Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital

by Elizabeth Hull

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350027758
• ISBN13: 9781350027756
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"