Mélanie Toulhoat was invited to join the team working on the project DEGESUD — Decentering the “sciences of childhood”. Production, circulation and reappropriation of knowledge between Geneva and the countries of the South, 1919-1980, based at the University of Geneva.

With a team of 20 researchers from four continents and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the project aims to ‘examine the production, circulation, and reappropriation of scientific knowledge about childhood in Europe and the Global South during the 20th century’. Damiano Matasci and Rita Hofstetter (University of Geneva) are the project’s coordinators.

The project also implements ‘global and “equal” approach to history, focusing not only on the interconnections between “international Geneva” and non-Western worlds, but also on the agency of the individual and collective actors involved .’ Furthermore, ‘by highlighting the social, intellectual and political logics underlying the production of knowledge about childhood on a global scale’, this collaborative research will enable the team to ‘rethink North-South relations and bring a new perspective to the “century of the child”’.

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