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Accepted Paper:
Children in and out the forest: responsibility and autonomy among rural and urban Runa children
Francesca Mezzenzana
(University of Kent)
Paper short abstract:
This paper investigates how a change in the ecological context - and more specifically, a change from a rural, community-based lifestyle in the forest to an urban setting - has an effect on the ways in which indigenous Runa children develop responsibility and autonomy.
Paper long abstract:
This paper investigates how a change in the ecological context - and more specifically, a change from a rural, community-based lifestyle in the forest to an urban setting - has an effect on the ways in which indigenous Runa children develop responsibility and autonomy. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon in two different settings - an urban indigenous community and a forest village - in this paper I will explore 1) caretakers' explicit and implicit ideas about children's responsibility and autonomy; 2) patterns of child-to-child behaviour during play and work; 3) child-caretaker interactions in every day life. I will conclude by reflecting on the influence that different environmental affordances (Gibson 1966) exert upon children's everyday manifestations of autonomy and responsibility.