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Powers, Theodore
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2020-04-19T08:06:05Z |
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2019 |
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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. |
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Humanities Education |
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2021-03-24 |
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hj2020 |
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https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/focaal/focaal-overview.xml |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Powers, T. 2019, 'Echoes of austerity : policy, temporality, and public health in South Africa', Focaal, vol. 2019, no. 83, pp. 13-24. DOI:10.3167/fcl.2019.830102. |
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0920-1297 (print) |
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1558-5263 (online) |
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10.3167/fcl.2019.830102 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74213 |
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en |
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Berghahn Journals |
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© Stichting Focaal and Berghahn Books |
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Activism |
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Austerity |
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Inequality |
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Public health |
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South Africa (SA) |
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Temporality |
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Temporal aspects |
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Fiscal austerity |
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Colonization |
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Post-apartheid era |
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Health care policy |
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Politics |
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Public sector |
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) |
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Macroeconomics |
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Capitalism |
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) |
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Policy making |
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Economic reform |
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Poverty |
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Economic policy |
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Neoliberalism |
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Social inequality |
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Hospitals |
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Anthropology |
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Alliance |
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dc.title |
Echoes of austerity : policy, temporality, and public health in South Africa |
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Postprint Article |
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