Objectives

Theoretically ambitious and comparatively driven, the project aspires to a critically engaged anthropology that addresses both the politics of the possible –struggles for social transformation and the public good— and the ways progressive policies may be limited by specific social, economic and political contexts.

We focus on four main research questions:

  1. How are experiments by African governments' with universal health coverage shaping state-citizen relations and the landscape of health care?
  2. How are seemingly universal concepts such as solidarity, obligation, the public good, and social justice defined and contested in local contexts?
  3. How do UHC reforms, such as new forms of health insurance, intersect with formal social protection policies?
  4. How do UHC reforms intersect with informal networks of social support, such as those composed through kinship, religious, neighborhood and friendship affiliations?

 

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