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Publication List

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

  • B. Vale. 2023. The virus in the queues. Thesis II: Living and thinking crisis. 177(1).

  • B.Vale. 2023. Wasteland – tracts of land and body in the Eastern Cape Karoo, in Hodes, R. (ed.) Disease and Destiny Conference Proceedings. University of Pretoria

  • B. Vale. 2022. Karoo sanatorium: a speculative fiction based on many true stories. Anthropology and Humanism, 47(1)

  • B. Vale. 2020. Care and caring: (by) force or (by) fiction. Transformation 104. pp.11-23.

  • R. Hodes, B. Vale and E. Toska. 2020. The misclosure of an adolescent’s HIV status, in Manderson, L. and Mkhwanazi, N. (eds) Connected Lives: Households, Families, Health and Care in Contemporary South Africa. HSRC Press: Cape Town.

  • B. Vale. 2019. Care, context and chronic illness: lessons from HIV-positive adolescents and their families in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, in Mazibuko, Z. (ed.) Epidemics and Health Systems in Africa. Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection. Jacana: Johannesburg.

  • M. Di Paola and B. Vale. 2019. Knowledge, power and retaining frontline health workers in South Africa’s public health system, in Mazibuko, Z. (ed.) Epidemics and Health Systems in Africa. Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection. Jacana: Johannesburg.

  • Buthelezi, M., Skosana, D. and Vale, B. 2018. Traditional Leaders in a Democracy. Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection. Jacana: Johannesburg.

  •  R. Hodes, B. Vale, E. Toska, L. Cluver, R. Dowse and M. Ashorn. 2018. Yummy or crummy? The multisensory components of medicines-taking among HIV-positive adolescents and young adults in South Africa, Global Public Health 14(2), 284-299.

  •  B. Vale. 2018. The politics of darkness: how nightclubs make Johannesburg, in Night Fever: Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today, Vitra Design Museum: Veil am Rhein.

  • R. Hodes, J. Doubt, E. Toska, B. Vale, Cluver, L. 2018. The stuff that dreams are made of: using participatory research to explore interlinkages in HIV-positive adolescents' aspirations for development, Journal of the International AIDS Society, 21 (S1), doi: 10.1002/jia2.25057

  • B. Vale, R. Hodes, L. Cluver and M. Thabeng. 2017. Bureaucracies of Blood and Belonging: what state documents tell us about the relationship between HIV-positive youth and the state, Development and Change, 48(6), 1287-1309.

  • B. Vale, L. Cluver, R. Hodes. 2017. Negotiations of blame and care Among HIV-positive mothers and daughters in South Africa, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 31(4), 519-536.

  •  B. Vale and M. Thabeng. 2016. ‘Redeeming Lost Mothers: adolescent antiretroviral treatment and the making of home in South Africa, Medical Anthropology, 35(6), 489-502.

  • B. Vale and M. Thabeng. 2015. Mobilising AID(S)? Contesting HIV as a social and economic resource among youth in South Africa, Journal of Southern African Studies, 41(1), 797–813.

WORKING PAPERS

  • E. Vale.1 2012. ‘'You Must Make a Plan or Tell Some Story”: the practice of community health work in Cape Town.’ Centre for Social Science Research Working Paper 312. http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/cssr/pub/wp/312

  • E. Vale. 2012. ‘“Looking for Greener Pastures”: locating care work in the life histories of community health workers in Cape Town.’ Centre for Social Science Research Working Paper 313.http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/cssr/pub/wp/313

  • E. Vale. 2012. ‘“I Know This Person. Why Must I Go to Him?”: techniques of authority among community health workers in Cape Town.’ Centre for Social Science Research Working Paper 314. https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/19394

GREY LITERATURE

  • B.Vale, Karanja, Y., Bikitsha, P. 2023. (Em)powering the future: youth and the just transition in South Africa. INCLUDE Knowledge Platform. 

  • ​B. Vale, M. Flowers, J. Ronaasen, M. Rademeyer. 2023.  The early learning positive deviance initiative: summary of qualitative findings​. DataDrive2030

  • ​B.Vale et al. 2023. A transdisciplinary analysis of the shape and implications of unemployment in South Africa. Actuarial Society of South Africa.

  • ​B. Vale, E. Finestone, S. Magadla, D. Strugnell. 2022. Boosting employment for Africa's youth. INCLUDE knowledge platform.

  • B. Vale, R. Tuyeni-Peters, S. Ranchod. 2022. Inequality and demography. Inclusive Society Institute. 

  • ​B.Vale, N. Swarts. D. Strugnell. 2022. Understanding youth inequality. Inclusive Society Institute. 

  • ​B.Vale. 2022. Households and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Actuarial Society of South Africa 

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