ABSTRACT

This paper draws on ethnographic data to explore children’s aspirations through education within the context of poverty and vulnerability in Siaya Kenya. Since several children reported eating onge (nothing) for breakfast, they hoped that education would enable them to eat and enjoy a good future. I demonstrate that aspirations as orientations towards desired futures have affective dimensions [Huijsmans, Ansell, and Froerer. 2021. “Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations.” The European Journal of Development Research 33: 1–15]. Consequently, in drawing from Deleuze [1988. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. San Francisco, CA: City Lights] that affect is a capacity to affect and to be affected, I argue that children’s aspirations in Siaya are an assemblage of personal, relational and non-human factors of poverty, orphanhood, HIV/AIDS and other forms of marginalisation. This assemblage fuels a desire for alternative futures, and/or modifies their aspirations in complex ways. While children’s desired futures might look impossible, their aspirations are also affective becomings [Salazar. 2017. “Speculative Fabulation: Researching Worlds to Come in Antarctica.” In Anthropologies and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds, edited by Juan Salazar, Sarah Pink, Andrew Irving, and Johannes Sjöberg, 158. London: Bloomsbury], and schooling and education are sites for alternative futures, in Siaya’s continuing present.

摘要

本文利用人种学数据来探索肯尼亚西亚亚贫困和脆弱背景下儿童通过教育的愿望。由于有几个孩子报告说早餐吃onge（什么都不吃），他们希望教育能让他们吃得好，享受美好的未来。我证明了作为朝向期望未来的方向的愿望具有情感维度[Huijsmans、Ansell 和 Froerer。2021.“简介：发展、年轻人和愿望的社会生产”。欧洲发展研究杂志33：1-15]。因此，在德勒兹 [1988 年的画作中。斯宾诺莎：实践哲学. 加利福尼亚州旧金山：City Lights] 影响是一种影响和被影响的能力，我认为儿童在 Siaya 的愿望是贫困、孤儿、艾滋病毒/艾滋病和其他形式的个人、关系和非人为因素的集合的边缘化。这种组合激发了对替代未来的渴望，和/或以复杂的方式改变了他们的愿望。虽然孩子们想要的未来可能看起来不可能，但他们的愿望也是情感的产物[Salazar。2017.“投机虚构：研究南极洲的世界。” 在人类学和未来：研究新兴和不确定的世界，由 Juan Salazar、Sarah Pink、Andrew Irving 和 Johannes Sjöberg 编辑，158. London: Bloomsbury]，学校教育和教育是替代未来的场所，在 Siaya 的持续存在中。