Lucia Rabello de Castro Editor

Afua Twum-Danso Imoh is Associate Professor in Global Childhoods and Welfare at the University of Bristol. Much of Afua’s work focuses on constructions of childhoods; children’s rights and social and cultural norms; and problematising the binary between the Global North and the Global South as it relates to childhood studies.

Lucia Rabello de Castro is Professor of Childhood and Youth at the Instituto de Psicologia at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is also Chief Editor of DESIDADES, a Latin American journal on childhood and youth. Her research interests focus on childhood theories and methodologies, childhood and decoloniality, children’s and youth’s social and political participation.

Orna Naftali is the Abraham Miller Chair in Chinese Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include the anthropology of childhood and youth, gender and the family, nationalism, militarisation, and the nation-state, and children's rights and legal consciousness in the People's Republic of China.