Karoo Sanatorium
A Speculative Fiction Based on Many True Stories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3020933 |
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| Authors | Brenda Vales (0000-0003-4289-2134, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 192-205 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology & Humanism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1548-1409 • E-ISSN: 1559-9167 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/anhu.12376 |
| OpenAlex | W4213335073 |
| Language | EN |
In the early twentieth century, with tuberculosis taking hold in many European cities, sanatoriums in South Africa's semi-arid Karoo region were emerging as prime healing destinations for "consumptive immigrants." Today, the Karoo continues to be marketed as a reprieve from the pathogens of city life, most recently as a "low-viral escape" amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Inspired by ethnographic and archival research, this dystopian fiction imagines the contemporary re-opening of a Karoo sanatorium and the everyday politics in which such a project might be enmeshed. The story is followed by an ethnographic statement that explains some of the research on which the story is based
Archaeology · Art · Destinations · Dystopia · Ethnography · Everyday life · Geography · Immigration · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tourism · Gender Studies · History · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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