The tensions between culture and human rights : emancipatory social work and Afrocentricity in a global world /

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"A critical interrogation of the relationship between cultural practices and human rights in Africa rooted in Afrocentricity and emancipatory social work. Cultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights critically interrogates the re...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sewpaul, Vishanthie (Editor ), Kreitzer, Linda, 1955- (Editor ), Raniga, Tanusha (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, [2021]
Colección:Africa, missing voices series ; no. 12.
Temas:
Human rights > Africa.
Ethnology > Africa.
Social service > Africa.
Afrocentrism.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Afrique.
Ethnologie > Afrique.
Service social > Afrique.
Afrocentrisme.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work
Afrocentrism
Ethnology
Human rights
Manners and customs
Social service
Africa > Social life and customs.
Afrique > Mœurs et coutumes.
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Culture, Human Rights, and Social Work : Colonialism, Eurocentrism, and Afrocentricity / Vishanthie Sewpaul and Linda Kreitzer
  • 1. Disrupting Popular Discourses on Ilobolo : The Role of Emancipatory Social Work in Engendering Human Rights and Social Justice / Vishanthie Sewpaul, Manqoba Victor Mdamba, and Boitmelo Seepamore
  • 2. Nigerian Marital Cultural Practices and Implications for Human Rights / Augusta Yetunde Olaore, Julie Drolet, and Israel Bamidele Olaore
  • 3. Socio-Cultural Constructions of Intensive Mothering and Othermothering : Domestic Workers' Experiences of Distance Parenting and their Conceptualization of Motherhood / Boitmuelo Seepamoore and Vishanthie Sewpaul
  • 4. Misrecognition of the Rights of People with Epilepsy in Zimbabwe : A Social Justice Perspective / Jacob Rugare Mugumbate and Mel Gray
  • 5. Harmful Cultural Practices against Women and Girls in Ghana : Implications for Human Rights and Social Work / Alice Boateng and Cynthia A. Sottie
  • 6. Intersection of Culture, Religion (Islam), and Women's Human Rights in Ethiopia : Private Lives in Focus / Yania Seid-Mekiye and Linda Kreitzer
  • 7. Implications of a Patriarchal Culture for Women's Access to "Formal" Human Rights in South Africa : A Case Study of Domestic Violence Survivors / Shahana Rasool
  • 8. Child Marriage among the Apostolic sects in Zimbabwe : Implications for Social Work Practice / Munyara Muchacha, Abel Blessing Matsika, and Tatenda Nhapi
  • 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 of Social Work in Ghana / Ziblim Abukari
  • 10. Human Rights and Medicalization of FGM/C in Sudan / Paul Bukuluki
  • 11. Cultural Dimensions of HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence : A Case Study of Alur and Tieng Adhola Cultural Institutions in Uganda / Paul Bukuluki, Ronard Mukuye, Ronald Luwangula, Aloysious Nnyombi, Juliana Naumo Akoryo, and Eunice Tumwebaze
  • 12. When National Law and Culture Coalesce : Challenges for Children's Rights in Botswana with Specific Reference to Corporal Punishment / Poloko Nuggert Ntshwarang and Vishanthie Sewpaul
  • Conclusion : Emancipatory Social Work, Ubuntu, and Afrocentricity : Antidotes to Human Rights Violations / Vishanthie Sewpaul and Linda Kreitzer
  • List of contributors
  • Index
  • Author index
  • Subject index.

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