000319811 001__ 319811 000319811 005__ 20250214145735.0 000319811 037__ $$aPHD_THESIS 000319811 090__ $$aHEITH 1546 000319811 245__ $$aIn the end days$$benactments of collapse and the struggle over privatized healthcare in Lebanon 000319811 260__ $$aGeneva$$bGraduate Institute of International and Development Studies$$c2024 000319811 269__ $$b2024 000319811 300__ $$aXIX, 258 pages$$billustrations 000319811 336__ $$aPhD Theses 000319811 508__ $$aDirecteurs de thèse: Professeur Vin-Kim Nguyen et professeure Anna-Riika Kauppinen 000319811 520__ $$aWhat ends with the end of privatized healthcare? This thesis is an ethnography of a collapse. Put differently, it’s an ethnography of healthcare when capitalism reaches an apex of crisis; when prices, social relations, identities and structures become unmoored and in flux. Among microbiologists, nurses, pharmacists, grassroots medication distributors, and physicians in Lebanon’s economic collapse, I show in the chapters of this thesis how collapse is not an end, but a re-organization and a transformation. In private hospitals, neighborhood pharmacies, microbiological research laboratories, and medication distribution campaigns, this thesis documents this transformation as it plays out in a highly privatized healthcare system. In this thesis, I suggest that economic collapse not only takes place at the level of a national economy, but also at the register of agentive changes in routinized everyday behavior—what I have called the enactments of collapse. These enactments participate in widening a field of struggle around privatized healthcare, opening up spaces of doing things differently. Even if contested and incremental, such widenings may reverberate into the politics of healthcare in Lebanon for years to come. 000319811 700__ $$aRizk, Anthony 000319811 8564_ $$uhttps://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/319811/files/Rizk-PhDThesis-Final.pdf$$9d45c6283-29de-4ab8-8067-f7bbbf39fb47$$s8388254 000319811 909CO $$ooai:repository.graduateinstitute.ch:319811$$pGLOBAL_SET 000319811 980__ $$aDOANT 000319811 981__ $$aoverwrite 000319811 981__ $$a319935