T Abebe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5875 |
|---|---|
| NOME | T Abebe |
| PRENOMES | T |
| SOBRENOME | Abebe |
| ASSINATURA | ABEBE T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3811-0486 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 384 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Ethiopian girls narratives of risk and governance of circular migration to the Arabian Gulf
This article explores Ethiopian girls' narratives of risks and vulnerability during their migratory journeys to, in and from Saudi Arabia. It discusses how risks of deprivation and abuse that drive girls to leave their homes are sustained during the migration process. The research primarily draws on interviews with 35 deported girls from Saudi Arabia to analyse intersecting structural, sociocultural, gendered and personal factors that force them …
Why commoning matters in childhood studies
Pakistani children's lived experiences of relationships in the context of child protection services in Norway
This paper examines how children from immigrant background experience and negotiate power relations with family and social workers in the context of child protection services (CPS) in Norway. Using the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) methodology, 11 children from Pakistani background were interviewed about their lived experiences with CPS. Analysis of the data highlights that children have to negotiate and navigate generational and…
The war within
This article demonstrates how children’s emotional experiences in the context of child protection services (CPS) impact their choices in everyday lives. It draws on a qualitative study examining the lived experiences of children from Pakistani backgrounds with Norwegian CPS. The data analysis shows that children’s emotions are social and relational, interacting with their broader politico-cultural environment, as they are both shaped and being sh…
Celebrating Childhood's 30th anniversary
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling
Teaching 'global childhoods' in Childhood Studies
Childhood studies programs and generic social science programs in universities across the world increasingly offer courses that in some way focus on ‘global childhoods’. For this webinar, we will bring into conversations four prominent scholars who, based on their teaching and research experiences on ‘global childhoods’, will explore and reflect on four sets of ideas: theoretical and empirical framing of ‘global childhoods’, questions around inte…
Southern theories and decolonial childhood studies
This special issue contributes insights into ongoing debates on the politics and ethics of knowledge production in "global" childhood studies by decentering dominant, northern-centric models of childhood and using southern epistemologies. We contest the ways in which most of the world's children have their experiences and contexts interpreted through the theoretical canons, vernaculars and institutions of northern academia. Drawing on studies tha…
Storytelling through Popular Music
Drawing on a popular music video titled ‘Beelbaa’ by a young Oromo artist, Jambo Jote, this article discusses the moments and contexts that compel young people to speak up in subtle and poetic ways. By interpreting the content of the lyrics, doing a visual analysis of the music video, and connecting both to contemporary discourses, it explores how researching social memory through music can be used as a lens to understand Ethiopian society, polit…
Lost futures? Educated youth precarity and protests in the Oromia region, Ethiopia
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the connections between young people's livelihoods, education and visions of the future in Ethiopia. It engages with educated youth's narratives of precarity, dispossession, and ‘intimate exclusions,’ discussing how development has impacted rural livelihoods. Educated youth protests in the Oromia region reveal how shortages of farmland and education play crucial roles in the conflict about …
Children’s experiences with Child Protection Services
Research shows that young adults, previously in contact with Child Protection Services (CPS) often have lower overall wellbeing when compared to their peers in the general population. To redress this balance and fulfil children’s right to receive good quality and child-centred services, the child’s lived experience of the CPS processes and interventions must be better understood. There is research with children about specific aspects of CPS, such…
Reconceptualising Children's Agency as Continuum and Interdependence
Although the idea that children are social actors is well-recognised within childhood studies, the structural contexts shaping child agency and the everyday practices that manifest in children's social relationships with other generations are not fully elucidated. This article identifies and discusses multiple and often contradictory concepts of agency as well as a framework for re-conceptualizing it as a continuum, and as interdependent. The cen…
Global/local' research on children and childhood in a 'global society
Beyond pluralizing African childhoods
This Special Issue of Childhood moves beyond stereotypical images of African children to document the complex ways in which contemporary realities and processes of social transformations shape and are shaped by children's everyday lives. In this editorial, we bring together perspectives that are drawn from 10 articles that report findings from six countries: Zambia, Rwanda, South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda and Ghana. The insights generated reveal t…
Suffering and thriving
Drawing on the findings of a qualitative research in rural Zambia involving 24 children (9- to 16-year old), this article advances our understandings of the ways in which familial and inter-generational relationships influence the experiences, impacts, conceptualizations and interpretations of poverty. It is argued that boys and girls interpret poverty largely in social and relational terms - ways that mirror social interdependence. Key dimension…
