Socioplastics 11874 Between Incompatible Evidences
Some disagreements persist because participants ask different things of evidence. UncertaintyPassage describes an accountable interval in which competing accounts remain available while investigators translate among evidentiary regimes. The interval gains value when it specifies what remains unknown, why the difference matters and what could change the inquiry. It can support careful judgement while preventing premature closure from erasing distinct standards of knowledge. Imagine a coastal path proposed for reconstruction after repeated storms. A geomorphological account models erosion; a planning document identifies legal easements; walkers describe seasonal interruptions; nearby residents recall sections of coastline that have disappeared. Each record works across a different timescale and purpose. A decision requires these accounts to be placed in relation, with their methods and limits kept visible. Alex Loftus’s urban political ecology examines how environmental processes are organised through social and political relations. Caren Kaplan’s work on travel and displacement studies the frames through which movement and place are represented. Their approaches help examine how knowledge travels between institutions, residents and landscapes. The translation itself becomes part of the evidence: who carries an account forward, which terms change and what decisions follow. An UncertaintyPassage record could set out the competing claims, their sources, their time horizons and the observations that might revise them. It would identify the point at which a decision must be made and explain how unresolved differences entered that decision. This practice makes uncertainty precise and usable. It gives institutions a way to act while showing how the terms of action were assembled. It also distinguishes a temporary pause for inquiry from a durable difference in methods or interests, guiding future review.
REFERENCES
Kaplan, C. (1996) Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Loftus, A. (2012) Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
CITE AS
Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics, LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid.
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