Post-Doc, Center for Health and Wellbeing
Thesis Title: Botswana as a Living Experiment
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Jean Comaroff
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About
I am trained in both sociocultural and medical anthropology. My long-term research projects interrogate the forms of knowledge, value, and subjectivity to which global health interventions in southern Africa give rise, and the transnational regimes of expertise that attempt to govern these interventions. My research and teaching interests bring together medical anthropology, the ethnography and history of southern Africa, the anthropology of humanitarianism and development, semiotic analyses of ritual and pedagogy, and the anthropology of science and expertise.
My first project, a book manuscript currently in preparation entitled _Chronicle of a Death Forestalled: Global Health and the Future in Botswana_, offers an empirical investigation of the production of global health in the midst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in southeastern Botswana. Based on twenty-eight months of ethnographic research, I argue that the national public treatment program and the public-private partnerships supporting it serve as sites for the refashioning of subjects, forming the grounds for new forms of self-knowledge, expertise, value, and new understandings of the temporality of the epidemic and the consequences of mass treatment.
My second project, tentatively entitled _An Uneasy Discipline: Building a Medical School in Botswana’s HIV Treatment Era_, draws on preliminary research on Botswana’s new and only medical school to examine the production of biomedical experts and expertise in southeastern Botswana in the context of an increasingly, if unevenly, globalizing biomedical profession.
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