Catherine Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3390-9272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From classrooms to communities: Creating inclusive and expansive pathways to climate justice
Training young co‐researchers to interview their parents: The transformative potential of intergenerational interviews
The turn to co‐production in geographical research is underpinned by the social justice aim to democratise academic practice, and in recent years this has extended to training young people as co‐researchers. However, discussions of intergenerational dynamics in co‐produced research are limited, and there are no accounts of family members interviewing one another. This paper responds to this oversight by presenting a reflective account of a resear…
Young people at a crossroads: Climate solidarity through intergenerational storytelling
School-based teaching on climate change rarely draws on diverse experiences and knowledge about climate change that circulate in migrant homes and communities. We set out to consider experiences of climate change education (CCE) in schools in Manchester, UK, and Melbourne, Australia, among migrant-background students. We interviewed young people aged 14 to 18 and educators in multicultural secondary schools about climate change education. We then…
Holding up a mirror: Researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance
The positioning of minoritised and racialised groups such as Global South immigrants as deficient in knowledge, language or motivation is a form of othering prevalent in all spheres of Global North societies, and the environmental sector is no exception. In both academic literature and policy, there is an assumption that minoritised groups are “hard to reach” and less interested in sustainability than the usual white middle class environmental su…
What role for geography in justice-focused climate change education
As the effects of climate change are felt around the world, the stakes for what climate change education (CCE) is and what it can achieve have never been higher. Young people’s climate concerns are widely known, and students around the world have expressed wishes for action- and justice-oriented CCE. This article draws from research conducted with migrant-background young people and secondary educators (including geography educators) in Mancheste…
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 – …
Reframing environmental responsibility at the intersections of cultural and generational difference: Learning from migrant families in Manchester and Melbourne
Intersectional approaches to studying climate change reveal the diverse and uneven ways in which people are impacted by and able to respond to the consequences of climate change. Concurrently, scholars are adapting conceptualisations of environmental responsibility to the challenges of climate change to balance the responsibilities of individuals, collectives and governments and those people with greater and lesser abilities to benefit from and a…
In it together! Cultivating space for intergenerational dialogue, empathy and hope in a climate of uncertainty
The urgent and interlocking social, economic and ecological crises faced by societies around the world require dialogue, empathy and above all, hope that transcends social divides. At a time of uncertainty and crisis, many societies are divided, with distrust and divides exacerbated by media representations pitting different groups against one another. Acknowledging intersectional interrelationships, this collaborative paper considers one type of…
Points of convergence: Deploying the geographies of critical nexus-thinking
In recent years, the concept of 'nexus' has become a metaphor for resource interactions (particularly between food, water and energy), a policy apparatus to address resource sustainability and an object of academic analysis. Contending that the ways that nexus has been conceptualised and applied so far are invariably incomplete, this paper marks a concerted attempt to draw geographical scholarship into the conceptualisation of nexus-thinking to o…
Generation Z’ and ‘ second generation’: An agenda for learning from cross-cultural negotiations of the climate crisis in the lives of second generation immigrants
Cross-cultural negotiations of environmental knowledge in children and young people’s lives have received minimal attention in children’s geographies and wider childhood scholarship, despite interests in child and youth environmental concerns and learning that predate the school strikes for climate. This viewpoint articulates an agenda for advancing research in this area in light of youth-led articulations of ‘climate crisis’, beginning with expl…
Nexus thinking and the geographies of children, youth and families: Towards an integrated research agenda
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 fam…
It’s what I’ve always done’: Continuity and change in the household sustainability practices of Somali immigrants in the UK
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…
(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…
The Evolution of Lactose Tolerance in Dairying Populations
Among the biocultural innovations associated with the Neolithic, dairying and the evolution of lactose tolerance is the most studied. Expression of the enzyme lactase, which digests the milk sugar lactose, decreases after weaning in mammals, including most humans. However, some humans express lactase throughout adulthood—a trait known as lactase persistence (LP). Striking observations about LP evolution include: (i) a strong correlation between L…
