-169.
 
Charlotte Walker-Said, “Mozambique” and “Angola,” in Understanding Compliance with UN Security Council Resolutions Addressing Post-Cold War Civil Wars, ed. International Peace Institute (New York: International Peace Institute, with the United Nations, 2010): 121-140; 187-201.

Book Reviews

Charlotte Walker-Said, review of Jean Luc Enyegue, SJ, Competing Catholicisms: The Jesuits, the Vatican and the Making of Postcolonial French Africa for The Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 2023.

Charlotte Walker-Said, review of Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué, Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon for H-Net, February 2023.

Charlotte Walker-Said, review of Jeremy Rich, Protestant Missionaries & Humanitarianism in the DRC for the Journal of African History 64:1 (2023).

Charlotte Walker-Said, roundtable review of Elizabeth A. Foster, African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church, for invited roundtable discussion in H-Diplo (June 2020).

Charlotte Walker-Said, review of Elizabeth A. Foster, African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church, for H-France Review, Vol. 19, No. 254 (November 2019).

Charlotte Walker-Said, review of Andreana C. Prichard, Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Africa, 1860-1970 for The Journal of African History 60: 2 (2019).

Charlotte Walker-Said, review of Melinda Cooper, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism for H-Diplo Roundtable XIX, 38 (June 1, 2018), with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Kristen Loveland, Andrea Muehlebach, Gabriel Rosenberg, and Melinda Cooper.

Charlotte Walker-Said, review of S.N. Nyeck and Marc Epprecht, Sexual Diversity in Africa: Politics, Theory, Citizenship for the International Journal of African Historical Studies 47:1 (2015): 122-124.

Digital Publications and Online Encyclopedia Entries

Charlotte Walker-Said, “Writing the History of Conservative Women- Law and Christianity in West-Central Africa,” H-Law World Legal History Blog, June 12, 2017, https://networks.h-net.org/node/16794/blog/world-legal-history-blog/183116/writing-history-conservative-women-law-and

Charlotte Walker-Said, “Post-war Economies (Africa),” 1914-1918 online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin 2016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.10794. 

Charlotte Walker-Said “The Global Reach of Teilhard’s Legacy” Guest Blog Post for The Teilhard Project,

http://www.teilhardproject.com/global-reach-teilhards-legacy/

Dissertation

Legal Revolutions and Evolutions: Law, Chiefs, and Colonial Order in Cameroon, 1914-1955

Advisor: Robert Harms

Committee Members: John Merriman, Paul Kennedy, James C. Scott

Winner: 2010 Arthur and Mary Wright Dissertation Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation on Non-Western History