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Cosmoplitanism, self-determination and the territory : justice with borders

Angeli, Oliviero

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\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Territory, National. / Self-determination, National. / Sovereignty. / Cosmopolitanism. / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship. / POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General.
• ISBN: 9781137004949, 1137004940

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
JZ3675.A64 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE