Cherryl Walker
{{Short description|South African sociologist}}
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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,{{cite web|title=Stellenbosch University profile|url=http://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/arts/research/cherryl-walker|access-date=December 21, 2017}} and is DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in the Sociology of Land, Environment and Sustainable Development at Stellenbosch since 2016.{{cite web | title=OP-ED: Covid-19 grants are making a difference in this little Namaqualand town | website=Daily Maverick | date=12 July 2020 | url=https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-07-13-covid-19-grants-are-making-a-difference-in-this-little-namaqualand-town/ | access-date=26 March 2021}}{{cite web | title=SARCHI - Stellenbosch Uni - Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology | website=Stellenbosch SunSite | url=https://www0.sun.ac.za/sociology/sarchi/ | access-date=26 March 2021}} She is an authority on South African society - specialising in South Africa's land redistribution/restitution, land reform, gender and cosmopolitanism, and environmental sociology.{{cite web|url=https://cosmopolitankaroo.co.za/research-team/cherryl-walker|title=Cherryl Walker: Cosmopolitan Karoo|access-date=December 21, 2017}}
She was the Commissioner of Regional Land Claims in KwaZulu–Natal from 1995 to 2000.{{cite web|title=Ohio University Press profile|url=http://www.ohioswallow.com/author/Cherryl+Walker|access-date=December 21, 2017}}
Education
Select publications
=Books=
- {{cite book | last=Walker | first=Cherryl | title=The Women's Suffrage Movement in South Africa | publisher=Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town | series=Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Communications | year=1979 | isbn=978-0-7992-0287-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MFwLAQAAIAAJ}}
- {{cite book|first1= Cherryl |last1=Walker|first2=Laurine |last2=Platzky |title= The Surplus People : Forced Removals in South Africa|location= Johannesburg, South Africa|publisher= Ravan Press|year= 1985|pages=446 |isbn= 9780869752555|url= https://archive.org/details/surpluspeoplefor0000plat/page/446}}
=Journal articles=
- {{cite journal |first1= Cherryl |last1=Walker |year=2003|title=Piety in the sky? Gender policy and land reform in South Africa|journal=Journal of Agrarian Change|volume=3|issue=1–2|doi=10.1111/1471-0366.00052|pages=113–148|bibcode=2003JAgrC...3..113W }}
- {{cite journal |first1= Cherryl |last1=Walker |title=Conceptualising Motherhood in Twentieth Century South Africa |journal=Journal of Southern African Studies|volume=21|issue=3|year=1995|pages=417–37|doi=10.1080/03057079508708455|jstor=2637252|bibcode=1995JSAfS..21..417W }}
- {{cite journal |first1=Cherryl |last1=Walker |title=The Limits to Land Reform: Rethinking 'the Land Question' |journal=Journal of Southern African Studies |volume=31 |issue=4 |year=2005 |pages=805–824 |jstor=25065048 |doi=10.1080/03057070500370597 |s2cid=146797701 |url=}}
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External links
- {{google scholar id|9-exP7QAAAAJ}}
- {{ResearchGate|Cherryl_Walker}}
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Category:South African sociologists
Category:South African women sociologists
Category:South African anthropologists
Category:South African women anthropologists
Category:Academic staff of Stellenbosch University