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Nov 30, 2009, 11:01:02 AM11/30/09
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Don't forget to come listen to Liz Cooper, tomorrow, December 1st from 3:30-4:30pm in Campbell Hall room 209. Below is info about Liz and what she will be talking about. Hope to see you there!
"Investigating the ‘Orphan Crisis’: An Ethnographic Study of Experiences of Orphanhood in Western
Kenya"
This presentation will look at how children, families, communities,
non-governmental and governmental agencies in western Kenya are making
sense of what is right and wrong in current responses to orphaned
children’s care. In a context of high rates of poverty as well as
adults’ illnesses and deaths mainly due to HIV/AIDS, there are myriad
responses being fashioned and significant instability of ideas about
what is the right way for families and the state to care for orphaned
children. Drawing from sixteen months of ethnographic research between
2007 and 2009 in the city of Kisumu and a periurban agricultural
village, the presentation will discuss how interactions between
families and child care institutions, and the Kenyan government and
families and institutions, as well as public discourse about family
care and institutional care, reveal doubt and distrust on all sides,
as well as significant power imbalances which are affecting care
placements of children.
Elizabeth Cooper is a doctoral student in social anthropology at the
University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on experiences of
orphanhood in western Kenya. Elizabeth's previous work includes
research concerning violence against children in refugee settlements
in Uganda for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the
circumstances of children and youth in longterm refugee camps in Kenya
for CARE, as well as inheritance and the intergenerational
transmission of poverty in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana and Mozambique
for the Overseas Development Institute.
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Kenya"
This presentation will look at how children, families, communities,
non-governmental and governmental agencies in western Kenya are making
sense of what is right and wrong in current responses to orphaned
children’s care. In a context of high rates of poverty as well as
adults’ illnesses and deaths mainly due to HIV/AIDS, there are myriad
responses being fashioned and significant instability of ideas about
what is the right way for families and the state to care for orphaned
children. Drawing from sixteen months of ethnographic research between
2007 and 2009 in the city of Kisumu and a periurban agricultural
village, the presentation will discuss how interactions between
families and child care institutions, and the Kenyan government and
families and institutions, as well as public discourse about family
care and institutional care, reveal doubt and distrust on all sides,
as well as significant power imbalances which are affecting care
placements of children.
Elizabeth Cooper is a doctoral student in social anthropology at the
University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on experiences of
orphanhood in western Kenya. Elizabeth's previous work includes
research concerning violence against children in refugee settlements
in Uganda for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the
circumstances of children and youth in longterm refugee camps in Kenya
for CARE, as well as inheritance and the intergenerational
transmission of poverty in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana and Mozambique
for the Overseas Development Institute.
--
The Global Health Initiative
global...@osu.edu
http://osuglobalhealth.googlepages.com
http://groups.google.com/group/OSUglobalhealth
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http://osuglobalhealth.googlepages.com
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