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Kristen Cheney
Kristen Cheney
Rural Development, Environment and Population Studies (SG4)
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Senior Lecturer
T: +31 70 4260 575
Room: 4.11
Personal website: http://iss.academia.edu/KristenCheney
Profile
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Professional experience
| University | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| School | International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) |
| Department | Rural Development, Environment and Population Studies (SG4) |
Research
Kristen Cheney's research focuses on children’s survival strategies amidst difficult circumstances in Eastern and Southern Africa. Her book Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development (2007, University of Chicago Press) looks broadly at the social intersections of childhood and nationhood. She is currently working on a manuscript based on her Fulbright-funded ethnographic research with orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). Her work takes an explicitly child-centered approach while still considering the hegemonic practices of government, development industry, and family, and their effects on children’s choices. Keywords: Africa, children/childhood, development, education, ethnicity, HIV/AIDS, humanitarianism, identity, intercountry adoption, nationalism, orphans, peace/security, rights, sexuality, vulnerability
ISS: Individual Research SGIV| Role | Member |
Publications
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- Cheney, K.E. (2011). Children as ethnographers: reflections on the importance of participatory research in assessing orphans’ needs. Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research, 18(2), 166-179.
- Cheney, K.E. (2010). Deconstructing childhood vulnerability : an introduction. Childhood in Africa, 2(1), 4-7.
- Cheney, K.E. (2007). Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
- Cheney, K.E. (2012). Locating Neocolonialism," Tradition," and Human Rights in Uganda's" Gay Death Penalty. African Studies Review, 55(2), 77-95.
- Cheney, K.E. (2012). Africa. Oxford bibliographies online: Childhood studies.
- Cheney, K.E. (2011). Children as ethnographers: reflections on the importance of participatory research in assessing orphans’ needs. Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research, 18(2), 166-179.
- Cheney, K.E. (2010). Deconstructing childhood vulnerability : an introduction. Childhood in Africa, 2(1), 4-7.
- Cheney, K.E. (2010). Expanding vulnerability, dwindling resources : implications for orphaned futures is Uganda. Childhood in Africa, 2(1), 8-15.
- Cheney, K.E. (2010). A debate beyond sexuality : 'tradition', human rights and Uganda's gay death penalty. Anthropology news, 51(6), 30-30.
- Cheney, K.E. (2005). Our children have only known war: Children's experiences and the uses of childhood in northern Uganda. Children's Geographies, 3(1), 23-45.
- Cheney, K.E. (2005). Claiming Children’s Rights: Children and the ‘Culture of Constitutionalism’ in Uganda’s Primary School Music Festivals. Image & Narrative, 11(2).
- Cheney, K.E. (2004). Village Life is Better than Town Life’: Identity, Migration, and Development in the Lives of Ugandan Child Citizens. African Studies Review, 47(3), 1-22.
- Cheney, K.E. (2003). Did the constitution produce my children!?’: Negotiating Ugandan childhood and nationhood through performance. African Identities, 1(1), 79-94.
- Cheney, K.E. (2007). Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
- Cheney, K.E. (2012). Seen but not Heard: African Orphanhood as Lived Experience. In M.O. Ensor (Ed.), African Childhoods: Education, Development, Peacebuilding, and the Youngest Continent (pp. 95-108). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Cheney, K.E. (2012). Malik and His Three Mothers: AIDS Orphans’ Survival Strategies and How Children’s Rights Translations Hinder Them. In K. Hanson & O. Nieuwenhuys (Eds.), Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development: : Living Rights, Social Justice, Translations (pp. 152-172). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Cheney, K.E. (2011). Ethnographic research with young people on AIDS orphans’ survival strategies in Uganda. In P. Alderson & V. Morrow (Eds.), The Ethics of Research with Children and Young People : A Practical Handbook (pp. 61-61). London: Sage.
- Cheney, K.E. (2008). Forced military conscription. In C.M. Renzetti & J.L. Edleson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of interpersonal violence. Los Angeles: Sage publishers.
- Cheney, K.E. (2007). Global Rights Discourse, National Developments, and Local Childhoods: Dilemmas of Childhood and Nationhood in Uganda, East Africa. In R. Findlay & S. Salbayre (Eds.), Histoires d’enfant, histoires d’enfance, Tome I: Civilisation (GRAAT No. 36, June 2007) Histoire de l' Education. Tours, France: Presses Universitaires François Rabelais.
