EISSN 2240-7987 / ISSN 1591-0660
Alessandro Ferrara’s Sovereignty Across Generations (2023) is a major contribution to political liberalism that addresses the neglected question of how just democratic orders persist “over time.”, thereby giving a novel theory of intergenerational democratic sovereignty. Ferrara proposes a theory of sequential sovereignty, where constituent power is exercised by a ...
Gianfranco Pellegrino, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy
In his latest book, Sovereignty Across Generations: Constituent Power and Political Liberalism, Alessandro Ferrara explores the grounds, norms and scope of liberal constitutions’ legitimacy. Specifically, Ferrara develops Rawls’s political liberalism by exploring liberal legitimacy in a constitutional direction. Indeed, while the grounds of constitutions’ legitimacy were not the ...
Greta Favara and Roberta Sala, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
This paper explores Alessandro Ferrara’s concept of transgenerational sovereignty within liberal political theory. It argues that “the people” must be understood ontologically as a political subject that includes past, present, and future generations. Drawing on social ontology and aesthetic theory, it examines how representation and constituent power form the basis of enduring ...
Tiziana Andina, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
In this paper I argue that in his otherwise important theory of sequential sovereignty accorded to an intergenerational people Alessandro Ferrara unduly privileges the founding generation. For him this first generation is the only one to have the constituent power to create a demos by accepting specific identity-defining commitments in light of an already given ethnic identity. With regard to the ...
Mattias Iser, Binghamton University, New York, USA
This paper critically examines Alessandro Ferrara’s concept of Sequential Sovereignty (SAG), which holds that constitutions are co-authored by past, present, and future generations, thereby limiting the constituent and amending powers of any single generation. The critique targets SAG’s founders’ privilege – the notion that founding generations alone possess full ...
Gianfranco Pellegrino, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy
This paper responds to critical comments offered by G. Favara and R. Sala, T. Andina, M. Iser, and G. Pellegrino on Sovereignty Across Generations. Constituent Power and Political Liberalism. The response is structured around four main themes: a) the relation of the sovereign transgenerational people to its living segments, and whether the normativity that constrains the transgenerational ...
Alessandro Ferrara, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
This short text discusses the main aspects of Ottonelli and Torresi’s book The Right Not to Stay: Justice in Migration, the Liberal Democratic State, and the Case of Temporary Migration Projects, focusing on their argument for recognizing temporary migration as a legitimate life plan. It also presents a series of objections raised by David Owen, Mario Cunningham, Ingrid Salvatore, and ...
Domenico Melidoro and Gloria Zuccarelli, Universitas Mercatorum, Rome, Italy and University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli, Italy
This commentary focuses on the methodological issue of the relevant context of justice for the discussion of Temporary Migration Projects and on drawing out the implications of this issue for the arguments of The Right Not To Stay. It contends that the methodologically nationalist approach to specifying duties of justice to persons engaged in TMPs that Ottonelli and Torresi adopt leaves their ...
David Owen, University of Southampton, Southampton, USA
This paper argues that Ottonelli and Torresi’s immanent critique and revision of liberal inclusivism ultimately fail to deliver their promise: a proposal to tackle temporary migrant workers’ vulnerability that remains faithful to liberal inclusivists’ normative commitments. After briefly introducing Ottonelli and Torresi’s critique and revision of liberal inclusivism ...
Mario Josue Cunningham Matamoros, Hoger Instituut vor Wijsbegeerte, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Ottonelli and Torresi defend the reasonable thesis that migrants should be treated as moral agents rather than passive recipients. However, they seem to imply that moral agency is related to voluntary migration. I contend that the voluntariness or involuntariness of migration is irrelevant to the normative thesis that we should treat migrants as moral agents. I also argue that the concept of ...
Ingrid Salvatore, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy
Does the principle of liberal accommodation require states to create special rights regimes for temporary migrants, or can it be satisfied through universal protections? Ottonelli and Torresi argue that liberal democracies must accommodate voluntary temporary migration plans by introducing tailored policies and corresponding rights that align with migrants’ temporariness preferences. They ...
Dimitrios E. Efthymiou, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
In our response to our commentators, we address four main issues. First, the role and purpose of our account of voluntariness in migration, and how it differs from the notion of voluntariness employed in the ideal theory of liberal egalitarian justice. Second, where our account of receiving states’ obligations towards migrants stands with respect to a cosmopolitan right to free immigration ...
Valeria Ottonelli and Tiziana Torresi, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy and University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Accounts of political responsibility for structural domination from Young and in recent republican accounts separate blame and responsibility. Many of the ways agents interact with structural injustice appear to create exemptions or excuses from blameworthiness. I argue, contrarily, that blame is attributable precisely for failing in a structural responsibility and eliminating many of the excuses ...
Hannah McHugh, Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
This article delves into the intricacies of the uses of the words and concepts of borders, boundaries, frontiers, and limits, to address epistemological difficulties related to linguistic and philosophical confusions, sometimes used to target migrants populations. These confusions accordingly can and should be ended to coherently pose and sufficiently address social and ecological difficulties ...
Timur Cengiz Uçan, Universities of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
The immigration policies adopted by European states are required to recognise migration processes as a structural phenomenon and, in the health sphere, to implement inclusive interventions capable of promoting integration and well-being for all people living in and/or transiting through Europe. At the national level, despite the forward-thinking measures put in place by the legislator and the ...
Natasha Cola, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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