Doris M Kakuru
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4425650 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Doris M Kakuru |
| NOMBRES | Doris M |
| APELLIDO | Kakuru |
| FIRMA | KAKURU D M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1046-7678 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Youth Health and Wellbeing
This study aims to explore the use of digital media technologies in promoting the health and well-being of young people within a youth work setting in the non-governmental organisation sector. The study adopted a qualitative approach, Purposive sampling was used to select 20 youth workers from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating across four provinces in South Africa: Limpopo, Gauteng, the Western Cape, and the Northern Cape. Data were…
Professionalisation of youth work
This study explored the perspectives of stakeholders involved in youth development work on the barriers hindering the professionalisation of youth work. This study used a qualitative approach to provide nuanced insights into the complexities surrounding the professionalisation of youth work. Key findings of this study reveal that the barriers hindering youth work from attaining professional status, comparable to other social service professions, …
Voices and Agency
This Special Issue of Girlhood Studies emerges from an urgent and critical need to reframe the dominant narratives surrounding adolescent girls’ pregnancy and parenting and to center their lived realities. Too often, these girls are marginalized in research and policy and framed in relation to deficit-based perspectives that neither address adequately the systemic inequities that shape their lives nor recognize their capabilities and agency. This…
Suffering in Silence
Previous research has examined sexual violence among pregnant girls primarily from the perspective of adults or by using quantitative data. In this article, we refer to survivors’ narratives to illustrate how systemic structures and cultural frameworks perpetuate sexual violence that condemns girls to suffer in silence. The data was collected using photo voice and the life history interviews with young pregnant women and girls. Our findings show …
The Shadow Pandemic of Adultified Adolescent Mothers in Uganda
In Uganda, COVID-19 fueled a surge in teenage pregnancies and motherhood, a phenomenon widely described as the shadow pandemic. Prolonged school closures (2020 to 2021) intensified gender-based adultification—the premature burdening of girls with adult responsibilities. Deep-seated cultural perceptions of adolescent girls as mature women heightened their risk of exploitation, early pregnancy, and forced motherhood. Drawing on a Feminist Participa…
Deconstructing Mainstream Discourses of Child and Youth Development as It Connects to Sexualized Violence Against Children
This article reviews literature on survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) who were preschool-aged when the abuse occurred, and applies critical discourse analysis to reveal power relations within this field of research. Utilizing themes of narrative theory, this article demonstrates how the current discourse has promoted a single story of developmental trajectories marred by entrenched deficits. The reviewed literature often utilized definitive la…
Reflections on Networking Dynamics to Address Violence Against Children in Tanzania
This article is based on a study conducted to understand the functionality and connectivity of existing networks and their impact on the prevention and response to violence against children (VAC) in East Africa. We adopted an exploratory qualitative approach in which a bottom-up purposive selection of study participants was used. Data were collected using focus group discussions with grassroots actors, interviews with network leads at the grassro…
Centering Grassroots Actors in Networking for Child Protection in East Africa
Violence against children (VAC) is both a global and local concern that has resulted in several child protection initiatives by formal and informal networks in East Africa. The dominant narrative on networking for VAC prevention and response significantly focuses on the functionality of formal networks and ignores grassroots networks. We conducted research to explore the functionality and corresponding impact of diverse networks that work to prev…
Locating State Actors in Violence Against Children (Vac) Networks in Kenya
Kenya has made significant efforts to address violence against children (VAC), but its prevalence remains high. Networking of different actors has shown evidence of benefit in some sectors, but determining its effectiveness in addressing VAC has not received due scholarly attention. We conducted qualitative research, including a desk review, focus group discussions, and interviews. In this article, we apply complexity leadership theory to illumin…
Towards a Localized Understanding of Violence Against Children and Adolescents in Africa
Despite global and African continental efforts to curb violence against children (VAC), it is the fourth leading cause of death for young people aged 15 to 19 in Africa, according to a 2021 UNICEF report. In introducing this special issue on VAC in Africa, I contend that violence prevention and response efforts ought to be situated in local understandings of how violence is inflicted and experienced. Sociocultural and political ideals and values …
Networking for Violence Against Children
The rising cases of violence against children (VAC) have prompted strategies, laws, and policies to protect Ugandan children at the grassroots, subnational, and national levels. Despite the emergence of various strategies by different VAC actors who network formally and informally to address VAC, the functionality of their networks has not received adequate attention in previous research. We conducted a qualitative study to examine the dynamics o…
