Journal article
Echoes of austerity Policy, temporality, and public health in South Africa
Focaal, Vol.2019(83), pp.13-24
03/01/2019
DOI: 10.3167/fcl.2019.830102
Abstract
South Africa's post-apartheid era has been marked by the continuation of racialized socioeconomic inequality, a social situation produced by earlier periods of settlement, colonization, and apartheid. While the ruling African National Congress has pursued a transformative political agenda, it has done so within the confines of neoliberal macroeconomic policy, including a period of fiscal austerity, which has had limited impact on poverty and inequality. Here, I explore how policy principles associated with austerity travel across time, space, and the levels of the state in South Africa, eventually manifesting in a public health policy that produced cuts to public health services. In assessing these sociopolitical dynamics, I utilize policy process as a chronotope to unify diverse experiences of temporality relative to austerity-inspired public health policy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Echoes of austerity Policy, temporality, and public health in South Africa
- Creators
- Theodore Powers - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Focaal, Vol.2019(83), pp.13-24
- DOI
- 10.3167/fcl.2019.830102
- ISSN
- 0920-1297
- eISSN
- 1558-5263
- Publisher
- Berghahn Journals
- Number of pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984271553802771
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