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Sharing Territories: Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights

Sharing Territories: Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights

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Series: New Topics in Applied Philosophy

PhilosophyGeneral LawGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0198915829
ISBN13: 9780198915829
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 3 2025
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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