<div>1. Introduction: Exploring Children’s Lives Beyond the Binary of the global North and Global South.- Part I Intersections Between the Global and the Local in Children’s Lives in the Context of Their Communities.- 2. Teaching “Global Childhoods”: From a Cultural Mapping of “Them” to a Diagnostic Reading of “Us/US”.- 3. "Child Labour” and Children’s Lives.- 4. “Ours” or “Theirs”: Locating the “Criminal Child” in Relation to Education in the Postcolonial Context of India.- 5. Young People and Brazil’s Statute on the Right-to-the-City.- 6. “Family is Everyone who Comes Through the Doors of Our Home”: West African Concepts of Family Bridging the North-South Divide in the Diaspora.- Part II Exploring Dissonance and Synergy in Children’s Lives Across World Areas.- 7. “Disabled” Versus “Nondisabled”: Another Redundant Binary?.- 8. Children’s Use of Music in Understanding Time: Perspectives from Singapore, Australia, and the US.- 9. Children’s Resilience and Constructions of Childhood: Cross-Cultural Considerations.- 10. Child Protection Across Worlds: Young People's Challenges Within and Outside of Child Protection Programmes in UK and Zanzibar Schools.- 11. Environment and Children’s Everyday Lives in India and England: Exploring Children’s Situated Perspectives on Global-Local Environmental Concerns.- 12. Comparing Children's Care Work Across Majority and Minority Worlds.- 13. Reflections on Binary Thinking. </div>