(Kristen) K.E. Cheney

All publications (94)

• Key publication (5)

  • K.E. Cheney & K.S. Rotabi (2017). Addicted to Orphans: how the orphan industrial complex jeopardizes child protection. In T. Skelton, C. Harker & K. Hörschelmann (Eds.), Conflict, Violence and Peace (Geographies of Children and Young People, vol 11) (pp. 89-107). Singapore: Springer
  • K.E. Cheney (2017). Crying for our elders: African orphanhood in the age of HIV and AIDS. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
  • K.E. Cheney (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. doi: 10.1177/0907568210390054
  • K.E. Cheney (2010). Deconstructing childhood vulnerability : an introduction. Childhood in Africa, 2 (1), 4-7. [go to publisher's site]
  • K.E. Cheney (2007). Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

• Article (24)

  • K.E. Cheney (2018). Baby markets and global inequalities: Conundrums of commodification, care, and social reproduction in international commercial surrogacy. Development and Change, 49 (4), 1127-1139. doi: 10.1111/dech.12421
  • K.E. Cheney, A. Kamusiime & A. Mekonnen Yimer (2017). Feeling ‘Blue’: Pornography and Sex Education in Eastern Africa. IDS Bulletin, 48 (1), 81-97. doi: 10.19088/1968-2017.107 [go to publisher's site]
  • K.S. Smith Rotabi, S. Mapp, K.E. Cheney, R. Fong & R. McRoy (2017). Regulating commercial global surrogacy: The best interests of the child. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 2 (3), 64-73. doi: 10.1007/s41134-017-0034-3
  • K.E. Cheney & L.A. Okwany (2017). Introduction: Toward social justice for children and youth in East Africa. Childhood in Africa, 4 (1), 4-10.
  • S. Mukasa Namubiru & K.E. Cheney (2017). Embedding social justice in Ugandan adoption and legal guardianship cases. Childhood in Africa, 4 (1), 23-33.
  • K.E. Cheney (2016). Blood binds: Confronting the moral and political economies of orphanhood and adoption in Uganda. Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research, 23 (2), 1-15. doi: 10.1177/0907568215602319
  • K.E. Cheney (2016). Preventing exploitation, promoting equity: findings from the International Forum on Intercountry Adoption and Global Surrogacy 2014. Adoption & Fostering, 40 (1), 6-19. doi: 10.1177/0308575915626377
  • K.E. Cheney (2015). Suffering, silence, and status: the importance and challenges of qualitative research on AIDS orphanhood. Aids Care-Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of Aids/Hiv, 27 (1), 38-40. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2014.963010
  • D. Watson, K.E. Cheney & H.R. Ezzat (2015). Children and young people in times of conflict and change: Child rights in the Middle East and North Africa. Global Studies of Childhood, 5 (2), 115-121. doi: 10.1177/2043610615586106
  • H. Farahat & K.E. Cheney (2015). A facade of democracy: Negotiating the rights of orphans in Jordan. Global Studies of Childhood, 5 (2), 146-157. doi: 10.1177/2043610615586101
  • K.E. Cheney (2015). Invisible Children fades away: What it means for the future of youth activism. Anthropology Today, 31 (5), 8-11. doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12198
  • K.E. Cheney (2014). Giving children a ‘better life’? Reconsidering social reproduction and humanitarianism in intercountry adoption. European Journal of Development Research, 26, 247-263. doi: 10.1057/ejdr.2013.64
  • K.E. Cheney (2014). Africa (2nd ed.). Oxford bibliographies online: Childhood studies. doi: www.academia.edu/.../_Africa_2nd_ed._2014
  • K.E. Cheney (2012). Africa. Oxford bibliographies online: Childhood studies. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199791231-0036
  • K.E. Cheney (2012). Locating Neocolonialism," Tradition," and Human Rights in Uganda's" Gay Death Penalty. African Studies Review, 55 (2), 77-95. doi: 10.1353/arw.2012.0031
  • K.E. Cheney (2012). Killing Them Softly? Using Children’s Rights to Empower Africa’s Orphans and Vulnerable Children. International Social Work, 56 (1), 92-102.
  • K.E. Cheney (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. doi: 10.1177/0907568210390054
  • K.E. Cheney (2010). Expanding vulnerability, dwindling resources : implications for orphaned futures is Uganda. Childhood in Africa, 2 (1), 8-15.
  • K.E. Cheney (2010). Deconstructing childhood vulnerability : an introduction. Childhood in Africa, 2 (1), 4-7. [go to publisher's site]
  • K.E. Cheney (2010). A debate beyond sexuality : 'tradition', human rights and Uganda's gay death penalty. Anthropology news, 51 (6), 30-30. [go to publisher's site]
  • K.E. Cheney (2005). Claiming Children¿s Rights: Children and the `Culture of Constitutionalism¿ in Uganda¿s Primary School Music Festivals. Image & Narrative, 11 (2).
  • K.E. Cheney (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.
  • K.E. Cheney (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.
  • K.E. Cheney (2003). Did the constitution produce my children!?¿: Negotiating Ugandan childhood and nationhood through performance. African Identities, 1 (1), 79-94.

