Kathy Dodworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 99185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathy Dodworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathy |
| FAMILY NAME | Dodworth |
| SIGNATURE | DODWORTH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5311-2992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Non-state legitimation as practice
African states, under market liberalization, have witnessed resurgent non-state intervention, with non-state actors (NSAs) enmeshed in collective good provision or roles associated with the state. To do so, NSAs must legitimate private forms of authority in the name of the public. Legitimation, we argue, is a core problem of socio-political life but remains only partially represented, hamstrung by Eurocentric, often state-based rationalities. Thi…
Step up, step down, step out
Community health is a long-established approach to accessing healthcare, the face of which is female. In the case of rural Isiolo, Kenya, the majority of community health volunteers are men. To understand why, we historicise the move to capitalist work economies in Kenya’s pastoralist north, offering a ‘step up’, ‘step down’ framework to explain the gendering of work in urban versus rural settings. We draw on demographic data from Isiolo’s ∼760 c…
Fever pitch
In January 2022, a number of Yellow Fever cases were identified in Kenya's Isiolo County for the first time, triggering a national-level response centred on vaccinating residents. 181,000 people were vaccinated in July, around 72% of the eligible population. In the face of this ostensible success, this article explores the continuing coloniality, that is, long-standing patterns of domination, operating within disease control in Kenya's northeast,…
Our hands are bound
An ideal model of Community Health Worker (CHW) selection has existed since long before Alma Ata catalysed the community health approach, dating to late colonial times. In this model, a willing, trusted, relatively well-educated and secure member of the community with proven aptitude is openly elected by their leadership, peers or relevant committee. Their participation is entirely voluntary and that voluntarism is symbolic of their community's p…
The Biggest Charity You've Never Heard of
The boundaries between state and charitable activities within the NHS are set out in regulations but are also enacted, blurred, and contested through local practices. This article reports research on NHS Charities- charitable funds set up within NHS organizations to enhance statutory provision - in Scotland. We analysed financial accounts and conducted qualitative interviews with staff in 12 of the 14 NHS Charities in Scotland, where they are gen…
Legitimation As Political Practice
Legitimating complementary therapies in the NHS
Questions of legitimacy loom large in debates about the funding and regulation of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in contemporary health systems. CAM's growth in popularity is often portrayed as a potential clash between clinical, state and scientific legitimacies and legitimacy derived from the broader public. CAM's 'publics', however, are often backgrounded in studies of the legitimacy of CAM and present only as a barometer of the …
A real African woman!' Multipositionality and its effects in the field
Critical ethnographic inquiry demands flux in the researcher's positionality in a double sense. The first is in its attempts to interweave the micro with macro structures of power and domination, demanding a multi-sited aspect, in sensibility as much as locality. The second, following the reflexive turn, is to dismantle the violence of epistemological realism through turning one's analytical tools onto one's Self. This turn spotlights the fluidit…
Negotiating the public
Voluntarism has proven a resilient template of public action in Tanzania, from the colonial to the contemporary period. In its most recent articulation, formalized voluntary work by Tanzanian citizens has again become integral to a range of development interventions, as throughout Africa, promoted by NGOs and government agencies alike. Renewed academic inquiry into such work has had a tendency to marry voluntarism to other familiar logics of ‘Afr…
NGO legitimation as practice
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) undertake a considerable amount of work to create the space in which to operate and in which to exercise their own form of governance. This work does not reside purely within 'textual' artefacts but also within NGO discursive practices on a daily basis to different audiences. It resides in how they choose to position themselves in relation to other players in what can be a crowded and highly politicized envir…
A real African woman!' Multipositionality and its effects in the field
Critical ethnographic inquiry demands flux in the researcher's positionality in a double sense. The first is in its attempts to interweave the micro with macro structures of power and domination, demanding a multi-sited aspect, in sensibility as much as locality. The second, following the reflexive turn, is to dismantle the violence of epistemological realism through turning one's analytical tools onto one's Self. This turn spotlights the fluidit…
NGO legitimation as practice
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) undertake a considerable amount of work to create the space in which to operate and in which to exercise their own form of governance. This work does not reside purely within 'textual' artefacts but also within NGO discursive practices on a daily basis to different audiences. It resides in how they choose to position themselves in relation to other players in what can be a crowded and highly politicized envir…
Our hands are bound
An ideal model of Community Health Worker (CHW) selection has existed since long before Alma Ata catalysed the community health approach, dating to late colonial times. In this model, a willing, trusted, relatively well-educated and secure member of the community with proven aptitude is openly elected by their leadership, peers or relevant committee. Their participation is entirely voluntary and that voluntarism is symbolic of their community's p…
