Breena Holland
Biographic Data
| ID | 644014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Breena Holland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Breena |
| FAMILY NAME | Holland |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLAND B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8609-6792 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Samuel Pufendorf on multiple monarchy and composite kingdoms
This article expounds Samuel von Pufendorf’s evolving theory of multiple monarchy, from the publication of his early work on the form of the Holy Roman Empire, through his natural jurisprudence, to his historical accounts of European statesmanship. Although his comments on the irregularity—indeed, the monstrosity—of composite kingdoms are well known, it is less often appreciated that Pufendorf came to be able to accommodate them within a typology…
Jean Bodin's Police State
This article probes the meanings of and distinctions between the concepts of the state, sovereignty, and government, as elaborated by Jean Bodin. There is tendency for one of these three terms to disappear in modern analyses of his work. I argue that Bodin makes the state the name of an insubstantial substantive: the condition of a civil condition that must always be qualified by an adjective stating the location of sovereignty as opposed to gove…
Connecting Capabilities Across the Species Divide: Friendship and Dignity in Difference
The papers in this symposium are part of an ongoing dialogue over several years about the capabilities of non-human animals that began at the 2015 HDCA conference at Georgetown University. That con
Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine
Waters of the United States: Upgrading wetland valuation via benefit transfer
Working With and For Animals—A Response to Nussbaum
Professor Nussbaum's argument for why and how the capabilities approach is a useful corrective to the “so like us” (SLU) approach to establishing legal protection for animals advances theoretical t
You know you can do this, right?”: Developing geospatial technological pedagogical content knowledge and enhancing teachers’ cartographic practices with socio-environmental science investigations
Many barriers exist to K–12 classroom teachers’ adoption and implementation of geospatial technologies with their students. To address this circumstance, we have developed and implemented a geospatial curriculum approach to promote teachers’ professional growth with curriculum-linked professional development (PD) to support the adoption of socio-environmental science investigations (SESI) in an urban school environment that includes reluctant lea…
The Perpetual Peace Puzzle: Kant on persons and states
Kant described the state as a ‘moral person’, and did so when dealing with international relations. For all the interest in his contribution to the theory of global politics, the locution according to which Kant characterized the state has received very little attention. When notice has been taken of it, the moral personality of the state has moved arguments in opposing directions. On one recent reading, when Kant called the state a moral person …
Procedural justice in local climate adaptation: Political Capabilities and Transformational Change
Climate adaptation politics presents both obstacles and opportunities for correcting inequities that leave some communities especially vulnerable to climate-related environmental harms. By revealing these obstacles and opportunities, theories of procedural justice can help to identify procedural reforms and political strategies that advance the interests of vulnerable populations. An account of procedural justice is proposed that foregrounds the …
Cultural Killing and Human-Animal Capability Conflict
The capabilities approach provides a promising basis for developing a theory of interspecies justice grounded in the inherent dignity of all sentient striving beings. As currently formulated, the approach provides guidance for identifying the entitlements of each being, but not for managing tradeoffs between the capabilities of humans and nonhumans. Through considering cultural practices that put human capabilities in conflict with the capabiliti…
Cultivating Human and Non-human Capabilities for Mutual Flourishing
The commitment to human flourishing in various traditions of political thought has been an important bridge between anthropocentrically conceived political theory and the more encompassing concerns of biocentrism and eco-centrism in environmental political theory. This chapter explores how this commitment has been developed and applied by scholars drawing on the theory of human capabilities—or “capabilities theory”—to imagine and construct an env…
Kant's Politics in Context
In this excellent new book, Reidar Maliks supplies, for the first time, an interpretation motivated by Cambridge School commitments of the political theory of Immanuel Kant. It is, of course, not t
Recognition, participation, and power in the global struggle for environmental justice: The emerging politics of environmental rights and opportunities
In April of 2014, Purdue University's “building sustainable communities” initiative hosted an international workshop on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Access to Resources. Commenced with a k
Political Theory and the Impact Agenda
Capabilities, Gender, Equality: Towards Fundamental Entitlements
Questions of gender, injustice and equality pervade all our lives, and as such, the capabilities or 'human development' approach to understanding well-being and basic political entitlements continues to be debated. In this thought-provoking book, a range of authors provide unique reflections on the capabilities approach and, specifically, Martha C. Nussbaum's contributions to issues of gender, equality and political liberalism. Moreover, the auth…
