(Re)thinking (re)connection: Young people, "natures" and the water-energy-food nexus in São Paulo State, Brazil
(Re)thinking (re)connection: Young people, "natures" and the water-energy-food nexus in São Paulo State, Brazil
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（重新）思考（重新）联系：巴西圣保罗州的年轻人、“自然”和水-能源-食物的关系
DOI：
10.1111/tran.12277
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Kraftl P
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Kraftl P
本文批判性地分析了当代普遍存在的呼吁儿童和青少年与自然和自然资源“重新联系”的话语。与此同时，它还反思了新出现的各种形式的联系思维和政策，这些思维和政策寻求确定和管理不同部门之间的联系，特别是水、能源和粮食部门之间的联系。这两个学术领域都关注不同类型和不同空间尺度的联系。基于巴西圣保罗州的一个大规模混合方法研究项目，本文探讨了如何将这些相当不同的文献结合起来，以便（重新）思考跨不同空间，政治和物质登记册的（重新）连接概念。通过研究巴西专业人员和青年人对水-能源-粮食关系的经验和了解，该文件对儿童、青年、环境教育和关系思维方面的学术研究作出了若干实质性贡献。最重要的是，有人认为，而不是免除它们，有多种可能性扩大和复杂化的概念（重新）连接，这依赖于一个更细致入微的分析的后勤，技术，社会和政治背景中的关系构成。因此，我们的工作通过对（特别是）年轻人日常与水，食物和能源的具体接触进行“自下而上”的分析来翻转主导形式的关系思维。我们的研究结果表明，年轻人是“连接”与自然和水能源粮食的关系，在相当传统的方式和方式，大大超出了当代话语的童年，自然（特别是在阐明护理和社区的重要性）。因此，在本文中提倡的关系的方法可以使更多的细微差别，政治意识的概念化（重新）连接，无论是内部和超越奖学金的童年性质和关系思维。
This paper critically analyses pervasive contemporary discourses that call for children and young people to be “reconnected” with nature and natural resources. Simultaneously, it reflects on emerging forms of nexus thinking and policy that seek to identify and govern connections between diverse sectors, and especially water, energy and food. Both of these fields of scholarship are concerned with connections, of different kinds, and at different spatial scales. Based on a large‐scale, mixed‐method research project in São Paulo State, Brazil, this paper explores how these rather different literatures could be combined in order to (re)think notions of (re)connection that operate across different spatial, political and material registers. Through research with Brazilian professionals and young people about their experiences of, and learning about, the water–energy–food nexus, the paper makes several substantive contributions to scholarship on childhood, youth, environmental education and nexus thinking. Centrally, it is argued that, rather than dispense with them, there are manifold possibilities for expanding and complicating notions of (re)connection, which rely on a more nuanced analysis of the logistical, technical, social and political contexts in which nexuses are constituted. Thus, our work flips dominant forms of nexus thinking by privileging a “bottom‐up” analysis of (especially) young people's everyday, embodied engagements with water, food and energy. Our resultant findings indicated that young people are “connected” with natures and with the water–energy–food nexus, in both fairly conventional ways and in ways that significantly extend beyond contemporary discourses about childhoods–natures (and particularly in articulating the importance of care and community). Consequently, the nexus approach that is advocated in this paper could enable more nuanced, politically aware conceptualisations of (re)connection, both within and beyond scholarship on childhoods–natures and nexus thinking.