Mobility and new imaginaries of the world for a sustainable living in Sub-Saharan Africa, and beyond

Abstract

Mobility has undermined the interpretation of the inhabitants’ dynamics, complexifying the relationships between places, producing new imaginaries of the world and generating networked territories. They are territories founded on polytopic forms of living and induced by mobile inhabitants who leave their own signs, weaving relationships between cultures of contiguous and connected places and highlighting a planetary urbanity. This is a new phase of the anthropization of the earth - the Anthropocene - which sees humanity influencing its transformations by producing climate change and making living spaces vulnerable. In this context, fragile territories crossed daily by mobile individuals such as the Sub-Saharan Africa reveal a crisis in the habitability of the earth in the face of environmental catastrophes and geopolitical instability. They, however, offer ideas for imagining sustainable forms of inhabiting the earth starting from basic territorialities based on mobile regimes, weakly reified, anchored to principles of solidarity and balanced in the human-nature co-evolutionary process.