2022
DOI: 10.3167/saas.2022.300205
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Beyond Failure

Abstract: English Abstract: In a radical move that recalled the egalitarian promises of Kenya’s post-independence years, the Kenyan government recently made all public healthcare free, for residents in four counties, for a period of one year. Drawing on ethnographic research on these ambitions for ‘universal health coverage’, this article follows civil servants tasked with the delivery of public services as they attempt to translate an experimental policy into practice and encounter repeated and ongoing failure. These o… Show more

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“…All of that stuff has gone… because austerity has just crunched us all down. (I8,manager,NGO) Rather, this segmentation of services can be more accurately interpreted as "managing failure" (Li 2007), having emerged from various rationalities mobilised by psy professionals in an informal and improvised manner in order to maintain the health coverage assemblage in a context of austerity (Prince, 2022). Despite psy professionals' progressive intentions, ultimately the outcome for undocumented migrants was exclusion from mental health coverage in the NHS and a large part of the NGO sector.…”
Section: Austerity and Ethico-politicsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…All of that stuff has gone… because austerity has just crunched us all down. (I8,manager,NGO) Rather, this segmentation of services can be more accurately interpreted as "managing failure" (Li 2007), having emerged from various rationalities mobilised by psy professionals in an informal and improvised manner in order to maintain the health coverage assemblage in a context of austerity (Prince, 2022). Despite psy professionals' progressive intentions, ultimately the outcome for undocumented migrants was exclusion from mental health coverage in the NHS and a large part of the NGO sector.…”
Section: Austerity and Ethico-politicsmentioning
confidence: 99%