Nexus disrupted: Lived realities and the water-energy-food nexus from an infrastructure perspective

•Critical intervention to WEF-Nexus studies by looking at lived experienced realities.•Understanding WEF-Nexus as heterogeneous infrastructure configuration.•Multiple Nexuses can co-exist and they are dynamic over time and space.•Nexus-Governance needs to address differentiated inequalities and insecurities.•Agency to (re-)configure the Nexus is distributed across different degrees of formality.