Session: H14(b) - Roundtable: Author Meets Critics: Margaret Moore's A Political Theory of Territory (Oxford University Press, 2015)

Date: Jun 2, 2016 | Time: 01:30pm to 03:00pm | Location: Science Theatres 27

Chair/Présidente: Mira Bachvarova (University of New Brunswick)

Participants & Authors/Auteurs:

Mira Bachvarova (University of New Brunswick)

Avery Kolers (University of Louisville)

Amandine Catala (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Loren King (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Margaret Moore (Queen's University)

This panel is a roundtable discussion of Margaret Moore's newly published book "A Political Theory of Territory" (Oxford University Press, 2015). Moore is a prominent Canadian political philosopher who has written extensively on global justice, self-determination, secession, and collective rights. Building on her previous work, this book develops a comprehensive theory of territory and the normative foundations (and limitations) of groups' territorial rights. In doing so it tackles some of the most salient, yet difficult, questions in applied political theory: What grounds a state's or a people's claim to inhabit and exercise control over a particular geographic domain? Do collective rights over land entail rights to all of its resources? Does jurisdictional authority include an entitlement to control borders and migration? How can we assess disputes over boundaries, unoccupied spaces and historical heartlands? Moore outlines an original and sophisticated account of territory as an extension of the moral right to self-determination. This account allows her to address these questions in a systematic and consistent way, that moves debates in this field in a new direction. The book has already received international recognition; this panel brings together leading Canadian political theorists to comment on its contribution and impact.