A defense of the moral and legal right to secede

Vaca, Moisés; Artiga, Marc

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“…Remedial theorists, like Buchanan himself and Wayne Norman, attribute a right to secede to groups that have been subject to a deeply unjust state (Buchanan, 1991a; Norman, 1998). Associationist theories hold that any group (that is, any association of people) that wishes to secede may secede, subject to only a few limitations, like Andrew Altman and Christopher Heath Wellman's stipulation that both the secessionists and the remaining state (the “rump state”) must be able to adequately protect human rights (Altman & Wellman, 2009, p. 51; Angell & Huseby, 2020; Beran, 1984; Lefkowitz, 2008; Tideman, 2004; Vaca & Artiga, 2021; Wellman, 2005). According to ascriptivist views, groups with certain ascriptive characteristics (invariably, the characteristics that constitute nationhood) have a right to secede (Margalit & Raz, 1990; Miller, 1995, ch.…”

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A cosmopolitan instrumentalist theory of secession

Weltman

2023

The Southern J of Philosophy

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I defend the cosmopolitan instrumentalist theory of secession, according to which a group has a right to secede only if this would promote cosmopolitan justice. I argue that the theory is preferable to other theories of secession because it is an entailment of cosmopolitanism, which is independently attractive, and because, unlike other theories of secession, it allows us to give the answers we want to give in cases like secession of the rich or secession that would make things worse for minorities. I defend the view against the objections that it allows for colonialism and annexation, that it is not a distinct theory, and that it is impractical.

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A cosmopolitan instrumentalist theory of secession

Weltman

2023

The Southern J of Philosophy

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“…Si volvemos a la ofensa que padece la persona transexual que cita a manera de ejemplo Vaca (2021), en el que ve cómo las personas se retiran cuando se sienta en el transporte público, en un contexto en el que esta persona transexual sufre expresiones similares de manera persistente, subrayamos que los conceptos de actos discriminatorios "dañistas", que revisamos en el cuarto capítulo, fallarían en distinguir este acto como discriminatorio.…”

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Pantomima de la igualdad Ciudadanía corrupta y discriminación

Muñoz Oliveira,

Camacho y Beltrán

2023

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A estas alturas —y de manera afortunada— no es inusual la aparición de un libro sobre discriminación, lo que sí es poco frecuente es que nos encontremos con un texto que reclama su pertenencia en el dominio de la filosofía política. Esta disciplina, quizá desde que Platón se sintió profundamente ofendido por la condena a muerte de Sócrates por la democracia, ha supuesto que la mejor forma de racionalizar el orden social es transformar los conflictos políticos en epistemológicos. En este sentido, la injusticia no se resolvería ampliando el marco de comprensión sobre qué es lo que dificulta que una vida sea vivida en condiciones dignas y acerca de cuáles posiciones sociales han sido impedidas de alcanzar este estatus y por qué motivos.

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Situating the Moral Basis for Secession in Territorial Rights: A Dualist and Nonalienation Account

Huang

2023

Moral Philosophy and Politics

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This article grounds the morality of secession on two forms of collective self-determination: one manifests the communal goods of secessionists and the other the value of shared political institutions. Secession is morally valuable when the two are incompatible such that the claimant confronts persistent alienation. For remedial rights theories, only ‘strict violations’ permit secession. For primary rights theories, ‘broad violations’ grant secession as a last resort, and so this thesis, ‘collective self-determination as nonalienation’, should be accepted regardless. First, as the two collective forms of self-determination develop two forms of territorial rights, it supplements cogent accounts of territorial justification for, and claims to, secession. Second, as persistent alienation can have both strict and broad interpretations, it also provides moral grounds shared by remedial and primary rights theories if they concede the value of collective self-determination. The strict sense refers to persistent coercion that violates personal autonomy and nullifies state legitimacy. The broad interpretation denotes long-term political frustration caused by unreasonable prevention of greater collective autonomy that even legitimate states may achieve. Third, to verify whether this amounts to long-term political frustration and to address persistent alienation, secession should be regarded as a last resort, despite its support from the primary rights account.

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A defense of the moral and legal right to secede

Cited by 3 publications

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A cosmopolitan instrumentalist theory of secession

A cosmopolitan instrumentalist theory of secession

Pantomima de la igualdad Ciudadanía corrupta y discriminación

Situating the Moral Basis for Secession in Territorial Rights: A Dualist and Nonalienation Account

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