Socioplastics 11818 The Planet Seen from a Situated Place
Planetary representations bring together processes whose reach exceeds any single territory. PlanetaryAbstraction studies how a shared global scale can clarify patterns while preserving the uneven histories and capacities that shape them. A climate indicator may compare emissions and exposure across regions; its interpretation gains precision when it also shows who produced emissions, who bears risk and which communities can adapt. Klaus Dodds examines how global politics is imagined and practised through geopolitical narratives. Gearóid Ó Tuathail’s critical geopolitics studies how representations of global space shape political action. Their work helps treat planetary maps and models as situated constructions with material consequences. The global view remains necessary for identifying connections, while its categories and data choices require clear documentation. A planetary study could pair a global model with regional and local accounts of production, exposure and response. Each scale would state its data sources, time range and limits. Researchers could track how a regional finding changes when viewed alongside global averages and how local evidence informs the model’s categories. The project would also document how findings return to the places represented and influence planning or resource allocation. PlanetaryAbstraction connects scales through an accountable passage between aggregate patterns and situated experience. It supports broad comparison while preserving the differences that matter for policy and public responsibility. The planet becomes legible through relations among locations, processes and histories. The project should explain how scale affects responsibility and how global findings relate to the histories of the places represented. This makes comparison useful for action and preserves the context required to interpret an aggregate responsibly.
REFERENCES
Dodds, K. (2005) Global Geopolitics: A Critical Introduction. Harlow: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Ó Tuathail, G. (1996) Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
CITE AS
Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics, LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid.
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