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

• Superior document: Issn Series
• Author: Sewpaul, Vishanthie.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kreitzer, Linda.; Raniga, Tanusha.
• Place / Publishing House: Calgary : : University of Calgary Press,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Issn Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 pages)

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Table of 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.