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1 online resource (281 pages) |
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LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology Ser |
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LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction; Fear and aspiration in post-apartheid South Africa; Towards an anthropology of professionalism; The struggle for autonomy in the making of professions; Citizenship revisited; Status and respectability in the South African nursing profession; About the book; Chapter One Geographies of Autonomy; Uneasy dependence between mission and state; Politics and professionalism; Spatial hierarchies; Structure and training; Anthropology and audit |
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Remaking respectability in a changing worldChapter Two The Limits of Professionalism; Health care through transition; Severing the bond: government and the professions after 1994; Democracy commodified; 'I do not even have one cent'; Getting rich quickly; Conclusion; Chapter Three Autonomy and Control From Mission to State; Rewriting the homelands; The history of nursing at Bethesda; Coercion and change in the countryside; The renewal of community health under the KwaZulu homeland government; 'A whole-man type of ministry': reassertions of faith amid impending takeover; Takeover |
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KwaZulu government support in the pursuit of primary health careThe democratic transition; Conclusion; Chapter Four Accountability, Hierarchy and Care; Two modes of accountability; Inscribing accountability; The file as a technology of audit; A model on the move?; The production of documentation as audit culture; Conclusion; Chapter Five The Sickness of Democracy and Healing Religion; Generational tensions at work; Rights, democracy and professionalism; Termination of Pregnancy Legislation: professionalism under threat; Locating the secular; Called to nursing; Religion and autonomy |
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ConclusionChapter Six Aspiration Beyond Professionalism; International migration; Born-again Christianity at work; Negotiating citizenship beyond the workplace; Conclusion; Conclusion; Precarious accumulation; Projects of care; Notes; Introduction; 1 Geographies of Autonomy; 2 The Limits of Professionalism; 3 Autonomy and Control from Mission to State; 4 Accountability, Hierarchy and Care; 5 The Sickness of Democracy and Healing Religion; 6 Aspiration Beyond Professionalism; References; Archival sources; Cory Library for Historical Research, Grahamstown; Primary sources |
| Summary |
"Title Description: 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Notes |
Secondary sourcesIndex |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-253) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nurses -- Employment -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal
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Equality -- Economic aspects -- South Africa
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Middle class -- South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
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Middle class -- Economic conditions
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Equality -- Economic aspects
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Nurses -- Employment
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Economic history
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South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1991-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92001766
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South Africa
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South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781350027763 |
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1350027766 |
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