Social as a movement

Abstract

Within the condition of complex connectivity and accelerated mobility that characterizes our lives, the article focuses on the world of migrants and the important challenges it poses to our way of understanding space, society and politics. The movement of these subjects, in fact, constitutes a factor of subversion: it reveals the violence of the national order structured through exclusionary geopolitical devices and becomes an opportunity to analyse the most important contradictions of a society and its political structure. The very idea of ​​community, understood as a systemic, closed, consolidated structure, given once and for all faces a crisis under the weight of incessant migratory flows. The breaking of traditional ties and constraints outlines a different idea of ​​community: permeable, changeable, unstable. A community of practices within which non-deterministically identifiable relationships and interactions are defined on a territorial basis. In this sense, migratory movements definitively transgress what Appadurai calls the metaphysics of sedentary life, that is, the belief and prejudice of considering sedentary living as the normal condition universally accepted/practiced by mankind.