Elizabeth Ngutuku
Biographic Data
| ID | 908901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Ngutuku |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngutuku |
| SIGNATURE | NGUTUKU E |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2070-9546 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Children's Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya: Going Beyond Multi-dimensionality
Drawing from ethnographic research, this book presents children’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 children’s complex lived experience from three interlinked everyday spaces of the home, the school and support programmes. It argues that children’s experience is formed at the interstices of material lack, histor…
Beyond Colonial Politics of Identity: Being and Becoming Female Youth in Colonial Kenya
This paper draws on biographical research among the Akamba and the Luo communities in Eastern and Western Kenya, respectively. Our research explored how practices of adolescence as a process, an institution, and a performance of identity interact with colonial modernities and imaginaries in complex ways. The biographical research was carried out predominantly with women born in the late colonial period in Kenya. We provide critical reflections on…
Re-imagining and repositioning the lived experience of children seen as outsiders in Kenya
This paper explores the contested identity and belonging for outsider-children in Kenya. I explore the experience of children born out of marriage, those from other unions, the emergent insider-outsider child and children labouring to belong. Locating this experience in a relatively protective customary and legal regime, the context of poverty and the local imaginaries of belonging reveals the complexities that animate children's lives. I argue t…
Education as future breakfast: Children’s aspirations within the context of poverty in Siaya Kenya
This paper draws on ethnographic data to explore children’s aspirations through education within the context of poverty and vulnerability in Siaya Kenya. Since several children reported eating onge (nothing) for breakfast, they hoped that education would enable them to eat and enjoy a good future. I demonstrate that aspirations as orientations towards desired futures have affective dimensions [Huijsmans, Ansell, and Froerer. 2021. “Introduction: …
Education as future breakfast: Children’s aspirations within the context of poverty in Siaya Kenya
This paper draws on ethnographic data to explore children’s aspirations through education within the context of poverty and vulnerability in Siaya Kenya. Since several children reported eating onge (nothing) for breakfast, they hoped that education would enable them to eat and enjoy a good future. I demonstrate that aspirations as orientations towards desired futures have affective dimensions [Huijsmans, Ansell, and Froerer. 2021. “Introduction: …
Re-imagining and repositioning the lived experience of children seen as outsiders in Kenya
This paper explores the contested identity and belonging for outsider-children in Kenya. I explore the experience of children born out of marriage, those from other unions, the emergent insider-outsider child and children labouring to belong. Locating this experience in a relatively protective customary and legal regime, the context of poverty and the local imaginaries of belonging reveals the complexities that animate children's lives. I argue t…
Education as future breakfast: Children’s aspirations within the context of poverty in Siaya Kenya
This paper draws on ethnographic data to explore children’s aspirations through education within the context of poverty and vulnerability in Siaya Kenya. Since several children reported eating onge (nothing) for breakfast, they hoped that education would enable them to eat and enjoy a good future. I demonstrate that aspirations as orientations towards desired futures have affective dimensions [Huijsmans, Ansell, and Froerer. 2021. “Introduction: …
Children's Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya: Going Beyond Multi-dimensionality
Drawing from ethnographic research, this book presents children’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 children’s complex lived experience from three interlinked everyday spaces of the home, the school and support programmes. It argues that children’s experience is formed at the interstices of material lack, histor…
Beyond Colonial Politics of Identity: Being and Becoming Female Youth in Colonial Kenya
This paper draws on biographical research among the Akamba and the Luo communities in Eastern and Western Kenya, respectively. Our research explored how practices of adolescence as a process, an institution, and a performance of identity interact with colonial modernities and imaginaries in complex ways. The biographical research was carried out predominantly with women born in the late colonial period in Kenya. We provide critical reflections on…
Re-imagining and repositioning the lived experience of children seen as outsiders in Kenya
This paper explores the contested identity and belonging for outsider-children in Kenya. I explore the experience of children born out of marriage, those from other unions, the emergent insider-outsider child and children labouring to belong. Locating this experience in a relatively protective customary and legal regime, the context of poverty and the local imaginaries of belonging reveals the complexities that animate children's lives. I argue t…
Sociology (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Poverty (3 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)