Echoes of austerity : policy, temporality, and public health in South Africa

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dc.contributor.author Powers, Theodore
dc.date.accessioned 2020-04-19T08:06:05Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.description.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. en_ZA
dc.description.department Humanities Education en_ZA
dc.description.embargo 2021-03-24
dc.description.librarian hj2020 en_ZA
dc.description.uri https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/focaal/focaal-overview.xml en_ZA
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. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 0920-1297 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 1558-5263 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.3167/fcl.2019.830102
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74213
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Berghahn Journals en_ZA
dc.rights © Stichting Focaal and Berghahn Books en_ZA
dc.subject Activism en_ZA
dc.subject Austerity en_ZA
dc.subject Inequality en_ZA
dc.subject Public health en_ZA
dc.subject South Africa (SA) en_ZA
dc.subject Temporality en_ZA
dc.subject Temporal aspects en_ZA
dc.subject Fiscal austerity en_ZA
dc.subject Colonization en_ZA
dc.subject Post-apartheid era en_ZA
dc.subject Health care policy en_ZA
dc.subject Politics en_ZA
dc.subject Public sector en_ZA
dc.subject Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) en_ZA
dc.subject Macroeconomics en_ZA
dc.subject Capitalism en_ZA
dc.subject Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) en_ZA
dc.subject Policy making en_ZA
dc.subject Economic reform en_ZA
dc.subject Poverty en_ZA
dc.subject Economic policy en_ZA
dc.subject Neoliberalism en_ZA
dc.subject Social inequality en_ZA
dc.subject Hospitals en_ZA
dc.subject Anthropology en_ZA
dc.subject Alliance en_ZA
dc.title Echoes of austerity : policy, temporality, and public health in South Africa en_ZA
dc.type Postprint Article en_ZA


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