[Humsamserien] Högre seminarium Tema T

[Anders Hansson]

Hej,

Nästa onsdag (22/4) kl 13.15 kommer en gäst som vår seminariegrupp har röstat fram.

Jörgen Ödalen:

Abstract: Global climate change is likely to become a major cause of future migration. Small Island States are particularly vulnerable since territorial destruction caused by sea level rise poses a threat to their entire existence. This raises important issues concerning state sovereignty and self-determination. Is it possible for a state to remain self-determining even if it lacks a stable population residing on a specific territory? It has been suggested that migrants from disappearing Small Island States could continue to exercise sovereign control over their abandoned territory. Such an arrangement would allow them to retain a measure of self-determination. The question posed in this talk is whether this ‘deterritorialized state proposal’ is conceptually plausible and normatively acceptable. It is argued that the proposal is conceptually plausible if we adopt a gradual understanding of ‘self-determination’, but that its normative acceptability is weak even if it is supplemented with compensatory measures.

Bio: Jörgen Ödalen is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden. His main area of research is contemporary political theory, with a particular focus on issues of sovereignty and self-determination, on the international as well as on the local level.

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Anders Hansson, PhD, Senior Lecturer
Department of Thematic Studies: Technology and Social Change
Tel: +46 13282930/+46 704438823

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