Hello everyone.
I have noticed, in this list and elsewhere, widespread and rather sudden use of the term ‘nexus’. I am intrigued by this. Last year the term was ‘co-production’. As far as I can tell, nexus is being deployed as a framework to conceptualize relationships, connections, and various types of entanglements between things that are not usually considered to be so entangled. This indeed seems very geographical. But I wonder what this term does that existing concepts do not (e.g., hybridity). What is it that changes the status of a word from merely a useful term to a widely deployed framework?
Donald Leffers
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