Territorializar el concepto de reconocimiento

This essay critically examines the philosophical concept of recognition and argues that its analytical strength can be expanded through a transdisciplinary territorial approach. By intersecting philosophy, critical geography, epistemology, and anthropology, it maintains that recognition cannot remain detached from the material, symbolic, and affective conditions in which it takes place. Territorializing recognition means embedding it in a sociohistorical fabric where subjectivities are also formed through the relationship with inhabited spaces. The article differentiates between concepts and notions and explores how the empirical applicability of recognition depends on its anchoring in lived experience. Concrete cases—such as collective reparation processes in Indigenous territories—demonstrate how recognition materializes in spatial, affective, and political practices, shaping dynamics of cognitive justice and institutional configuration. From a situated perspective, the essay suggests that many social struggles are affirmations of forms of existence linked to relational worlds, territorial sensitivities, and non-human agencies. It proposes a redefinition of recognition that integrates spatiality as a constitutive dimension. The conclusions affirm that territorializing recognition is essential for enhancing its critical and transformative potential, by making it responsive to the ways social life is embodied, inhabited, and contested.