Advancing ethical research with children
This viewpoint article reflects upon the recent surge of formal and institutional ethics requirements, particularly for research with children. Drawing on our experiences of researching with children and communities in economically poor contexts, we critically discuss three interrelated perspectives that help shift the focus of attention about the ethics of research in the global south from the geographical and conceptual margins to the center. F…
Qenja
In this article we discuss temporary relocation and informal labour of children in rural Ethiopia. We respond to the call ‘to understand the wider logic underlying child relocation and non-parental residence among populations experiencing poverty’ (Boyden, J. 2013. “We're Not Going to Suffer Like this in the Mud: Educational Aspirations, Social Mobility and Independent Child Migration among Populations Living in Poverty.” Compare: A Journal of Co…
Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development
Building on recent human rights scholarship, childhood studies and child rights programming, this conceptual framework on children's rights proposes three key-notions: living rights, or the lived experiences in which rights take shape; social justice, or the shared normative beliefs that make rights appear legitimate for those who struggle to get them recognised; and translations, or the complex flux between different beliefs and perspectives on …
Dominant Discourses, Debates and Silences on Child Labour in Africa and Asia
Drawing on the relevant literature, this article explores key debates and controversies on child labour in the context of Africa and Asia. It first identifies and analyses three dominant discourses on child labour: 1) the work-free childhoods perspective; 2) the socio-cultural perspective; and 3) the political economy perspective. Against the backdrop of these discourses, the article goes on to critically examine aspects of child labour that are …
Aids-affected children, family collectives and the social dynamics of care in Ethiopia
Livelihoods, care and the familial relations of orphans in eastern Africa
Although the impact of AIDS-induced mortality and morbidity is well-researched, few studies explore the interaction and reciprocity of care between children and their households. Drawing on participatory research methods (interviews, focus groups, photo-essays, story writing and observations), we bring together the findings of two qualitative studies from rural communities in Ethiopia and Kenya involving 94 orphans and their households. We argue …
Beyond the 'Orphan Burden
Although African children have long been acknowledged as making meaningful contributions in processes of social and economic reproduction, orphans due to AIDS are viewed as simple 'burdens', mere objects of pity and charity appeals. Existing studies on the care of AIDS-affected children by extended families are also highly polarized, focusing either on how the traditional system of childcare has collapsed (the 'social rupture thesis') or how it i…
Multiple methods, complex dilemmas
The paper explores the methodological and socio-ethical dilemmas of researching with disadvantaged children in two contrasting fieldwork settings in Ethiopia. The challenges of adhering to dominant, ‘Western’ ethical principles and of creating and sharing ethical spaces during fieldwork are discussed. It is argued that research ethics originating in the Global North entail standards that are difficult to apply in social, cultural and economic con…
Begging as a Livelihood Pathway of Street Children in Addis Ababa
This article explores the working lives of street children in Addis Ababa, focusing in particular on an analysis of begging. Based on participatory research approaches, it discusses the social and economic significance of begging for impoverished children, documenting what they beg for, how and why, as well as what they think about their involvement in the activity. It is argued that although begging is a way of life that some children have follo…
Social Actors and Victims of Exploitation
This article explores the role of children in household livelihoods among the Gedeo ethnic community in Ethiopia. Three themes are discussed - reproductive activities, entrepreneurial work in marketplaces and sociospatial mobility - in the context of recent theoretical debates over children's agency and social competence. With shifts in rural livelihoods, children have developed new agentic and entrepreneurial skills in domestic work, trade and m…
Reconceptualising Children's Agency as Continuum and Interdependence
Although the idea that children are social actors is well-recognised within childhood studies, the structural contexts shaping child agency and the everyday practices that manifest in children's social relationships with other generations are not fully elucidated. This article identifies and discusses multiple and often contradictory concepts of agency as well as a framework for re-conceptualizing it as a continuum, and as interdependent. The cen…
Children, Aids and the politics of orphan care in Ethiopia
Changing Livelihoods, Changing Childhoods
This article explores the dynamics of children's work among the Gedeo ethnic community in southern Ethiopia. It examines how a shift in livelihood strategies, accompanied by unfair trade, the HIV/AIDS epidemic and neo-liberal policies, is affecting the survival strategies of children within families. The growing significance of export-led crops like coffee over the local subsistence economy has changed rural livelihoods. With plummeting coffee pr…
Earning a living on the margins
