On Borders —— Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place

----- 边界：领土，合法性和居住权

ISBN: 9780190074203 出版年：2020 页码：345 Ochoa Espejo, Paulina Oxford University Press

On Borders asks when are borders legitimate, and it offers a new theory to answer the question. The book challenges critical and normative theories that criticize or justify borders solely in terms of identity (who you are), and instead frames borders and border legitimacy from the perspective of place and presence (where you are). Instead of thinking of borders as the exclusionary limit of identity groups (a "desert island model"), the book develops a theory of territorial jurisdictions grounded on place-specific relations, giving central roles to urban settings and the environment. Paulina Ochoa Espejo calls this the "watershed model" of territorial rights and borders.