Alejandra Mancilla
My main research interests are in political and environmental philosophy, and ethics. Starting in 2021, I am the principal investigator of the five-year project Dynamic Territory: A Normative Framework for Territory in the Post-Holocene, which asks how to solve conflicts of interest around land and natural resources on a global scale, when the stability and predictability of geographic, climatic and demographic factors can no longer be taken for granted. My work so far has focused on the foundations of basic human rights and global justice (see The Right of Necessity), and on the justification of territorial rights and rights over natural resources. In a previous project, Political Philosophy Looks to Antarctica (2017/2020), I examined the moral grounds of territorial rights and rights over natural resources in the last uninhabited continent on earth, and suggested how looking to Antarctica might lead us to rethink key concepts in political theory like sovereignty, colonialism and domination. I also have an ongoing interest in natural law theory, the Scottish Enlightenment and non-Western philosophical traditions.
An updated list of publications (with links to them), talks and my cv can be found in my personal webpage.
Publications
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2020). Decolonising Antarctica, In Alan Hemmings & Dawid Bunikowski (ed.), Philosophies of Polar Law. Routledge. ISBN 9780429461149. 3. s 49 - 61
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2020). Necessity Knows No Borders: The Right of Necessity and Illegalized Migration, In Virpi Mäkinen; Pamela Slotte; Jonathan William Robinson & Heikki Haara (ed.), Rights at the Margins: Historical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9004416773. 9. s 212 - 231
- Mancilla, Maria Alejandra (2020). Occupancy rights: dynamic as well as located. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP). ISSN 1369-8230. s 765- 772 . doi: 10.1080/13698230.2020.1797389 Full text in Research Archive.
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2019). A continent of and for whiteness?: White colonialism and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty. Polar Record. ISSN 0032-2474. 55(5), s 317- 319 . doi: 10.1017/S003224741900069X
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2019). The Human Right to Subsistence. Philosophy Compass. ISSN 1747-9991. . doi: 10.1111/phc3.12618 Full text in Research Archive.
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2019). When subsistence rights are just claims and this is unjust. Social Philosophy and Policy. ISSN 0265-0525. 36(2), s 134- 153 . doi: 10.1017/S0265052519000475
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2018). The moral limits of territorial claims in Antarctica. Ethics and International Affairs. ISSN 0892-6794. 32(3), s 339- 360 . doi: 10.1017/S0892679418000527
- Donoso, Alfonso & Mancilla, Alejandra (2017). Doctors with borders? An authority-based approach to the brain drain. South African Journal of Philosophy. ISSN 0258-0136. 36(1), s 69- 77 . doi: 10.1080/02580136.2017.1265375
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2017). Shanty towns as an expression of the right of necessity [Las poblaciones callampa como expresión del derecho de necesidad]. Revista de Ciencia Política. ISSN 0716-1417. 37(3), s 755- 765 . doi: 10.4067/S0718-090X2017000300755
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2017). What the Old Right of Necessity Can Do for the Contemporary Global Poor. Journal of Applied Philosophy. ISSN 0264-3758. 34(5), s 607- 620 . doi: 10.1111/japp.12170 Full text in Research Archive.
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2016). Review article: The environmental turn in territorial rights. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP). ISSN 1369-8230. 19(2), s 221- 241 . doi: 10.1080/13698230.2013.868981
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2016). Shared Sovereignty over Migratory Natural Resources. Res Publica. ISSN 1356-4765. 22(1), s 21- 35 . doi: 10.1007/s11158-015-9309-7
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2015). The Volcanic Asymmetry or the Question of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Disasters. Journal of Political Philosophy. ISSN 0963-8016. 23(2), s 192- 212 . doi: 10.1111/jopp.12038
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2015). What We Own Before Property: Hugo Grotius and the Suum. Grotiana. ISSN 0167-3831. 36
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2013). Det vi eide førfast eiendom. Hugo Grotius og suum. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. 3, s 3- 14 Full text in Research Archive.
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2013). The Bridge of Benevolence: Hutcheson and Mencius. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy. ISSN 1540-3009. 12(1), s 57- 72
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2016). The Right of Necessity: Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty. Rowman & Littlefield International. ISBN 978-1783485864. 140 s.
- Mancilla, Alejandra & Campbell, Tom (ed.) (2012). Theories of Justice. Routledge. ISBN 9780754629726. 634 s.
- Mancilla, Alejandra (2019). Justice. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617.
- Mancilla, Alejandra & Barry, Christian (2017). Introduction: Land claims in Latin America [Introducción: reclamos territoriales en América Latina]. Revista de Ciencia Política. ISSN 0716-1417. 37(3), s 711- 712 . doi: 10.4067/S0718-090X2017000300711