Navigating Student Motherhood in a Precarious Urban Context
This paper reports findings of a study on young mothers living in Uganda’s poor urban areas which have been politically labeled as informal settlements and therefore not eligible for social services delivery. Although 59% of all school dropouts in Uganda are due to young motherhood, the national education policy, and practice automatically exclude young mothers. Past studies on student motherhood addressed student mothers of all ages, and were no…
De-problematizing masculinity among heterosexual African, Caribbean, and Black male youth and men
A positive view of masculinity among ACB heterosexual men and youth could support future practice and policy interventions aimed at strengthening community responses to HIV and health
Psychosocial Experiences of HIV-Positive Women of African Descent in the Cultural Context of Infant Feeding
Infant feeding among mothers of African descent living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a critical practice that is influenced by policies, cultural expectations, and the resultant psychosocial state of the mother. Hence, this paper draws insights from a broader infant feeding study. It provides insights into how guidelines on infant feeding practices, cultural expectations, migration, or geographic status intersect to influence the psy…
Funds of knowledge in child-headed households
Much of the research on orphan and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa has focused on their risks and vulnerabilities. This article describes the 'funds of knowledge' (Moll and Greenberg, 1990) and means of acquiring new knowledge of children living in child-headed households in Uganda's Rakai District. Using ethnographic methods, the authors documented the experiences and activities of children in five rural home contexts. They advance the…
Reflections on the use of the life history method in researching rural African women
This article examines some methodological issues in using the life history approach in social research. Although there are diverse opinions on how the approach should be used, there are certain methods of collecting, analysing, and reporting ensuing data that are often associated with it; these methods were used by the authors in recent studies carried out in Uganda and Zimbabwe. The authors’ experiences show that conducting life history research…
De-problematizing masculinity among heterosexual African, Caribbean, and Black male youth and men
A positive view of masculinity among ACB heterosexual men and youth could support future practice and policy interventions aimed at strengthening community responses to HIV and health
Reflections on the use of the life history method in researching rural African women
This article examines some methodological issues in using the life history approach in social research. Although there are diverse opinions on how the approach should be used, there are certain methods of collecting, analysing, and reporting ensuing data that are often associated with it; these methods were used by the authors in recent studies carried out in Uganda and Zimbabwe. The authors’ experiences show that conducting life history research…
Funds of knowledge in child-headed households
Much of the research on orphan and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa has focused on their risks and vulnerabilities. This article describes the 'funds of knowledge' (Moll and Greenberg, 1990) and means of acquiring new knowledge of children living in child-headed households in Uganda's Rakai District. Using ethnographic methods, the authors documented the experiences and activities of children in five rural home contexts. They advance the…
Reflections on the use of the life history method in researching rural African women
This article examines some methodological issues in using the life history approach in social research. Although there are diverse opinions on how the approach should be used, there are certain methods of collecting, analysing, and reporting ensuing data that are often associated with it; these methods were used by the authors in recent studies carried out in Uganda and Zimbabwe. The authors’ experiences show that conducting life history research…
Funds of knowledge in child-headed households
Much of the research on orphan and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa has focused on their risks and vulnerabilities. This article describes the 'funds of knowledge' (Moll and Greenberg, 1990) and means of acquiring new knowledge of children living in child-headed households in Uganda's Rakai District. Using ethnographic methods, the authors documented the experiences and activities of children in five rural home contexts. They advance the…
Psychosocial Experiences of HIV-Positive Women of African Descent in the Cultural Context of Infant Feeding
Infant feeding among mothers of African descent living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a critical practice that is influenced by policies, cultural expectations, and the resultant psychosocial state of the mother. Hence, this paper draws insights from a broader infant feeding study. It provides insights into how guidelines on infant feeding practices, cultural expectations, migration, or geographic status intersect to influence the psy…
Deconstructing Mainstream Discourses of Child and Youth Development as It Connects to Sexualized Violence Against Children
This article reviews literature on survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) who were preschool-aged when the abuse occurred, and applies critical discourse analysis to reveal power relations within this field of research. Utilizing themes of narrative theory, this article demonstrates how the current discourse has promoted a single story of developmental trajectories marred by entrenched deficits. The reviewed literature often utilized definitive la…
Reflections on Networking Dynamics to Address Violence Against Children in Tanzania
