Rethinking the South in Humanistic, Social and Pedagogical Perspective. Rethinking the Relationship Between Local and Global

In the era of globalization of economy and markets, where calculating rationality imposes itself by overwhelming every social dimension, communities seem to no longer serve, they are perceived as anachronistic survivals that are not functional to the new way of interpreting existence and conceiving development. Furthermore, the telematic revolution and the domination of technology impose themselves on everything and ask to reconsider the concepts of spatiality and proximity. But in reality it is precisely the territories, the cities, the inner villages, the places where a process of social recomposition can take place today. Small villages are the primary places for identity formation, the central categories of human existence.