Cristiana Zara
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View article: Cultures of COVID-19: Marginalized Young People’s Experiences of a Global Pandemic in Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom
Cultures of COVID-19: Marginalized Young People’s Experiences of a Global Pandemic in Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom Open
This article attends to cultures—and cultural geographies—of COVID-19. Through a large-scale, qualitative, comparative study with 180 marginalized young people (aged—ten through twenty-four) in Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom,…
View article: <i>Água negra</i> (black water) and overwhelming details: For <i>more-than</i>-nexus approaches to global water–energy–food challenges
<i>Água negra</i> (black water) and overwhelming details: For <i>more-than</i>-nexus approaches to global water–energy–food challenges Open
This paper advances multidisciplinary research, policy, education and activisms which cohere around the concept of the ‘water–energy–food (W–E–F) nexus’ via an evidence-led critique of normative forms of nexus-thinking which draws upon res…
View article: Family experiences of urban transformation: entangled bodies, hopeful imaginations and embodied utopias
Family experiences of urban transformation: entangled bodies, hopeful imaginations and embodied utopias Open
We offer an analysis of embodied utopias, the everyday ways in which children, young people and their families experience urban transformation – urban change which has been imagined, designed and planned to be utopian. Lavasa, a private se…
View article: Venice in Varanasi: Fluid landscapes, aesthetic encounters and the unexpected geographies of tourist representation
Venice in Varanasi: Fluid landscapes, aesthetic encounters and the unexpected geographies of tourist representation Open
This article has developed from a broader research project on tourist representations and practices in Varanasi, India’s renowned sacred city and popular tourist destination situated by the ‘holy’ Ganges. Here, a recurring ‘sense of Venice…
View article: Geographies of food beyond food: transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil
Geographies of food beyond food: transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil Open
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 b…
View article: Children and young people living through the monsoon: watery entanglements and fluid inequalities
Children and young people living through the monsoon: watery entanglements and fluid inequalities Open
This paper focuses on everyday watery relations; children and young people's fluid, messy, affective encounters with the rainy season in India. We attend to the rhythms, depths, capacities and flows of water and argue that a more nuanced u…
View article: Children and young people as geological agents? Time, scale and multispecies vulnerabilities in the new epoch
Children and young people as geological agents? Time, scale and multispecies vulnerabilities in the new epoch Open
In this paper we frame children as geological agents, very much part of epoch and biospherical processes, enfolded in Earth system changes. We draw on the experiences of Indian childhoods in a context where the land, water, animals, childr…
View article: Promoting climate change transformation <i>with</i> young people in Brazil: participatory action research through a looping approach
Promoting climate change transformation <i>with</i> young people in Brazil: participatory action research through a looping approach Open
Amid research into the mounting social and environmental threats presented by climate change, young people’s everyday experiences and knowledges are often overlooked, despite being the generation that will be most affected by climate chang…
View article: Complicating childhood-nature relations: Negotiated, spiritual and destructive encounters
Complicating childhood-nature relations: Negotiated, spiritual and destructive encounters Open
The aim of this paper is to complicate predominantly western, dominant discourses of childhood-nature relations. Drawing on an approach inspired by common-world theorisations, we attend to the experiences of children and their families liv…
View article: (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 Open
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…