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Cherryl Walker

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Cherryl Walker
NationalitySouth African
Alma materUCT (MA, 1978)
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
Social anthropology
InstitutionsStellenbosch University

Cherryl Walker is professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University, which she joined in 2005,[1][2] and is DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in the Sociology of Land, Environment and Sustainable Development at Stellenbosch since 2016.[3][4] She is an authority on South African society - specialising in South Africa's land redistribution/restitution, land reform, gender and cosmopolitanism, and environmental sociology.[2]

She was the Commissioner of Regional Land Claims in KwaZulu–Natal from 1995 to 2000.[5]

Education

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She earned a master's from the University of Cape Town in 1978.[6]

Select publications

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Books

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  • Walker, Cherryl (1979). The Women's Suffrage Movement in South Africa. Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Communications. Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town. ISBN 978-0-7992-0287-8.
  • Walker, Cherryl; Platzky, Laurine (1985). The Surplus People : Forced Removals in South Africa. Johannesburg, South Africa: Ravan Press. p. 446. ISBN 9780869752555.

Journal articles

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References

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  1. ^ "Stellenbosch University profile". Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Cherryl Walker: Cosmopolitan Karoo". Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  3. ^ "OP-ED: Covid-19 grants are making a difference in this little Namaqualand town". Daily Maverick. 12 July 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  4. ^ "SARCHI - Stellenbosch Uni - Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology". Stellenbosch SunSite. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Ohio University Press profile". Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  6. ^ "This book is based on an MA thesis I submitted to the University of Cape Town in 1978" from Women and Resistance in South Africa By Cherryl Walker
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