ABSTRACT
Nexus thinking has become increasingly popular in global policy-making circles over the past decade but has begun to filter into more critical scholarship in geography and related disciplines. The Anthropocene narrative attests at once to the geo-power of the men whose actions – through colonisation, the introduction of plantations, industrial revolutions and global trade – are visible at scale throughout the earth’s systems. One way of understanding the more immediate, complex challenges thrown up by a site like the eco-park is through ‘nexus thinking’. Just as K. Yusoff’s conception of ‘geo-power’ signals an admixture of geologies and socialities, the ‘resource-power’ that produces any nexus – the multiple energies, flows, channels and blockages – can only be understood in radically interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary ways. Isabelle’s and Jose Antonia Perrella Balestieri’s experiences afford an even greater degree of specificity to the theorisations of ‘nexus’ and ‘resource-power’ than do the examples of environmental education and the waste site at Guaratingueta.
