Current Project
Mobilized, Recruited, Conscripted?
Mobilized, Recruited, Conscripted?
Leveraging community health work, citizenship and public authority in northern Kenya
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are the backbone of primary healthcare in many low-income settings: 86% remain unsalaried in Africa. The project adopts a critical, historical lens to community voluntarism as promoted by global health agencies, NGOs and the state. It combines this with ethnography, life histories and photovoice in Isiolo to understand how voluntary labour is actualized and is funded by the Wellcome Trust 2021-25 (outputs below).
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are the backbone of primary healthcare in many low-income settings: 86% remain unsalaried in Africa. The project adopts a critical, historical lens to community voluntarism as promoted by global health agencies, NGOs and the state. It combines this with ethnography, life histories and photovoice in Isiolo to understand how voluntary labour is actualized and is funded by the Wellcome Trust 2021-25 (outputs below).
My new Royal Society of Edinburgh grant 'Voluntarism and State-Making in Africa' brings together scholars looking at similar volunteering in other public domains.
My new Royal Society of Edinburgh grant 'Voluntarism and State-Making in Africa' brings together scholars looking at similar volunteering in other public domains.
