Dr Elizabeth Hull
BSc (London School of Economics), MSc PhD (London School of Economics)
Overview
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Lecturer in Anthropology
SOAS Food Studies Centre
Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre
- Name:
- Dr Elizabeth Hull
- Email address:
- eh17@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4766
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 4416
- Office Hours:
- Mondays - 10:30am-12:30pm in 569
- On Sabbatical:
- On Research Leave 2012-2015
Biography
Dr Elizabeth Hull is a Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research in Agriculture and Health Post Doctoral Fellow in the SOAS Food Studies Centre from 2010-2012. Her current research focuses upon agricultural production, livelihoods and indebtedness among farmers, and the impact of these upon foodways and nutrition in South Africa. Her project is motivated by an interest in developing methodological and theoretical linkages between the study of agriculture, food consumption and human health.
Research
Elizabeth Hull is a post-doctoral researcher at the Food Studies Centre and the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH). Her current research, funded by the British Academy, examines the interactions between diverse livelihoods, the procurement, preparation and consumption of food, and the implications of these for health in the Makhathini agricultural region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She investigates how livelihoods and food practices are intercepted variously by government programmes, private initiatives and public narratives, and how these intersect to influence food security and agricultural systems. Dr Hull has carried out research in KwaZulu-Natal since 2006. Earlier work has focused on health care provision and nursing livelihoods, and on government-led agricultural development projects including the setting up of a microfinance bank.
As part of LCIRAH, Dr Hull’s work contributes to a broad interdisciplinary network that aims to integrate research about agriculture and health, and to develop methodological tools for investigating the relationship between the two. She is involved in a collaborative research project with other LCIRAH members designed to develop interdisciplinary methods for analysing household food procurement strategies and their impacts on health and nutrition.
Publications
Articles
Hull, Elizabeth and James, Deborah (2012) 'Introduction: Popular Economies in South Africa.' Africa: Journal of the International Africa Institute, 82 (1). pp. 1-19.
Hull, Elizabeth (2012) 'Banking in the bush: waiting for credit in South Africa's rural economy.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 82 (1). pp. 168-186.
Hull, Elizabeth (2012) 'Paperwork and the contradictions of accountability in a South African hospital.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 18 . pp. 613-632.
Hull, Elizabeth (2012) 'The renewal of community health under the KwaZulu homeland government.' South African Historical Journal, 64 (1). pp. 22-40.
Hull, Elizabeth (2010) 'International migration, "domestic struggles" and status aspiration among nurses in South Africa.' Journal of Southern African Studies, 36 (4). pp. 851-867.
Book Reviews
Hull, Elizabeth (2010) 'Review of 'Ethnicity, Inc.' by John L. and Jean Comaroff.' American Ethnologist, 37 (4). pp. 860-861.
