Kathleen Rice, Assistant Professor, has published a book entitled Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa. It examines the gendered and generational conflicts surrounding social change in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape roughly twenty years after the end of Apartheid.
Focusing particularly on the women of the village of Mhlambini, the book offers compelling portraits of how they experience and navigate widespread social and economic change and presents their experiences as a way of understanding how people navigate the moral ambiguities of contemporary South African life.
The book is available to buy here:
About Kathleen Rice
Kathleen (Kate) Rice holds the SSHRC-funded Tier II Canada Research Chair in the Medical Anthropology of Primary Care. Her theoretical and methodological expertise are in the areas of social theories of power and inequity, and ethnography. In all her work, Kate aims to expose the underlying discourses, ideologies, and categories that shape healthcare, as well as the relations of power that underpin them. Driven by a commitment to high-quality, equitable care for all, her research program aims to improve the health of marginalized populations in particular, especially those grappling with social and economic change. Kate's specific areas of topical focus include rural and remote health, gender, human rights, chronic pain, pregnancy and birth, Indigenous methodologies in health research, and medical education. Her areas of geographic focus are Southern Africa, and urban and rural Canada. Read more: /familymed/kathleen-rice