(Kristen) KE Cheney

All publications (96)

• Key publication (5)

  • 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 & 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 doi: 10.1007/978-981-287-038-4_3
  • 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
  • S. Mukasa Namubiru & K.E. Cheney (2017). Embedding social justice in Ugandan adoption and legal guardianship cases. Childhood in Africa, 4 (1), 23-33. [go to publisher's site]
  • 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.E. Cheney & L.A. Okwany (2017). Introduction: Toward social justice for children and youth in East Africa. Childhood in Africa, 4 (1), 4-10.
  • 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 (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 (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 (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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • K.E. Cheney (2014). Africa (2nd ed.). Oxford bibliographies online: Childhood studies.
  • 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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (2010). Expanding vulnerability, dwindling resources : implications for orphaned futures is Uganda. Childhood in Africa, 2 (1), 8-15.
  • 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 (13)

  • K.E. Cheney & S. Ucembe (2019). The Orphan Industrial Complex: The Charitable Commodification of Children and Its Consequences for Child Protection. In K.E. Cheney & A. Sinervo (Eds.), Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention: Processes of Affective Commodification and Objectification (Palgrave Studies on Children and Development) (pp. 37-61). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan [go to publisher's site] doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-01623-4
  • A. Sinervo & K.E. Cheney (2019). NGO Economies of Affect: Humanitarianism and Childhood in Contemporary and Historical Perspective. In K.E. Cheney & A. Sinvero (Eds.), Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention: Processes of Affective Commodification and Objectification (Palgrave Studies on Children and Development) (pp. 1-35). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-01623-4
  • K.E. Cheney (2019). Anthropology and the Politics of Childhood in Africa. In R.R. Grinker, S.C. Lubkemann, C. Steiner & E. Gonçalves (Eds.), A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology) (pp. 307-322). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell
  • 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). 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 doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190265076.003.0007
  • 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 doi: 10.1007/978-981-287-038-4_3
  • 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 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-31111-1_15
  • 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. (Palgrave studies on children and development). New York: Palgrave-MacMillan doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-01623-4

• 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.

• Journal editorship / Referee (4)

  • Scholarly Publication (1)

    • K.E. Cheney (Ed.). (2014-) Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research.

  • Other Publication (3)

    • K.E. Cheney & L.A. Okwany (Eds.). (2017-2017) Childhood in Africa, 4 (1).
    • K.E. Cheney (Ed.). (2011-2015) AnthropoChildren: Perspectives ethnographiques sur les enfants et l’enfance.
    • K.E. Cheney (Ed.). (2015-2015) Global Studies of Childhood, 5(2).

• 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

• Website / portal (1)

  • K.E. Cheney (2019, februari 27). Children and Young People in Africa. . Retrieved May 30, 2019, from https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/abstract/document/obo-9780199791231/obo-9780199791231-0036.xml doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199791231-0036

• Lecture (32)

  • Scholarly Publication (3)

    • 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?.
    • 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.

  • Other Publication (29)

    • 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 & 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, 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 (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 (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, 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, 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 (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, 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. 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 (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. 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 (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. 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. CheneyA Multidisciplinary Approach: Anthropological Perspectives. Antwerp, Belgium, Human Rights for Development (HR4DEV) international training programme 2013.
    • 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. 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. 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. 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. CheneyLocating Neocolonialism, ‘Tradition’, and Human Rights in Uganda’s ‘Gay Death Penalty’. Montreal, Canada, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.
    • 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. 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, juni 9). Locating Neocolonialism, ‘Tradition’, and Human Rights in Uganda’s ‘Gay Death Penalty’. Leiden University, Netherlands, African Studies Center Seminar.
    • 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. 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.
    • 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.

• Internet article (5)

  • Scholarly Publication (3)

    • 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 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).

• 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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