This paper explores the everyday life experiences of boys and girls who beg on the streets in Addis Ababa. Based on seven months of child‐focused research, it discusses begging as an often overlooked but crucial aspect of social reproduction in which children earn resources in order to contribute towards their household livelihoods. It is argued that child beggars are not passive victims of their circumstances, but are aware of the fact that begg…
Multiple methods, complex dilemmas
The paper explores the methodological and socio-ethical dilemmas of researching with disadvantaged children in two contrasting fieldwork settings in Ethiopia. The challenges of adhering to dominant, ‘Western’ ethical principles and of creating and sharing ethical spaces during fieldwork are discussed. It is argued that research ethics originating in the Global North entail standards that are difficult to apply in social, cultural and economic con…
Lost futures? Educated youth precarity and protests in the Oromia region, Ethiopia
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the connections between young people's livelihoods, education and visions of the future in Ethiopia. It engages with educated youth's narratives of precarity, dispossession, and ‘intimate exclusions,’ discussing how development has impacted rural livelihoods. Educated youth protests in the Oromia region reveal how shortages of farmland and education play crucial roles in the conflict about …
Beyond pluralizing African childhoods
This Special Issue of Childhood moves beyond stereotypical images of African children to document the complex ways in which contemporary realities and processes of social transformations shape and are shaped by children's everyday lives. In this editorial, we bring together perspectives that are drawn from 10 articles that report findings from six countries: Zambia, Rwanda, South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda and Ghana. The insights generated reveal t…
Southern theories and decolonial childhood studies
This special issue contributes insights into ongoing debates on the politics and ethics of knowledge production in "global" childhood studies by decentering dominant, northern-centric models of childhood and using southern epistemologies. We contest the ways in which most of the world's children have their experiences and contexts interpreted through the theoretical canons, vernaculars and institutions of northern academia. Drawing on studies tha…
Advancing ethical research with children
This viewpoint article reflects upon the recent surge of formal and institutional ethics requirements, particularly for research with children. Drawing on our experiences of researching with children and communities in economically poor contexts, we critically discuss three interrelated perspectives that help shift the focus of attention about the ethics of research in the global south from the geographical and conceptual margins to the center. F…
Global/local' research on children and childhood in a 'global society
Qenja
In this article we discuss temporary relocation and informal labour of children in rural Ethiopia. We respond to the call ‘to understand the wider logic underlying child relocation and non-parental residence among populations experiencing poverty’ (Boyden, J. 2013. “We're Not Going to Suffer Like this in the Mud: Educational Aspirations, Social Mobility and Independent Child Migration among Populations Living in Poverty.” Compare: A Journal of Co…
Children’s experiences with Child Protection Services
Research shows that young adults, previously in contact with Child Protection Services (CPS) often have lower overall wellbeing when compared to their peers in the general population. To redress this balance and fulfil children’s right to receive good quality and child-centred services, the child’s lived experience of the CPS processes and interventions must be better understood. There is research with children about specific aspects of CPS, such…
Social Actors and Victims of Exploitation
This article explores the role of children in household livelihoods among the Gedeo ethnic community in Ethiopia. Three themes are discussed - reproductive activities, entrepreneurial work in marketplaces and sociospatial mobility - in the context of recent theoretical debates over children's agency and social competence. With shifts in rural livelihoods, children have developed new agentic and entrepreneurial skills in domestic work, trade and m…
Aids-affected children, family collectives and the social dynamics of care in Ethiopia
Suffering and thriving
Drawing on the findings of a qualitative research in rural Zambia involving 24 children (9- to 16-year old), this article advances our understandings of the ways in which familial and inter-generational relationships influence the experiences, impacts, conceptualizations and interpretations of poverty. It is argued that boys and girls interpret poverty largely in social and relational terms - ways that mirror social interdependence. Key dimension…
Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development
Building on recent human rights scholarship, childhood studies and child rights programming, this conceptual framework on children's rights proposes three key-notions: living rights, or the lived experiences in which rights take shape; social justice, or the shared normative beliefs that make rights appear legitimate for those who struggle to get them recognised; and translations, or the complex flux between different beliefs and perspectives on …
Dominant Discourses, Debates and Silences on Child Labour in Africa and Asia
Drawing on the relevant literature, this article explores key debates and controversies on child labour in the context of Africa and Asia. It first identifies and analyses three dominant discourses on child labour: 1) the work-free childhoods perspective; 2) the socio-cultural perspective; and 3) the political economy perspective. Against the backdrop of these discourses, the article goes on to critically examine aspects of child labour that are …
