Turning Global Rights into Local Realities : Realizing Children's Rights in Ghana's Pluralistic Society /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Imoh, Afua Twum-Danso
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.
Series:Sociology of children and families series.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Tracing the Western Origins of Global Children's Rights Discourses
  • 2 From the National to the International: The Makings of the Global Discourse of Children's Rights
  • 3 Global Children's Rights Discourses: Imperialistic, Irrelevant and Inapplicable to Southern Contexts?
  • 4 Historical Approaches to Child Welfare in Ghana
  • 5 From Marginal to Central: Tracing the Deployment of Children's Rights Language in Laws and Action in Ghana
  • 6 Exploring the Multiplicity of Childhoods and Child-Rearing Practices in a Pluralistic Society and the Implications for Children's Rights
  • 7 The Plurality of Childhoods and the Significance for Rights Discourses: An Exploration of Child Duty and Work Against a Backdrop of Social Inequality
  • 8 Implications of the Pluralities of Childhood Conceptualizations and Lived Experiences in the Global South for Studies of Children's Rights