| Pillars of the nation: Child citizens and Ugandan national development KE Cheney University of Chicago Press, 2019 | 291 | 2019 |
| Locating neocolonialism,“tradition,” and human rights in Uganda's “gay death penalty” K Cheney African Studies Review 55 (2), 77-95, 2012 | 139 | 2012 |
| Children as ethnographers: Reflections on the importance of participatory research in assessing orphans’ needs KE Cheney Childhood 18 (2), 166-179, 2011 | 116 | 2011 |
| ‘Our children have only known war’: Children's experiences and the uses of childhood in Northern Uganda KE Cheney Children's Geographies 3 (1), 23-45, 2005 | 90 | 2005 |
| Deconstructing childhood vulnerability: An introduction K Cheney Childhood in Africa 1 (2), 4-7, 2010 | 59 | 2010 |
| Crying for our elders: African orphanhood in the age of HIV and AIDS KE Cheney University of Chicago Press, 2017 | 53 | 2017 |
| ‘Giving children a better life?’Reconsidering social reproduction, humanitarianism and development in intercountry adoption K Cheney The European Journal of Development Research 26, 247-263, 2014 | 53 | 2014 |
| Expanding vulnerability, dwindling resources: Implications for orphaned futures in Uganda K Cheney Childhood in Africa 2 (1), 8-15, 2010 | 48 | 2010 |
| Addicted to orphans: How the global orphan industrial complex jeopardizes local child protection systems KE Cheney, KS Rotabi Conflict, Violence and Peace 11, 1-19, 2014 | 45 | 2014 |
| Decolonizing childhood studies: Overcoming patriarchy and prejudice in child-related research and practice K Cheney Reimagining childhood studies, 91-104, 2018 | 42 | 2018 |
| Addicted to orphans: How the global orphan industrial complex jeopardizes local child protection systems KE Cheney, KS Rotabi Conflict, violence and peace 11, 89, 2017 | 41 | 2017 |
| The orphan industrial complex: The charitable commodification of children and its consequences for child protection K Cheney, S Ucembe Disadvantaged childhoods and humanitarian intervention: processes of …, 2019 | 37 | 2019 |
| Regulating commercial global surrogacy: the best interests of the child KS Rotabi, S Mapp, K Cheney, R Fong, R McRoy Journal of human rights and social work 2 (3), 64-73, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
| Killing them softly? Using children’s rights to empower Africa’s orphans and vulnerable children K Cheney International Social Work 56 (1), 92-102, 2013 | 32 | 2013 |
| Disadvantaged childhoods and humanitarian intervention K Cheney, A Sinervo palgrave macmillan, 2019 | 30 | 2019 |
| Executive summary of the international forum on intercountry adoption and global surrogacy K Cheney ISS Working Paper Series/General Series 596, 1-40, 2014 | 26 | 2014 |
| Conflicting protectionist and participation models of children’s rights: their consequences for Uganda’s orphans and vulnerable children KE Cheney Children’s Lives in an Era of Children’s Rights: The Progress of the …, 2014 | 20 | 2014 |
| Malik and His Three Mothers: AIDS Orphans’ Survival Strategies and How Children’s Rights Translations Hinder Them K Cheney Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development, 2012 | 20 | 2012 |
| NGO economies of affect: Humanitarianism and childhood in contemporary and historical perspective A Sinervo, K Cheney Disadvantaged childhoods and humanitarian intervention: processes of …, 2019 | 19 | 2019 |
| Suffering, silence, and status: The importance and challenges of qualitative research on AIDS orphanhood KE Cheney AIDS care 27 (1), 38-40, 2015 | 15 | 2015 |
Karen Rotabi - CasaresProfessor of Social Work, California State University- Monterey BayVerified email at csumb.edu
