Not Every Kid Is WEIRD: A Conversation with Francesca Mezzenzana

Authors

  • Francesca Mezzenzana Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich
  • Brady Fauth Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-5357

Abstract

Francesca Mezzenzana received a PhD in anthropology from the London School of Economics. Her current research project, LearningNatures, investigates children’s human–nonhuman relationships across cultures. In addition to her numerous academic publications, Francesca has contributed to Aeon, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Slate Magazine. She has conducted fieldwork in the Ecuadorian Amazon since 2011 and in Italy since 2019. Brady Fauth is an editor at the Rachel Carson Center and a writer in his spare time. He has continued to find ways to get lost in the same field behind his childhood home since 1993. Together, they discuss the inspirations and trepidations of a research project spanning three continents.

Author Biographies

  • Francesca Mezzenzana, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich

    Francesca Mezzenzana is an anthropologist with expertise in child socialization and the Amazon. She is the principal investigator of a Volkswagen Foundation Freigeist Grant, based at the Rachel Carson Center, that explores children’s understanding of the natural world in different cultural settings. Francesca is particularly interested in psychological anthropology, children’s socialization, and human–nonhuman relationships. When she is not at work, you can find her bathing in the Isar river, like a true Naturmensch.

  • Brady Fauth, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich

    Brady Fauth holds degrees in English literature and Germanic studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is currently pursuing graduate work at LMU Munich with a focus on the roles and representations of gardens and the curated natural world in the short stories of Katherine Mansfield.

     

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Published

31-10-2023

Issue

No. 4 (2023)

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Articles

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