Natural Law and the Theory of International Society: Otto von Gierke and the Three Traditions of International Theory
Hedley Bull, in the passage in The Anarchical Society which introduces the ‘three competing traditions of thought’ associated with the articulation of the modern states-system, cited Otto von Gierke as the originator of this influential way of organising international theory. This article examines Gierke's work in order to assess the extent of the influence on the English School that can be ascribed to him. It argues that in fact Gierke's version…
The moral person of the state: Emer de Vattel and the foundations of international legal order
Emer de Vattel was the first writer systematically to combine three arguments in a single work, namely: that states have a fundamental duty of self-interestedness; that they nonetheless have reason to see themselves as inhabiting a kind of society; and that this society is held together by positive agreements between its members on rules that shall regulate their interactions. This article explores how Vattel arrived at his vision of internationa…
Public Philosophy in a New Key. Volume I: Democracy and Civic Freedom
Sovereignty as Dominium? Reconstructing the Constructivist Roman Law Thesis1: Sovereignty as Dominium
The constructivist authors John Gerard Ruggie, Friedrich Kratochwil, and Nicholas Onuf have each independently pressed the case that the concept of state sovereignty owes its genesis to the rediscovery of the Roman law of private property in the Renaissance. This article supports this conclusion, but argues that it was the notion of representation that Roman property law bequeathed which was of such significance. It makes this argument through an…
Ecology and the Limits of Justice: Establishing Capability Ceilings in Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach
Human impacts on large‐scale ecological interactions effectively confer fundamental advantages of wealth and power to some members of society and not to others. As illustrated here by reference to a 1993 cholera outbreak resulting from degradation of aquatic ecosystems, these impacts can pose barriers to the normal channels through which one might pursue individual advantage, thereby raising tensions for liberal theories of justice that are commi…
Justice and the Environment in Nussbaum's “Capabilities Approach: Why Sustainable Ecological Capacity Is a Meta-Capability
What principles should guide how society distributes environmental benefits and burdens? Like many liberal theories of justice, Martha Nussbaum's “capabilities approach” does not adequately address this question. The author argues that the capabilities approach should be extended to account for the environment's instrumental value to human capabilities. Given this instrumental value, protecting capabilities requires establishing certain environme…
Managing Place and Identity: The Marin Coast Miwok Experience
Group identity serves as a mechanism for claiming rights of control and access to land in the United States. Public land managers face myriad identity‐based claims to land in their care. Identity shapes claims that must appear valid within the strictures of a legal system created by a dominant culture to serve its interests. The very form of those systems—of which public lands are a large part—makes possible the expression of particular forms of …
Justice and the Environment in Nussbaum's “Capabilities Approach: Why Sustainable Ecological Capacity Is a Meta-Capability
What principles should guide how society distributes environmental benefits and burdens? Like many liberal theories of justice, Martha Nussbaum's “capabilities approach” does not adequately address this question. The author argues that the capabilities approach should be extended to account for the environment's instrumental value to human capabilities. Given this instrumental value, protecting capabilities requires establishing certain environme…
Procedural justice in local climate adaptation: Political Capabilities and Transformational Change
Climate adaptation politics presents both obstacles and opportunities for correcting inequities that leave some communities especially vulnerable to climate-related environmental harms. By revealing these obstacles and opportunities, theories of procedural justice can help to identify procedural reforms and political strategies that advance the interests of vulnerable populations. An account of procedural justice is proposed that foregrounds the …
Public Philosophy in a New Key. Volume I: Democracy and Civic Freedom
Sovereignty as Dominium? Reconstructing the Constructivist Roman Law Thesis1: Sovereignty as Dominium
The constructivist authors John Gerard Ruggie, Friedrich Kratochwil, and Nicholas Onuf have each independently pressed the case that the concept of state sovereignty owes its genesis to the rediscovery of the Roman law of private property in the Renaissance. This article supports this conclusion, but argues that it was the notion of representation that Roman property law bequeathed which was of such significance. It makes this argument through an…
The moral person of the state: Emer de Vattel and the foundations of international legal order
Emer de Vattel was the first writer systematically to combine three arguments in a single work, namely: that states have a fundamental duty of self-interestedness; that they nonetheless have reason to see themselves as inhabiting a kind of society; and that this society is held together by positive agreements between its members on rules that shall regulate their interactions. This article explores how Vattel arrived at his vision of internationa…
