Children's Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya

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.

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

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