C Zara
Biographic Data
| ID | 28379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Zara |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Zara |
| SIGNATURE | ZARA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0129-324X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Transformative adaptation in times of polycrisis: Insights from Milan’s New Urban Economies
European cities are increasingly shaped by polycrisis, where economic instability, social inequality, environmental stress, and institutional fragmentation intersect and reinforce one another. In this context, growth- and competitiveness-driven urban strategies often deepen exclusionary dynamics, even when framed as sustainable or innovative. At the same time, cities have seen the rise of New Urban Economies (NUEs) that seek to re-embed economic …
Cultures of Covid-19: Marginalized Young People's Experiences of a Global Pandemic in Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom
Água negra (black water) and overwhelming details: For more-than -nexus approaches to global water–energy–food challenges
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 research with 3705 diverse young people's (aged 10–24 years) W–E–F experiences in SE Brazil. We consider how the neat, cool, ostensibly authoritative buzzword style of W–E–F nexus-thinking is radically unsettled – …
Family experiences of urban transformation: Entangled bodies, hopeful imaginations and embodied utopias
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 sector, hill city development in the Indian state of Maharashtra, is one such utopian vision. We use the lenses of citizenship, control, precarity and performance to show how participants embody utopia. In sites o…
Geographies of food beyond food: Transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil
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 beyond – food. The paper draws on a large-scale research project investigating young Brazilians’ relationships with and understandings of the water-energy-food nexus. Based upon ethnographic, mixed-methods resear…
Venice in Varanasi: Fluid landscapes, aesthetic encounters and the unexpected geographies of tourist representation
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' emerged from Western travel narratives and landscape representations, evoked by both visual and more- than-visual encounters. Drawing on cultural geographies of landscape engaging postcolonial, representationa…
Children and young people as geological agents? Time, scale and multispecies vulnerabilities in the new epoch
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, children’s bodies and forests are being shaped by a politics of corporate city building. We analyse how children and young people contribute to Earth system changes and consider the everyday, multispecies consequences…
Children and young people living through the monsoon: Watery entanglements and fluid inequalities
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Promoting climate change transformation with young people in Brazil: Participatory Action Research Through a Looping Approach
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 change. We present a ‘looping’ methodology, developed through collaborative work between two distinct but complementary research projects wherein young people in the Paraíba do Sul watershed, São Paulo state, Brazil …
Re)thinking (re)connection: Young people, “natures” and the water–energy–food nexus in São Paulo State, Brazil
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 seek to identify and govern connections between diverse sectors, and especially water, energy and food. Both of these fields of scholarship are concerned with connections, of different kinds, and at different s…
Complicating childhood-nature relations: Negotiated, spiritual and destructive encounters
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 living, learning, working and playing in the goings-on of Indian urban transformation. Based on in-depth, ethnographic research, we build on literature which highlights the messy world of child-nature relations to …
(Re)conectando O Nexo: Percepção De Jovens Brasileiros Sobre O Nexo Água-Energia-Alimento
Pesquisas sobre o nexo água-energia-alimentocostumam focar apenas no gerenciamentodesses recursos, negligenciando as formas pelasquais diversos grupos sociais, especialmente osjovens, compreendem e se envolvem com o nexoem seu cotidiano. Para conhecer os saberes, aspercepções e as experiências dos jovens sobreágua, energia e alimentos, assim como as conexõesentre tais recursos, uma pesquisa de abordagemquantitativa e qualitativa foi realizada com…
Rethinking the tourist gaze through the Hindu eyes: The Ganga Aarti celebration in Varanasi, India
This article is about the practices of the gaze enacted in tourist sites. It draws on ethnographic research carried out in the Indian sacred city of Varanasi, on the bank of the ‘holy’ Ganges, to suggest alternative, non-Western ways of conceptualizing and performing sight and the visual. The case study focuses on the Ganga Aarti, a popular Hindu ceremony performed daily on the city’s riverfront. Celebrating the sacred vision of the Ganges, this …
Re)thinking (re)connection: Young people, “natures” and the water–energy–food nexus in São Paulo State, Brazil
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 seek to identify and govern connections between diverse sectors, and especially water, energy and food. Both of these fields of scholarship are concerned with connections, of different kinds, and at different s…
Promoting climate change transformation with young people in Brazil: Participatory Action Research Through a Looping Approach
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 change. We present a ‘looping’ methodology, developed through collaborative work between two distinct but complementary research projects wherein young people in the Paraíba do Sul watershed, São Paulo state, Brazil …
Complicating childhood-nature relations: Negotiated, spiritual and destructive encounters
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 living, learning, working and playing in the goings-on of Indian urban transformation. Based on in-depth, ethnographic research, we build on literature which highlights the messy world of child-nature relations to …
Geographies of food beyond food: Transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil
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 beyond – food. The paper draws on a large-scale research project investigating young Brazilians’ relationships with and understandings of the water-energy-food nexus. Based upon ethnographic, mixed-methods resear…