• Book / Monograph / Book editorial (2)

  • K.E. Cheney (2017). Crying for our elders: African orphanhood in the age of HIV and AIDS. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
  • K.E. Cheney (2007). Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

• Part of book - Chapter (11)

  • K.E. Cheney (2019). Anthropology and the Politics of Childhood in Africa. In R.R. Grinker, S.C. Lubkemann & C. Steiner (Eds.), Companion to the Anthropology of Africa (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology) (pp. 307-322). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell
  • K.E. Cheney (2018). The making of 'orphans': How the 'orphan rescue' movement is transforming family and jeopardizing child wellbeing in Uganda. In M.R.T. de Guzman, J. Brown & C. Pope Edwards (Eds.), Parenting From Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance (pp. 133-149). Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • K.E. Cheney (2018). Decolonizing Childhood Studies: Overcoming Patriarchy and Prejudice in Child-related Research and Practice. In S. Spyrou, R. Rosen & D.T. Cook (Eds.), Reimagining Childhood Studies (pp. 91-104). London: Bloomsbury
  • K.E. Cheney (2018). International commercial surrogacy: Beyond feminist conundrums and the child as product. In R. Rosen & K. Twamley (Eds.), Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes? (pp. 155-171) London: UCL Press
  • K.E. Cheney & K.S. Rotabi (2017). Addicted to Orphans: how the orphan industrial complex jeopardizes child protection. In T. Skelton, C. Harker & K. Hörschelmann (Eds.), Conflict, Violence and Peace (Geographies of Children and Young People, vol 11) (pp. 89-107). Singapore: Springer
  • K.E. Cheney (2016). Blood always finds a way home: AIDS orphanhood and the transformation of kinship, fosterage, and children’s circulation strategies in Uganda. In C. Hunner-Kreisel & S. Bohne (Eds.), Childhood, Youth and Migration: Connecting Global and Local Perspectives (Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, 12) (pp. 245-259). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing
  • K.E. Cheney (2014). Conflicting protectionist and participation models of children’s rights: Their consequences for Uganda’s orphans and vulnerable children. In A. Twum-Danso Imoh & N. Ansell (Eds.), Children's lives in an era of childrens rights : the progress of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Africa (Routledge Research in Human Rights Law) (pp. 17-33). New York: Routledge
  • K.E. Cheney (2013). 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
  • K.E. Cheney (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
  • K.E. Cheney (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
  • K.E. Cheney (2008). Forced military conscription. In C.M. Renzetti & J.L. Edleson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of interpersonal violence. Los Angeles: Sage publishers

• Book editorship (1)

  • K.E. Cheney & A. Sinervo (Ed.). (2019). Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention: Processes of Affective Commodification and Objectification. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan

• Book review (1)

  • K.E. Cheney (2013). Youth and the City in the Global South [Bespreking van het boek Youth and the City in the Global South]. ETHNOS, 78(4), 569-570.

• Report (1)

  • K.E. Cheney (2014). Executive Summary of the International Forum on Intercountry Adoption and Global Surrogacy. (Preprints, ISS working papers. General series, no 596). The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies

• Article in volume (1)

  • K.E. Cheney (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

• Lecture (32)

  • Scholarly Publication (3)

    • K.E. Cheney & L.A. Okwany (2018, september 6). Overcoming the Adult Gaze in Participatory Research with Young People. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Contemporary Childhood Conference - Children in Space, Place and Time.
    • L.A. Okwany, K.E. Cheney & A. Kamusiime (2018, september 18). Adolescent Participatory Research: A Proactive Approach to Violence affecting Young People. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, VAC Conference - Children and Youth facing Violence in Africa: What do we know? What can we do?.
    • K.E. Cheney (2018, november 20). Let’s Make Families Stronger, Not ‘Better’ Orphanages, for Children. Humanity House, Hague Talks: Is There Justice for Children whose Rights have been Violated?.

