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Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, The Social Question and State Formation in British Africa: Egypt, South Africa and Uganda in comparisonThe paper explores governmental perceptions and reactions to “social questions” in British colonial Africa, c. 1880-1950. By comparing three different political entities, Egypt, South Africa and Uganda, we find that authorities across cases have been acutely aware of potentially destabilising social change. Some social problems actually resulted from colonial projects themselves, giving rise to rather contradictory interpretations and policies. However, the intensity of political reactions to social questions varied widely, ranging from a largely passive approach in Egypt to the introduction of modern welfare in South Africa. We argue that perceptions and responses to social dislocation had a long-term impact on patterns of state formation and social policy development.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:58Heft:2154 111 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, International trailblazer: Primary health care in Tanzania, 1920s-1990s(2021); The paper analyses the emergence of Tanzania’s primary health approach from the colonial to the postcolonial period. We argue that some British colonial health policies created favourable conditions for the postcolonial turn towards primary health. Based on official archival material, newspapers, interviews, and second- ary literature, the paper describes how rural health dispensaries and public health education campaigns provided continuity from the colonial to the postcolonial era. In both periods, governments aimed at increasing the rural population’s productivity by improving its health. However, much of this rural population was poor and settled across vast rural areas, bringing questions of cost and efficiency to the forefront. Even before the approaches’ definition in the 1970s, primary health elements promised the best results and met many popular expectations. This long experience with primary health care elements allowed Tanzania to act as a trailblazer setting examples for the emerging international norm of primary health care. However, liberalisation policies in the 1990s undermined this system while leaving the question of adequate health services for the rural poor largely unanswered. As a contribution to the emerging literature on global social policy, the paper shows that the primary health care norm diffusion has been a multi- directional process.BerichtBand:1950 41 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, The trajectory of food security policies in South Africa, 1910-1994. The persistence of food subsidies(2021); ; Related processes of capitalist development, apartheid, and political contention determined South Africa’s public food politics and policies during the 20th cen- tury. This paper provides a chronological and comparative analysis of the emer- gence and transformation of food-related policies from South Africa’s foundation as a semi-independent settler state to the democratic revolution. We centrally argue that while apartheid ideology, capital interest and liberal and democratic opposition often conflicted, interests also converged in some regards. To explain policies that both confirmed and contradicted a seemingly unambiguous racist ideology, we employ a process-sociological figurational approach that reveals the interweaving of political, economic and symbolic developments. Based on primary sources from the archives and secondary literature, we compare two food security policies: school meals and food subsidies. We show that a highly symbolic conflict about school meals ended with excluding African students, part of a welfare state trajectory that gradually abandoned non-whites. However, a much costlier, non-discriminatory redistributive food subsidy system did mean- while strive and expand. The apartheid regime reclined responsibility for African children’s welfare. Simultaneously, a vast food subsidy system included the non- white population as consumers and labour force.BerichtBand:948 195