Edwin Ambani Ameso
Biographic Data
| ID | 103336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwin Ambani Ameso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwin Ambani |
| FAMILY NAME | Ameso |
| SIGNATURE | AMESO E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3903-2942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Betwixt playing the waiting game and waiting in vain
This article investigates how Kenyan citizens access healthcare within the framework of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it reconceptualizes waiting as a politically structured phenomenon rather than a simple delay. The analysis shows that UHC reforms do not eliminate waiting but instead redistribute it, resulting in new bureaucratic bottlenecks, infrastructural limitations, and unpredictable care timeline…
Visions of Community Health and the Social Good in Kenya
In East Africa, social enterprises that fuse development work with entrepreneurial activities and a language of 'innovation' are becoming prominent. Critical of the NGO/donor model, which they hold as unsustainable, such organizations are funded by corporate investment and philanthropic capital but aim for self-reliance through enlisting local actors to market social services, while providing loans, digital infrastructures and training in entrepr…
Digital entanglements
The intensified scramble for the digitalisation of healthcare across Africa, coupled with the general drive for digital economies, has ushered in digital health innovations that are reconfiguring national discourses on humanitarian and development contexts. Through these innovations, imaginaries of health have become entangled with aspirations for universal health coverage (UHC) and the actualisation of the health-related sustainable development …
Bloodstream
Based on ethnographic research in northern Ghana, this article explores the complex logistics of blood and the ways in which the availability of blood has been transformed through the introduction of drones. We explore how drone services affect this ecosystem of supply and contribute to reshaping the practices of physicians, nurses, facility pharmacists and stock managers, as well as the expectations and experiences of patients and their families…
Striking health workers
Precarity is increasingly a condition of life for Kenyan health workers as even professionals face costs of living and forms of debt that exceed their (unstable) salaries. Years of austerity and chronic scarcity have eroded healthcare infrastructures and rendered crises part of everyday work. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Kenya from 2018 to 2020, we explore health workers' experiences and concerns about the precarity of their working conditi…
Striking health workers
Precarity is increasingly a condition of life for Kenyan health workers as even professionals face costs of living and forms of debt that exceed their (unstable) salaries. Years of austerity and chronic scarcity have eroded healthcare infrastructures and rendered crises part of everyday work. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Kenya from 2018 to 2020, we explore health workers' experiences and concerns about the precarity of their working conditi…
Striking health workers
Precarity is increasingly a condition of life for Kenyan health workers as even professionals face costs of living and forms of debt that exceed their (unstable) salaries. Years of austerity and chronic scarcity have eroded healthcare infrastructures and rendered crises part of everyday work. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Kenya from 2018 to 2020, we explore health workers' experiences and concerns about the precarity of their working conditi…
Digital entanglements
The intensified scramble for the digitalisation of healthcare across Africa, coupled with the general drive for digital economies, has ushered in digital health innovations that are reconfiguring national discourses on humanitarian and development contexts. Through these innovations, imaginaries of health have become entangled with aspirations for universal health coverage (UHC) and the actualisation of the health-related sustainable development …
Bloodstream
Based on ethnographic research in northern Ghana, this article explores the complex logistics of blood and the ways in which the availability of blood has been transformed through the introduction of drones. We explore how drone services affect this ecosystem of supply and contribute to reshaping the practices of physicians, nurses, facility pharmacists and stock managers, as well as the expectations and experiences of patients and their families…
Visions of Community Health and the Social Good in Kenya
In East Africa, social enterprises that fuse development work with entrepreneurial activities and a language of 'innovation' are becoming prominent. Critical of the NGO/donor model, which they hold as unsustainable, such organizations are funded by corporate investment and philanthropic capital but aim for self-reliance through enlisting local actors to market social services, while providing loans, digital infrastructures and training in entrepr…
Betwixt playing the waiting game and waiting in vain
This article investigates how Kenyan citizens access healthcare within the framework of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it reconceptualizes waiting as a politically structured phenomenon rather than a simple delay. The analysis shows that UHC reforms do not eliminate waiting but instead redistribute it, resulting in new bureaucratic bottlenecks, infrastructural limitations, and unpredictable care timeline…
Health care (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (2 works) · Austerity (1 works) · Biology (1 works)