Geographies of food beyond food: transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil
| Autor: | Peter Kraftl, Benjamin Coles, Cristiana Zara, Sophie Hadfield-Hill, John Horton |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Cultural Studies
childhood and youth studies 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning Gender studies Geographies of food nexus-thinking young people Brazil water-energy-food nexus childhood and youth studies 02 engineering and technology water-energy-food nexus Youth studies young people Politics Scholarship nexus-thinking Geographies of food Sociology 050703 geography Nexus (standard) Brazil |
| ISSN: | 1464-9365 |
| Popis: | Engaging contemporary forms of nexus-thinking with interdisciplinary food scholarship and childhood and youth studies, this paper explores the social, cultural and political implications of young people’s entangled connections with – and beyond – food. The paper draws on a large-scale research project investigating young Brazilians’ relationships with and understandings of the water-energy-food nexus. Based upon ethnographic, mixed-methods research, we attend to young people’s everyday, material experiences of water-energy-food, and call for a transfigured nexus-thinking, alive with the lives, cares, relationalities and politics at the heart of ‘the nexus’. Through examples ranging from participants’ routines, rhythms and mobilities to experiences of food insecurity, we show how young people express a range of social-political sensibilities that articulate with food and expand nexus-thinking in several interconnected ways. First, by exposing the multi-scalar and multi-temporal processes underlying their everyday ‘nexuses’. Second, by destabilizing the water-energy-food nexus to include ever-new elements emerging from lived experiences of resource access. Third, by showing the embeddedness of resources in the cultures, politics and social fabric of communities. Fourth by uncovering the workings of social difference in articulating nexus dis/connections. It is through these encounters with youths in Brazil that we propose a (re)politicisation and critical transfiguration of nexus thinking. |
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