Ruth Jane Prince

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medical anthropology; critical global health; Kenya, Tanzania, social protection and welfare; citizenship and the state; care; cancer and chronic disease; health systems; toxicity; coloniality

Undervisning

Bakgrunn

Ruth Prince er utdannet sosialantropolog ved universitetene i København, UCL og Oxford. Hennes forskningsfelt er på Øst-Afrika.

Ruth Prince er en av seks forskere i Norge som får årets (2017) tildeling av prestisjetunge ERC Starting Grant. Prosjektet er en antropologisk studie av hvordan "Universal Health Coverage" betyr for staten og statsborgerskapet i tre Afrikansk lander. Prosjektet mottatt finansiering fra ERC panelet for samfunnsvitenskap og humaniora SH5 som mottatt finansiering fra panelet for samfunnsvitenskap og humaniora (SH5).

Nyere forskning inkluderer:

1) "Engasjement og løsrivelse: En etnografisk studie av moralske dilemmaer rundt omsorg i et offentlig sykehus".

Et nylig avsluttet forskningsprosjekt gjennomført i Kenya, med fokus på omsorg, slektskap og medisinsk praksis, og de moralske og etiske dilemmaene som medisinske fagfolk står overfor, men også familier når de søker omsorg for sine kjære. Denne forskningen bidrar til den etnografiske forståelsen av biomedisin i postkolonialt Afrika, og gjør oppmerksom på de etiske og moralske dilemmaene som utgjør medisin i 'ressursfattige' områder. Forskningen utforsket rundt omsorg på et offentlig sykehus i sammenheng med innstramminger, økende sosioøkonomisk ulikhet, kronisk sykdom og utvidelse av lukrative medisinske markeder. (Norsk forskningsråd, FRISAM-stipend, 2013-2017).

2) "Kreft og kronisk sykdom: pleie og beskyttelse". Forskning fokuserte på nettverk av omsorg rundt kreft- og diabetespasienter i Kenya, inkludert globale nettverk, da middelklassekyanere søker behandling i India. (Flyktninghjelpen FRISAM, 2013-2017).

3) "Utviklingsmodernisme i den østafrikanske byen: Sovjetisk medisinsk hjelp til Kenya og dets etterliv i minnene fra leger som er opplært i Sovjetunionen". Forskning utforsket arv fra den kalde krigen i Kenya, og tegnet på muntlige historier om kenyanske leger utdannet i Sovjetunionen.

4) “Frivillige økonomier: Urban ungdom, prekaritet og den østafrikanske byen”; Wellcome Trust samarbeidspilotilskudd om “Gatenivå helsearbeidere i afrikanske byer” (2011-12).

5) “Humanitære intervensjoner og moralske omsorgsøkonomier”: Dette prosjektet fokuserte på urbane Kenya, og utforsket former for krav som tar form rundt humanitære og transnasjonale inngrep i helse. (Mellon Foundation, Smuts-fondet, University of Cambridge, og Max Planck institute for Social Anthropology) (2008-2011).

Prosjektet utforsket moralske holdninger, nye identiteter og former for krav som dukker opp rundt utvidelsen av antiretrovirale legemidler som kan bremse utviklingen av HIV-virus i blodet. Forskningen ble utført ved HIV-klinikker i Vest-Kenya med fokus på den kenyanske byen Kisumu. Ruth Prince har skrevet om hvordan dette humanitære bistandsarbeidet, med fokus på tilgang til medisin, avslører spørsmål om sult, matsikkerhet, fattigdom og liv i afrikanske byer.

Ruth Prince har også forsket på kristendommen; sykdom og helbredelse i tillegg til død og rituell praksis. Tidligere publikasjoner gir en historisk etnografisk forståelse av kristendom, materiell praksis, hukommelse og kjønnsrelasjoner i Vest-Kenya i løpet av et århundre fra kolonitiden.

Monografien Ruth Prince publiserte  sammen med Wenzel Geissler, The Land is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya, ble tildelt  Royal Anthropological Institute’s 2010 Amuary Talbot Prize. 

