Anyone attempting to cross the Mediterranean today, or even to travel on foot, by bicycle or on horseback, will notice that the territory is closing in, both as a result of physical development and legislation.

This movement is part of a centuries-old trend. Since the dawn of modernity, a gradual ban on the right to roam and live freely on the territory has been put in place.

From an ecological and ethical point of view, however, it is vital to restore a porous and traversable world, both for humans and for other living beings.

The very notion of law – the Greek nomos – which refers to a grazing area, has been interpreted in modern times as an enclosure. But it is just as legitimate to conceive of it as a shared, common space.

A step towards rewriting Western law based on the right to roam.

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