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Sharing Territories

Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights

Cara Nine

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English
Oxford University Press
24 June 2024
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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Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9780198915829
ISBN 10:   0198915829
Series:   New Topics in Applied Philosophy
Pages:   328
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

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