Building on reinvigorated scholarly debates on the concept of value, this paper examines forms of valuation that coexist with and challenge those typically associated with capitalist natures. Based on archival, ethnographic, and interview data, we analyze a historical case of the Venezuelan Society of Speleology (SVE) that since 1967 has been exploring and mapping the country’s caves. Its results are published in a national cave survey that the group manages. Not only is each cave entry the representation and materialization of the group’s volunteer efforts. Each is also part of a relational regime of valuation by which all caves are worth mapping. The survey’s classificatory logic not only transforms underground value, it also acts as boundary object bringing together diverse actors and promoting the SVE’s collective ethos, at least in theory, of valuing all members. The survey is the fulcrum of distinct regimes of valuation, wherein value and values are two sides of the same coin. The spaces where these value/s are enacted matters, suggesting the critical contributions that geographers can make in understanding the spatial qualities that contribute to—or hinder—the materialization of certain regimes of valuation over others.

在关于价值概念的活跃的学术辩论的基础上，本文研究了与资本主义本质通常相关的并存和挑战的估值形式。根据档案，人种学和访谈数据，我们分析了委内瑞拉洞穴学会（SVE）的历史案例，该案例自1967年以来一直在探索和绘制该国的洞穴。其结果发表在该小组管理的国家洞穴调查中。不仅每个洞穴入口都代表该小组志愿者工作的体现和具体化。每一个都是关系评估制度的一部分，通过该制度，所有洞穴都值得绘制。这项调查的分类逻辑不仅改变了地下价值，而且还充当了边界对象，将各种各样的参与者聚集在一起，并促进了SVE的集体精神，至少在理论上，对所有成员的评价。该调查是不同估值制度的支点，其中价值和价值是同一枚硬币的两个方面。体现这些价值的空间很重要，这表明地理学家在理解有助于或阻碍某些估价制度相对于其他估价制度的实现的空间品质方面可以做出的关键贡献。