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Nexus thinking and the geographies of children, youth and families: towards an integrated research agenda

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Abstract

This paper argues for and demonstrates the value of integrating nexus thinking - a conceptual and policy framework for the multiple interdependencies between resources, most commonly food, water and energy – into the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families (GCYF). Through discussion of the two areas’ current limitations, a review of existing GCYF work on food, water, energy and materiality, and secondary auto-analysis of data generated on families’ situated environmental concerns in India and the UK, the paper identifies three key contributions of an integrated nexus thinking-GCYF research agenda. Firstly, nexus thinking can advance understandings of how children and young people negotiate multi-scalar social, political, economic and ecological processes; secondly, an integrated agenda can ‘embody’ nexus thinking by situating children and families in the nexus of interconnections; thirdly, nexus thinking offers a policy-relevant frame through which GCYF can engage questions of intergenerational justice with questions of resource sustainability.

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Author(s): Walker C

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Children's Geographies

Year: 2019

Volume: 18

Issue: 3

Pages: 351-363

Print publication date: 30/05/2020

Online publication date: 12/07/2019

Acceptance date: 01/07/2019

ISSN (print): 1473-3285

ISSN (electronic): 1473-3277

Publisher: Routledge

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2019.1642449

DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2019.1642449

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