Begging as a Livelihood Pathway of Street Children in Addis Ababa
This article explores the working lives of street children in Addis Ababa, focusing in particular on an analysis of begging. Based on participatory research approaches, it discusses the social and economic significance of begging for impoverished children, documenting what they beg for, how and why, as well as what they think about their involvement in the activity. It is argued that although begging is a way of life that some children have follo…
The war within
This article demonstrates how children’s emotional experiences in the context of child protection services (CPS) impact their choices in everyday lives. It draws on a qualitative study examining the lived experiences of children from Pakistani backgrounds with Norwegian CPS. The data analysis shows that children’s emotions are social and relational, interacting with their broader politico-cultural environment, as they are both shaped and being sh…
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling
Beyond the 'Orphan Burden
Although African children have long been acknowledged as making meaningful contributions in processes of social and economic reproduction, orphans due to AIDS are viewed as simple 'burdens', mere objects of pity and charity appeals. Existing studies on the care of AIDS-affected children by extended families are also highly polarized, focusing either on how the traditional system of childcare has collapsed (the 'social rupture thesis') or how it i…
Changing Livelihoods, Changing Childhoods
This article explores the dynamics of children's work among the Gedeo ethnic community in southern Ethiopia. It examines how a shift in livelihood strategies, accompanied by unfair trade, the HIV/AIDS epidemic and neo-liberal policies, is affecting the survival strategies of children within families. The growing significance of export-led crops like coffee over the local subsistence economy has changed rural livelihoods. With plummeting coffee pr…
Children, Aids and the politics of orphan care in Ethiopia
Earning a living on the margins
This paper explores the everyday life experiences of boys and girls who beg on the streets in Addis Ababa. Based on seven months of child‐focused research, it discusses begging as an often overlooked but crucial aspect of social reproduction in which children earn resources in order to contribute towards their household livelihoods. It is argued that child beggars are not passive victims of their circumstances, but are aware of the fact that begg…
Multiple methods, complex dilemmas
The paper explores the methodological and socio-ethical dilemmas of researching with disadvantaged children in two contrasting fieldwork settings in Ethiopia. The challenges of adhering to dominant, ‘Western’ ethical principles and of creating and sharing ethical spaces during fieldwork are discussed. It is argued that research ethics originating in the Global North entail standards that are difficult to apply in social, cultural and economic con…
Begging as a Livelihood Pathway of Street Children in Addis Ababa
This article explores the working lives of street children in Addis Ababa, focusing in particular on an analysis of begging. Based on participatory research approaches, it discusses the social and economic significance of begging for impoverished children, documenting what they beg for, how and why, as well as what they think about their involvement in the activity. It is argued that although begging is a way of life that some children have follo…
Social Actors and Victims of Exploitation
This article explores the role of children in household livelihoods among the Gedeo ethnic community in Ethiopia. Three themes are discussed - reproductive activities, entrepreneurial work in marketplaces and sociospatial mobility - in the context of recent theoretical debates over children's agency and social competence. With shifts in rural livelihoods, children have developed new agentic and entrepreneurial skills in domestic work, trade and m…
Livelihoods, care and the familial relations of orphans in eastern Africa
Although the impact of AIDS-induced mortality and morbidity is well-researched, few studies explore the interaction and reciprocity of care between children and their households. Drawing on participatory research methods (interviews, focus groups, photo-essays, story writing and observations), we bring together the findings of two qualitative studies from rural communities in Ethiopia and Kenya involving 94 orphans and their households. We argue …
Beyond the 'Orphan Burden
Although African children have long been acknowledged as making meaningful contributions in processes of social and economic reproduction, orphans due to AIDS are viewed as simple 'burdens', mere objects of pity and charity appeals. Existing studies on the care of AIDS-affected children by extended families are also highly polarized, focusing either on how the traditional system of childcare has collapsed (the 'social rupture thesis') or how it i…
Dominant Discourses, Debates and Silences on Child Labour in Africa and Asia
Drawing on the relevant literature, this article explores key debates and controversies on child labour in the context of Africa and Asia. It first identifies and analyses three dominant discourses on child labour: 1) the work-free childhoods perspective; 2) the socio-cultural perspective; and 3) the political economy perspective. Against the backdrop of these discourses, the article goes on to critically examine aspects of child labour that are …
Aids-affected children, family collectives and the social dynamics of care in Ethiopia
Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development
