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Children's Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya: Going Beyond Multi-dimensionality [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 172 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, 1 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge Studies in African Development
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 103241197X
  • ISBN-13: 9781032411972
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 172 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, 1 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge Studies in African Development
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 103241197X
  • ISBN-13: 9781032411972
Drawing from ethnographic research, this book presents childrens lived experience of poverty and vulnerability in Kenya. By taking the case of Siaya, Kenya, which has some of the lowest indicators of child well-being, the book presents childrens complex lived experience from three interlinked everyday spaces of the home, the school and support programmes.

It argues that childrens experience is formed at the interstices of material lack, historically as well as politically located factors and the complex context of social relations. The book is anchored in an innovative methodology of listening softly to childrens voice. Aimed at fully capturing childrens experience, listening softly focusses on the different ways that childrens voice happen. The book challenges scholarship to go beyond multi-dimensionality and re-imagine childrens experience as complex and entangled, use methods that are attuned to capturing childrens messy experience of poverty, and be widely awake in each intervention context to capture the emergent fluid experience of children.

Presenting a non-linear, contextual, entangled and complex experience of poverty and vulnerability, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of Poverty Studies, Development Studies, Childhood Studies, Social Policy, Critical studies, Human and Child Rights and African Studies.

Arvustused

Childrens Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability considers the complexities, entanglements and fluidity of existing frameworks and categorizations in child poverty and vulnerability. Written in a clear and engaging style and meticulously crafted arguments , the book offers highly original and stimulating insights into the field of childhood and childrens rights studies.

Karl Hanson, Director of the Centre for Childrens Rights Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland

This exceptionally argued book, childrens lived experience of poverty and vulnerability provides an interesting reading about changing representations of childhood in resource-limited settings in Africa. These perspectives that draw from locally embedded notions of childhood, parenthood and poverty have significant implications for child protection policy processes

Erick Otieno Nyambedha, Professor of Anthropology, Maseno University, Kenya

Childrens lived experience of poverty and vulnerability draws on childrens voice to frame their experience. The nuanced injustices, inequities and resilience provided complexify the realities of growing up in an African context. It is a must-read for policymakers, teachers, postgraduate students and others who work with children.

HB Ebrahim, UNESCO Co-chair and Research Professor for Early Childhood, University of South Africa

The book Childrens lived experience of poverty and vulnerability draws from award-winning ethnographic research. Written in a lucid and engaging style, it is a must-read for those interested in epistemic justice for children, the epistemologies of the South, poverty and social justice debates for children.

Auma Okwany, Associate Professor of Social Policy The International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

1. Introduction: Rethinking Childrens Lived Experience of Poverty and
Vulnerability
2. A Genealogy of Policies on Poor and Vulnerable Children and
Youth in Kenya
3. Listening Softly to Childrens Voice: Generating
Cartographies of Childrens Experience of Poverty
4. Caring for Children in
Marginalised Spaces
5. Who are the Poor and Vulnerable Children? Rhizomatic
Categories
6. Cartographies of Childrens Schooling Experience
7. The
Politics of Needs Construction in Support programmes
8. Subjectivating
Practices in Programmes of Support and Messy Agency by Children
9.
Conclusion: Childrens Lived Experience of Poverty as an Entanglement
Elizabeth Ngutuku is a Researcher at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.