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Join us for a conversation with Prof. Nolwazi Mkhwanazi who will be discussing her new book, Contested Lives: Families, Households, Health, and Care in South Africa (with Lenore Manderson, HSRC 2020) and her ongoing work on families, care, and global health from a South African perspective.

Nolwazi Mkhwanazi is an associate professor in Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand and director of the Medical Humanities program at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research (WiSER). Her research follows two threads. The first is concerned with the lives of young people, particularly in relation to gendered identities, sexuality, reproduction, intimacy, kinship, and care. The second thread of her research is concerned with health interventions and health education in Africa.

She is the co-editor of Young Families: Gender, sexuality and care (2017) with Deevia Bhana and Connected Lives: Families, Households, Health and care in South Africa (2020) with Lenore Manderson. She recently convened a month long virtual medical humanities conference as part of building the medical humanities in Africa which can be viewed on the website:  https://breath.medicalandhealthhumanities.africa

Ramah McKay is Assistant Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Drawing on medical anthropology and ethnography, her work has examined the logics, practices, and technologies of global health in the United States and Mozambique. Her current research interests focus on pharmaceutical activism in the wake of global health and on the technical practices through which climate migration is constituted as an object of governance and knowledge.

Her book, Medicine in the Meantime: The work of care in Mozambique, was published by Duke University Press (2018).