Socioplastics 11920 Ecologies Share a Territory
Editorial status: Working essay developed from a historical marker proposition. Environmental discourse often connects humans, soils, waters and other beings through a language of interdependence. PatchworkEcology studies places where different accounts of ecological value coexist without settling into one shared understanding. A rocky coastline can be mapped as habitat, geological formation, recreational commons and permitted extraction zone. These descriptions organise different relations and decisions within the same territory. David Abram’s phenomenological writing attends to perception and the more-than-human world. Elizabeth Povinelli examines how late liberal governance distinguishes life from nonlife and distributes obligations through that distinction. Their approaches remain different, which helps the marker preserve a patchwork of ecological registers rather than reduce them to one vocabulary. A coastal study could compare a multisensory field record with habitat surveys, geological maps, recreational use and extraction permits. It would identify where each account becomes authoritative, which scale it uses and what decisions it supports. Interviews with residents and practitioners could show how these descriptions meet in everyday experience and where their priorities remain distinct. PatchworkEcology examines how ecological differences share material space and how scale influences which account guides action. It can help researchers document the relations among sensory experience, legal classification and economic use. The marker’s historical formulation remains open for source review. This working essay develops a method for keeping coexisting ecological descriptions visible within territorial research. Comparing those accounts can help planners identify where one scale or legal category dominates and where other ecological relations need representation in a decision.
REFERENCES
Abram, D. (1996) The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. New York: Pantheon Books.
Povinelli, E.A. (2016) Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
CITE AS
Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics, LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid.
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