Contingent Citizens
Contingent Citizens
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Contingent Citizens by Elizabeth Hull
Contingent Citizens examines the ambiguous state of South Africas public sector workers and the implications for contemporary understandings of citizenship."Elizabeth Hull’s prize-winning study, is a rich and empathic study of nurses’ experiences in Bethesda Hospital in KZN from the 1930s to the present, and a wide-ranging account of their professionalization and politicization in years of dramatic political and social changeCareful research traces the complex relationship between the state, missions, nurses and doctors, revealing the contradictions inherent in the changing nature of professionalism, while a brilliant coda illuminates the more theoretical aspects of her study. - Shula Marks, SOAS, UK
Elizabeth Hull’s rich and insightful ethnography of a rural hospital shows how nurses confronted apartheid’s racial glass ceiling only to face a labyrinth of paperwork and patients’ new rights in the democratic era. As South Africa plans a universal health system, policy makers and scholars inside and outside the country should read this pathbreaking book to recognize how health workers make projects of care through mundane routines and moral codes of professionalism. - Mark Hunter, University of Toronto, Canada
Hospitals and health care providers are often overlooked when scholars examine the forces that shape societies. Not only does Hull's book provide a broad analysis of nurses’ experiences, it reminds us how crucial these actors and their spaces are in understanding the transition to post-apartheid South Africa - including significant changes in health care as well as the dynamics of a professional black middle-class. - Leslie Anne Hadfield, Brigham Young University, USA"
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781350108097 |
| ISBN 10 | 135010809X |
| Title | Contingent Citizens |
| Author | Elizabeth Hull |
| Series | Lse Monographs On Social Anthropology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2019-04-18 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |