Points of convergence: Deploying the geographies of critical nexus-thinking
Points of convergence: Deploying the geographies of critical nexus-thinking
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10.1177/25148486211022570
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2021-06
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C. Walker;Benjamin Coles
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作者：
C. Walker;Benjamin Coles
近年来，“联系”概念已成为资源相互作用（特别是粮食、水和能源之间的相互作用）的隐喻，是解决资源可持续性问题的政策工具，也是学术分析的对象。本文认为，到目前为止，关系的概念化和应用的方式总是不完整的，这标志着一个协调一致的尝试，提请地理奖学金的概念化的关系思维，提供一个更完整的阅读资源地理和他们的潜在的相互作用。我们提出了关键的关系思维作为一个概念框架，用于追踪资源关系形成的地理位置，包括人类和非人类人口进入这种关系，以及如何治理常规资源的相互作用和“冲击”可以影响这些人口。为了调动关键的关系思维作为一个概念框架，我们画出三个点的衔接关系的政策逻辑和关键的地理/科学奖学金：社会物质生态的相互作用，规模政治，流动，堵塞和不连接。我们通过分析部署关键的关系思维，将2014/2015年圣保罗大都市区的“水危机”扩展到其他地点，空间和材料，以批判性地评估资源治理的政治，物质性和空间性，我们用这个例子来指出学者如何在其他情况下应用关键的关系思维分析。
In recent years, the concept of ‘nexus’ has become a metaphor for resource interactions (particularly between food, water and energy), a policy apparatus to address resource sustainability and an object of academic analysis. Contending that the ways that nexus has been conceptualised and applied so far are invariably incomplete, this paper marks a concerted attempt to draw geographical scholarship into the conceptualisation of nexus-thinking to offer a more complete reading of resource geographies and their underlying interactions. We present critical nexus-thinking as a conceptual framework for tracing the geographies fashioned by resource nexuses, including the enrolment of human and non-human populations into such nexuses, and how the governance of both routine resource interactions and of ‘shocks’ can impact on such populations. To mobilise critical nexus-thinking as a conceptual framework, we draw out three points of convergence between nexus policy logics and critical geographic/scientific scholarship: socio-material-ecological interactions, politics of scale, and flows, blockages and dis/connectivity. We deploy critical nexus-thinking through analysis that extends the 2014/2015 ‘water crisis’ in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area to other sites, spaces and materials in order to critically evaluate the politics, materiality and spatiality of resource governance, and we use this example to point to how scholars might apply critical nexus-thinking analyses in other contexts.