Children and young people as geological agents? Time, scale and multispecies vulnerabilities in the new epoch
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, children’s bodies and forests are being shaped by a politics of corporate city building. We analyse how children and young people contribute to Earth system changes and consider the everyday, multispecies consequences…
Rethinking the tourist gaze through the Hindu eyes: The Ganga Aarti celebration in Varanasi, India
This article is about the practices of the gaze enacted in tourist sites. It draws on ethnographic research carried out in the Indian sacred city of Varanasi, on the bank of the ‘holy’ Ganges, to suggest alternative, non-Western ways of conceptualizing and performing sight and the visual. The case study focuses on the Ganga Aarti, a popular Hindu ceremony performed daily on the city’s riverfront. Celebrating the sacred vision of the Ganges, this …
Children and young people living through the monsoon: Watery entanglements and fluid inequalities
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Água negra (black water) and overwhelming details: For more-than -nexus approaches to global water–energy–food challenges
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 research with 3705 diverse young people's (aged 10–24 years) W–E–F experiences in SE Brazil. We consider how the neat, cool, ostensibly authoritative buzzword style of W–E–F nexus-thinking is radically unsettled – …
Rethinking the tourist gaze through the Hindu eyes: The Ganga Aarti celebration in Varanasi, India
This article is about the practices of the gaze enacted in tourist sites. It draws on ethnographic research carried out in the Indian sacred city of Varanasi, on the bank of the ‘holy’ Ganges, to suggest alternative, non-Western ways of conceptualizing and performing sight and the visual. The case study focuses on the Ganga Aarti, a popular Hindu ceremony performed daily on the city’s riverfront. Celebrating the sacred vision of the Ganges, this …
Re)thinking (re)connection: Young people, “natures” and the water–energy–food nexus in São Paulo State, Brazil
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 seek to identify and govern connections between diverse sectors, and especially water, energy and food. Both of these fields of scholarship are concerned with connections, of different kinds, and at different s…
Complicating childhood-nature relations: Negotiated, spiritual and destructive encounters
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 living, learning, working and playing in the goings-on of Indian urban transformation. Based on in-depth, ethnographic research, we build on literature which highlights the messy world of child-nature relations to …
(Re)conectando O Nexo: Percepção De Jovens Brasileiros Sobre O Nexo Água-Energia-Alimento
Pesquisas sobre o nexo água-energia-alimentocostumam focar apenas no gerenciamentodesses recursos, negligenciando as formas pelasquais diversos grupos sociais, especialmente osjovens, compreendem e se envolvem com o nexoem seu cotidiano. Para conhecer os saberes, aspercepções e as experiências dos jovens sobreágua, energia e alimentos, assim como as conexõesentre tais recursos, uma pesquisa de abordagemquantitativa e qualitativa foi realizada com…
Children and young people living through the monsoon: Watery entanglements and fluid inequalities
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Promoting climate change transformation with young people in Brazil: Participatory Action Research Through a Looping Approach
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 change. We present a ‘looping’ methodology, developed through collaborative work between two distinct but complementary research projects wherein young people in the Paraíba do Sul watershed, São Paulo state, Brazil …
Children and young people as geological agents? Time, scale and multispecies vulnerabilities in the new epoch
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, children’s bodies and forests are being shaped by a politics of corporate city building. We analyse how children and young people contribute to Earth system changes and consider the everyday, multispecies consequences…
Venice in Varanasi: Fluid landscapes, aesthetic encounters and the unexpected geographies of tourist representation
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' emerged from Western travel narratives and landscape representations, evoked by both visual and more- than-visual encounters. Drawing on cultural geographies of landscape engaging postcolonial, representationa…
Geographies of food beyond food: Transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil
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 beyond – food. The paper draws on a large-scale research project investigating young Brazilians’ relationships with and understandings of the water-energy-food nexus. Based upon ethnographic, mixed-methods resear…
Family experiences of urban transformation: Entangled bodies, hopeful imaginations and embodied utopias
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 sector, hill city development in the Indian state of Maharashtra, is one such utopian vision. We use the lenses of citizenship, control, precarity and performance to show how participants embody utopia. In sites o…
Água negra (black water) and overwhelming details: For more-than -nexus approaches to global water–energy–food challenges
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 research with 3705 diverse young people's (aged 10–24 years) W–E–F experiences in SE Brazil. We consider how the neat, cool, ostensibly authoritative buzzword style of W–E–F nexus-thinking is radically unsettled – …
Cultures of Covid-19: Marginalized Young People's Experiences of a Global Pandemic in Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom
Transformative adaptation in times of polycrisis: Insights from Milan’s New Urban Economies
European cities are increasingly shaped by polycrisis, where economic instability, social inequality, environmental stress, and institutional fragmentation intersect and reinforce one another. In this context, growth- and competitiveness-driven urban strategies often deepen exclusionary dynamics, even when framed as sustainable or innovative. At the same time, cities have seen the rise of New Urban Economies (NUEs) that seek to re-embed economic …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)