Kristen started following the work of Marc Epprecht, Queen's University, Canada, Global Development Studies, History.
Kristen
LIKE our interest group's new Facebook page to stay in the conversation on the anthropology of children and youth: https://www.facebook.com/ACYIG
Kristen started following the work of Kristof Titeca, University of Antwerp, IOB.
Kristen
I'll be participating in this critical discussion of Kony 2012 in The Hague: https://www.facebook.com/event
Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
Faculty Member, Children and Youth Studies
Senior Lecturer
International Institute of Social Studies
About
Dr. Kristen E. Cheney is Senior Lecturer of Children and Youth Studies for the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands. She is also co-convener and advisory board chair for the 1300-member Anthropology of Children & Youth Interest Group. Her 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 entitled 'Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS' 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.
Contact Information
| Homepage: | http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.e |
| Address: | Postbus 29776 |
| IM: | Skype: nakalanzi |
