Sharing Territories

Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-883362-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 671 g

Reihe: New Topics in Applied Philosophy

In Sharing Territories, Cara Nine defends a river model of territorial rights. On a river model, groups are assumed to be interdependent and overlapping. If we imagine human settlements and territorial rights as established in river catchment areas-not on lands with walls and borders-the primary features of group life are not independence and distinctness. Drawing on natural law philosophy, Nine's theory argues for the establishment of foundational
territories around geographical areas like rivers. Usually lower-scale political entities, foundational territories overlap with and serve as the grounding blocks of larger territorial units. Examples of foundational territories include not only river catchment areas but also urban areas, drawn around individuals who
hold obligations to collectively manage their surroundings. Foundational territorial authorities manage spatially integrated areas where agents are interconnected by dense and scaffolded physical circumstances. In these areas, individuals cannot fulfil their natural obligations to each other without the help of collective rules. As foundational territories overlap the territories of other political units, Nine frames a theory of nested and shared territorial rights, and argues for insightful
changes to the allocation of resource rights between political groups and individuals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nine, Cara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Cara Nine is Chair of Philosophy at University of Nevada, Reno. Before arriving at UNR, she taught in the Philosophy Department at University College Cork, Ireland. She was awarded her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Arizona and her BA in Philosophy from Carleton College Her first book, Global Justice and Territory (OUP, 2012), won the American Philosophical Association Book Prize in 2013 and the Brian Farrell 2013 Book Prize. She
has served as the President of the Irish Philosophical Society, and has been awarded grants by the Irish Research Council and the Research Council of Norway.