Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital
- Submitting institution
-
School of Oriental and African Studies
: A - 22A Anthropology
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies : A - 22A Anthropology
- Output identifier
- 23372
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
-
10.5040/9781350027787
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781350027770
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
-
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contingent-citizens-9781350027770/
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
-
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Contingent Citizens is based on two periods of intensive ethnographic field research spent in Ubombo in South Africa, for 16 months over 2006 and 2007 and two months in 2013. It includes archival research in the Methodist collections in Grahamstown, South Africa, which afforded a substantial historical component set out predominantly in Chapter 3. Other material utilized includes newspaper and media sources as well as primary source documents from government and trade unions. The book involved extensive library-based research over several years, drawing on academic literature not only from anthropology but from regional debates, medical and nursing history, and sociology.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Previously published materials in this book have all been revised. The ethnographic and archival data overlap but the arguments are reframed to fit with the book's new focus on 'professionalism'. Chapter 3, from page 93 onwards, is a revised version of Hull 2012a; Chapter 4 is a revision of Hull 2012b; and the section on 'International migration', in Chapter 6 pp. 184-92, is based on Hull 2010. The majority of the book - Introduction, Conclusion, and hence overall argument, as well as Chapters 1, 2, 5 and most of Chapter 6 - is published here for the first time.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -