Studies of Childhoods in the Global South

This book explores locally driven perspectives of childhoods in diverse contexts in the Global South to produce knowledge of Southern childhoods determined by local needs and contexts. Chapters include empirical research on child participation and activism, schooling/educational experiences, child work and street children.

Afua Twum-Danso Imoh is Associate Professor in Global Childhoods and Welfare at the University of Bristol. Much of Afua's work focuses on constructions of childhoods; children's rights and social and cultural norms; and problematising the binary between the Global North and the Global South as it relates to childhood studies. Lucia Rabello de Castro is Professor of Childhood and Youth at the Instituto de Psicologia at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is also Chief Editor of DESIDADES, a Latin American journal on childhood and youth. Her research interests focus on childhood theories and methodologies, childhood and decoloniality, children's and youth's social and political participation. Orna Naftali is the Abraham Miller Chair in Chinese Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include the anthropology of childhood and youth, gender and the family, nationalism, militarisation, and the nation-state, and children's rights and legal consciousness in the People's Republic of China.

Introduction - Studies of childhoods in the Global South: towards an epistemic turn in transnational childhood research? 1. Unsettling orthodoxy via epistemological jailbreak: Rethinking childhood, psychology, and wellbeing from the Caribbean 2. Kapwa child participation, kapwa childhood, and a path towards the indigenisation and expansion of international agreements 3. International perspectives on the participation of children and young people in the Global South 4. Considering an agency-vulnerability nexus in the lives of street children and youth 5. 'Shed', 'shed makkalu', and differentiated schooling: narratives from an Indian city 6. Untangling the Latin American child: heterogeneous temporalities of Latin American "modern" childhoods 7. Children's agency and cultural appropriation through the lens of South American anthropology: Mapuche and Toba/Qom children facing Catholic education 8. Child care and participation in the Global South: an anthropological study from squatter houses in Buenos Aires 9. Vaulting the turnstiles: dialoguing and translating childhood and agencies from Chile, Latin America 10. Disputed meanings about child labour, its consequences, and interventions: discussions based on ethnographic research in Argentina