UDTR — Radar mondial des droits de la Nature

Cuidados más-que-humanos: infraestructuras, materialidades y genealogías ecofeministas en la historia ambiental de la arquitectura

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MONTES RUIZ, ANA PAULA

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2026

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Instituto de Geografía

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What if an abandoned house is not only a housing market failure, but evidence of a deeper socioecological breakdown? This essay challenges the conventional understanding of vacant housing problem by arguing that abandonment is not simply the outcome of financial, urban, or architectural deficiencies. Instead, it reflects the collapse of the material and ecological relationships that make everyday life possible. Drawing on the case of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Mexico—where mass-produced social housing, chronic water scarcity, and environmental degradation converge—the paper proposes a new analytical framework grounded in ecofeminism, environmental history, and more-than-human care. The argument traces how modern architecture and urban planning historically constructed housing as an isolated, hygienic, and autonomous space through a dualistic separation between nature and culture. This epistemology concealed the infrastructures, ecosystems, and reproductive labor that sustain habitability while relocating care into the private household, disproportionately burdening women. Revisiting contributions from feminist urbanism, environmental history, and ecofeminist thought—including Val Plumwood, Joan Tronto, Donna Haraway, Stacy Alaimo, and María Puig de la Bellacasa—the essay redefines housing as a socioecological infrastructure embedded within networks of water, energy, biodiversity, mobility, and care. Building on this perspective, the essay introduces the concept of an "epistemology of neglect" to describe planning practices that secure the habitability of some spaces by obscuring the ecological relations and more-than-human labor that sustain them. Tlajomulco exemplifies how housing can become financially productive while ecologically uninhabitable, revealing that contemporary housing and water crises are fundamentally crises of care. Contrasting this model with ecological planning experiences such as Vauban (Germany), Bogotá’s urban wetlands, and Curitiba’s water-sensitive landscapes, the paper argues for a paradigmatic shift: from designing against nature to planning through interdependence. Ultimately, it calls for reimagining architecture not as a technology of separation, but as a practice of repair, reciprocity, and the collective maintenance of life across human and more-than-human worlds.

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10.5281/zenodo.21174746

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