The Tensions Between Culture and Human Rights : Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World.

By: Sewpaul, VishanthieContributor(s): Kreitzer, Linda | Raniga, TanushaMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Issn SeriesPublisher: Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2021Copyright date: �2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (322 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781773851846Subject(s): Human rights--Africa | Africa--Social life and customs | Ethnology--AfricaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Tensions Between Culture and Human RightsDDC classification: 323.096 Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction | Culture, Human Rights, and Social Work: Colonialism, Eurocentricism, and Afrocentricity -- 1 | Disrupting Popular Discourses on Ilobolo: The Role of Emancipatory Social Work in Engendering Human Rights and Social Justice -- 2 | Nigerian Marital Cultural Practices and Implications for Human Rights -- 3 | Socio-Cultural Constructions of Intensive Mothering and Othermothering: Domestic Workers' Experiences of Distance Parenting and their Conceptualization of Motherhood -- 4 | Misrecognition of the Rights of People with Epilepsy in Zimbabwe: A Social Justice Perspective -- 5 | Harmful Cultural Practices against Women and Girls in Ghana: Implications for Human Rights and Social Work -- 6 | The Intersection of Culture, Religion (Islam), and Women's Human Rights in Ethiopia: Private Lives in Focus -- 7 | The Implications of a Patriarchal Culture for Women's Access to"Formal" Human Rights in South Africa: A Case Study of Domestic Violence Survivors -- 8 | Child Marriage Among the Apostolic Sects in Zimbabwe: Implications for Social Work Practice -- 9 | "Everybody Here Knows This, If You Want to Go to School then You Must Be Prepared to Work": Children's Rights and the Role ofSocial Work in Ghana -- 10 | Human Rights and Medicalization of FGM/C in Sudan -- 11 | Cultural Dimensions of HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence: A Case of Alur and Tieng Adhola Cultural Institutions in Uganda -- 12 | When National Law and Culture Coalesce: Challenges for Children'sRights in Botswana with SpecificReference to Corporal Punishment -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction | Culture, Human Rights, and Social Work: Colonialism, Eurocentricism, and Afrocentricity -- 1 | Disrupting Popular Discourses on Ilobolo: The Role of Emancipatory Social Work in Engendering Human Rights and Social Justice -- 2 | Nigerian Marital Cultural Practices and Implications for Human Rights -- 3 | Socio-Cultural Constructions of Intensive Mothering and Othermothering: Domestic Workers' Experiences of Distance Parenting and their Conceptualization of Motherhood -- 4 | Misrecognition of the Rights of People with Epilepsy in Zimbabwe: A Social Justice Perspective -- 5 | Harmful Cultural Practices against Women and Girls in Ghana: Implications for Human Rights and Social Work -- 6 | The Intersection of Culture, Religion (Islam), and Women's Human Rights in Ethiopia: Private Lives in Focus -- 7 | The Implications of a Patriarchal Culture for Women's Access to"Formal" Human Rights in South Africa: A Case Study of Domestic Violence Survivors -- 8 | Child Marriage Among the Apostolic Sects in Zimbabwe: Implications for Social Work Practice -- 9 | "Everybody Here Knows This, If You Want to Go to School then You Must Be Prepared to Work": Children's Rights and the Role ofSocial Work in Ghana -- 10 | Human Rights and Medicalization of FGM/C in Sudan -- 11 | Cultural Dimensions of HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence: A Case of Alur and Tieng Adhola Cultural Institutions in Uganda -- 12 | When National Law and Culture Coalesce: Challenges for Children'sRights in Botswana with SpecificReference to Corporal Punishment -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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