Cherryl Walker is professor of sociology in the Department of
Sociology and
Social Anthropology
Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In t ...
at
Stellenbosch University, which she joined in 2005,
and is DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in the Sociology of Land, Environment and Sustainable Development at Stellenbosch since 2016.
She is an authority on South African society - specialising in South Africa's land redistribution/restitution, land reform, gender and cosmopolitanism, and environmental sociology.
She was the Commissioner of Regional Land Claims in
KwaZulu–Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locat ...
from 1995 to 2000.
Education
She earned a
master's from the
University of Cape Town in 1978.
["This book is based on an MA thesis I submitted to the University of Cape Town in 1978" fro]
Women and Resistance in South Africa By Cherryl Walker
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South African sociologists
South African women sociologists
South African anthropologists
South African women anthropologists
Academic staff of Stellenbosch University
South African social scientists
University of Cape Town alumni