Contingent Citizens

Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital

Elizabeth Hull (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-10809-7 (ISBN)

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Contingent Citizens examines the ambiguous state of South Africa’s public sector workers and the implications for contemporary understandings of citizenship. It takes us inside an ethnography of the professional ethic of nurses in a rural hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, shaped by a deep history of mission medicine and changing forms of new public management. Liberal democratic principles of ‘transparency’, ‘decentralization’ and ‘rights’, though promising freedom from control, often generate fear and insecurity instead. But despite the pressures they face, Elizabeth Hull shows that nurses draw on a range of practices from international migration to new religious movements, to assert new forms of citizenship. Focusing an anthropological lens on ‘professionalism’, Hull explores the major fault lines of South Africa’s fragmented social landscape – class, gender, race, and religion – to make an important contribution to the study of class formation and citizenship. This prize-winning monograph will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, development studies, sociology and global public health.

Elizabeth Hull is Lecturer in Anthropology at SOAS University of London, UK.

List of Figures, Tables and MapsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAbout the book1. Geographies of Autonomy2. The Limits of Professionalism3. Autonomy and Control from Mission to State4. Accountability, Hierarchy and Care5. The Sickness of Democracy6. Aspiration beyond ProfessionalismConclusionReferences

Erscheinungsdatum	08.06.2019
Reihe/Serie	LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-10809-X / 135010809X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-10809-7 / 9781350108097
Zustand	Neuware