Studies of Childhoods in the Global South

Towards an Epistemic Turn in Transnational Childhood Research?

Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Lucia Rabello de Castro, Orna Naftali, Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Lucia Rabello de Castro, Orna Naftali

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032746364
• eBook ISBN: 9781040152713
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

What would a body of literature, focusing on Southern childhoods, look like when epistemologically driven by the demands (social, cultural, economic, political) of the localities in which they are shaped and produced? To answer this question, this book explores locally driven perspectives of childhoods in diverse contexts in the Global South to produce knowledge of Southern childhoods determined, not by Northern priorities and frameworks, but by local needs and contexts.

Given the intensification of global processes and the extent to which the local and the global intersect in the everyday lives of children and their families, this edited volume demonstrates that a focus on the epistemological demands of localities necessarily grapples with global as well as local processes and concepts. Chapters in this collection include empirical research on child participation and activism, schooling/educational experiences, child work and street children. They use methodologies ranging from arts-based methods to participant observation, and engage with theories relating to child participation, agency and vulnerability to produce a key resource on Southern childhoods.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Thematics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• 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
• 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
• Index