  • Other Publication (29)

    • K.E. Cheney (2014, april 10). Waithood and Restricted Futures: focusing on the involvement of youth in the development of SRHR programmes. ISS, The Hague, Netherlands:, Partos Symposium on Youth Research and Development.
    • K.E. Cheney & A. Sinervo (2015, november 17). Children as objects of humanitarian intervention: NGO commodification of disadvantaged childhoods. Denver, CO, USA, American Anthropological Association NGO and Nonprofit Interest Group conference “NGO-graphies”.
    • K.E. Cheney (2015, november 4). ‘Feeling Blue’: studying the effects of children’s exposure to pornography and other sexually explicit media. Harare, Zimbabwe, Child Sensitive Social Policies conference, ‘Tracking child rights in Africa through research’.
    • K.E. Cheney & A. Okwany (2015, juni 9). Promoting Youth-Led Participatory Research: overcoming presumptions and prejudices. European University, Nicosia, Cyprus, 3rd international conference of the International Childhood and Youth Research Network.
    • K.E. Cheney (2015, november 22). “Feeling 'Blue': exploring the influence of pornography and sexualized media on young people's sexual identity formation in eastern Africa”. Denver, CO, USA, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.
    • K.E. Cheney (2015, april 20). Feeling 'Blue': exploring the influence of pornography and sexualised media on young people's sexual identity formation in Eastern Africa. University of Groningen, Netherlands, Population Policies and Interventions Masters course.
    • K.E. Cheney (2014, februari 21). 'Addicted to Orphans': Donor Influence in Uganda's Child Protection System. ISHS, University of Liège, Belgium, Young Lives and Globalization in Africa.
    • K.E. Cheney (2014, februari 14). Blood Binds: confronting the moral and political economies of orphanhood and international adoption in Uganda. Berlin, Germany, Doing Politics – Making Kinship: Back towards a Future Anthropology of Social Organisation and Belonging.
    • K.E. Cheney (2014, augustus 22). ‘Addicted to Orphans’: The Orphan Industrial Complex and Donor Influence in Uganda’s Child Protection System. National University, Galway, Ireland, Keynote Speaker for Symposium on 'Children, Young People and Development'.
    • K.E. Cheney (2014, september 16). Manning Up Women or Resisting Pornification? Interrogating Daily Sexism and Misogyny. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands:, Discussant for IS Academie Education and International Development lecture series event.
    • K.E. Cheney (2014, november 21). Why does the post-2015 development agenda need to pay more attention to children’s issues? University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, International Development Studies Lecture Series.
    • K.E. Cheney (2013, november 20). Recontextualizing the NGO as Fieldsite: Questions from the Field [Roundtable]. Chicago, IL, The Future of NGO Studies conference.
    • K.E. Cheney & L.A. Okwany (2013, juni 10). Neocolonialism and Homophobia in Uganda. ISS, The Hague, Netherlands, Development Research Seminar/Sexuality Research Initiative series.
    • K.E. Cheney (2013, november 7). ‘Baby come back’: inter-country adoption, globalization, and crises of social reproduction. Bilbao, Spain, 4th International Conference on Adoption Research / ICAR4.
    • K.E. CheneyA Multidisciplinary Approach: Anthropological Perspectives. Antwerp, Belgium, Human Rights for Development (HR4DEV) international training programme 2013.
    • K.E. Cheney (2013, april 5). Theorizing intercountry adoption in the global economy of childhood. San Diego, CA, USA, Society for Psychological Anthropology/Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group joint meeting.
    • K.E. CheneyRendering Invisible Children Visible: New Media, 'Spectacular Humanitarianism', and the Problem with Youth Activism in Kony 2012. Chicago, IL, USA, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.
    • K.E. Cheney“Blood Always Finds a Way Home": AIDS Orphanhood and the Transformation of Kinship, Fosterage, and Children’s Circulation Strategies in Uganda. The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK, AEGIS Thematic Workshop: Children & Migration in Africa: an Interdisciplinary Perspective.
    • K.E. CheneySeen but Not Heard: African Orphanhood as Lived Experience. San Francisco, CA, USA, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.
    • K.E. Cheney (2012, augustus 28). ‘Giving Them a Better Life’?: Poverty, Inequality, and the Circulation of Children in Difficult Circumstances. University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, Children and Youth Studies program lecture.
    • K.E. CheneyAdoption and the Contradictory Significance of ‘Blood’ in the Era of AIDS Orphanhood. Center for the Study of Childhood and Youth, University of Sheffield, UK, Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth 4th International Conference, ‘Celebrating Childhood Diversity’.
    • K.E. CheneyChildren as ethnographers: Reflections on the importance of participatory research in assessing orphans’ needs. KIT, Bhubaneswar, India, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Inter-Congress on ‘Children and Youth in a Changing World’.
    • K.E. CheneyHIV/AIDS Orphanhood, Vulnerability, and the Conundrum of Humanitarian Intervention in Africa. Liege, Belgium, Towards an Anthropology of Childhood and Children conference.
    • K.E. CheneyLocating Neocolonialism, ‘Tradition’, and Human Rights in Uganda’s ‘Gay Death Penalty’. Montreal, Canada, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.
    • K.E. CheneyRethinking Humanitarianism Involving Children. Charleston, SC, USA, American Anthropological Association Childhood Interest Group (AAACIG) joint meeting with the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR).
    • K.E. Cheney (2011, april 4). Killing Them Softly? Conflicting Protectionist and Empowerment Models of Children’s Rights and their Consequences for African AIDS Orphans. New York, NY, USA, Columbia University Human Rights Seminar.
    • K.E. Cheney (2011, juni 9). Locating Neocolonialism, ‘Tradition’, and Human Rights in Uganda’s ‘Gay Death Penalty’. Leiden University, Netherlands, African Studies Center Seminar.
    • K.E. CheneyWhose ‘Best Interests?’ Revisiting African Orphan Circulation and Children’s Rights in the Age of HIV/AIDS. New Orleans, LA, USA, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.
    • K.E. CheneyChildren as Ethnographers of Childhood: the benefits of participatory research with African AIDS orphans. VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Doors of Perception: Viewing Anthropology through the Eyes of Children conference.

