Professor Tatek AbebeProfessor and Convenor of Postgraduate Programs in Childhood Studies, Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, NTNU, NorwayEmail: tatek.abebe@ntnu.noProfilePublicationsExpertiseProfileDr. Tatek Abebe is a professor and convenor of postgraduate programs in childhood studies at the Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology, NTNU. A social geographer by training, his research examines how children and young people are affected by and contribute to the socio-cultural and political-economic environments they inhabit. Abebe has conducted ethnographic research on precarious childhoods and youth in diverse African contexts, with an emphasis on labor, care, education, livelihoods and rights as well as their connections to processes of social reproduction. He is keen on using arts-based participatory research methodologies that privilege the perspectives of children and young people in ways that are not only ethical and empowering to them but also relevant for policy and advocacy.ResearchPublications Abebe, Tatek. 2021. "Storytelling through Popular Music: Social Memory, Reconciliation, and Intergenerational Healing in Oromia/Ethiopia" Part of SI focusing The Poetics and Politics of Forgetting and Remembering. Humanities 10, no. 2: 70. Abebe, T. and Biswas, T. 2021. Rights in Education: Outlines for a Decolonial, Childist Reimagination of the Future. Fennia – International Journal of Geography (2021, 1). Abebe, T. 2020. Lost Futures? Narratives of Educated Youth Precarity and Protests in the Oromia Region, Ethiopia. Children’s Geographies 18:6, 584-600. Abebe, T. 2019. Reconceptualizing Children’s Agency as a Continuum and Interdependence. Social Sciences 8 (3). Hanson, K.; Abebe, T.; Aitken, SC; Balagopalan, S; Punch, S. 2018. ‘Global/Local Research on Children and Childhood in a ‘Global’ Society. Childhood 23 (3). Abebe, T. and Waters, J. and Skelton T. (eds.) 2017. Geographies of Children and Young People: Laboring and Learning. Springer Major Reference Work. Springer. Abebe, T. 2016. Political Economy of Children’s Work: Economic Restructuring, the Coffee Trade and Social Reproduction in Post-Socialist Ethiopia. In Ansell, N. Klocker, N., and Skelton, T. (eds.) Geographies of Children and Young People: Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat. Springer. Abebe, T. and Ofosu-kusi, Y. 2016. Beyond Pluralizing African Childhoods: Editorial. Childhood: 23 (3). 303–316. Kassa, S. and Abebe, T. 2015. Qenja: Child Fostering and Relocation Practices in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Children's Geographies. Abebe, T. 2012. AIDS-affected Children, Family Collectives and the Social Dynamics of Care in Ethiopia. Geoforum 43 (2012), 540-550. Abebe, T. and Bessel, S. 2011. Dominant Discourses, Debates and Silences in Child Labour in Africa and Asia. Third World Quarterly 32 (4), 765–786. ExpertiseChildhood and Social Reproduction; Learning and Laboring; Human Rights of Children; Youth Activism and Popular Culture; Culture and Development; Participatory Approaches and Ethics; African Studies.