Environment in the lives of children and families
Available Open Access under CC-BY licence. How do environmental policies link to dynamic and relational family practices for children and parents? This Policy Press Short presents innovative cross-national research into how ‘environment’ is understood and negotiated within families, and how this plays out in everyday lives. Based on an ESRC study that involved creative, qualitative work with families in India and the UK who live in different cont…
Environment in the Lives of Children and Families: Perspectives from India and the UK
How do environmental policies link to dynamic and relational family practices for children and parents? This Policy Press Short presents innovative cross-national research into how ‘environment’ is understood and negotiated within families, and how this plays out in everyday lives. \n \nBased on an ESRC study that involved creative, qualitative work with families in India and the UK who live in different contexts, this book illuminates how enviro…
Tomorrow's Leaders and Today's Agents of Change? Children, Sustainability Education and Environmental Governance
Children are central to the rhetoric supporting global climate agreements, yet they are also envisaged to play a strategic role in materialising such agreements. Along with other household actors, children are implicated in localised efforts to manage global resource sustainability. As learners in educational systems that are being redesigned to encompass messages of sustainability, children are moreover positioned as ‘agents of change’ through s…
Embodying ‘the Next Generation’: Children’s everyday environmental activism in India and England
The symbolic evocation of ‘the next generation’ might be considered as valuable in buttressing calls for concerted public and political action on climate change, whilst assigning to children a unique identity and role in engendering sustainable transitions. Yet does an identity that is in essence equated with futurity stifle possibilities for children’s own actions in the present, and conflict with policy expectations that children can be ‘agents…
Telling ‘moral tales’? Family narratives of responsible privilege and environmental concern in India and the UK
Contemporary discussions of climate change response frequently emphasise individual moral responsibility, but little is known about how environmental messages are taken up or resisted in everyday practices. This article examines how families negotiate the moral narratives and identity positions associated with environmental responsibility. It focuses on families living in relatively affluent circumstances in England and South East India to consid…
Film review: Authorship and authority – reflections on ‘Stories we tell’
Review of the film 'Stories we Tell', directed by Sarah Polley, National Film Board of Canada, 2012
A Hospital-Based Doula Program and Childbirth Outcomes in an Urban, Multicultural Setting
A charitable view of altruism: Commentary on ‘What is altruism?’ by Elias Khalil
International Migration Policies and Programmes: A World Survey
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…
It’s what I’ve always done’: Continuity and change in the household sustainability practices of Somali immigrants in the UK
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 …
Generation Z’ and ‘ second generation’: An agenda for learning from cross-cultural negotiations of the climate crisis in the lives of second generation immigrants
Cross-cultural negotiations of environmental knowledge in children and young people’s lives have received minimal attention in children’s geographies and wider childhood scholarship, despite interests in child and youth environmental concerns and learning that predate the school strikes for climate. This viewpoint articulates an agenda for advancing research in this area in light of youth-led articulations of ‘climate crisis’, beginning with expl…
Embodying ‘the Next Generation’: Children’s everyday environmental activism in India and England
The symbolic evocation of ‘the next generation’ might be considered as valuable in buttressing calls for concerted public and political action on climate change, whilst assigning to children a unique identity and role in engendering sustainable transitions. Yet does an identity that is in essence equated with futurity stifle possibilities for children’s own actions in the present, and conflict with policy expectations that children can be ‘agents…
In it together! Cultivating space for intergenerational dialogue, empathy and hope in a climate of uncertainty
The urgent and interlocking social, economic and ecological crises faced by societies around the world require dialogue, empathy and above all, hope that transcends social divides. At a time of uncertainty and crisis, many societies are divided, with distrust and divides exacerbated by media representations pitting different groups against one another. Acknowledging intersectional interrelationships, this collaborative paper considers one type of…
Points of convergence: Deploying the geographies of critical nexus-thinking
In recent years, the concept of 'nexus' has become a metaphor for resource interactions (particularly between food, water and energy), a policy apparatus to address resource sustainability and an object of academic analysis. Contending that the ways that nexus has been conceptualised and applied so far are invariably incomplete, this paper marks a concerted attempt to draw geographical scholarship into the conceptualisation of nexus-thinking to o…