• Internet article (6)

  • Scholarly Publication (4)

    • K.E. Cheney (2016). The Importance of ‘Blood,’ Identity, and Intergenerational Relationships over the Life Course of Ugandan Children Orphaned by AIDS. (blog). AAGE - Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life Course. (available: 11 May 2016).
    • K.E. Cheney (2016). The Netherlands’ proposed ban on foreign adoption and the (ab)uses of ‘scientific expertise’. (blog). OpenDemocracy: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery. (available: 10 Nov 2016).
    • K.E. Cheney (2015). The Glaring Exception in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS. (blog). ISS CYS blog. (available: 22 Feb 2015).
    • K.E. Cheney (2015). The Cognitive Dissonance between Child Rescue and Child Protection. (blog). OpenDemocracy: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery. (available: 21 Jul 2015). [go to publisher's site]

  • Professional Publication (2)

    • K.E. Cheney (2018). Children as experts: rethinking how we produce knowledge. (blog). blISS - The ISS Blog on Global Development and Social Justice. (available: 26 Sep 2018).
    • K.E. Cheney & K.S. Rotabi (2018). The Orphan Industrial Complex comes home to roost in America. (blog). blISS – the ISS blog on global development and social justice. (available: 12 Jul 2018).

• Journal editorship / Referee (4)

  • K.E. Cheney & L.A. Okwany (Eds.). (2017) Childhood in Africa, 4 (1).
  • K.E. Cheney (Ed.). (2015) Global Studies of Childhood, 5(2).
  • K.E. Cheney (Ed.). (2015) AnthropoChildren: Perspectives ethnographiques sur les enfants et l’enfance.
  • K.E. Cheney (Ed.). (2014) Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research.

• Other output (5)

  • K.E. Cheney (2016). The making of 'orphans': How the adoption movement is transforming family and jeopardizing child wellbeing in Uganda. 5th International Conference on Adoption Research (ICAR5): Auckland, New Zealand (2016, januari 7 - 2016, januari 11).
  • K.E. Cheney (2014). Organizer, International Forum on Intercountry Adoption and Global Surrogacy.
  • K.E. Cheney (2014). Expert Meeting on Comprehensive Sexuality Education.
  • K.E. Cheney (2013). AIDS Orphanhood and the Transformation of Kinship, Fosterage, and Children’s Circulation Strategies in Uganda. International Conference on Children and Migration: Gendered and Generational Perspectives: University of Vechta, Germany (2013, december 5 - 2013, december 6).
  • K.E. Cheney (2013). 'Baby Come Back': Child Circulation, Crises of Social Reproduction, and the Politica. IIPPE - International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy 4th Annual Conference in Political Economy: The Hague, Netherlands (2013, juli 9 - 2013, juli 11).

• Television or radio appearance (1)

  • K.E. Cheney (Interview) (2015, okt 18). De Bulgaarse adoptie-industrie. [televisie-uitzending]. In Brandpunt Reporter. The Hague: KRO. http://www.npo.nl/brandpunt-reporter/18-10-2015/KN_1673048

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