Cosmopolitanism, Self-Determination and Territory
Subtitle: Justice with Borders
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 30, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781137004949
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: Cosmopolitanism, Self-Determination and Territory: Justice with Borders (Comparative Territorial Politics)