Elizabeth Kath
Biographic Data
| ID | 2466315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Kath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Kath |
| SIGNATURE | KATH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7531-7278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Blue light district
The Digital Global Condition
This book explores how globalization and ubiquity of digital technology combine to create specific global impacts, challenges and opportunities.
Digital Global Condition
Latin American Migrants in Australia
Australia’s rapidly growing Latin American community is attracting increasing scholarly interest. This article builds a statistical and thematic profile of what we know from the scholarship about Latin Americans in Australia, and identifies key areas requiring further attention. Two methods were employed: (1) the first systematic review of the literature published to date on Latin American people in Australia; (2) a quantitative study of Latin Am…
What Stratum Are You? Narratives of Colombian Migrants Living in Melbourne and How They Experience Socioeconomic Stratification
This article explores the stories of eleven middle-class professionals from Bogotá, Colombia living in Melbourne, Australia. They reflect on class and status while trying to navigate the Australian social structure and position themselves and others in it. Drawing on theories of migration and class, we argue that the participants position themselves in Australian society not only in relation to the local social structure but also through beliefs …
A New Era in Latin American Migration Scholarship in Australia
Posthumanism and Assistive Technologies
In this paper, we elaborate on the consequences of a post-humanist perspective to the problem of physical disability by approaching the use of assistive technologies (AT) by disabled people as the introduction of a low-tech cyborg in the world. In doing so, we highlight examples of communication ATs and provide analogies between ATs and languages in the constitution of selves and social contexts. ATs are informed ideologically, so they can be see…
Social Relations and the Cuban Health Miracle
For Cuba's supporters, health is the most commonly cited evidence of the socialist system's success. Even critics often concede that this is the country's saving grace. Cuba's health statistics are indeed extraordinary. This small island outperforms virtually all of its neighboring countries and all countries of the same level of economic development. Some of its health statistics rival wealthy industrialized countries. Moreover, these health out…
Australian-Latin American Relations
Until recently, Australia and Latin America were considered irrelevant to one another. The prevailing perception in Australia had been that Latin America was too remote, disconnected, and politically
Australian-Latin American Relations
Until recently, Australia and Latin America were considered irrelevant to one another. The prevailing perception in Australia had been that Latin America was too remote, disconnected, and politically
The End of Football and Fiesta? Social Insurrection and National Identity in Twenty-First-Century Brazil
Carnaval and futebol (football) have both been central to the construction of Brazil in the imagination of global audiences. This includes contributing to stereotypes of Brazil as a country of peaceful, festive, and sensualized people, even though historically Brazilian Carnaval and football have always been sites of social contestation and popular participation in the construction of collective identity. In recent years, Brazil has burst onto th…
Trumpets in the Mountains
Revolutionary Medicine
Reviewed by: Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba by P. Sean Brotherton Elizabeth Kath P. Sean Brotherton. Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. xxvii + 256 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978-0-8223-5205-1). Cuba’s health system is a compelling case, one that has attracted the attention of countless outsiders, including researchers, journalists, health professional…
Revolutionary Health
Drawing from findings in `state capacity' and `social capital' literatures, this article adopts a new framework for exploring the puzzle of Cuba's health outcomes, which are widely recognised as being extremely positive given the country's developing status, and the external crises it has faced in recent decades. The findings presented in this article emerge from five years of research, including nine months of fieldwork in Havana. It is argued t…
Social relations and the Cuban health miracle
Elizabeth Kath] has made a remarkably original contribution to social science research on contemporary Cuba, and I am certain this work will be quite useful for generations of future researchers interested in this topic. It is a richly detailed and intellectually sophisticated analysis of health in contemporary Cuba and an outstanding contribution to the literature."--Katherine Hirschfeld, University of Oklahoma. "Elizabeth Kath explores the prof…
Caring for them from Birth to Death
(2009). Caring for them from Birth to Death: The Practice of Community-Based Cuban Medicine. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 172-174
Inter-sectoral cooperation, political will and health outcomes
Despite Cuba's ongoing crises and severe resource shortages, many of its health indicators are unusually positive for a developing country. Two of the most impressive indicators are its maternal mortality ratio and infant mortality rate that are the lowest in Latin America and compare closely with developed world rates. Since material resources alone cannot explain these results, there is reason to suppose more intangible factors are involved. Ba…
A New Era in Latin American Migration Scholarship in Australia
The End of Football and Fiesta? Social Insurrection and National Identity in Twenty-First-Century Brazil
