The picture of a goal scored during the first match of the 2014 World Cup might appear trivial. However, it conveys some of the geographical upheavals traversing and making the contemporary World. The concept of “dwelling” is firmly rooted in these processes. It gives the possibility to acknowledge this and take it into account. The article’s hypothesis, however, is that although “dwelling” is expressed in many different forms, it is part and parcel of much longer temporalities. Its anthropological scope, both existential and political, would therefore reach across the different eras to generate writing, geo-graphical as it happens, and with all its specificities, the strong wide-ranging concept of this geographical science.