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Caregiving children in Malawi : children's work within families affected by illness and disability (2019)
Thesis
Kaparounaki, K. Caregiving children in Malawi : children's work within families affected by illness and disability. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221903

Chronic illness and disability can result in children caring for sick parents, younger siblings or grandparents. This PhD thesis examines children’s caring responsibilities in rural and urban areas in Malawi. It analyses the emotional aspects of care... Read More about Caregiving children in Malawi : children's work within families affected by illness and disability.

Connecting with home, keeping in touch: Physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Tanle, A., Owusu, S., De Lannoy, A., & Bango, A. (2018). Connecting with home, keeping in touch: Physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa, 88(2), 404-424. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972017000973

There is a long history of migration among low-income families in sub-Saharan Africa, in which (usually young, often male) members leave home to seek their fortune in what are perceived to be more favourable locations. While the physical and virtual... Read More about Connecting with home, keeping in touch: Physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa.

The historical geographies of European childhood in colonial Africa : children's lives in Nyasaland 1889-1964 (2018)
Thesis
Cross, B. M. The historical geographies of European childhood in colonial Africa : children's lives in Nyasaland 1889-1964. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221372

The research presented in this thesis recovers the experiences of European children who grew up in colonial Nyasaland, now known as Malawi, in the late nineteenth and early-mid twentieth centuries (1889-1964). These geographical histories of childhoo... Read More about The historical geographies of European childhood in colonial Africa : children's lives in Nyasaland 1889-1964.

Grandfathers caring for orphaned grandchildren in rural Southern Malawi : invisible in plain sight? (2018)
Thesis
Lazaro, M. C. Grandfathers caring for orphaned grandchildren in rural Southern Malawi : invisible in plain sight?. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220827

This thesis explores grandfathers’ caregiving for orphaned grandchildren in rural Southern Malawi. Using an ethnographic approach informed by intersectionality and situated within interpretivist framework, children, young people, and adults from rura... Read More about Grandfathers caring for orphaned grandchildren in rural Southern Malawi : invisible in plain sight?.

Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., de Lannoy, A., Bango, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Tanle, A., Abane, A., & Owusu, S. (2018). Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa. Journal of international development, 30(4), 539-558. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3340

Issues surrounding youth employment and unemployment are central to the next development decade. Understanding how youth use mobile phones as a means of communicating and exchanging information about employment and livelihoods is particularly import... Read More about Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa.

Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives (2017)
Book
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., & Mashiri, M. (2017). Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45431-7

This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors draw on findings from rural and urban field research extending over many years, culminating in a 24-site study across three Afric... Read More about Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives.

“My happiest time” or “my saddest time”? The spatial and generational construction of marriage among youth in rural Malawi and Lesotho (2017)
Journal Article
Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L., & Robson, E. (2018). “My happiest time” or “my saddest time”? The spatial and generational construction of marriage among youth in rural Malawi and Lesotho. Transactions - Institute of British Geographers, 43(2), 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12211

Marriage among African teenagers is currently a central focus of campaigns by UN agencies and international NGOs. Yet, marriage has received only limited attention from geographers and has largely escaped the attention of geographers of youth. In thi... Read More about “My happiest time” or “my saddest time”? The spatial and generational construction of marriage among youth in rural Malawi and Lesotho.

Fears for the future: the incommensurability of securitisation and in/securities among southern African youth (2017)
Journal Article
Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L., & Robson, E. (2017). Fears for the future: the incommensurability of securitisation and in/securities among southern African youth. Social & cultural geography, 20(4), 507-533. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1344871

Over the past two decades, southern Africa has experienced both exceptionally high AIDS prevalence and recurrent food shortages. International institutions have responded to these challenges by framing them as security concerns that demand urgent int... Read More about Fears for the future: the incommensurability of securitisation and in/securities among southern African youth.

AIDS-affected young people's access to livelihood assets: Exploring 'new variant famine' in rural southern Africa (2016)
Journal Article
Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L., & Robson, E. (2016). AIDS-affected young people's access to livelihood assets: Exploring 'new variant famine' in rural southern Africa. Journal of rural studies, 46, 23-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.05.008

Southern Africa’s exceptionally high HIV prevalence and recurrent food crises prompted De Waal and Whiteside (2003) to hypothesise a 'new variant famine' (NVF) in which inability to access food is driven by the effects of AIDS. Among the tentative ex... Read More about AIDS-affected young people's access to livelihood assets: Exploring 'new variant famine' in rural southern Africa.