Contingent Citizens

Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital

By: Elizabeth Hull

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Paperback | 18 April 2019 | Edition Number 1

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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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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 change. Careful 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

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