THE POLITICS OF ADMISSION: INFRASTRUCTURE, ACCESS AND DISTRIBUTED AUTHORITY (GRIFFITHS, PINEDA, SOVACOOL, VAN DER WEL, OECD, TIERENS, DORJI, PINEO, RANI, PARADELO, CASTILLO, CAPPELLO) · LAPIEZA LAB · ANTO LLOVERAS · SOCIOPLASTICS · 2026

Infrastructure is never merely what supports action; it is the material, institutional and epistemic arrangement that determines what can enter a system, under which conditions, with what degree of visibility, and with what capacity to alter the rules after admission. This becomes clear when apparently distant domains are read at the level of their operative thresholds. Griffiths’s legal pluralism dismantles the fiction that law emanates from a single sovereign centre: social life is organised through overlapping normative orders whose authority is distributed across institutions, communities and semi-autonomous fields. Pineda radicalises the same problem spatially by treating disability justice not as an accommodation appended to an already completed city but as a transformation of the structures through which agency is permitted or withheld.