{"product_id":"on-borders-territories-legitimacy-and-the-rights-of-place-9780190074203","title":"On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place","description":"When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as beaches delimit a castaway's realm, so borders define the edges of a territory, occupied by a unified people, to whom the land legitimately belongs. Hence a territory is legitimate only if it belongs to a people unified by a civic identity. Sadly, this Desert Island Model of territorial politics forces us to choose. If we want territories, then we can either have democratic legitimacy, or inclusion of different civic identities--but not both. The resulting politics creates mass xenophobia, migrant-bashing, hoarding of natural resources, and border walls. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo escape all this, \u003cem\u003eOn Borders\u003c\/em\u003e presents an alternative model. Drawing on an intellectual tradition concerned with how land and climate shape institutions, it argues that we should not see territories as pieces of property owned by identity groups. Instead, we should see them as watersheds: as interconnected systems where institutions, people, the biota, and the land together create overlapping civic duties and relations, what the book calls \u003cem\u003eplace-specific duties\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis Watershed Model argues that borders are justified when they allow us to fulfill those duties; that border-control rights spring from internationally-agreed conventions--not from internal legitimacy; that borders should be governed cooperatively by the neighboring states and the states system; and that border redrawing should be done with environmental conservation in mind. The book explores how this model undoes the exclusionary politics of desert islands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaulina Ochoa Espejo\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Political Science at Haverford College. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Time of Popular Sovereignty: Process and the Democratic State\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Populism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874476953874,"sku":"9780190074203","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9a76b9f8-192b-4ba5-a893-7862e7b250a1.jpg?v=1737995278","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-borders-territories-legitimacy-and-the-rights-of-place-9780190074203","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}