Recognition, participation, and power in the global struggle for environmental justice: The emerging politics of environmental rights and opportunities
In April of 2014, Purdue University's “building sustainable communities” initiative hosted an international workshop on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Access to Resources. Commenced with a k
You know you can do this, right?”: Developing geospatial technological pedagogical content knowledge and enhancing teachers’ cartographic practices with socio-environmental science investigations
Many barriers exist to K–12 classroom teachers’ adoption and implementation of geospatial technologies with their students. To address this circumstance, we have developed and implemented a geospatial curriculum approach to promote teachers’ professional growth with curriculum-linked professional development (PD) to support the adoption of socio-environmental science investigations (SESI) in an urban school environment that includes reluctant lea…
The Perpetual Peace Puzzle: Kant on persons and states
Kant described the state as a ‘moral person’, and did so when dealing with international relations. For all the interest in his contribution to the theory of global politics, the locution according to which Kant characterized the state has received very little attention. When notice has been taken of it, the moral personality of the state has moved arguments in opposing directions. On one recent reading, when Kant called the state a moral person …
Cultural Killing and Human-Animal Capability Conflict
The capabilities approach provides a promising basis for developing a theory of interspecies justice grounded in the inherent dignity of all sentient striving beings. As currently formulated, the approach provides guidance for identifying the entitlements of each being, but not for managing tradeoffs between the capabilities of humans and nonhumans. Through considering cultural practices that put human capabilities in conflict with the capabiliti…
Political Theory and the Impact Agenda
Managing Place and Identity: The Marin Coast Miwok Experience
Group identity serves as a mechanism for claiming rights of control and access to land in the United States. Public land managers face myriad identity‐based claims to land in their care. Identity shapes claims that must appear valid within the strictures of a legal system created by a dominant culture to serve its interests. The very form of those systems—of which public lands are a large part—makes possible the expression of particular forms of …
Managing Place and Identity: The Marin Coast Miwok Experience
Group identity serves as a mechanism for claiming rights of control and access to land in the United States. Public land managers face myriad identity‐based claims to land in their care. Identity shapes claims that must appear valid within the strictures of a legal system created by a dominant culture to serve its interests. The very form of those systems—of which public lands are a large part—makes possible the expression of particular forms of …
Ecology and the Limits of Justice: Establishing Capability Ceilings in Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach
Human impacts on large‐scale ecological interactions effectively confer fundamental advantages of wealth and power to some members of society and not to others. As illustrated here by reference to a 1993 cholera outbreak resulting from degradation of aquatic ecosystems, these impacts can pose barriers to the normal channels through which one might pursue individual advantage, thereby raising tensions for liberal theories of justice that are commi…
Justice and the Environment in Nussbaum's “Capabilities Approach: Why Sustainable Ecological Capacity Is a Meta-Capability
What principles should guide how society distributes environmental benefits and burdens? Like many liberal theories of justice, Martha Nussbaum's “capabilities approach” does not adequately address this question. The author argues that the capabilities approach should be extended to account for the environment's instrumental value to human capabilities. Given this instrumental value, protecting capabilities requires establishing certain environme…
Sovereignty as Dominium? Reconstructing the Constructivist Roman Law Thesis1: Sovereignty as Dominium
The constructivist authors John Gerard Ruggie, Friedrich Kratochwil, and Nicholas Onuf have each independently pressed the case that the concept of state sovereignty owes its genesis to the rediscovery of the Roman law of private property in the Renaissance. This article supports this conclusion, but argues that it was the notion of representation that Roman property law bequeathed which was of such significance. It makes this argument through an…
The moral person of the state: Emer de Vattel and the foundations of international legal order
Emer de Vattel was the first writer systematically to combine three arguments in a single work, namely: that states have a fundamental duty of self-interestedness; that they nonetheless have reason to see themselves as inhabiting a kind of society; and that this society is held together by positive agreements between its members on rules that shall regulate their interactions. This article explores how Vattel arrived at his vision of internationa…
Public Philosophy in a New Key. Volume I: Democracy and Civic Freedom
Natural Law and the Theory of International Society: Otto von Gierke and the Three Traditions of International Theory
Hedley Bull, in the passage in The Anarchical Society which introduces the ‘three competing traditions of thought’ associated with the articulation of the modern states-system, cited Otto von Gierke as the originator of this influential way of organising international theory. This article examines Gierke's work in order to assess the extent of the influence on the English School that can be ascribed to him. It argues that in fact Gierke's version…
