ABSTRACT
This chapter begins Elements of (re)connection, learning and mobility are evident in the experiences of Murilo – the 15-year-old Brazilian boy whose reflections on solar irrigators and other technologies. It seeks to add complexity and to look otherwise (and elsewhere) at children’s changing environments, this does not mean that issues of (re)connection, learning and mobility are usurped by other issues. The chapter includes but extends beyond these kinds of concerns to prompt reflection upon what else matters in, and what else is constitutive of, the many ways in which childhoods–natures might relate. It highlights, this might mean unpicking assumptions that children are separate from and therefore ‘relate with’ the environment. The chapter explores how it might be possible to consider the complexity of environmental issues through the concept of the nexus. It looks at forms of action by children – contrasting forms of (globalised) protest with the apparently banal experimentation that took place at Murilo’s school.
