Transition/Deviance

Social structures are living a significant phase shift from complicatedness to complexity and they must exercise their plasticity to cope with the continuous movement from one place to another and the rapid changes of context that require them to adopt always different models of knowledge, interaction and behavior. This attribute of “permanent change” has a deep influence on the meaning of “society” and its founding pillars including that of “citizenship”, whatever permanent or temporary it is. The following essay aims to investigate temporary citizenships as a “transition”, meaning a series of interconnected changes that take place in different environments but can influence each other and generate continuous innovation. How can the temporary citizen contribute to produce innovation and modify knowledge processes, rituals and approaches within a given territory, a context, a community made of diversity, divergence and difference as potentials traits of deviance?