Priser

The Royal Anthropological Institute’s 2010 Amuary Talbot Prize for best book in African Anthropology, 2010. Awarded to "The Land is Dying Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in western Kenya" by PW Geissler & RJ Prince

Winner of the RAI's Documentary Film Student Prize 2003.  For "Adhiambo - Born in the Evening. Two Months in the Life of a Kenyan Mother and her Newborn Daughter". Prince, RJ, Geissler PW, Tuchtenhagen G., Neubert-Maric, M. 2002. (Digital Video Film, 68 min.). Copenhagen, Hamburg and Cambridge: Filmwerkstatt Dokumentarisch Arbeiten (Distr. Royal Anthropological Institute).>

Verv

  • ERC Starting Grant, 2018-2023, "Universal Health Coverage and the Public Good in Africa: Ethnographic explorations".
  • "Local Medical Practice and Global Health Interventions", Norsk Forskningsrådet FRISAM, 2013-2016
  • Senior Research Associate, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge Universitetet, 2012-2013
  • Mellon Fellow, University of Cambridge, 2010-12
  • Smuts Research Fellow in African Studies, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, 2007-10
  • Ruth Prince, ESRC Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 2007-8

Samarbeid

  • I work with partners in Kenya (Nairobi University and Maseno University, and the Kenya Medical Research Institute) and in Tanzania (National Institute of Medical Research and the University of Dar-es-Salaam). 

  • Collaborator on “Global Social Inequality and the Anthropology of Uncertainty, Contingency and Future Orientation”, Norges Forskningsråd (the Norwegian Research Council), Prosjektnummer 222821, ISP-sammfunnsvitenskap (with University of Trondheim). 2013-15
  • Co-investigator, Wellcome Trust collaborative pilot grant for “Street Level health workers and the African city”(with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) 2010
  • British Academy Visiting Scholars International Engagement grant, 2011 (Dr Benson Mulemi,Catholic University of East Africa)

