::::::::: SOCIOPLASTICS * Sovereign systems for unstable times: Each outlet corresponds to a specific register of the project’s conceptual architecture, forming a distributed intellectual infrastructure through which its arguments on extraction, infrastructure, climatic pressure and territorial inertia may engage established scholarly communities.

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Each outlet corresponds to a specific register of the project’s conceptual architecture, forming a distributed intellectual infrastructure through which its arguments on extraction, infrastructure, climatic pressure and territorial inertia may engage established scholarly communities.

At the core of this constellation lie flagship platforms of critical urban theory, notably Cities and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, whose editorial traditions rooted in the Lefebvre–Harvey lineage of urban political economy provide an institutional environment receptive to analyses of rent as displacement mechanism and depopulation as infrastructural asymmetry. Complementing this axis, Urban Geography and Antipode represent the theoretical heartland of critical geographical scholarship, where investigations of uneven development, frontier dynamics and spatial justice offer a fertile terrain for the project’s ontological treatment of territory as a field of interacting pressures. A second cluster articulates the ecological and infrastructural dimensions of the argument. The Journal of Political Ecology situates the project within the tradition of urban political ecology, foregrounding the relations between extraction, metabolic transition and environmental constraint, while Environment and Planning D: Society and Space provides a platform for the conceptual vocabulary of gradient, friction and inertia as methodological tools for spatial analysis. Complementary outlets such as Smart Cities extend the discussion into policy and infrastructural governance, allowing the work to intervene critically in debates often dominated by techno-solutionist narratives. A third register situates the research geographically: European Urban and Regional Studies frames the Spanish territorial condition within broader continental processes of financialisation and tourismification, while EURE establishes a dialogue with Latin American urban scholarship concerned with territorial conflict and socio-spatial inequality. Finally, ACE: Architecture, City and Environment anchors the project within the intellectual lineage of the Barcelona school, connecting it to the morphological tradition associated with Manuel de Solà-Morales and the methodological reading of territory as project. Taken together, this publication infrastructure transforms individual articles into nodes within a socioplastic knowledge system, enabling the investigation of territorial permanence under structural pressure to circulate coherently across the central epistemic forums of global urban scholarship.