'Looking for greener pastures': Locating Care in the Life Histories of Community Health Workers
| dc.contributor.author | Vale, Elizabeth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-04T08:55:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-04T08:55:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-04T07:51:21Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The question of who does the caring and why is fundamental to understanding the dynamic practice of AIDS care in post-apartheid South Africa. This paper explores motivations to enter carework as part of the life narratives of fifteen young South Africans - all pursuing 'the good life' in a country where high emancipatory expectations clash with tremendous structural constraints. Drawing on over ten hours of interview data focusing primarily on respondents' life stories, the paper explores the moment of entering carework as part of a largely improvisatory set of tactics to 'get by' and hopefully 'move up' in post- apartheid South Africa. For some, becoming a carer felt like a well-considered choice, but for most it was an opportunistic ad hoc move amidst a range of other contingencies in their daily lives. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Vale, E. (2012). <i>'Looking for greener pastures': Locating Care in the Life Histories of Community Health Workers</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19392 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Vale, Elizabeth <i>'Looking for greener pastures': Locating Care in the Life Histories of Community Health Workers.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19392 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Vale, E. (2012). 'Looking for Greener Pastures': Locating Care in the Life Histories of Community Health Workers. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Vale, Elizabeth AB - The question of who does the caring and why is fundamental to understanding the dynamic practice of AIDS care in post-apartheid South Africa. This paper explores motivations to enter carework as part of the life narratives of fifteen young South Africans - all pursuing 'the good life' in a country where high emancipatory expectations clash with tremendous structural constraints. Drawing on over ten hours of interview data focusing primarily on respondents' life stories, the paper explores the moment of entering carework as part of a largely improvisatory set of tactics to 'get by' and hopefully 'move up' in post- apartheid South Africa. For some, becoming a carer felt like a well-considered choice, but for most it was an opportunistic ad hoc move amidst a range of other contingencies in their daily lives. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - 'Looking for greener pastures': Locating Care in the Life Histories of Community Health Workers TI - 'Looking for greener pastures': Locating Care in the Life Histories of Community Health Workers UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19392 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19392 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Vale E. 'Looking for greener pastures': Locating Care in the Life Histories of Community Health Workers. 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19392 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NonDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.title | 'Looking for greener pastures': Locating Care in the Life Histories of Community Health Workers | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |