On borders : territories, legitimacy, and the rights of place / Paulina Ochoa Espejo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ochoa Espejo, Paulina, 1974- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundaries--Social aspects.

Boundaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

'On Borders' asks when are borders legitimate, and it offers a new theory to answer the question. The text challenges critical and normative theories that criticize or justify borders solely in terms of identity (who you are), and instead frames borders and border legitimacy from the perspective of place and presence (where you are). Instead of thinking of borders as the exclusionary limit of identity groups (a 'desert island model'), the work develops a theory of territorial jurisdictions grounded on place-specific relations, giving central roles to urban settings and the environment. Paulina Ochoa Espejo calls this the 'watershed model' of territorial rights and borders.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Taking identity too seriously: Against the desert island model of territorial politics

The desert island model of territorial politics

What do borders divide? Peoples, places, jurisdictions

Democratic legitimacy and the vicious circle of people and territory

Natural borders: From the natural boundaries of states to ecological accounts of territory

Part II. Taking place seriously: For the watershed model of territorial politics

The topian tradition: A forgotten alternative to utopianism

How place-specific duties make borders morally relevant

The watershed: A (not so) new model for territories and border Placement

Part III. The morality of border politics in the real world: Applying the watershed model

Grounds of border control and shared border governance

Immigration: Rights based on presence rather than identity

Sharing ecosystems: Rivers as an example of transborder resource use and cooperation

What Is wrong with border walls?

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-007422-1

0-19-007423-X

0-19-007421-3