Turning Global Rights into Local Realities

“In this book, Afua Twum-Danso Imoh offers a sharp critique of the obsession with deficit childhoods of much of the academic literature on childhood in the Global South. She argues passionately for the need of a holistic approach that recognizes childhood and children’s rights as a continuum, a gradation of sorts which reflects a plurality of childhoods and a diversity of lived realities which intersect variously with dominant rights discourses. This is a must-read book for all who wish to understand how biased and partial knowledge about children’s lives and children’s rights in the Global South ends up limiting our capacity to see the world in all its nuance and complexity.” Spyros Spyrou, European University Cyprus “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 ""It aims to highlight that as a result of the plurality of childhoods and childhood experiences, primarily as a result of the differential social positioning of groups attributable to historical as well as more recent social changes, different lived experiences of, and attitudes to, global children’s rights norms exist within this context."" Politics and Rights Review