Publikasjoner

  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2023). Private health care, cancer, and the vulnerable middle class in Kenya. American Ethnologist. ISSN 0094-0496. doi: 10.1111/amet.13219.
  • Muinde, Jacinta Victoria Syombua; Kehr, Janina & Prince, Ruth Jane (2023). Health for all? Pasts, presents and futures of aspirations for universal healthcare. Social Science and Medicine. ISSN 0277-9536. 319. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115660. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Muinde, Jacinta Victoria Syombua & Prince, Ruth Jane (2022). A new universalism? Universal health coverage and debates about rights, solidarity and inequality in Kenya. Social Science and Medicine. ISSN 0277-9536. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115258.
  • Ameso, Edwin Ambani & Prince, Ruth Jane (2022). Striking health workers: Precarity and healthcare in neoliberal Kenya. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 38(4), s. 11–14. doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12742.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2022). Beyond Failure: Bureaucratic Labour and the Will to Improve in Kenya’s Experiments with Universal Health Care. Social Anthropology. ISSN 0964-0282. 30(2), s. 56–80. doi: 10.3167/saas.2022.300205.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Neumark, Tom (2022). Curious Utopias: Dreaming Big Again in the Twenty-first Century? Social Anthropology. ISSN 0964-0282. 30(2), s. 1–15. doi: 10.3167/saas.2022.300202. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2021). Malignant stories: the chronicity of cancer and the pursuit of care in Kenya. . I Vaughan, Megan; Adjaye-Gbewonyo., Kafui & Marissa, Mika (Red.), Rethinking Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives.. UCL Press. ISSN 9781787357051. s. 322–349.
  • Neumark, Tom & Prince, Ruth Jane (2021). Digital health in East Africa: Innovation, experimentation and the market. Global Policy. ISSN 1758-5880. 12(6), s. 65–74. doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.12990. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2021). Cancer and contaminated food: Toxic uncertainties in western Kenya. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 37(4), s. 3–6. doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12662. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Aukrust, Camilla Grøver; Kamalo, Patrick Dongosolo; Prince, Ruth Jane; Sundby, Johanne; Mula, Chimwemwe & Manda-Taylor, Lucinda (2021). Improving competencies and skills across clinical contexts of care: a qualitative study on Malawian nurses' experiences in an institutional health and training programme. Nursing Open. ISSN 2054-1058. 8, s. 3170–3180. doi: 10.1002/nop2.1030. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2020). Toxic Worldings: Introduction to the special issue. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 36(6), s. 3–4. doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12615.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2020). Layers of epidemy: Present pasts during the first weeks of COVID‐19 in western Kenya. Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science. ISSN 0008-8994. 62(2), s. 248–256. doi: 10.1111/1600-0498.12295. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2020). From Russia with love: Medical modernities, development dreams, and cold war legacies in Kenya, 1969 and 2015. Africa. ISSN 0001-9720. 90(1), s. 51–76. doi: 10.1017/S0001972019001025.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2019). Pandemic Publics: How Epidemics Transform Social and Political Collectives of Health. I Kelly, Ann H; Keck, Frederic & Lynteris, Christos (Red.), The Anthropology of Epidemics. Routledge. ISSN 9780367581947. s. 135–153. doi: %20https:/doi.org/10.4324/9780429461897.
  • Wangamati, Cynthia Khamala; Sundby, Johanne; Chimaraoke, Izugbara; Nyambedha, Erick Otieno & Prince, Ruth Jane (2019). Challenges in Supporting Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse in Kenya: A Qualitative Study of Government and Non-governmental Organizations . Journal of Interpersonal Violence. ISSN 0886-2605. doi: 10.1177/0886260519846864.
  • Wangamati, Cynthia Khamala; Yegon, Gladys; Sundby, Johanne & Prince, Ruth Jane (2019). Sexualised violence against children: A review of laws and policies in Kenya. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM). ISSN 2641-0397. 27(1). doi: 10.1080/26410397.2019.1586815. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2018). Death, Detachment, and Moral Dilemmas of Care in a Kenyan Hospital. I Robben, Antonius C. G. M. (Red.), A Companion to the Anthropology of Death. John Wiley & Sons. ISSN 9781119222422. s. 445–460. doi: 10.1002/9781119222422.ch31.
  • Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi; Prince, Ruth Jane & Mishra, Arima (2018). The politics of health systems strengthening. I Parker, Richard & Jonathan, Garcia (Red.), Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Global Health. Routledge. ISSN 131529723X. doi: 10.4324/9781315297255-11.
  • Wangamati, Cynthia; Sundby, Johanne & Prince, Ruth Jane (2018). Communities’ perceptions of factors contributing to child sexual abuse vulnerability in Kenya: a qualitative study. Culture, Health and Sexuality. ISSN 1369-1058. 20(12), s. 1394–1408. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2018.1438666.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2017). Universal Health Coverage in the Global South: New models of healthcare and their implications for citizenship, solidarity and the public good (OPEN ACCESS). Michael. ISSN 1893-9651. 14(2), s. 153–172. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Lynteris, Christos (2016). Lynteris, Christos & Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). Anthropology and Medical Photography: Ethnographic, Critical and Comparative Perspectives. . Visual Anthropology. ISSN 0894-9468. 29(2), s. 101–117. doi: 10.1080/08949468.2016.1131104.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). Kisumu: global health amnesia. Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Twenty First Century Africa.. Intellect Ltd.. ISSN 978-1-78320-725-1. s. 209–213.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). Public health and global interventions in Africa. Current history (1941). ISSN 0011-3530. 115(781), s. 163–168. doi: 10.1525/curh.2016.115.781.163.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). The Diseased Body and the Global Subject: The Circulation and Consumption of an Iconic AIDS Photograph in East Africa. Visual Anthropology. ISSN 0894-9468. 29(2), s. 159–186. doi: 10.1080/08949468.2016.1131517.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2015). Seeking Incorporation? Voluntary labor and the ambiguities of work, identity, and social value in contemporary Kenya. African Studies Review. ISSN 0002-0206. 58(2), s. 85–109. doi: 10.1017/asr.2015.39.
