K Pells
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 48766 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | K Pells |
| NOMBRES | K |
| APELLIDO | Pells |
| FIRMA | PELLS K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3949-5587 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Violence prevention through legislative change
Physical punishment violates children's rights as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and has consistently been linked to detrimental outcomes, yet it remains legal in most countries. In the UK, it is prohibited in Scotland and Wales, whereas in England and Northern Ireland, the defence of 'reasonable punishment' remains available to parents. We report findings from a qualitative study that sought to understand how law reform…
Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) at Home
This article will provide an example of how the ‘Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Online psychosocial support through the arts in Rwanda’ project used digital art-based workshops to facilitate social and community cohesion and mental health provision. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an increased need for psychosocial support due to the economic and social pressures of lockdown and yet many individuals had less access to mental health provisio…
‘No-One Can Tell a Story Better than the One Who Lived It’
The intergenerational legacies of conflict and violence for children and young people are typically approached within research and interventions through the lens of trauma. Understandings of childhood and trauma are based on bio-psychological frameworks emanating from the Global North, often at odds with the historical, political, economic, social and cultural contexts in which interventions are enacted, and neglect the diversity of knowledge, ex…
Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP)
This article will provide an overview of how the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) has attempted to explore the use of interdisciplinary art-based practices for peacebuilding in Rwanda. In particular, we will detail how performance has been used to create a two-way system of communication between young people and policy-makers based on the issues that young peopl…
Children’s Economic and Social Rights and Child Poverty
This article focuses on both economic and social rights ( esr ) and child poverty. In doing so, it identifies and considers key developments and gaps in child rights scholarship ( crs ) in these areas. The authors’ treatment of these issues together is logical (albeit certainly not inevitable) given the strong connection between esr and poverty. Both are areas which have been under-explored in crs : esr have been historically under-theorised and …
The state-as-parent
This article attempts to think across and beyond the fields of childhood studies and parenting culture studies by employing postcolonial, relational and temporal lenses to explore child–parent–state relations and how these relations have been constructed, represented and enacted over time. Using the case study of Rwanda, we suggest that the phenomenon of state-as-parent functions symbolically and instrumentally to establish state legitimacy and n…
A socioecological approach to children’s experiences of violence
The scale and extent of violence towards children in different settings is increasingly well documented. However, few studies have attempted to draw on children’s perspectives to understand the linkages between forms of violence, as well as the factors that contribute to, and sustain, violence. We draw together findings from a collaborative project between UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti and Young Lives, a 15-year longitudinal cohort study …
Negotiating agency in cases of intimate partner violence in Vietnam
Understandings of women's agency in cases of intimate partner violence (IPV) have been dominated by an individualistic focus on help-seeking behaviour. The role of children in influencing, enabling and restricting the decision-making processes of their mothers has been largely ignored. We adopt biographical analytical approaches to qualitative longitudinal data collected as part of the Young Lives study to highlight the interdependency of women's…
Promising developments? Children, youth and post-genocide reconstruction under the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)
Children and youth, in whom visions of national development are invested, are central to post-conflict state-building efforts. In the case of Rwanda, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) has initiated an ambitious programme of state re-engineering that seeks to transform Rwanda into a knowledge-based economy and thereby achieve middle-income status by 2020. Success or failure of this imagined future is largely contingent on the 65% of the population…
Trauma Counseling
Rights are everything we don't have’
Rights-based approaches have been presented as the panacea to working with children deemed to be ‘at risk’, by shifting the emphasis from children as vulnerable beneficiaries to children as active participants. While rights-based programming has facilitated a conceptual shift, it is less clear what has been achieved in practice. Based upon research conducted in Rwanda, this article explores the influence of rights-based discourses on intervention…
Risky lives
Child protection has focused on responding to interpersonal violence and abuse. This approach can detach children from the broader socio-economic and political structures which shape their life chances, by concentrating on the symptoms of risk rather than the underlying causes. Drawing on the Young Lives study of childhood poverty, this paper argues that poverty and inequalities are at the heart of childhood risk, shaping which children are at ri…
Integrating Children's Human Rights and Child Poverty Debates
There are few attempts to link human rights discourses and child poverty debates, though the field is expanding. Within sociology, both the study of rights and of childhood are marginal. This article utilises a sociological approach to bridge rights and poverty debates in relation to children and explore why there are barriers to implementing children's rights in specific instances. Drawing on Young Lives research, a longitudinal study of childre…
