Turning Global Rights into Local Realities (eBook)

Realizing Children's Rights in Ghana's Pluralistic Society

Afua Twum-Danso Imoh (Autor)

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2024 | 1., First Edition
234 Seiten
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2763-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Focusing on Ghana, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from European colonial rule and the first in the world to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this book explores how dominant children's rights principles interact with the lived realities of a range of children's lives.The author considers the changeability and inconsistencies of childhoods within this context and the factors that underpin these varied intersections, including cultural norms, British colonial legacy, the influence of Christianity, urbanization, and social, economic and political transformations. Challenging one-dimensional portrayals of childhoods in the Global South, the author highlights the need for more holistic approaches to the study of children s lives and children s rights realization in Southern contexts.

Autor

Afua Twum-Danso Imoh is Associate Professor in Global Childhoods and Welfare at the University of Bristol.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Sociology of Children and Families
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: childhoods • Child Rearing Practices • Children’s Responsibilities • Children’s Rights • colonial rule • Ghana • Globalisation • Missionaries • Schooling • social change • Socialization • Social norms • THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON THE RIGHTS AND WELFARE OF THE CHILD • The Convention on the Rights of The Child
• ISBN-10: 1-5292-2763-1 / 1529227631
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5292-2763-5 / 9781529227635