Turning Global Rights into Local Realities: Realizing Children’s Rights in Ghana’s Pluralistic Society (Sociology of Children and Families) - Hardcover

Twum-Danso Imoh, Afua

 
9781529227628: Turning Global Rights into Local Realities: Realizing Children’s Rights in Ghana’s Pluralistic Society (Sociology of Children and Families)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1529227623 ISBN 13: 9781529227628
Publisher: Bristol University Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Bristol University Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1529227623
ISBN 13 
9781529227628
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240