Elizabeth Hull
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 97961 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elizabeth Hull |
| PRENOMES | Elizabeth |
| SOBRENOME | Hull |
| ASSINATURA | HULL E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1981-3533 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Food insecurity, xenophobia, and political legitimacy
Food insecurity in South Africa was critical prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, but the problem deepened quickly during the pandemic when government controls caused job losses, a food supply collapse, and escalating hunger. The food and fuel price hikes and political instability that followed led to the July 2021 'unrest', which left more than 350 people dead. Behind this lay a crisis within the governing African National Congress. In this paper, we…
Mobility, marriage decline, and the ceremonial economy
This article reviews the literature on the social dynamics influencing small-scale agriculture in South Africa. These include three primary factors: the trans-local character of livelihoods; the role of social hierarchies of gender, age and marital status in allocating rights and responsibilities at home; and the ceremonial economy. South African land reform policies must recognise these local practices of distribution and social reproduction as …
Contingent Citizens
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 promi…
Claude Lévi‐Strauss (1908–2009)
Claude Lévi‐Strauss (1908–2009) was a leading anthropologist of the twentieth century and the main exponent of “structuralism,” a theory proposing that cultural phenomena such as kinship and myth are organized systematically according to relations between their elementary units. He drew on the semiotic theories of Roman Jakobson and Ferdinand de Saussure to argue that cultural systems are a form of communication, sharing the same syntax as langua…
Professionals
Professions are institutionalised bodies of specialised knowledge and practice around which divisions of labour within contemporary societies are organised. As well as performing a collective function, membership within a profession offers individuals upward social mobility and meritocratic recognition. Professional expertise is so ubiquitous in societies around the world that we tend not to ask how and why specialised occupational groups have em…
Going up or getting out? Professional insecurity and austerity in the South African health sector
As a precondition of belonging, professionalism is often a taken-for-granted feature of being middle-class. Yet ethnographic attention to experiences of work reveals that professional identity can be fragile. Drawing on ethnographic research among nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, this article traces the feelings of precarity about work and the ambivalence that pervades ideas of professionalism. This ambiguity arises partly out of a peculiarly South Afric…
Time-Use Analytics
There is a resurgence of interest in time-use research driven, inter alia, by the desire to understand if development interventions, especially when targeted to women, lead to time constraints by increasing work burdens. This has become a primary concern in agriculture-nutrition research. But are time-use data useful to explore agriculture-nutrition pathways? This study develops a conceptual framework of the micro-level linkages between agricultu…
Contingent Citizens
"Title Description: 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 'r…
Stepping back and moving in
In recent years, a number of middle-income countries and influential multilateral institutions have instigated actions that frame food system governance around social protection and rights. These state-centered mobilizations raise fundamental questions about how to portray the global politics of food. Since the late 1980s, analysts have largely concurred that US hegemony in the global politics of food has given way to diverse and volatile neo-lib…
The Social Dynamics of Labor Shortage in South African Small-Scale Agriculture
The Renewal of Community Health under the KwaZulu ‘Homeland’ Government
The 1970s and 1980s bore witness both to a consolidation of the controversial bantustan system in South Africa – accompanied with the notorious neglect of key services such as health care in these areas by the apartheid state – and the revival and development of a radical global vision of primary health care encompassed by the World Health Organisation's mandate of ‘health for all’. This paper describes the influence of these diverse forces on mi…
Paperwork and the contradictions of accountability in a South African hospital
This article explores the extent and reach of 'audit culture' in a rural government hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. I describe the institution's efforts at instilling a new public sector ethos that involves intensifying mechanisms of audit and self-assessment in the workplace. In a context in which 'accountability' has become a key trope of institutional bureaucracy, I explore how employees attempt to conform to the normative moral yards…
Banking in the Bush
Drawing on fieldwork in a rural area of KwaZulu-Natal, this article shows how people experience government and other institutions in a patchwork of encounters spread out over time, disjointedly, and via various intermediaries. Aspirations change over time and in response to these encounters. Specifically, the article focuses on the setting up of a government-regulated microfinance institution. I consider the divergence between state-led models of…
