Children's Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya : Going Beyond Multi-Dimensionality.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulongo, Elizabeth Mulewa Ngutuku, author.

Series:

Routledge Studies in African Development Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

Drawing from ethnographic research, this presents children's complex lived experience from three interlinked everyday spaces of the home, the school and support programmes in Kenya. It will interest scholars and students of Poverty Studies, Development and Childhood Studies, Social Policy, Human and Child Rights.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Rethinking Children's Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability

2. A Genealogy of Policies on Poor and Vulnerable Children and Youth in Kenya

3. Listening Softly to Children's Voice: Generating Cartographies of Children's Experience of Poverty

4. Caring for Children in Marginalised Spaces

5. Who are the Poor and Vulnerable Children? Rhizomatic Categories

6. Cartographies of Children's 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: Children's Lived Experience of Poverty as an Entanglement.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-026930-3

1-003-35676-1

1-04-026923-0

9781003356769

OCLC:

1457639759

Publisher Number:

Https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003356769