ABSTRACT
Interpreting the defence of territory in terms of an implied defence of resources within the territory, that is, in respect of things or possessions, as distinct from relations, influences animal behaviour literature in relation to an economic theory of territoriality. Learning can also be social and, in respect of objects or resources, training discourse disturbs the narrative of instinctual enslavement. A display of resource-holding potential is a source of information, and in many respects a prosocial one at that, a social communication rather than an inevitable conflict. In the sociability of those first pastoral encounters, the justice of space is co-constituted through that pastoral sociality, crossed back and forth. Participation and sociality are enriched as incentives in their own right; the motivation and the sustenance of familiar production come from sociability itself. The rose, a symbol of attraction, represents at first instance the sociality of domestication, of the process of coming together into a society.
