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

Author:   Elizabeth Ngutuku
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   172
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
Format:   Paperback
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Children's Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya: Going Beyond Multi-dimensionality


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Author:   Elizabeth Ngutuku
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032411972


ISBN 10:   103241197
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of 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

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Children’s 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 children’s rights studies. Karl Hanson, Director of the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland This exceptionally argued book, children’s 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 Children’s lived experience of poverty and vulnerability draws on children’s 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 Children’s 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


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Elizabeth Ngutuku is a Researcher at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

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