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Attachment to Territory: Status or Achievement?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Avery Kolers
Avery Kolers*
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University of Louisville, Louisville, KY40292, USA
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It is by now widely agreed that a theory of territorial rights must be able to explain attachment or particularity: what can link a particular group to a particular place with the kind of normative force necessary to forbid encroachment or colonization? Attachment is one of the pillars on which any successful theory of territory will have to stand. But the notion of attachment is not yet well understood, and such agreement as does exist relies on unexamined assumptions. One such assumption is that attachment is an achievement of some sort, as opposed to some kind of brute ascriptive status that a claimant has irrespective of anything it might do.

But achievements do not come for free. ‘Achievement’ is a success term, and any theory predicated on success, no matter how minimal, requires a theory of failure. Yet theorists of territory have not grappled with the problem of failure.

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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , June 2012 , pp. 101 - 123
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Copyright © The Authors 2012

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