Keep going despite everything”
Purpose Bringing together anthropological and sociological conceptions of “the everyday” with the new social studies of childhood, this paper seeks to challenge the predominance of the trauma paradigm in understanding the impact of the 1994 Rwandan genocide upon children and youth. Design/methodology/approach In focus group and ethnographic research conducted with Rwandan children and young people aged between 12 and 25, the challenges identified…
We've Got Used to the Genocide; It's Daily Life That's the Problem”
The impact and enduring legacies of the 1994 genocide and the HIV/AIDS epidemic on Rwandan youth are well documented by such agencies as Human Rights Watch and UNICEF. Estimates suggest that ten pe
Addressing Urgent Community Mental Health Needs in Rwanda
Rwandan leaders in the health and educational sectors have begun to discuss the necessity for establishing culturally appropriate community-based mental health counselling services in Rwanda, especially trauma counselling. The need for a community psychology approach is anchored in the lingering effects of the genocide and the continuing post-traumatic stress symptoms suffered by many in the population. Capacity building in an effort like this wo…
Promising developments? Children, youth and post-genocide reconstruction under the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)
Children and youth, in whom visions of national development are invested, are central to post-conflict state-building efforts. In the case of Rwanda, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) has initiated an ambitious programme of state re-engineering that seeks to transform Rwanda into a knowledge-based economy and thereby achieve middle-income status by 2020. Success or failure of this imagined future is largely contingent on the 65% of the population…
Rights are everything we don't have’
Rights-based approaches have been presented as the panacea to working with children deemed to be ‘at risk’, by shifting the emphasis from children as vulnerable beneficiaries to children as active participants. While rights-based programming has facilitated a conceptual shift, it is less clear what has been achieved in practice. Based upon research conducted in Rwanda, this article explores the influence of rights-based discourses on intervention…
Keep going despite everything”
Purpose Bringing together anthropological and sociological conceptions of “the everyday” with the new social studies of childhood, this paper seeks to challenge the predominance of the trauma paradigm in understanding the impact of the 1994 Rwandan genocide upon children and youth. Design/methodology/approach In focus group and ethnographic research conducted with Rwandan children and young people aged between 12 and 25, the challenges identified…
Integrating Children's Human Rights and Child Poverty Debates
There are few attempts to link human rights discourses and child poverty debates, though the field is expanding. Within sociology, both the study of rights and of childhood are marginal. This article utilises a sociological approach to bridge rights and poverty debates in relation to children and explore why there are barriers to implementing children's rights in specific instances. Drawing on Young Lives research, a longitudinal study of childre…
The state-as-parent
This article attempts to think across and beyond the fields of childhood studies and parenting culture studies by employing postcolonial, relational and temporal lenses to explore child–parent–state relations and how these relations have been constructed, represented and enacted over time. Using the case study of Rwanda, we suggest that the phenomenon of state-as-parent functions symbolically and instrumentally to establish state legitimacy and n…
A socioecological approach to children’s experiences of violence
The scale and extent of violence towards children in different settings is increasingly well documented. However, few studies have attempted to draw on children’s perspectives to understand the linkages between forms of violence, as well as the factors that contribute to, and sustain, violence. We draw together findings from a collaborative project between UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti and Young Lives, a 15-year longitudinal cohort study …
Risky lives
Child protection has focused on responding to interpersonal violence and abuse. This approach can detach children from the broader socio-economic and political structures which shape their life chances, by concentrating on the symptoms of risk rather than the underlying causes. Drawing on the Young Lives study of childhood poverty, this paper argues that poverty and inequalities are at the heart of childhood risk, shaping which children are at ri…
Addressing Urgent Community Mental Health Needs in Rwanda
Rwandan leaders in the health and educational sectors have begun to discuss the necessity for establishing culturally appropriate community-based mental health counselling services in Rwanda, especially trauma counselling. The need for a community psychology approach is anchored in the lingering effects of the genocide and the continuing post-traumatic stress symptoms suffered by many in the population. Capacity building in an effort like this wo…
We've Got Used to the Genocide; It's Daily Life That's the Problem”
The impact and enduring legacies of the 1994 genocide and the HIV/AIDS epidemic on Rwandan youth are well documented by such agencies as Human Rights Watch and UNICEF. Estimates suggest that ten pe
Keep going despite everything”
Purpose Bringing together anthropological and sociological conceptions of “the everyday” with the new social studies of childhood, this paper seeks to challenge the predominance of the trauma paradigm in understanding the impact of the 1994 Rwandan genocide upon children and youth. Design/methodology/approach In focus group and ethnographic research conducted with Rwandan children and young people aged between 12 and 25, the challenges identified…
Trauma Counseling
Rights are everything we don't have’
