ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the mobile space theory that must be understood in constant progress, based on a new geographical axiom. It begins like this: mobility comes first, before anchoring. This idea is in contradiction with a long geographical history based on sedentary power. The chapter admits that a majority of ethnically nomadic people were sedentary, and that among the ethnically sedentary groups many individuals were mobile. Furthermore, mobility appeared to be the social sign of a relatively high status and well-being, both for nomadic and sedentary people. The chapter attempts to adapt the hypothesis of place in a nomadic space to the idea of place in a globalized world as movement comes first in both cases. It argues that spatial analysis, just like classical geography, is unable to understand movement in a different way: movement in such geographies can only mean moving from one fixed place to another, and these places seem to depend on retroactions, not movement.