Building on recent human rights scholarship, childhood studies and child rights programming, this conceptual framework on children's rights proposes three key-notions: living rights, or the lived experiences in which rights take shape; social justice, or the shared normative beliefs that make rights appear legitimate for those who struggle to get them recognised; and translations, or the complex flux between different beliefs and perspectives on …
Advancing ethical research with children
This viewpoint article reflects upon the recent surge of formal and institutional ethics requirements, particularly for research with children. Drawing on our experiences of researching with children and communities in economically poor contexts, we critically discuss three interrelated perspectives that help shift the focus of attention about the ethics of research in the global south from the geographical and conceptual margins to the center. F…
Qenja
In this article we discuss temporary relocation and informal labour of children in rural Ethiopia. We respond to the call ‘to understand the wider logic underlying child relocation and non-parental residence among populations experiencing poverty’ (Boyden, J. 2013. “We're Not Going to Suffer Like this in the Mud: Educational Aspirations, Social Mobility and Independent Child Migration among Populations Living in Poverty.” Compare: A Journal of Co…
Beyond pluralizing African childhoods
This Special Issue of Childhood moves beyond stereotypical images of African children to document the complex ways in which contemporary realities and processes of social transformations shape and are shaped by children's everyday lives. In this editorial, we bring together perspectives that are drawn from 10 articles that report findings from six countries: Zambia, Rwanda, South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda and Ghana. The insights generated reveal t…
Suffering and thriving
Drawing on the findings of a qualitative research in rural Zambia involving 24 children (9- to 16-year old), this article advances our understandings of the ways in which familial and inter-generational relationships influence the experiences, impacts, conceptualizations and interpretations of poverty. It is argued that boys and girls interpret poverty largely in social and relational terms - ways that mirror social interdependence. Key dimension…
Global/local' research on children and childhood in a 'global society
Reconceptualising Children's Agency as Continuum and Interdependence
Although the idea that children are social actors is well-recognised within childhood studies, the structural contexts shaping child agency and the everyday practices that manifest in children's social relationships with other generations are not fully elucidated. This article identifies and discusses multiple and often contradictory concepts of agency as well as a framework for re-conceptualizing it as a continuum, and as interdependent. The cen…
Lost futures? Educated youth precarity and protests in the Oromia region, Ethiopia
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the connections between young people's livelihoods, education and visions of the future in Ethiopia. It engages with educated youth's narratives of precarity, dispossession, and ‘intimate exclusions,’ discussing how development has impacted rural livelihoods. Educated youth protests in the Oromia region reveal how shortages of farmland and education play crucial roles in the conflict about …
Children’s experiences with Child Protection Services
Research shows that young adults, previously in contact with Child Protection Services (CPS) often have lower overall wellbeing when compared to their peers in the general population. To redress this balance and fulfil children’s right to receive good quality and child-centred services, the child’s lived experience of the CPS processes and interventions must be better understood. There is research with children about specific aspects of CPS, such…
Storytelling through Popular Music
Drawing on a popular music video titled ‘Beelbaa’ by a young Oromo artist, Jambo Jote, this article discusses the moments and contexts that compel young people to speak up in subtle and poetic ways. By interpreting the content of the lyrics, doing a visual analysis of the music video, and connecting both to contemporary discourses, it explores how researching social memory through music can be used as a lens to understand Ethiopian society, polit…
Southern theories and decolonial childhood studies
This special issue contributes insights into ongoing debates on the politics and ethics of knowledge production in "global" childhood studies by decentering dominant, northern-centric models of childhood and using southern epistemologies. We contest the ways in which most of the world's children have their experiences and contexts interpreted through the theoretical canons, vernaculars and institutions of northern academia. Drawing on studies tha…
The war within
This article demonstrates how children’s emotional experiences in the context of child protection services (CPS) impact their choices in everyday lives. It draws on a qualitative study examining the lived experiences of children from Pakistani backgrounds with Norwegian CPS. The data analysis shows that children’s emotions are social and relational, interacting with their broader politico-cultural environment, as they are both shaped and being sh…
Celebrating Childhood's 30th anniversary
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling
Teaching 'global childhoods' in Childhood Studies
Childhood studies programs and generic social science programs in universities across the world increasingly offer courses that in some way focus on ‘global childhoods’. For this webinar, we will bring into conversations four prominent scholars who, based on their teaching and research experiences on ‘global childhoods’, will explore and reflect on four sets of ideas: theoretical and empirical framing of ‘global childhoods’, questions around inte…
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