This article is based on a study conducted to understand the functionality and connectivity of existing networks and their impact on the prevention and response to violence against children (VAC) in East Africa. We adopted an exploratory qualitative approach in which a bottom-up purposive selection of study participants was used. Data were collected using focus group discussions with grassroots actors, interviews with network leads at the grassro…
Centering Grassroots Actors in Networking for Child Protection in East Africa
Violence against children (VAC) is both a global and local concern that has resulted in several child protection initiatives by formal and informal networks in East Africa. The dominant narrative on networking for VAC prevention and response significantly focuses on the functionality of formal networks and ignores grassroots networks. We conducted research to explore the functionality and corresponding impact of diverse networks that work to prev…
Locating State Actors in Violence Against Children (Vac) Networks in Kenya
Kenya has made significant efforts to address violence against children (VAC), but its prevalence remains high. Networking of different actors has shown evidence of benefit in some sectors, but determining its effectiveness in addressing VAC has not received due scholarly attention. We conducted qualitative research, including a desk review, focus group discussions, and interviews. In this article, we apply complexity leadership theory to illumin…
Towards a Localized Understanding of Violence Against Children and Adolescents in Africa
Despite global and African continental efforts to curb violence against children (VAC), it is the fourth leading cause of death for young people aged 15 to 19 in Africa, according to a 2021 UNICEF report. In introducing this special issue on VAC in Africa, I contend that violence prevention and response efforts ought to be situated in local understandings of how violence is inflicted and experienced. Sociocultural and political ideals and values …
Networking for Violence Against Children
The rising cases of violence against children (VAC) have prompted strategies, laws, and policies to protect Ugandan children at the grassroots, subnational, and national levels. Despite the emergence of various strategies by different VAC actors who network formally and informally to address VAC, the functionality of their networks has not received adequate attention in previous research. We conducted a qualitative study to examine the dynamics o…
Navigating Student Motherhood in a Precarious Urban Context
This paper reports findings of a study on young mothers living in Uganda’s poor urban areas which have been politically labeled as informal settlements and therefore not eligible for social services delivery. Although 59% of all school dropouts in Uganda are due to young motherhood, the national education policy, and practice automatically exclude young mothers. Past studies on student motherhood addressed student mothers of all ages, and were no…
De-problematizing masculinity among heterosexual African, Caribbean, and Black male youth and men
A positive view of masculinity among ACB heterosexual men and youth could support future practice and policy interventions aimed at strengthening community responses to HIV and health
Youth Health and Wellbeing
This study aims to explore the use of digital media technologies in promoting the health and well-being of young people within a youth work setting in the non-governmental organisation sector. The study adopted a qualitative approach, Purposive sampling was used to select 20 youth workers from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating across four provinces in South Africa: Limpopo, Gauteng, the Western Cape, and the Northern Cape. Data were…
Professionalisation of youth work
This study explored the perspectives of stakeholders involved in youth development work on the barriers hindering the professionalisation of youth work. This study used a qualitative approach to provide nuanced insights into the complexities surrounding the professionalisation of youth work. Key findings of this study reveal that the barriers hindering youth work from attaining professional status, comparable to other social service professions, …
Voices and Agency
This Special Issue of Girlhood Studies emerges from an urgent and critical need to reframe the dominant narratives surrounding adolescent girls’ pregnancy and parenting and to center their lived realities. Too often, these girls are marginalized in research and policy and framed in relation to deficit-based perspectives that neither address adequately the systemic inequities that shape their lives nor recognize their capabilities and agency. This…
Suffering in Silence
Previous research has examined sexual violence among pregnant girls primarily from the perspective of adults or by using quantitative data. In this article, we refer to survivors’ narratives to illustrate how systemic structures and cultural frameworks perpetuate sexual violence that condemns girls to suffer in silence. The data was collected using photo voice and the life history interviews with young pregnant women and girls. Our findings show …
The Shadow Pandemic of Adultified Adolescent Mothers in Uganda
In Uganda, COVID-19 fueled a surge in teenage pregnancies and motherhood, a phenomenon widely described as the shadow pandemic. Prolonged school closures (2020 to 2021) intensified gender-based adultification—the premature burdening of girls with adult responsibilities. Deep-seated cultural perceptions of adolescent girls as mature women heightened their risk of exploitation, early pregnancy, and forced motherhood. Drawing on a Feminist Participa…
Sociology (13 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Social science (6 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (5 obras) · Focus group (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Geography (5 obras)