Papers by Jarred Thompson
Human Resources for Health
Background Doctor emigration from low- and middle-income countries represents a financial loss an... more Background Doctor emigration from low- and middle-income countries represents a financial loss and threatens the equitable delivery of healthcare. In response to government imperatives to produce more health professionals to meet the country’s needs, South African medical schools increased their student intake and changed their selection criteria, but little is known about the impact of these changes. This paper reports on the retention and distribution of doctors who graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (SA), between 2007 and 2011. Methods Data on 988 graduates were accessed from university databases. A cross-sectional descriptive email survey was used to gather information about graduates’ demographics, work histories, and current work settings. Frequency and proportion counts and multiple logistic regressions of predictors of working in a rural area were conducted. Open-ended data were analysed using content analysis. Results The survey response rate w...
Human Resources for Health
Background Doctor emigration from low- and middle-income countries represents a financial loss an... more Background Doctor emigration from low- and middle-income countries represents a financial loss and threatens the equitable delivery of healthcare. In response to government imperatives to produce more health professionals to meet the country’s needs, South African medical schools increased their student intake and changed their selection criteria, but little is known about the impact of these changes. This paper reports on the retention and distribution of doctors who graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (SA), between 2007 and 2011. Methods Data on 988 graduates were accessed from university databases. A cross-sectional descriptive email survey was used to gather information about graduates’ demographics, work histories, and current work settings. Frequency and proportion counts and multiple logistic regressions of predictors of working in a rural area were conducted. Open-ended data were analysed using content analysis. Results The survey response rate w...
This paper examines the portrayals of homosexual characters in the classical noir films of Laura,... more This paper examines the portrayals of homosexual characters in the classical noir films of Laura, Gilda and Strangers on a Train. An attempt is made to position these portrayals in the political and cultural climate of the United States during the 40's and 50's.
This critical analysis compares William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" to Natasha Trethewey'... more This critical analysis compares William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" to Natasha Trethewey's anthology "Native Guard" in an effort to interrogate the intricate link between history and identity as it relates to concepts of the Old and New South in America
Drawing from historical and literary analysis, I look at Ginsburg's Howl as a piece of performanc... more Drawing from historical and literary analysis, I look at Ginsburg's Howl as a piece of performance poetry that redefined the spheres of sexuality that existed for many homosexuals during the Cold War era in the United States. Drawing from queer theory, Howl is seen as a literary cry that makes the invisible homosexual visible and destroys the silencing powers of heteronormativity
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University of Johannesburg Open Access Thesis Repository, 2019
This dissertation involves reading for the affective economies which surround—and shape the surfa... more This dissertation involves reading for the affective economies which surround—and shape the surfaces of—black male bodies represented in three, post-apartheid South African texts: The Reactive (2014) by Masande Ntshanga, the film Inxeba (2017) and Room 207 (2006) by Kgebetli Moele. Through a theoretical lens combining feminist and queer phenomenology, post-structuralist influences, affect theory and critical race theory it will be argued that the literary representations of black masculinities in the texts reveal how affective economies surrounding black male bodies come to shape the surfaces of those bodies while, in some instances, constituting moments of queer disorientation which disrupt the “straight line”(Ahmed, 2006) of culturally-idealized forms of black masculinities. This is done by framing the texts as sites where the discursive and material (im)possibilities of black, male subject formation can be read, analyzed and critiqued. Echoing Ratele (2014), I argue that masculinity studies in South Africa requires an incisive move away from the pathologizing of black males toward a deeper understanding of how African traditions along with past colonial regimes come to interact with the ontological position of domination and inequality that majority of black males in South Africa find themselves in. Focusing on the ontological position of black males in South Africa allows for truly transformative gender work which “radically revisit[s]” Black, White, straight and queer masculinities as gendered expressions which too require “forms of empowerment” that reach toward a more gender-equitable society (Gqola, 2007b:117). I argue that to empower men toward a revision of their relationships with discursively-constructed masculinities requires a critical investment into the emotional lives of men, seeking to understand how attachments to specific, idealized, masculine objects shape what black, African male subjects can do with their emotions. Such an investment is crucial for any gender transformative project. I contend that the literary and film artefacts under analysis offer an aesthetic, affective and discursive way of thinking about how the “cultural politics of emotion” (Ahmed, 2014a) impacts the gender order in South Africa.
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