Nexus thinking and the geographies of children, youth and families: Towards an integrated research agenda
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 fam…
Young people at a crossroads: Climate solidarity through intergenerational storytelling
School-based teaching on climate change rarely draws on diverse experiences and knowledge about climate change that circulate in migrant homes and communities. We set out to consider experiences of climate change education (CCE) in schools in Manchester, UK, and Melbourne, Australia, among migrant-background students. We interviewed young people aged 14 to 18 and educators in multicultural secondary schools about climate change education. We then…
Telling ‘moral tales’? Family narratives of responsible privilege and environmental concern in India and the UK
Contemporary discussions of climate change response frequently emphasise individual moral responsibility, but little is known about how environmental messages are taken up or resisted in everyday practices. This article examines how families negotiate the moral narratives and identity positions associated with environmental responsibility. It focuses on families living in relatively affluent circumstances in England and South East India to consid…
A charitable view of altruism: Commentary on ‘What is altruism?’ by Elias Khalil
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 – …
Reframing environmental responsibility at the intersections of cultural and generational difference: Learning from migrant families in Manchester and Melbourne
Intersectional approaches to studying climate change reveal the diverse and uneven ways in which people are impacted by and able to respond to the consequences of climate change. Concurrently, scholars are adapting conceptualisations of environmental responsibility to the challenges of climate change to balance the responsibilities of individuals, collectives and governments and those people with greater and lesser abilities to benefit from and a…
International Migration Policies and Programmes: A World Survey
A charitable view of altruism: Commentary on ‘What is altruism?’ by Elias Khalil
A Hospital-Based Doula Program and Childbirth Outcomes in an Urban, Multicultural Setting
Film review: Authorship and authority – reflections on ‘Stories we tell’
Review of the film 'Stories we Tell', directed by Sarah Polley, National Film Board of Canada, 2012
Telling ‘moral tales’? Family narratives of responsible privilege and environmental concern in India and the UK
Contemporary discussions of climate change response frequently emphasise individual moral responsibility, but little is known about how environmental messages are taken up or resisted in everyday practices. This article examines how families negotiate the moral narratives and identity positions associated with environmental responsibility. It focuses on families living in relatively affluent circumstances in England and South East India to consid…
The Evolution of Lactose Tolerance in Dairying Populations
Among the biocultural innovations associated with the Neolithic, dairying and the evolution of lactose tolerance is the most studied. Expression of the enzyme lactase, which digests the milk sugar lactose, decreases after weaning in mammals, including most humans. However, some humans express lactase throughout adulthood—a trait known as lactase persistence (LP). Striking observations about LP evolution include: (i) a strong correlation between L…
Environment in the lives of children and families
Available Open Access under CC-BY licence. How do environmental policies link to dynamic and relational family practices for children and parents? This Policy Press Short presents innovative cross-national research into how ‘environment’ is understood and negotiated within families, and how this plays out in everyday lives. Based on an ESRC study that involved creative, qualitative work with families in India and the UK who live in different cont…
Environment in the Lives of Children and Families: Perspectives from India and the UK
How do environmental policies link to dynamic and relational family practices for children and parents? This Policy Press Short presents innovative cross-national research into how ‘environment’ is understood and negotiated within families, and how this plays out in everyday lives. \n \nBased on an ESRC study that involved creative, qualitative work with families in India and the UK who live in different contexts, this book illuminates how enviro…
Tomorrow's Leaders and Today's Agents of Change? Children, Sustainability Education and Environmental Governance
Children are central to the rhetoric supporting global climate agreements, yet they are also envisaged to play a strategic role in materialising such agreements. Along with other household actors, children are implicated in localised efforts to manage global resource sustainability. As learners in educational systems that are being redesigned to encompass messages of sustainability, children are moreover positioned as ‘agents of change’ through s…
Embodying ‘the Next Generation’: Children’s everyday environmental activism in India and England
