Trauma of Poverty and its Psychological Impact: A Case of Kenya

Ndung’u, Elijah Macharia

doi:10.47772/ijriss.2021.5956

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“…The term 'structural violence' is rooted in Galtung's (1969) attempt to understand the gap between people's potential and their lived reality (ibid.). Writing on poverty gives an understanding of the everyday granular experience of economic oppression, although Ndung'u (2021) suggests that the links between poverty and trauma are underexplored, particularly in the sub-Saharan African context. Recent sub-Saharan feminist writing proposes that fictional writing is a particularly rich source of evidence of the everyday experiences of oppression and exploitation (Lewis and Baderoon 2021: 3), with the archives of the Feminist Africa 6 and Agenda 7 journals both providing a wealth of contextualised material on African feminist and queer realities.…”

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Contextualising Healing Justice as a Feminist Organising Framework in Africa

Shaw¹,

Amir²,

Lewin³

et al. 2022

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Healing justice is a political organising framework that aims to address the systemic causes of injustice experienced by marginalised peoples due to the harmful impacts of oppressive histories, intergenerational trauma, and structural violence. It recognises that these damaging factors generate collective trauma, which manifests in negative physical, mental–emotional, and spiritual effects in activists and in the functioning of their movements. Healing justice integrates collective healing in political organising processes, and is contextualised as appropriate to situational needs. This provided the rationale for a research study to explore the potential of healing justice for feminist activists in Africa, and how pathways to collective healing could be supported in specific contexts. Research teams in DRC, Senegal, and South Africa conducted interviews with feminist activists and healers, in addition to supplementary interviews across sub-regions of Africa and two learning events with wider stakeholders.

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Contextualising Healing Justice as a Feminist Organising Framework in Africa

Shaw¹,

Amir²,

Lewin³

et al. 2022

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“…The LGBTQI+ ecosystem faces many challenges in Kenya, as highlighted above, but this is compounded by the underlying trauma and mental health issues embedded across all sectors of Kenyan society. Because the violence of colonialism began in Kenya in 1895, numerous traumas have been reproduced in structures of governance, in political cultures and, above all, in daily interactions amongst citizens, within the community and in the homes (Juma and Githigaro, 2021; Miriri and Houreld, 2020; Ndugn’u, 2021; Njenga, 2007 and Wawira and Oloo, 2021). In Kenya, extreme poverty, high youth unemployment and a general lack of stake in society have fed into the cycles of violence to date (Lopez et al , 2019).…”

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The intersection of trauma-informed futures and the coloniality of sexuality: building futures consciousness with Kenya’s LGBTQI+ community

Lichty¹,

Kamunya²

2022

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Purpose The purpose of this study is threefold: to pilot research on the role that trauma-healing and resilience play in developing futures consciousness/literacy; to explore how this informs the coloniality of sexuality; and to engage economically marginalised young gay and bisexual men in exploring future scenarios for the wider LGBTQI+ community in Kenya. Design/methodology/approach This study used participatory action research to pilot the study. Workshop sessions focused on exploratory futures using an integral futures framework. Futures tools used consisted of the futures triangle, polak game and a two-by-two matrix scenario building exercise. Findings Participants found that previous psychosocial support and mental health counselling enabled them to address past traumas, find healing and begin a productive journey of unpacking their understanding of agency and engage with developing personal and communal futures thinking – all prerequisites for effectively addressing decoloniality. Originality/value This research represents the only study of the four-way intersection of trauma-healing, futures consciousness/literacy, the queer community in Africa and decoloniality and coloniality of sexuality.

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Trauma of Poverty and its Psychological Impact: A Case of Kenya

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

Contextualising Healing Justice as a Feminist Organising Framework in Africa

Contextualising Healing Justice as a Feminist Organising Framework in Africa

The intersection of trauma-informed futures and the coloniality of sexuality: building futures consciousness with Kenya’s LGBTQI+ community

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