Carnaval and futebol (football) have both been central to the construction of Brazil in the imagination of global audiences. This includes contributing to stereotypes of Brazil as a country of peaceful, festive, and sensualized people, even though historically Brazilian Carnaval and football have always been sites of social contestation and popular participation in the construction of collective identity. In recent years, Brazil has burst onto th…
Inter-sectoral cooperation, political will and health outcomes
Despite Cuba's ongoing crises and severe resource shortages, many of its health indicators are unusually positive for a developing country. Two of the most impressive indicators are its maternal mortality ratio and infant mortality rate that are the lowest in Latin America and compare closely with developed world rates. Since material resources alone cannot explain these results, there is reason to suppose more intangible factors are involved. Ba…
Caring for them from Birth to Death
(2009). Caring for them from Birth to Death: The Practice of Community-Based Cuban Medicine. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 172-174
Social relations and the Cuban health miracle
Elizabeth Kath] has made a remarkably original contribution to social science research on contemporary Cuba, and I am certain this work will be quite useful for generations of future researchers interested in this topic. It is a richly detailed and intellectually sophisticated analysis of health in contemporary Cuba and an outstanding contribution to the literature."--Katherine Hirschfeld, University of Oklahoma. "Elizabeth Kath explores the prof…
Revolutionary Health
Drawing from findings in `state capacity' and `social capital' literatures, this article adopts a new framework for exploring the puzzle of Cuba's health outcomes, which are widely recognised as being extremely positive given the country's developing status, and the external crises it has faced in recent decades. The findings presented in this article emerge from five years of research, including nine months of fieldwork in Havana. It is argued t…
Revolutionary Medicine
Reviewed by: Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba by P. Sean Brotherton Elizabeth Kath P. Sean Brotherton. Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. xxvii + 256 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978-0-8223-5205-1). Cuba’s health system is a compelling case, one that has attracted the attention of countless outsiders, including researchers, journalists, health professional…
Trumpets in the Mountains
The End of Football and Fiesta? Social Insurrection and National Identity in Twenty-First-Century Brazil
Carnaval and futebol (football) have both been central to the construction of Brazil in the imagination of global audiences. This includes contributing to stereotypes of Brazil as a country of peaceful, festive, and sensualized people, even though historically Brazilian Carnaval and football have always been sites of social contestation and popular participation in the construction of collective identity. In recent years, Brazil has burst onto th…
Australian-Latin American Relations
Until recently, Australia and Latin America were considered irrelevant to one another. The prevailing perception in Australia had been that Latin America was too remote, disconnected, and politically
Australian-Latin American Relations
Until recently, Australia and Latin America were considered irrelevant to one another. The prevailing perception in Australia had been that Latin America was too remote, disconnected, and politically
Social Relations and the Cuban Health Miracle
For Cuba's supporters, health is the most commonly cited evidence of the socialist system's success. Even critics often concede that this is the country's saving grace. Cuba's health statistics are indeed extraordinary. This small island outperforms virtually all of its neighboring countries and all countries of the same level of economic development. Some of its health statistics rival wealthy industrialized countries. Moreover, these health out…
Posthumanism and Assistive Technologies
In this paper, we elaborate on the consequences of a post-humanist perspective to the problem of physical disability by approaching the use of assistive technologies (AT) by disabled people as the introduction of a low-tech cyborg in the world. In doing so, we highlight examples of communication ATs and provide analogies between ATs and languages in the constitution of selves and social contexts. ATs are informed ideologically, so they can be see…
Latin American Migrants in Australia
Australia’s rapidly growing Latin American community is attracting increasing scholarly interest. This article builds a statistical and thematic profile of what we know from the scholarship about Latin Americans in Australia, and identifies key areas requiring further attention. Two methods were employed: (1) the first systematic review of the literature published to date on Latin American people in Australia; (2) a quantitative study of Latin Am…
What Stratum Are You? Narratives of Colombian Migrants Living in Melbourne and How They Experience Socioeconomic Stratification
This article explores the stories of eleven middle-class professionals from Bogotá, Colombia living in Melbourne, Australia. They reflect on class and status while trying to navigate the Australian social structure and position themselves and others in it. Drawing on theories of migration and class, we argue that the participants position themselves in Australian society not only in relation to the local social structure but also through beliefs …
A New Era in Latin American Migration Scholarship in Australia
The Digital Global Condition
This book explores how globalization and ubiquity of digital technology combine to create specific global impacts, challenges and opportunities.
Digital Global Condition
Blue light district
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Cuban History and Society (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works)