ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the two-pronged cartographical methodological approach I used when researching children's lived experience of poverty and vulnerability. This approach enabled me to research experience through the lens of representations, on the one hand, and how this experience is enacted in the different spaces of the home, the school and support programmes. The chapter also showcases an innovative methodological approach presented as ‘listening softly' to children's voice. Listening softly goes beyond the act of listening. It is an approach, a sensibility and a posture of apprehending children's diverse voice in research. Since listening softly cannot be defined beforehand, I instead show how it happens. I also position listening softly as part of doing justice to, and with children's voice.
