Cara Nine
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cara Nine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cara |
| FAMILY NAME | Nine |
| SIGNATURE | NINE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Foundational territories
Sharing Territories
Colonialism, territory and pre-existing obligations
In ‘What’s Wrong with Colonialism,’ Lea Ypi argues that the wrong of colonialism can be expressed as procedural wrongs, not as wronging territorial rights. On her view, colonial practices went wrong in two ways: they forced residents into political associations, and the terms of the political association were not established through equal and reciprocal negotiations. I argue that because Ypi’s account successfully side-lines all but essential cla…
Self-determination, group identity and the common will
Anna Stilz defends a political autonomy account of self-determination that, she argues, best explains our intuitions about why colonization, annexation and foreign occupation are wrong. These are wrong, on Stilz’s view, because they unilaterally coerce individuals living under those systems of government. I argue that Stilz does not show that her account of self-determination explains our intuitions about autonomy in these kinds of cases, because…
Do territorial rights include the right to exclude
Do territorial rights include the right to exclude? This claim is often assumed to be true in territorial rights theory. And if this claim is justified, a state may have a prima facie right to unilaterally exclude aliens from state territory. But is this claim justifiable? I examine the version of territorial rights that has the most compelling story to support the right to exclude: territorial rights as a kind of property right, where ‘territory…
The Wrong of Displacement
Resource Rights and Territory
This essay examines the most recent justifications for a people's (or state's) exclusive right to resources as part of a territorial right. Divided into eight parts, the discussion covers contemporary philosophical discussion regarding: the conception of natural resources, the conception of resource rights, the general form of arguments supporting resource rights, arguments from self-determination, objections to arguments from self-determination,…
Water Crisis Adaptation
Symposium ‘Theories of Territory beyond Westphalia’
Is territory a trap? Does the concept of territory trap us into false assumptions of internally homogeneous, externally bounded political communities that exercise uniform sovereignty across their domain? Against the background of debates about territory and the territorial state in international relations, this symposium brings together five contributions in political theory that advance a nuanced and systemic understanding of what territory is.…
When affected interests demand joint self-determination
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The Emergence of Borders
In this paper, we examine the extent to which the concept of emergence can be applied to questions about the nature and moral justification of territorial borders. Although the term is used with many different senses in philosophy, the concept of “weak emergence”-advocated by, for example, Sawyer (2002, 2005) and Bedau (1997)-is especially applicable, since it forces a distinction between prediction and explanation that connects with several issu…
Resource Rights
Despite the fact that it is often taken for granted that political units and/or peoples have rights over the resources within their territory, it is not clear why political authority over persons should give rise to claims over resources, what those claims should be, or how they could be justified. In an attempt to bring some clarity to these issues, I focus on resource rights as a theoretical meeting point between political authority and rights …
Global Justice and Territory
Global Justice and Territory
This chapter further defends this account of exclusive resource rights by criticizing theories that claim that the scope of distributive justice undermines the legitimacy of territorial rights. To the contrary, arguments for the scope of distributive justice necessarily presuppose territorial entitlements. To see why this is the case, this chapter shows that both statist anti-cosmopolitan theories and cosmopolitan theories presume collective enti…
Compromise, Democracy and Territory
Territorial rights come with both costs (war, inequality and oppression) and benefits (political participation, coordinated use of resources). The immense importance of these normative aspects of territorial rights solidifies our need for a principled theory of territory. With globalisation and transnational interactions, a cosmopolitan account of territorial rights is required – it should justify territorial authority generally. This generalised…
Superseding historic injustice and territorial rights
This essay discusses Jeremy Waldron's article, 'Superseding historic injustice' in which he argues that, in some cases, the historical injustice of territorial conquest and colonization should not be redressed. I argue that Waldron's argument fails because it does not take into consideration the difference between a right to territorial sovereignty and the right to reside in a territory
Territory is Not Derived from Property
An individualistic Lockean theory of territory holds that territorial rights are coextensive with and arise from the private property rights of individuals. In this essay I extend and deepen my arguments against this view. This essay is a rejoinder to Hillel Steiner's critique of my earlier arguments against the individualistic Lockean theory of territory
A Lockean Theory of Territory
In this article I defend a straightforward application of Lockean property arguments to territorial rights. The article is divided into three parts. In the first part I explain the difference between two rights to land: property rights and territorial rights. In the second part I explain why an individualistic account of a Lockean theory of territory cannot be used to theorise about territorial rights. In the third part I defend a collectivist ve…
The Moral Arbitrariness of State Borders
Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought
A Lockean Theory of Territory
In this article I defend a straightforward application of Lockean property arguments to territorial rights. The article is divided into three parts. In the first part I explain the difference between two rights to land: property rights and territorial rights. In the second part I explain why an individualistic account of a Lockean theory of territory cannot be used to theorise about territorial rights. In the third part I defend a collectivist ve…
The Wrong of Displacement
Symposium ‘Theories of Territory beyond Westphalia’
Is territory a trap? Does the concept of territory trap us into false assumptions of internally homogeneous, externally bounded political communities that exercise uniform sovereignty across their domain? Against the background of debates about territory and the territorial state in international relations, this symposium brings together five contributions in political theory that advance a nuanced and systemic understanding of what territory is.…
The Moral Arbitrariness of State Borders
Colonialism, territory and pre-existing obligations
In ‘What’s Wrong with Colonialism,’ Lea Ypi argues that the wrong of colonialism can be expressed as procedural wrongs, not as wronging territorial rights. On her view, colonial practices went wrong in two ways: they forced residents into political associations, and the terms of the political association were not established through equal and reciprocal negotiations. I argue that because Ypi’s account successfully side-lines all but essential cla…
Do territorial rights include the right to exclude
