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

By (author) Elizabeth Ngutuku

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Drawing from ethnographic research, this book presents childrenâ€™s 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 childrenâ€™s complex lived experience from three interlinked everyday spaces of the home, the school and support programmes. It argues that childrenâ€™s 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 childrenâ€™s voice. Aimed at fully capturing childrenâ€™s experience, listening softly focusses on the different ways that childrenâ€™s voice happen. The book challenges scholarship to go beyond multi-dimensionality and re-imagine childrenâ€™s experience as complex and entangled, use methods that are attuned to capturing childrenâ€™s messy experience of poverty, and be â€˜widely awakeâ€™ 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.