Efua Prah
Biographic Data
| ID | 106451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Efua Prah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Efua |
| FAMILY NAME | Prah |
| SIGNATURE | PRAH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9063-4768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Positioning Ontologies of Racial Inequity That are Prevalent in Reproductive and Maternal Health in South Africa
This paper discusses the racialized historical trajectories through which current health inequities are sustained in South Africa's health system. While current discussions recognize these inequalities, few have recognized a missing element—disaggregated data based on racial demographic indicators—that is critical to better understanding why these inequalities persist. Drawing on maternal health data, the paper highlights how race is both ontolog…
Climate Change and Healthscapes: Toward a Postcolonial Critique for Planetary Well-being
Climate change poses an unprecedented challenge to human development. Despite recent efforts by organizations like the IPCC to integrate social perspectives, the article contends that a more substantial contribution from social scientists is essential. This article argues for the integration of social scientific perspectives, particularly within the realm of health, to comprehend climate change as both a consequence and a driver of social change …
More-than-human sociality: The doings of Covid and multispecies relations in Southern Africa
(2024). More-than-human sociality: the doings of Covid and multispecies relations in Southern Africa. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 47, Hope, vaccines and sociocultural and political responses to Covid-19 in Southern Africa, pp. iv-vi
Bodies of Knowledge: Children and Childhoods in Health and Affliction
Spanning the countries of South Africa, Swaziland, and Ghana, this collection of work brings into focus child and youth experience together as a collage of anthropology, creative writing, poetry, and the fine arts. Woven together by questions related to the political economy of child and youth well-being, identity formation, and the multiple layers through which children articulate their health-narrative, this volume considers living in and copin…
The role of feminisms in building a transformation framework for institutions of higher learning in South Africa
The dawn of democracy in 1994 ushered in a period of radical change in the higher education sector of South Africa. This rupture represented an opportunity to avoid the replication of patriarchally informed, racially charged, neoliberal practices. More than twenty years later under the banner of Fees Must Fall, students, workers, and academics challenged the exclusionary, racist, exploitative and sexist nature of Higher Learning Institutions that…
An interview with Paul Mason
This is a book review that was generated, and is presented, as an interview with the author Paul Mason, a social science researcher involved in tuberculosis (TB) research. Mason has written and published a children’s book that acts as educational literature highlighting the importance of attending to TB infection
Stratifications of blackness: Meditations on the intersect of gender, race and age
This paper seeks to address the current silences enmeshed in an articulation of blackness in higher education institutions. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework I unpack the larger hegemonic structures that produce pockets of freedom and access for a select few that I, in many instances, am denied because of my age, gender and race. I am grappling with an experience in which the very idea of my capabilities as an academic are challe…
War in Worcester: Youth and the Apartheid State
2015). War in Worcester: youth and the apartheid state. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 38, No. 1-2, pp. 152-154
Embodied urban health and illness in Cape Town: Children's reflections on living in Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area
This paper explores ideas about health and illness held by six children who live in the \nSymphony Way Temporary Relocation Area in Cape Town, South Africa. The research shows \nthat solutions to illness and health problems held by low-income populations are critically \nshaped by various characteristics of society — the surrounding neighbourhood, the family and \nthe experience of the individual child. This contests current policy assumptions th…
Stratifications of blackness: Meditations on the intersect of gender, race and age
This paper seeks to address the current silences enmeshed in an articulation of blackness in higher education institutions. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework I unpack the larger hegemonic structures that produce pockets of freedom and access for a select few that I, in many instances, am denied because of my age, gender and race. I am grappling with an experience in which the very idea of my capabilities as an academic are challe…
War in Worcester: Youth and the Apartheid State
2015). War in Worcester: youth and the apartheid state. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 38, No. 1-2, pp. 152-154
Embodied urban health and illness in Cape Town: Children's reflections on living in Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area
This paper explores ideas about health and illness held by six children who live in the \nSymphony Way Temporary Relocation Area in Cape Town, South Africa. The research shows \nthat solutions to illness and health problems held by low-income populations are critically \nshaped by various characteristics of society — the surrounding neighbourhood, the family and \nthe experience of the individual child. This contests current policy assumptions th…
Stratifications of blackness: Meditations on the intersect of gender, race and age
This paper seeks to address the current silences enmeshed in an articulation of blackness in higher education institutions. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework I unpack the larger hegemonic structures that produce pockets of freedom and access for a select few that I, in many instances, am denied because of my age, gender and race. I am grappling with an experience in which the very idea of my capabilities as an academic are challe…
An interview with Paul Mason
This is a book review that was generated, and is presented, as an interview with the author Paul Mason, a social science researcher involved in tuberculosis (TB) research. Mason has written and published a children’s book that acts as educational literature highlighting the importance of attending to TB infection
The role of feminisms in building a transformation framework for institutions of higher learning in South Africa
The dawn of democracy in 1994 ushered in a period of radical change in the higher education sector of South Africa. This rupture represented an opportunity to avoid the replication of patriarchally informed, racially charged, neoliberal practices. More than twenty years later under the banner of Fees Must Fall, students, workers, and academics challenged the exclusionary, racist, exploitative and sexist nature of Higher Learning Institutions that…
Bodies of Knowledge: Children and Childhoods in Health and Affliction
Spanning the countries of South Africa, Swaziland, and Ghana, this collection of work brings into focus child and youth experience together as a collage of anthropology, creative writing, poetry, and the fine arts. Woven together by questions related to the political economy of child and youth well-being, identity formation, and the multiple layers through which children articulate their health-narrative, this volume considers living in and copin…
Climate Change and Healthscapes: Toward a Postcolonial Critique for Planetary Well-being
Climate change poses an unprecedented challenge to human development. Despite recent efforts by organizations like the IPCC to integrate social perspectives, the article contends that a more substantial contribution from social scientists is essential. This article argues for the integration of social scientific perspectives, particularly within the realm of health, to comprehend climate change as both a consequence and a driver of social change …
More-than-human sociality: The doings of Covid and multispecies relations in Southern Africa
(2024). More-than-human sociality: the doings of Covid and multispecies relations in Southern Africa. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 47, Hope, vaccines and sociocultural and political responses to Covid-19 in Southern Africa, pp. iv-vi
Positioning Ontologies of Racial Inequity That are Prevalent in Reproductive and Maternal Health in South Africa
This paper discusses the racialized historical trajectories through which current health inequities are sustained in South Africa's health system. While current discussions recognize these inequalities, few have recognized a missing element—disaggregated data based on racial demographic indicators—that is critical to better understanding why these inequalities persist. Drawing on maternal health data, the paper highlights how race is both ontolog…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (2 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Health care (2 works)