Michelle Pentecost

The Politics of Potential

Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Politics of Potential, physician-anthropologist Michelle Pentecost investigates The First 1000 Days, an early life intervention project that seeks to end child malnutrition in South Africa, the ways in which this program has been adopted, and how it impacts child-bearing women in South Africa in powerfully gendered and racialized ways.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 64g
• ISBN-13: 9781978837485
• ISBN-10: 1978837488
• Artikelnr.: 67868308

Autorenporträt

MICHELLE PENTECOST is a physician-anthropologist and senior lecturer in global health and social medicine at King's College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Lenore Manderson
Introduction
1    The First 1000 Days: Origin Stories
2    Situated Biologies: The View from Khayelitsha
3    The Traveling Technology of Mother and Child
4    Life Between Protocols
5    Intergenerational Transmissions: The Work of Time
6    Ambivalent Kin: On Gender and Violence
Conclusion: The Politics of Potential
Acknowledgments 
Notes
Bibliography     
Index