Introduction
African economies have long been a matter of concern to anthropologists, not least in the pages ofAfrica.These economies are situated, somewhat contradictorily, between global settings of financialized capitalism on the one hand and impoverished local arenas where cash-based economic transfers predominate on the other. The more such economies appear to be tied to wider global arenas and operations that place them beyond the reach of ordinary peop…
Ethnicity, Inc. by John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff
International Migration, 'Domestic Struggles' and Status Aspiration among Nurses in South Africa
The achievement of upward mobility through participation in international labour markets has become possible for nurses in the context of a 'new' democratic South Africa, but this contrasts sharply with the predicament of many in the post-apartheid context, for whom economic vulnerability and unemployment are the prevailing norm. Such a stark contrast has tended to complicate the domestic relations experienced by nurses who, as working profession…
Locked Out
Journal Article Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy Get access Elizabeth Hull Elizabeth Hull Rutgers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 85, Issue 3, March 2007, Pages 1438–1442, https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2007.0039 Published: 01 March 2007
Alienated
Alienated: Immigrant Rights, The Constitution, and Equality in America. By Victor C. Romero. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 320p. $42.00. Victor Romero is convinced that the Constitution, properly understood, extends to all people living in the United States, citizens and noncitizens alike, the same constitutional and statutory rights. That is the theme of his book. Romero concedes that the federal judiciary has failed, as often as no…
Immigration
Immigration laws have encompassed a wide variety of purposes by reuniting families, invigorating the country with new skills, and rescuing victims of war. This book brings a human dimension to the enactment of these laws through a review of over 600 precedent private bill cases and their impact on public policy. It charts the legislative process of these cases, including the defeat of such controversial bills as Martina Navratilova's quest for ex…
The Status of Palestinian Refugees in International Law
Asylum
Taking Liberties, National Barriers to the Free Flow of Ideas
Clamor at the Gates
Without Justice for All
Resident Aliens, Public Employment and the Political Community Doctrine
F OR ALL ITS give me your tired mythology, the United States historically has treated its immigrant population with ambivalence: while it has continued to admit more aliens for permanent residence than any other country (Danilov 1978: 7), it has also penalized these newcomers in multifarious and frequently gratuitous ways.' At one time or another, most states have forbidden their resident aliens to hunt, fish, own property, bear arms, receive pub…
Stepping back and moving in
In recent years, a number of middle-income countries and influential multilateral institutions have instigated actions that frame food system governance around social protection and rights. These state-centered mobilizations raise fundamental questions about how to portray the global politics of food. Since the late 1980s, analysts have largely concurred that US hegemony in the global politics of food has given way to diverse and volatile neo-lib…
Introduction
African economies have long been a matter of concern to anthropologists, not least in the pages ofAfrica.These economies are situated, somewhat contradictorily, between global settings of financialized capitalism on the one hand and impoverished local arenas where cash-based economic transfers predominate on the other. The more such economies appear to be tied to wider global arenas and operations that place them beyond the reach of ordinary peop…
Paperwork and the contradictions of accountability in a South African hospital
This article explores the extent and reach of 'audit culture' in a rural government hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. I describe the institution's efforts at instilling a new public sector ethos that involves intensifying mechanisms of audit and self-assessment in the workplace. In a context in which 'accountability' has become a key trope of institutional bureaucracy, I explore how employees attempt to conform to the normative moral yards…
The Social Dynamics of Labor Shortage in South African Small-Scale Agriculture
Banking in the Bush
Drawing on fieldwork in a rural area of KwaZulu-Natal, this article shows how people experience government and other institutions in a patchwork of encounters spread out over time, disjointedly, and via various intermediaries. Aspirations change over time and in response to these encounters. Specifically, the article focuses on the setting up of a government-regulated microfinance institution. I consider the divergence between state-led models of…
Time-Use Analytics
There is a resurgence of interest in time-use research driven, inter alia, by the desire to understand if development interventions, especially when targeted to women, lead to time constraints by increasing work burdens. This has become a primary concern in agriculture-nutrition research. But are time-use data useful to explore agriculture-nutrition pathways? This study develops a conceptual framework of the micro-level linkages between agricultu…
