Antroposcenari nel Pacifico: crisi ambientale, strategie di resilienza e il concetto di "appartenenza multipla"

The Pacific is a region of enduring significance in global trajectories of history, politics, economy and ecology. It has always been a place of mobility and diasporas, of travels and migrations. Its geographical distinctness and the recent environmental crisis (climate change and sea-level rising) have made it an experimental laboratory of new social formations. A new concept arisen in this specific context in relation to cultural identification and place-making is that of “multiplicity of belonging”, an idea that could become a paradigm for many other regions of the present world facing environmental emergencies and massive migration flows. My paper will investigate the changing notions of development, place, community and identity within a context of mobility, especially in reaction to the environmental problems in the Pacific area, with an interdisciplinary approach drawing from studies in anthropology, ethnography, and sociology as well as the literature produced in this area. My aim is to see how the centrality given to such aspects as stability, rootedness and immobility, and to static national and regional formations could be realigned towards a novel view emphasizing the potential of mobility, flux and flow, not only in the Antipodes but in Europe and in the West in general, given the current complex geo-political events and environmental crisis.