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Contingent Citizens - Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital (Hardcover)
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Contingent Citizens - Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital (Hardcover)
Series: LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
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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.
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