  • Brown, Hannah & Prince, Ruth Jane (2015). Introduction: volunteer labor-pasts and futures of work, development, and citizenship in East Africa. African Studies Review. ISSN 0002-0206. 58(2), s. 29–42. doi: 10.1017/asr.2015.36.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Otieno, Phelgona (2014). In the Shadowlands of Global Health: Observations from Health Workers in Kenya. Global Public Health. ISSN 1744-1692. 9(8), s. 927–945. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2014.941897. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2014). Precarious Projects: Conversions of (Biomedical) Knowledge in an East African City. Medical Anthropology. ISSN 0145-9740. 33(1), s. 68–83. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2013.833918.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Kelly, Ann H; Manton, J & Tousingnant, N (2013). Sustaining the life of the African Polis. Africa. ISSN 0001-9720. 83(4), s. 531–538.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Kelly, Ann H; Manton, John; Prince, Ruth Jane & Tousignant, Noemi (2013). Introduction: Sustaining the Life of the Polis. Africa. ISSN 0001-9720. 83(4), s. 531–538. doi: 10.1017/s0001972013000430.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2013). Navigating Global Health in an East African City. I Prince, Ruth Jane & Marsland, Rebecca (Red.), Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives. Ohio University Press. ISSN 978-0821420584.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2013). Situating Health and the Public in Africa. I Prince, Ruth Jane & Marsland, Rebecca (Red.), Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives. Ohio University Press. ISSN 978-0821420584.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2013). 'Tarmacking' in the millennium city:spatial and temporal trajectories of empowerment and development in Kisumu, Kenya. Africa. ISSN 0001-9720. 83(4), s. 582–605. doi: 10.1017/S0001972013000478.
  • Madiega, Philister Adhiambo; Jones, Gemma; Prince, Ruth Jane & Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2013). "She's My Sister-In-Law, My Visitor, My Friend" Challenges of Staff Identity in Home Follow-Up in an HIV Trial in Western Kenya. Developing World Bioethics. ISSN 1471-8731. 13(1), s. 21–29. doi: 10.1111/dewb.12019.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Marsland, Rebecca (2012). What is Life Worth? Exploring Biomedical Interventions, Survival and the Politics of Life. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. ISSN 0745-5194. 26(4), s. 453–469. doi: 10.1111/maq.12001.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2012). HIV and the Moral Economy of Survival in an East African City. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. ISSN 0745-5194. 26(4), s. 534–556. doi: 10.1111/maq.12006.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2010). Purity is Danger: Ambiguities of Touch around Sickness and Death in Western Kenya. I Dilger, Hansjörg & Luig, Ute (Red.), MORALITY, HOPE AND GRIEF. Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa. Berghahn Books. ISSN 978-1-84545-663-4. s. 240–270.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2010). Purity is Danger: Ambiguities of Touch around Sickness and Death in Western Kenya . I Dilger, Hansjörg & Luig, Ute (Red.), MORALITY, HOPE AND GRIEF. Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa. Berghahn Books. ISSN 978-1-84545-663-4.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2010). Persons, plants and relations: treating childhood illness in a western Kenyan village. I Hsu, Elisabeth & Harris, Stephen (Red.), Plants, Health and Healing.On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology. Berghahn Books. ISSN 978-1-84545-060-1.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2007). Christianity, tradition, AIDS, and pornography : knowing sex in western Kenya. I Littlewood, Roland (Red.), On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine. Left Coast Press Inc.. ISSN 978-1598742756. s. 87–116.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2004). Shared lives: Exploring practices of amity between grandmothers and grandchildren in western Kenya. Africa. ISSN 0001-9720. 74(1), s. 95–120.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Harris, S; Olsen, A; Oketch, H & Nielsen, BS [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2002). Medicinal plants used by Luo mothers in Bondo District, Kenya. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. ISSN 0378-8741. 83, s. 39–54.
  • Sternberg, R; Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Nokes, K; Grigorenko, E & Bundy, DAP [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2001). The relationship between academic and practical intelligence: a case study in Kenya. Intelligence. ISSN 0160-2896. 29(5), s. 401–418.
  • Grigorenko, EL; Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Okatcha, F; Nokes, K & Kenny, DA [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2001). The organisation of Luo conceptions of intelligence: a study of implicit theories in a Kenyan village. International Journal of Behavioral Development. ISSN 0165-0254. 25(4), s. 367–378.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane; Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Nokes, K; Okatcha, F; Grigorenko, EL & Stenberg, RJ (2001). Knowledge of herbal and pharmaceutical medicines among Luo schoolchildren in western Kenya. Anthropology & Medicine. ISSN 1364-8470. 8(2/3), s. 211–135.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Meinert, L; Nokes, K & Ouma, JH (2001). Self–treatment practices among Kenyan and Ugandan children and the need for medicinal education in school health programs. Health Policy and Planning. ISSN 0268-1080. 16(4), s. 361–372.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Aagaard-Hansen, J & Ouma, JH (2000). Kenyan schoolchildren’s self-treatment of common illnesses. Social Science and Medicine. ISSN 0277-9536. 50(18), s. 1771–1883.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane; Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Levene, M; Mutemi, W; Beckerleg, S & Schulman, C (1999). Perceptions of soil eating and anaemia among pregnant Giriama women. Social Science and Medicine. ISSN 0277-9536. 48, s. 1069–1079.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane; Luoba, A; Adhiambo, P; NG'Uono, J & Geissler, Paul Wenzel (1999). Soil-eating is common among rural women in western Kenya. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. ISSN 0035-9203. 93, s. 515–516.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane; Mutemi, W; Lowe, B; Friis, H & Schulman, C (1998). Geophagy and anaemia among pregnant women on the Kenyan coast. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. ISSN 0035-9203. 5(1), s. 549–553.

