A Political Theory of Territory

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“Rather, they argue that settler colonialism is a distinctly territorial wrong with two inherent features: dispossession and political domination.”

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“Most territory theorists use some version of Rawlsian reflective equilibrium (RRE), a dominant methodology in Anglo-American political philosophy.”

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“Although liberal theorists differ on whether Indigenous land theft has been superseded, they all insist that claims to ' huge amounts of land ' are unjustified due to present fairness constraints (Simmons, 2016: 131; see also Luoma and Moore, 2024; Moore, 2015: 141; 2016: 458; Stilz 2019a: 78 -84; 2019b.).”

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“Territory theorists argue that political domination persists because settler governments continue to deny Indigenous political communities ' 6 status as nations who are entitled to many, if not all, the jurisdictional rights currently exercised by modern states.”

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“These are inherent rights that derive from Indigenous political communities ' morally significant relationships with their territories and their political will and institutional capacity to govern themselves through their own institutions and to represent their interests internationally (Luoma, 2022; Moore, 2015; Nine, 2022; Simmons, 2016; Stilz, 2019a, 2019b).”

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“In their view, we acquire rights over particular places because they are part of our individual and collective plans and this gives us an important autonomy interest in being able to exercise control over these places (Moore, 2015: 34 -70; Nine, 2022: 104 -23; Stilz, 2019a: 33 -58).”