Non-state legitimation as practice
African states, under market liberalization, have witnessed resurgent non-state intervention, with non-state actors (NSAs) enmeshed in collective good provision or roles associated with the state. To do so, NSAs must legitimate private forms of authority in the name of the public. Legitimation, we argue, is a core problem of socio-political life but remains only partially represented, hamstrung by Eurocentric, often state-based rationalities. Thi…
The Biggest Charity You've Never Heard of
The boundaries between state and charitable activities within the NHS are set out in regulations but are also enacted, blurred, and contested through local practices. This article reports research on NHS Charities- charitable funds set up within NHS organizations to enhance statutory provision - in Scotland. We analysed financial accounts and conducted qualitative interviews with staff in 12 of the 14 NHS Charities in Scotland, where they are gen…
Negotiating the public
Voluntarism has proven a resilient template of public action in Tanzania, from the colonial to the contemporary period. In its most recent articulation, formalized voluntary work by Tanzanian citizens has again become integral to a range of development interventions, as throughout Africa, promoted by NGOs and government agencies alike. Renewed academic inquiry into such work has had a tendency to marry voluntarism to other familiar logics of ‘Afr…
NGO legitimation as practice
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) undertake a considerable amount of work to create the space in which to operate and in which to exercise their own form of governance. This work does not reside purely within 'textual' artefacts but also within NGO discursive practices on a daily basis to different audiences. It resides in how they choose to position themselves in relation to other players in what can be a crowded and highly politicized envir…
Negotiating the public
Voluntarism has proven a resilient template of public action in Tanzania, from the colonial to the contemporary period. In its most recent articulation, formalized voluntary work by Tanzanian citizens has again become integral to a range of development interventions, as throughout Africa, promoted by NGOs and government agencies alike. Renewed academic inquiry into such work has had a tendency to marry voluntarism to other familiar logics of ‘Afr…
A real African woman!' Multipositionality and its effects in the field
Critical ethnographic inquiry demands flux in the researcher's positionality in a double sense. The first is in its attempts to interweave the micro with macro structures of power and domination, demanding a multi-sited aspect, in sensibility as much as locality. The second, following the reflexive turn, is to dismantle the violence of epistemological realism through turning one's analytical tools onto one's Self. This turn spotlights the fluidit…
Legitimation As Political Practice
Legitimating complementary therapies in the NHS
Questions of legitimacy loom large in debates about the funding and regulation of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in contemporary health systems. CAM's growth in popularity is often portrayed as a potential clash between clinical, state and scientific legitimacies and legitimacy derived from the broader public. CAM's 'publics', however, are often backgrounded in studies of the legitimacy of CAM and present only as a barometer of the …
Our hands are bound
An ideal model of Community Health Worker (CHW) selection has existed since long before Alma Ata catalysed the community health approach, dating to late colonial times. In this model, a willing, trusted, relatively well-educated and secure member of the community with proven aptitude is openly elected by their leadership, peers or relevant committee. Their participation is entirely voluntary and that voluntarism is symbolic of their community's p…
The Biggest Charity You've Never Heard of
The boundaries between state and charitable activities within the NHS are set out in regulations but are also enacted, blurred, and contested through local practices. This article reports research on NHS Charities- charitable funds set up within NHS organizations to enhance statutory provision - in Scotland. We analysed financial accounts and conducted qualitative interviews with staff in 12 of the 14 NHS Charities in Scotland, where they are gen…
Fever pitch
In January 2022, a number of Yellow Fever cases were identified in Kenya's Isiolo County for the first time, triggering a national-level response centred on vaccinating residents. 181,000 people were vaccinated in July, around 72% of the eligible population. In the face of this ostensible success, this article explores the continuing coloniality, that is, long-standing patterns of domination, operating within disease control in Kenya's northeast,…
Non-state legitimation as practice
African states, under market liberalization, have witnessed resurgent non-state intervention, with non-state actors (NSAs) enmeshed in collective good provision or roles associated with the state. To do so, NSAs must legitimate private forms of authority in the name of the public. Legitimation, we argue, is a core problem of socio-political life but remains only partially represented, hamstrung by Eurocentric, often state-based rationalities. Thi…
Step up, step down, step out
Community health is a long-established approach to accessing healthcare, the face of which is female. In the case of rural Isiolo, Kenya, the majority of community health volunteers are men. To understand why, we historicise the move to capitalist work economies in Kenya’s pastoralist north, offering a ‘step up’, ‘step down’ framework to explain the gendering of work in urban versus rural settings. We draw on demographic data from Isiolo’s ∼760 c…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Legitimation (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (3 works)