Turning Global Rights into Local Realities

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

• Introduction1. 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 Rights3. Global Children’s Rights Discourses: Imperialistic, Irrelevant, and Inapplicable to Southern Contexts?4. Historical Approaches to Child Welfare in Ghana5. From Marginal to Central: Tracing the Deployment of Children’s Rights Language in Laws and Action in Ghana6. Exploring the Multiplicity of Childhoods and Child Rearing Practices in a Pluralistic Society and the Implications for Children’s Rights7. The Plurality of Childhoods and the Significance for Rights Discourses: An Exploration of Child Duty and Work Against a Backdrop of Social Inequality8. Implications of the Pluralities of Childhood Conceptualizations and Lived Experiences in the Global South for Studies of Children’s Rights

“This book does a good job of explaining the need and, specifically, the scientific truth and necessity, for a more nuanced understanding of global childhoods. It is therefore warmly recommended to read for all scholars interested in childhood and children’s rights, as well as for students (in my view, it provides excellent teaching material).” The International Journal of Children's Rights