Campos territoriales en transición: investigación situada, gobernanza territorial y construcción colectiva del conocimiento
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Problem statement: Territorial scholarship analyzes power relations, multiple territorialities, materialities, governance, and transformations; however, an analytical space remains for understanding configurations in which these dimensions are reconfigured interdependently and disputes extend to the conditions through which territory is produced and governed. Objective: To formulate and delimit the concept of territorial fields in transition and examine its implications for territorial governance and collective knowledge-building. Methodology: The article develops a reflexive systematization of a situated research trajectory, organized around six fields of problematization and analyzed through the reconstruction of research problems, findings, conceptual frictions, and processes of situated translation. Results: The comparison identifies reconfigurations of positions, rules, scales, forms of knowledge, materialities, and authority, with different intensities across the fields examined. Conclusions: Territorial fields in transition are proposed as relational, materially situated, multiscalar, and temporally open configurations. Transition is understood as contingent and non-teleological; governance participates in the production of territorial order, while collective knowledge-building constitutes an epistemological and political dimension of that process.
Source: Nova et Vetera
Author: Manuel Enrique Pérez Martínez
Institution: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7223276569