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Conclusion: Ways out of postcolonial dilemmas -- Notes -- 8 Beyond paternalism: Plea for the de-paternalization of children's protection and participation -- Introduction -- How to understand paternalism -- Paternalism against children -- Paternalism and children's rights -- Child protection between...

Ambivalences of human rights -- Universality claim and cultural reference of children's rights -- Best interests assessments in the pitfalls of universalism and cultural relativism -- Case studies on dilemmas of children's rights -- Dilemmas due to different concepts of children's rights: the case o...

Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Racist civilization of children in Latin America -- Introduction -- Racist arbitrariness against 'illegitimate' children -- 'Civilization' of indigenous and 'irregular' children -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Pitfalls of postcolonial education and child policies in Africa -- In...

Steps towards the decolonization of childhoods -- Notes -- 3 Postcolonial theories from the Global South -- Introduction -- Basic ideas of postcolonial theory -- African contributions to postcolonial theory -- Latin American contributions to postcolonial theory -- Conclusion and outlook -- Notes --...

Front Cover -- Decolonizing Childhoods: From Exclusion to Dignity -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I How to understand childhoods in the postcolonial context -- 1 Childhoods from postcolonial perspectives -- Introduction -- Limitati...