The symbolic evocation of ‘the next generation’ might be considered as valuable in buttressing calls for concerted public and political action on climate change, whilst assigning to children a unique identity and role in engendering sustainable transitions. Yet does an identity that is in essence equated with futurity stifle possibilities for children’s own actions in the present, and conflict with policy expectations that children can be ‘agents…
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…
(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…
Nexus thinking and the geographies of children, youth and families: Towards an integrated research agenda
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 fam…
It’s what I’ve always done’: Continuity and change in the household sustainability practices of Somali immigrants in the UK
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 …
Generation Z’ and ‘ second generation’: An agenda for learning from cross-cultural negotiations of the climate crisis in the lives of second generation immigrants
Cross-cultural negotiations of environmental knowledge in children and young people’s lives have received minimal attention in children’s geographies and wider childhood scholarship, despite interests in child and youth environmental concerns and learning that predate the school strikes for climate. This viewpoint articulates an agenda for advancing research in this area in light of youth-led articulations of ‘climate crisis’, beginning with expl…
In it together! Cultivating space for intergenerational dialogue, empathy and hope in a climate of uncertainty
The urgent and interlocking social, economic and ecological crises faced by societies around the world require dialogue, empathy and above all, hope that transcends social divides. At a time of uncertainty and crisis, many societies are divided, with distrust and divides exacerbated by media representations pitting different groups against one another. Acknowledging intersectional interrelationships, this collaborative paper considers one type of…
Points of convergence: Deploying the geographies of critical nexus-thinking
In recent years, the concept of 'nexus' has become a metaphor for resource interactions (particularly between food, water and energy), a policy apparatus to address resource sustainability and an object of academic analysis. Contending that the ways that nexus has been conceptualised and applied so far are invariably incomplete, this paper marks a concerted attempt to draw geographical scholarship into the conceptualisation of nexus-thinking to o…
Reframing environmental responsibility at the intersections of cultural and generational difference: Learning from migrant families in Manchester and Melbourne
Intersectional approaches to studying climate change reveal the diverse and uneven ways in which people are impacted by and able to respond to the consequences of climate change. Concurrently, scholars are adapting conceptualisations of environmental responsibility to the challenges of climate change to balance the responsibilities of individuals, collectives and governments and those people with greater and lesser abilities to benefit from and a…
Holding up a mirror: Researching symmetrically to explore exclusion, othering and whiteness in local environmental governance
The positioning of minoritised and racialised groups such as Global South immigrants as deficient in knowledge, language or motivation is a form of othering prevalent in all spheres of Global North societies, and the environmental sector is no exception. In both academic literature and policy, there is an assumption that minoritised groups are “hard to reach” and less interested in sustainability than the usual white middle class environmental su…
What role for geography in justice-focused climate change education
As the effects of climate change are felt around the world, the stakes for what climate change education (CCE) is and what it can achieve have never been higher. Young people’s climate concerns are widely known, and students around the world have expressed wishes for action- and justice-oriented CCE. This article draws from research conducted with migrant-background young people and secondary educators (including geography educators) in Mancheste…
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 – …
Training young co‐researchers to interview their parents: The transformative potential of intergenerational interviews
The turn to co‐production in geographical research is underpinned by the social justice aim to democratise academic practice, and in recent years this has extended to training young people as co‐researchers. However, discussions of intergenerational dynamics in co‐produced research are limited, and there are no accounts of family members interviewing one another. This paper responds to this oversight by presenting a reflective account of a resear…
Young people at a crossroads: Climate solidarity through intergenerational storytelling
School-based teaching on climate change rarely draws on diverse experiences and knowledge about climate change that circulate in migrant homes and communities. We set out to consider experiences of climate change education (CCE) in schools in Manchester, UK, and Melbourne, Australia, among migrant-background students. We interviewed young people aged 14 to 18 and educators in multicultural secondary schools about climate change education. We then…
From classrooms to communities: Creating inclusive and expansive pathways to climate justice
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (10 works) · Environmental ethics (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (6 works)