Capabilities, Gender, Equality: Towards Fundamental Entitlements
Questions of gender, injustice and equality pervade all our lives, and as such, the capabilities or 'human development' approach to understanding well-being and basic political entitlements continues to be debated. In this thought-provoking book, a range of authors provide unique reflections on the capabilities approach and, specifically, Martha C. Nussbaum's contributions to issues of gender, equality and political liberalism. Moreover, the auth…
Recognition, participation, and power in the global struggle for environmental justice: The emerging politics of environmental rights and opportunities
In April of 2014, Purdue University's “building sustainable communities” initiative hosted an international workshop on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Access to Resources. Commenced with a k
Political Theory and the Impact Agenda
Cultivating Human and Non-human Capabilities for Mutual Flourishing
The commitment to human flourishing in various traditions of political thought has been an important bridge between anthropocentrically conceived political theory and the more encompassing concerns of biocentrism and eco-centrism in environmental political theory. This chapter explores how this commitment has been developed and applied by scholars drawing on the theory of human capabilities—or “capabilities theory”—to imagine and construct an env…
Kant's Politics in Context
In this excellent new book, Reidar Maliks supplies, for the first time, an interpretation motivated by Cambridge School commitments of the political theory of Immanuel Kant. It is, of course, not t
The Perpetual Peace Puzzle: Kant on persons and states
Kant described the state as a ‘moral person’, and did so when dealing with international relations. For all the interest in his contribution to the theory of global politics, the locution according to which Kant characterized the state has received very little attention. When notice has been taken of it, the moral personality of the state has moved arguments in opposing directions. On one recent reading, when Kant called the state a moral person …
Procedural justice in local climate adaptation: Political Capabilities and Transformational Change
Climate adaptation politics presents both obstacles and opportunities for correcting inequities that leave some communities especially vulnerable to climate-related environmental harms. By revealing these obstacles and opportunities, theories of procedural justice can help to identify procedural reforms and political strategies that advance the interests of vulnerable populations. An account of procedural justice is proposed that foregrounds the …
Cultural Killing and Human-Animal Capability Conflict
The capabilities approach provides a promising basis for developing a theory of interspecies justice grounded in the inherent dignity of all sentient striving beings. As currently formulated, the approach provides guidance for identifying the entitlements of each being, but not for managing tradeoffs between the capabilities of humans and nonhumans. Through considering cultural practices that put human capabilities in conflict with the capabiliti…
Working With and For Animals—A Response to Nussbaum
Professor Nussbaum's argument for why and how the capabilities approach is a useful corrective to the “so like us” (SLU) approach to establishing legal protection for animals advances theoretical t
You know you can do this, right?”: Developing geospatial technological pedagogical content knowledge and enhancing teachers’ cartographic practices with socio-environmental science investigations
Many barriers exist to K–12 classroom teachers’ adoption and implementation of geospatial technologies with their students. To address this circumstance, we have developed and implemented a geospatial curriculum approach to promote teachers’ professional growth with curriculum-linked professional development (PD) to support the adoption of socio-environmental science investigations (SESI) in an urban school environment that includes reluctant lea…
Waters of the United States: Upgrading wetland valuation via benefit transfer
Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine
Connecting Capabilities Across the Species Divide: Friendship and Dignity in Difference
The papers in this symposium are part of an ongoing dialogue over several years about the capabilities of non-human animals that began at the 2015 HDCA conference at Georgetown University. That con
Jean Bodin's Police State
This article probes the meanings of and distinctions between the concepts of the state, sovereignty, and government, as elaborated by Jean Bodin. There is tendency for one of these three terms to disappear in modern analyses of his work. I argue that Bodin makes the state the name of an insubstantial substantive: the condition of a civil condition that must always be qualified by an adjective stating the location of sovereignty as opposed to gove…
Samuel Pufendorf on multiple monarchy and composite kingdoms
This article expounds Samuel von Pufendorf’s evolving theory of multiple monarchy, from the publication of his early work on the form of the Holy Roman Empire, through his natural jurisprudence, to his historical accounts of European statesmanship. Although his comments on the irregularity—indeed, the monstrosity—of composite kingdoms are well known, it is less often appreciated that Pufendorf came to be able to accommodate them within a typology…
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