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Una ecología social de las prácticas espaciales: Bookchin y Stengers en diálogo sobre la planificación urbana para la coexistencia multiespecie

No. 45 | 2026-05-30
https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq45.2026.06

Resumen

Ante la intensificación de las crisis ecológicas, la planificación urbana debe ir más allá de los paradigmas antropocéntricos para reimaginar radicalmente la coexistencia entre la vida humana y la vida más que humana. Basándose en la ecología social de Bookchin y en la ecología de las prácticas de Stengers, este artículo propone un urbanismo descentralizado y multiespecie orientado a fomentar relaciones simbióticas. La ecología social de Bookchin ofrece un marco fundamental para situar las relaciones entre lo humano y lo natural dentro de sistemas más amplios de dominación, así como para imaginar formas de urbanismo no jerárquicas y descentralizadas. No obstante, presenta limitaciones en su abordaje de los dualismos ontológicos que continúan moldeando la planificación urbana. Al retomar el trabajo de Stengers sobre la ecología de las prácticas —en particular, su énfasis en la tensión entre herramienta y situación, el carácter situado de la acción, la negociación multiespecie y las tonalidades menores—, este artículo busca superar dichas limitaciones y plantea un desplazamiento hacia una ecología social de las prácticas espaciales.

Palabras clave: ecología social, ecología de las prácticas, planificación urbana, comunalismo, más que humano, cuidado

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