Going up or getting out? Professional insecurity and austerity in the South African health sector
As a precondition of belonging, professionalism is often a taken-for-granted feature of being middle-class. Yet ethnographic attention to experiences of work reveals that professional identity can be fragile. Drawing on ethnographic research among nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, this article traces the feelings of precarity about work and the ambivalence that pervades ideas of professionalism. This ambiguity arises partly out of a peculiarly South Afric…
Food insecurity, xenophobia, and political legitimacy
Food insecurity in South Africa was critical prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, but the problem deepened quickly during the pandemic when government controls caused job losses, a food supply collapse, and escalating hunger. The food and fuel price hikes and political instability that followed led to the July 2021 'unrest', which left more than 350 people dead. Behind this lay a crisis within the governing African National Congress. In this paper, we…
Mobility, marriage decline, and the ceremonial economy
This article reviews the literature on the social dynamics influencing small-scale agriculture in South Africa. These include three primary factors: the trans-local character of livelihoods; the role of social hierarchies of gender, age and marital status in allocating rights and responsibilities at home; and the ceremonial economy. South African land reform policies must recognise these local practices of distribution and social reproduction as …
Professionals
Professions are institutionalised bodies of specialised knowledge and practice around which divisions of labour within contemporary societies are organised. As well as performing a collective function, membership within a profession offers individuals upward social mobility and meritocratic recognition. Professional expertise is so ubiquitous in societies around the world that we tend not to ask how and why specialised occupational groups have em…
International Migration, 'Domestic Struggles' and Status Aspiration among Nurses in South Africa
The achievement of upward mobility through participation in international labour markets has become possible for nurses in the context of a 'new' democratic South Africa, but this contrasts sharply with the predicament of many in the post-apartheid context, for whom economic vulnerability and unemployment are the prevailing norm. Such a stark contrast has tended to complicate the domestic relations experienced by nurses who, as working profession…
Alienated
Alienated: Immigrant Rights, The Constitution, and Equality in America. By Victor C. Romero. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 320p. $42.00. Victor Romero is convinced that the Constitution, properly understood, extends to all people living in the United States, citizens and noncitizens alike, the same constitutional and statutory rights. That is the theme of his book. Romero concedes that the federal judiciary has failed, as often as no…
Resident Aliens, Public Employment and the Political Community Doctrine
F OR ALL ITS give me your tired mythology, the United States historically has treated its immigrant population with ambivalence: while it has continued to admit more aliens for permanent residence than any other country (Danilov 1978: 7), it has also penalized these newcomers in multifarious and frequently gratuitous ways.' At one time or another, most states have forbidden their resident aliens to hunt, fish, own property, bear arms, receive pub…
Los Indocumentados
Resident Aliens, Public Employment and the Political Community Doctrine
F OR ALL ITS give me your tired mythology, the United States historically has treated its immigrant population with ambivalence: while it has continued to admit more aliens for permanent residence than any other country (Danilov 1978: 7), it has also penalized these newcomers in multifarious and frequently gratuitous ways.' At one time or another, most states have forbidden their resident aliens to hunt, fish, own property, bear arms, receive pub…
Resident Aliens, Public Employment and the Political Community Doctrine
Clamor at the Gates
Without Justice for All
Taking Liberties, National Barriers to the Free Flow of Ideas
Asylum
The Status of Palestinian Refugees in International Law
Immigration
Immigration laws have encompassed a wide variety of purposes by reuniting families, invigorating the country with new skills, and rescuing victims of war. This book brings a human dimension to the enactment of these laws through a review of over 600 precedent private bill cases and their impact on public policy. It charts the legislative process of these cases, including the defeat of such controversial bills as Martina Navratilova's quest for ex…
Alienated
Alienated: Immigrant Rights, The Constitution, and Equality in America. By Victor C. Romero. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 320p. $42.00. Victor Romero is convinced that the Constitution, properly understood, extends to all people living in the United States, citizens and noncitizens alike, the same constitutional and statutory rights. That is the theme of his book. Romero concedes that the federal judiciary has failed, as often as no…
Locked Out
Journal Article Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy Get access Elizabeth Hull Elizabeth Hull Rutgers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 85, Issue 3, March 2007, Pages 1438–1442, https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2007.0039 Published: 01 March 2007
