ABSTRACT
Child poverty and vulnerability experience is complex and negotiated at diverse interstices of embodiment, material, state and other relational contexts. However, dominant methods in research have (mis)represented this experience as universal and linear whilst marginalising children and caregiver perspectives. This is exacerbated for very young children, birth to 3 years, whose voice is often muted. This chapter explores the poverty experience of young children in Kenya. In privileging a methodological perspective of listening softly to children, I recast their experience as small stories, often told outside the realm of dominant knowledge production that engages the linear and standardised accounts of poverty and vulnerability experience.
