The territory among environmental collapse, wars and population migrations. Towards new citizenships and cohabitation pacts between humans and the earth

Abstract

Today’s dominant narrative regards migrants, nomads and hikers as threatening intruders who menace to further undermine already collapsing territorial, social and environmental settings. Resuming the long-standing territorialist reflection on “new inhabitants”, which came to think of them as the co-founders of a new locally self-sustainable civilisation, this article and the entire issue provide an interpretation of moving as the seminal action of new territorialisation dynamics, accompanied by conflicts but also by unprecedented forms of coexistence and citizenship which seem much better equipped to face local and global crises.