Title: Cosmoplitanism, self-determination and territory : justice with borders /
Authors: Angeli, Oliviero,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Territory, National.; Self-determination, National; Sovereignty.; Cosmopolitanism.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General.; Cosmopolitanism; Self-determination, National; Sovereignty; Territory, National
Abstract: "Rights over territory are to most cosmopolitans nowadays what private property was to nineteenth-century socialists: a legally sanctioned institutionalization of theft. In the cosmopolitan imagination, territories are reminiscent of a long history of unlawful acts while the walls and armed checkpoints that are so often used to secure borders dividing people and populations rather than bringing them together. This study moves beyond this picture of territory as a mere object of domination and exploitation to offer a new perspective on the traditional cosmopolitan understanding of territory. It explores the process by which people constitute themselves as territorially defined political communities and argues that the ideal of collective self-determination incorporates a legally and politically inclusive notion of territories as non-ascriptive markers of belonging. By examining the implications of this argument, the text addresses controversial issues of contemporary political philosophy: citizenship, immigration, natural resources and, more generally, global distributive justice"--
Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. Genealogies of the Territorial State -- 2. Territorial Rights and Rights Over the Territory -- 3. Territorial Inclusion and its Boundaries -- 4. Territorial Exclusion and its Boundaries -- 5. Natural Resources and Territorial Rights.