Francesca Mezzenzana

Principal Investigator, LearningNatures project, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

Francesca Mezzenzana is an anthropologist working with the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon. She has a PhD in anthropology from the London School of Economics, and is the principal investigator of the LearningNatures project, based at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany.

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Written by Francesca Mezzenzana

Photo of children playing in the desert in windy conditions, with sand swirling around them and smiles on their faces.

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Childhood and adolescence

Hegemony and childcare

Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions

Francesca Mezzenzana & Gabriel Scheidecker

Four children are playing on and around wooden steps outside a raised house in a rural area, with logs and foliage in the background.

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Family life

Amazonian childcare

In the eyes of the Runa people, Western kids grow up indulged, over-mothered and incapable of facing outward to the world

Francesca Mezzenzana