Do territorial rights include the right to exclude? This claim is often assumed to be true in territorial rights theory. And if this claim is justified, a state may have a prima facie right to unilaterally exclude aliens from state territory. But is this claim justifiable? I examine the version of territorial rights that has the most compelling story to support the right to exclude: territorial rights as a kind of property right, where ‘territory…
Water Crisis Adaptation
When affected interests demand joint self-determination
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Resource Rights
Despite the fact that it is often taken for granted that political units and/or peoples have rights over the resources within their territory, it is not clear why political authority over persons should give rise to claims over resources, what those claims should be, or how they could be justified. In an attempt to bring some clarity to these issues, I focus on resource rights as a theoretical meeting point between political authority and rights …
Superseding historic injustice and territorial rights
This essay discusses Jeremy Waldron's article, 'Superseding historic injustice' in which he argues that, in some cases, the historical injustice of territorial conquest and colonization should not be redressed. I argue that Waldron's argument fails because it does not take into consideration the difference between a right to territorial sovereignty and the right to reside in a territory
Territory is Not Derived from Property
An individualistic Lockean theory of territory holds that territorial rights are coextensive with and arise from the private property rights of individuals. In this essay I extend and deepen my arguments against this view. This essay is a rejoinder to Hillel Steiner's critique of my earlier arguments against the individualistic Lockean theory of territory
Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought
Superseding historic injustice and territorial rights
This essay discusses Jeremy Waldron's article, 'Superseding historic injustice' in which he argues that, in some cases, the historical injustice of territorial conquest and colonization should not be redressed. I argue that Waldron's argument fails because it does not take into consideration the difference between a right to territorial sovereignty and the right to reside in a territory
Territory is Not Derived from Property
An individualistic Lockean theory of territory holds that territorial rights are coextensive with and arise from the private property rights of individuals. In this essay I extend and deepen my arguments against this view. This essay is a rejoinder to Hillel Steiner's critique of my earlier arguments against the individualistic Lockean theory of territory
A Lockean Theory of Territory
In this article I defend a straightforward application of Lockean property arguments to territorial rights. The article is divided into three parts. In the first part I explain the difference between two rights to land: property rights and territorial rights. In the second part I explain why an individualistic account of a Lockean theory of territory cannot be used to theorise about territorial rights. In the third part I defend a collectivist ve…
The Moral Arbitrariness of State Borders
Global Justice and Territory
Global Justice and Territory
This chapter further defends this account of exclusive resource rights by criticizing theories that claim that the scope of distributive justice undermines the legitimacy of territorial rights. To the contrary, arguments for the scope of distributive justice necessarily presuppose territorial entitlements. To see why this is the case, this chapter shows that both statist anti-cosmopolitan theories and cosmopolitan theories presume collective enti…
Compromise, Democracy and Territory
Territorial rights come with both costs (war, inequality and oppression) and benefits (political participation, coordinated use of resources). The immense importance of these normative aspects of territorial rights solidifies our need for a principled theory of territory. With globalisation and transnational interactions, a cosmopolitan account of territorial rights is required – it should justify territorial authority generally. This generalised…
Resource Rights
Despite the fact that it is often taken for granted that political units and/or peoples have rights over the resources within their territory, it is not clear why political authority over persons should give rise to claims over resources, what those claims should be, or how they could be justified. In an attempt to bring some clarity to these issues, I focus on resource rights as a theoretical meeting point between political authority and rights …
Symposium ‘Theories of Territory beyond Westphalia’
Is territory a trap? Does the concept of territory trap us into false assumptions of internally homogeneous, externally bounded political communities that exercise uniform sovereignty across their domain? Against the background of debates about territory and the territorial state in international relations, this symposium brings together five contributions in political theory that advance a nuanced and systemic understanding of what territory is.…
When affected interests demand joint self-determination
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Emergence of Borders
In this paper, we examine the extent to which the concept of emergence can be applied to questions about the nature and moral justification of territorial borders. Although the term is used with many different senses in philosophy, the concept of “weak emergence”-advocated by, for example, Sawyer (2002, 2005) and Bedau (1997)-is especially applicable, since it forces a distinction between prediction and explanation that connects with several issu…
Water Crisis Adaptation
Resource Rights and Territory
This essay examines the most recent justifications for a people's (or state's) exclusive right to resources as part of a territorial right. Divided into eight parts, the discussion covers contemporary philosophical discussion regarding: the conception of natural resources, the conception of resource rights, the general form of arguments supporting resource rights, arguments from self-determination, objections to arguments from self-determination,…
The Wrong of Displacement
Do territorial rights include the right to exclude
Do territorial rights include the right to exclude? This claim is often assumed to be true in territorial rights theory. And if this claim is justified, a state may have a prima facie right to unilaterally exclude aliens from state territory. But is this claim justifiable? I examine the version of territorial rights that has the most compelling story to support the right to exclude: territorial rights as a kind of property right, where ‘territory…
Colonialism, territory and pre-existing obligations
In ‘What’s Wrong with Colonialism,’ Lea Ypi argues that the wrong of colonialism can be expressed as procedural wrongs, not as wronging territorial rights. On her view, colonial practices went wrong in two ways: they forced residents into political associations, and the terms of the political association were not established through equal and reciprocal negotiations. I argue that because Ypi’s account successfully side-lines all but essential cla…
Self-determination, group identity and the common will
Anna Stilz defends a political autonomy account of self-determination that, she argues, best explains our intuitions about why colonization, annexation and foreign occupation are wrong. These are wrong, on Stilz’s view, because they unilaterally coerce individuals living under those systems of government. I argue that Stilz does not show that her account of self-determination explains our intuitions about autonomy in these kinds of cases, because…
Sharing Territories
Foundational territories
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