Ethnicity, Inc. by John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff
International Migration, 'Domestic Struggles' and Status Aspiration among Nurses in South Africa
The achievement of upward mobility through participation in international labour markets has become possible for nurses in the context of a 'new' democratic South Africa, but this contrasts sharply with the predicament of many in the post-apartheid context, for whom economic vulnerability and unemployment are the prevailing norm. Such a stark contrast has tended to complicate the domestic relations experienced by nurses who, as working profession…
The Renewal of Community Health under the KwaZulu ‘Homeland’ Government
The 1970s and 1980s bore witness both to a consolidation of the controversial bantustan system in South Africa – accompanied with the notorious neglect of key services such as health care in these areas by the apartheid state – and the revival and development of a radical global vision of primary health care encompassed by the World Health Organisation's mandate of ‘health for all’. This paper describes the influence of these diverse forces on mi…
Paperwork and the contradictions of accountability in a South African hospital
This article explores the extent and reach of 'audit culture' in a rural government hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. I describe the institution's efforts at instilling a new public sector ethos that involves intensifying mechanisms of audit and self-assessment in the workplace. In a context in which 'accountability' has become a key trope of institutional bureaucracy, I explore how employees attempt to conform to the normative moral yards…
Banking in the Bush
Drawing on fieldwork in a rural area of KwaZulu-Natal, this article shows how people experience government and other institutions in a patchwork of encounters spread out over time, disjointedly, and via various intermediaries. Aspirations change over time and in response to these encounters. Specifically, the article focuses on the setting up of a government-regulated microfinance institution. I consider the divergence between state-led models of…
Introduction
African economies have long been a matter of concern to anthropologists, not least in the pages ofAfrica.These economies are situated, somewhat contradictorily, between global settings of financialized capitalism on the one hand and impoverished local arenas where cash-based economic transfers predominate on the other. The more such economies appear to be tied to wider global arenas and operations that place them beyond the reach of ordinary peop…
The Social Dynamics of Labor Shortage in South African Small-Scale Agriculture
Stepping back and moving in
In recent years, a number of middle-income countries and influential multilateral institutions have instigated actions that frame food system governance around social protection and rights. These state-centered mobilizations raise fundamental questions about how to portray the global politics of food. Since the late 1980s, analysts have largely concurred that US hegemony in the global politics of food has given way to diverse and volatile neo-lib…
Contingent Citizens
"Title Description: 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 'r…
Time-Use Analytics
There is a resurgence of interest in time-use research driven, inter alia, by the desire to understand if development interventions, especially when targeted to women, lead to time constraints by increasing work burdens. This has become a primary concern in agriculture-nutrition research. But are time-use data useful to explore agriculture-nutrition pathways? This study develops a conceptual framework of the micro-level linkages between agricultu…
Contingent Citizens
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 promi…
Claude Lévi‐Strauss (1908–2009)
Claude Lévi‐Strauss (1908–2009) was a leading anthropologist of the twentieth century and the main exponent of “structuralism,” a theory proposing that cultural phenomena such as kinship and myth are organized systematically according to relations between their elementary units. He drew on the semiotic theories of Roman Jakobson and Ferdinand de Saussure to argue that cultural systems are a form of communication, sharing the same syntax as langua…
Professionals
Professions are institutionalised bodies of specialised knowledge and practice around which divisions of labour within contemporary societies are organised. As well as performing a collective function, membership within a profession offers individuals upward social mobility and meritocratic recognition. Professional expertise is so ubiquitous in societies around the world that we tend not to ask how and why specialised occupational groups have em…
Going up or getting out? Professional insecurity and austerity in the South African health sector
As a precondition of belonging, professionalism is often a taken-for-granted feature of being middle-class. Yet ethnographic attention to experiences of work reveals that professional identity can be fragile. Drawing on ethnographic research among nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, this article traces the feelings of precarity about work and the ambivalence that pervades ideas of professionalism. This ambiguity arises partly out of a peculiarly South Afric…
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