Cherryl Walker Explained

Cherryl Walker
Nationality:	South African
Fields:	Sociology Social anthropology
Workplaces:	Stellenbosch University
Alma Mater:	UCT (MA, 1978)
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Cherryl Walker is professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University, which she joined in 2005,^[1] and is DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in the Sociology of Land, Environment and Sustainable Development at Stellenbosch since 2016.^{[2] [3]} She is an authority on South African society - specialising in South Africa's land redistribution/restitution, land reform, gender and cosmopolitanism, and environmental sociology.^[4]

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

Education

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

Select publications

Books

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

Journal articles

• Cherryl . Walker . 2003. Piety in the sky? Gender policy and land reform in South Africa. Journal of Agrarian Change. 3. 1–2. 10.1111/1471-0366.00052. 113–148. 2003JAgrC...3..113W .
• Cherryl . Walker . Conceptualising Motherhood in Twentieth Century South Africa . Journal of Southern African Studies. 21. 3. 1995. 417–37. 10.1080/03057079508708455. 2637252. 1995JSAfS..21..417W .
• Cherryl . Walker . The Limits to Land Reform: Rethinking 'the Land Question' . Journal of Southern African Studies . 31 . 4 . 2005 . 805–824 . 25065048 . 10.1080/03057070500370597 . 146797701 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stellenbosch University profile. December 21, 2017.
2. Web site: OP-ED: Covid-19 grants are making a difference in this little Namaqualand town . Daily Maverick . 12 July 2020 . 26 March 2021.
3. Web site: SARCHI - Stellenbosch Uni - Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology . Stellenbosch SunSite . 26 March 2021.
4. Web site: Cherryl Walker: Cosmopolitan Karoo. December 21, 2017.
5. Web site: Ohio University Press profile. December 21, 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