Rights-based approaches have been presented as the panacea to working with children deemed to be ‘at risk’, by shifting the emphasis from children as vulnerable beneficiaries to children as active participants. While rights-based programming has facilitated a conceptual shift, it is less clear what has been achieved in practice. Based upon research conducted in Rwanda, this article explores the influence of rights-based discourses on intervention…
Risky lives
Child protection has focused on responding to interpersonal violence and abuse. This approach can detach children from the broader socio-economic and political structures which shape their life chances, by concentrating on the symptoms of risk rather than the underlying causes. Drawing on the Young Lives study of childhood poverty, this paper argues that poverty and inequalities are at the heart of childhood risk, shaping which children are at ri…
Integrating Children's Human Rights and Child Poverty Debates
There are few attempts to link human rights discourses and child poverty debates, though the field is expanding. Within sociology, both the study of rights and of childhood are marginal. This article utilises a sociological approach to bridge rights and poverty debates in relation to children and explore why there are barriers to implementing children's rights in specific instances. Drawing on Young Lives research, a longitudinal study of childre…
Promising developments? Children, youth and post-genocide reconstruction under the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)
Children and youth, in whom visions of national development are invested, are central to post-conflict state-building efforts. In the case of Rwanda, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) has initiated an ambitious programme of state re-engineering that seeks to transform Rwanda into a knowledge-based economy and thereby achieve middle-income status by 2020. Success or failure of this imagined future is largely contingent on the 65% of the population…
Negotiating agency in cases of intimate partner violence in Vietnam
Understandings of women's agency in cases of intimate partner violence (IPV) have been dominated by an individualistic focus on help-seeking behaviour. The role of children in influencing, enabling and restricting the decision-making processes of their mothers has been largely ignored. We adopt biographical analytical approaches to qualitative longitudinal data collected as part of the Young Lives study to highlight the interdependency of women's…
A socioecological approach to children’s experiences of violence
The scale and extent of violence towards children in different settings is increasingly well documented. However, few studies have attempted to draw on children’s perspectives to understand the linkages between forms of violence, as well as the factors that contribute to, and sustain, violence. We draw together findings from a collaborative project between UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti and Young Lives, a 15-year longitudinal cohort study …
The state-as-parent
This article attempts to think across and beyond the fields of childhood studies and parenting culture studies by employing postcolonial, relational and temporal lenses to explore child–parent–state relations and how these relations have been constructed, represented and enacted over time. Using the case study of Rwanda, we suggest that the phenomenon of state-as-parent functions symbolically and instrumentally to establish state legitimacy and n…
Children’s Economic and Social Rights and Child Poverty
This article focuses on both economic and social rights ( esr ) and child poverty. In doing so, it identifies and considers key developments and gaps in child rights scholarship ( crs ) in these areas. The authors’ treatment of these issues together is logical (albeit certainly not inevitable) given the strong connection between esr and poverty. Both are areas which have been under-explored in crs : esr have been historically under-theorised and …
Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) at Home
This article will provide an example of how the ‘Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Online psychosocial support through the arts in Rwanda’ project used digital art-based workshops to facilitate social and community cohesion and mental health provision. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an increased need for psychosocial support due to the economic and social pressures of lockdown and yet many individuals had less access to mental health provisio…
‘No-One Can Tell a Story Better than the One Who Lived It’
The intergenerational legacies of conflict and violence for children and young people are typically approached within research and interventions through the lens of trauma. Understandings of childhood and trauma are based on bio-psychological frameworks emanating from the Global North, often at odds with the historical, political, economic, social and cultural contexts in which interventions are enacted, and neglect the diversity of knowledge, ex…
Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP)
This article will provide an overview of how the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) has attempted to explore the use of interdisciplinary art-based practices for peacebuilding in Rwanda. In particular, we will detail how performance has been used to create a two-way system of communication between young people and policy-makers based on the issues that young peopl…
Violence prevention through legislative change
Physical punishment violates children's rights as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and has consistently been linked to detrimental outcomes, yet it remains legal in most countries. In the UK, it is prohibited in Scotland and Wales, whereas in England and Northern Ireland, the defence of 'reasonable punishment' remains available to parents. We report findings from a qualitative study that sought to understand how law reform…
Political science (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Children's Rights and Participation (6 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Genocide (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Public relations (5 obras)