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  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2019). Pandemic Publics: How Epidemics Transform Social and Political Collectives of Health, in "The Anthrpology of Epidemics", edited by by Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck & Christos Lynteris. Routledge. ISBN 9781138616677. 182 s.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2018). Death, Detachment and Moral Dilemmas of Care in a Kenyan Hospital. . John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781119222293. 501 s.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Brown, Hannah (2016). Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa. James Currey Publishers. ISBN 9781847011398. 280 s.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa. James Currey Publishers. ISBN 9781847011398. 280 s.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Marsland, Rebecca (2013). Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives. Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-2058-4. 260 s.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Marsland, Rebecca (2013). Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives. Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0821420584. 260 s.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2010). The Land is Dying. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-481-4. 423 s.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Geissler, P. Wenzel (2010). ‘The Land is Dying’: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-481-4. 444 s.

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  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2020). Frontline: Primary Health Care and COVID-19 in Kenya. Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Prince, Ruth Jane (2020). Corona, how are you? Africa Is A Country (Blog).
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2020). Special issue editorial. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 36(6), s. 1–2. doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12614.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). The Anthropology of Empire. I MacKenzie, John M. (Red.), Encyclopedia of Empire. John Wiley & Sons. ISSN 9781118455074. doi: doi.org/10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe370.
  • Prince, Ruth Jane & Brown, Hannah (2016). The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa. I Prince, Ruth Jane (Red.), Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa.. James Currey Publishers. ISSN 9781847011398. s. 1–28. doi: 978-1-84701-139-8.
  • Lynteris, Christos & Prince, Ruth Jane (2016). Anthropology and Medical Photography: Ethnographic, Critical and Comparative Perspectives. Visual Anthropology. ISSN 0894-9468. 29(2), s. 101–117. doi: 10.1080/08949468.2016.1131104.

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Publisert 11. sep. 2014 10:39 - Sist endret 22. des. 2020 11:56