This volume provides a critical assessment of the mainstream western childhood constructions
and their impact to the developing world. Using African feminist and indigenous epistemological
frameworks the volume decolonizes the understanding of childhood children and youth.
Specifically the volume presents Global South contestations to mainstream western
constructions by exploring alternative notions to standardized universal understanding of
childhood. The author further deliberates childhood as a human right exploring how armed
violence hinders realization of such rights assessing humanitarian assistance during armed
violence. Besides childhood the volume explores the complex intersectional nature of youthhood
and its cultural relevance to formerly displaced communities and how this manifests in access
to and use of humanitarian assistance.
