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The Oxford Dictionary defines a "nation" as a "community of people of mainly common descent, history, language, etc., forming a unified government or inhabiting a territory. A second definition simply says that a nation is "a tribe or confederation of tribes of Native Americans." The term derives from the Latin, and when it first appeared it explicitly entailed the idea of common blood ties or descent. As Walker Connor noted in his analysis of the term, it derives from the past participle of the word "nasci," which means to be born.

En este texto se analizan las posturas kantianas sobre la permisibilidad de la revolución como forma de cambio político. Se sostiene que así como el curso posterior de la Revolución francesa ya estaba inscrito en la ambigüedad del texto de la Constitución de 1791, las vacilaciones de Kant sobre la continuidad de un orden jurídico reflejan su propia dificultad para discernir claramente la cuestión de quién era el soberano. Quizás tal dificultad se deba a que Kant no desarrolló suficientemente una teoría fuerte del poder constituyente. ; In this essay, I analyze Kant's views on the permissibility of revolutions as a means of political change. I hold that in the same way the developments of the French Revolution were somehow contained in the ambiguity of the 1791 Constitution, Kant's hesitations concerning the continuity of a juridical order reflect his own inability to clearly specify who the sovereign is. This difficulty might be due to the fact that Kant did not develop a sound theory of constituent power.

Passing for Free, Passing for Sovereign examines the relationship between narratives of race and gender passing, histories of slavery that these narratives draw upon, and the hetero-nationalist imaginaries that they inform. Much of the scholarship on passing emphasizes the political and affective agency of "passers" to attain social mobility or escape racialized and gendered violence. However, this approach often pre-supposes an individual with autonomous and rational, liberal agency. It also leaves under-examined the accusation of passing itself. In contrast, this dissertation brings to the forefront accusations of passing as techniques of disciplining bodies and regulating populations in order to investigate the political assumptions embedded within them. It points to the ways the passing accusation has been institutionalized in a range of historical periods and spheres of activity including: positivist science, which centers the human as the knowing and unveiling subject; law and its role in defining free, liberal individuals and their belonging to the nation; and Enlightenment philosophy that posits an ethics based on rational universalism. It concludes by asking after the grounds for an ethical form of knowing not tethered to the anti-black epistemologies of passing but instead rooted in epistemologies of abolition.

Digital platforms are reshaping the geometry of the world. Their wide adoption by the population worldwide for an increasing number of activities, confer them a dominant position, which challenges established powers. Their control over the global flow of data and their algorithmic treatment leads to new asymmetries of power. New systems emerge, that unlike the Westphalian States do not correspond to territories on a map, but to complex networks controlling sectors of activities at a global scale. It is a real challenge and a necessity to reinvent a grammar of territories, to be able to grasp the new objects and their dependencies, and address the related issues of social justice and sustainable interaction with our planet. ; 8 ; 1 ; 101 ; 116 ; 7 ; Ethics in Progress

Digital platforms are reshaping the geometry of the world. Their wide adoption by the population worldwide for an increasing number of activities, confer them a dominant position, which challenges established powers. Their control over the global flow of data and their algorithmic treatment leads to new asymmetries of power. New systems emerge, that unlike the Westphalian States do not correspond to territories on a map, but to complex networks controlling sectors of activities at a global scale. It is a real challenge and a necessity to reinvent a grammar of territories, to be able to grasp the new objects and their dependencies, and address the related issues of social justice and sustainable interaction with our planet.

The unexpected outcome of the United Kingdom's 'Brexit' referendum on leaving the European Union may have historic and even tragic consequences for Gibraltar, since it necessarily entails both a reconsideration of the status of Gibraltar and changes in Spain's perspective on a solution to the dispute. Following Brexit, negotiations on the UK's withdrawal from the EU will not only pave the way for a new European and international legal framework, but will also create an opportunity for Spain to redefine its relationship with Gibraltar, offering the possibility of new approaches to resolve this historic dispute. Indeed, the obligation to negotiate a UK withdrawal from the EU will compel Gibraltar to redefine its European legal status, regardless of whether it remains within or outside EU law. This places Gibraltar in the very uncomfortable position of being forced to seek to negotiate a new arrangement within the EU legal framework; unquestionably the framework of greatest practical daily application, together with two other international legal frameworks, namely the Treaty of Utrecht and the UN 'doctrine' about the decolonization of Gibraltar.

La figura de los ángeles está presente en la tradición bíblica judía, así como en la literatura judía de los textos intertestamentarios y, aunque se suele especular con la falta de una "angeología judía", la figura del ángel juega un papel preponderante en la administración del cielo y de la tierra. Partiendo de la caracterización de la figura de los ángeles para Maimónides, en este trabajo se busca entender el por qué del intento de racionalización de la angeología por parte del gran filósofo y sus implicancias teológico-políticas. En especial, en lo concerniente al rol de los ángeles en la administración del universo y en la relación con los hombres, así como también en su disputa con el poder celestial. ; Figure of angels is present in Jewish biblical tradition and in Jewish intertestamental literature. Even though researchers speculate on the lack of a "Jewish angelology", the angel figure plays a leading role in the administration of Heaven and Earth. From the characterization of the figure of the angels in Maimonides, this paper seeks to understand why heattempts to rationalize the angelology and the political-theological implications of that. Specifically, we are going to analyze the role of angels in the universe administration and in the relation with men, as well as in its dispute with the heavenly power.