Coupled equations for Kähler metrics and Yang-Mills connections

We study equations on a principal bundle over a compact complex manifold coupling a connection on the bundle with a Kahler structure on the base. These equations generalize the conditions of constant scalar curvature for a Kahler metric and Hermite-Yang-Mills for a connection. We provide a moment map interpretation of the equations and study obstructions for the existence of solutions, generalizing the Futaki invariant, the Mabuchi K-energy and geodesic stability. We finish by giving some examples of solutions.Comment: 61 pages; v2: introduction partially rewritten; minor corrections and improvements in presentation, especially in Section 4; added references; v3: To appear in Geom. Topol. Minor corrections and improvements, following comments by referee

Democracy for idiots. Republicanism, self-alienation and permanent minorities

The main thesis can be summarized the following way: If freedom-status is the master good for republicans then, when democratic participation and mandatory citizenship undermine the self-respect of permanent minorities, self-alienation becomes a political status compatible with the republican ideal of freedom as non-domination. By self-alienation I understand the voluntary withdrawal of active democratic participation, the rejection of national membership as citizen, and the assumption of the status of permanent resident. The paper argues that permanent residency and national citizenship must be conceived as equivalent statuses in terms of non-domination and therefore, as compatible forms of democratic equality.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Enabling future access. Nations, generations, institutions and opportunity costs

The following paper is a response to Axel Gosseries’s “Nations, Generations and Climate Justice.” The core argument in Gosseries’s sharp and challenging text states that (1) we can understand intergenerational justice as transit duties between countries; that (2) impartial global planners should realize these duties through an intergenerational global leximin principle; and (3) that the right implementation of this principle implies strictly equivalent intergenerational transfers. In this text I will address the evaluative perspective of the impartial global planner and its institutional interpretation; then I will briefly present an “opportunistic” reply to the vagueness objection to rectificatory justice; finally I briefly examine the development of the right of transit in the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea and the limits to its intergenerational extension.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Democracy as horizon: conjectural argumentation and public reason beyond the state

Alessandro Ferrara’s conception of Democratic Horizon provides an innovative normative framework to address the challenge of hyperpluralism for an updated political liberalism. This project however, takes the fact of hyperpluralism as a given, disconnected from the global political context that leads to the emergence of this phenomenon. In particular, (1) the paper asks if liberal democracies have a duty to enlarge their polities through new constituent assembles and supranational organizations, or if accession of new polities should be conceived as a matter of national interest among interested parties. Paradoxically, (2) the paper defends the thesis that resort to conjectural argumentation that helps accommodate internal cultural diversity cannot justify supranational integration in normative terms or a transnational fusion of horizons. As an alternative, (3) the paper explores the notion of “conjectural space” for fair bargaining formation among interested parties. Additionally, (4) it also argues that the “ethos of openness” that supports the Democratic Horizon is unnecessarily constrained by a statist model of global governance. This model is still unjustifiably tied to the representation of national interests irrespective of population size or competing transnational interests.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Reconocimiento, reconciliación y reconstrucción cultural: la lucha por la tierra como reparación igualitaria

El presente texto explora la aplicación de las categorías de reconocimiento, reconciliación y reconstrucción cultural a los problemas de minorización política de los pueblos indígenas (Kymlicka, Taylor, Tully, Turner). En nuestro estudio nos apoyamos en concreto en las elaboraciones conceptuales aplicadas a la colonización americana, en el norte y en el sur (Pagden, Tully, Simon), para ilustrar como la justicia intercultural puede justificar la reparación territorial en términos instrumentales con el objetivo de reconstruir la igualdad de agencia y estatus político entre los constituyentes mayoritarios y minoritarios. Para ello examinamos las críticas a la concepción de los derechos culturales diferenciados de Kymlicka, las posibilidades de la acomodación conjetural de los derechos indígenas (Ferrara) en el liberalismo político pluralista y los argumentos a favor de las reparaciones históricas (Nichols) contra el contrato colonial liberal (Waldron).The paper explores the application of the categories of recognition, reconciliation, and cultural reconstruction to the problem of political minorization of indigenous peoples (Kymlicka, Taylor, Tully, Turner). This study relies on the conceptual elaborations applied to the colonization of America, both north and south (Pagden, Tully, Simon), to show how intercultural justice may justify territorial reparations in instrumental terms. The goal is to reconstruct equality of political status and agency among majority and minority constituent peoples. In order to do so, the paper examines the critiques to Kymlicka’s conception of differentiated cultural rights, the prospects for conjectural accommodation of indigenous rights (Ferrara) within a pluralist political liberalism, and the arguments in support of historical reparations against the liberal colonial contract (Waldron).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Estados de guerra y legitimidad internacional. Una crítica cosmopolita

[Excerpt] En el presente texto se pretenden explorar los problemas de institucionalización internacional de la protección del derecho humano a la seguridad. Para ello: 1. Presentaremos una breve introducción de la relación de protección entre grupos afines en el marco del estado hobbesiano y en el orden internacional. 2. Posteriormente analizaremos tres propuestas alternativas para institucionalizar la protección del derecho humano a la seguridad en nuestro orden internacional de acuerdo con una legitimación cosmopolita. 3. Finalmente expondremos una evaluación crítica de estas propuestas desde un punto de vista cosmopolita haciendo especial hincapié en la insuficiencia de los presupuestos de la paz democrática y en las limitaciones de la concepción nacional de la ciudadanía. [...]info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Democratic legitimacy, international institutions and cosmopolitan disaggregation

The paper explores Thomas Christiano’s conception of international legitimacy. It argues that his account fails to fully appreciate the instrumental constraints that international legitimacy imposes on national democracies. His model of Fair Voluntary Association articulates the transmission of political legitimacy through a double aggregation of political consent. First, it “pools” its authority from the foundational cosmopolitan claims of individuals involved in a deeply interdependent social world; it then translates this source of legitimacy to international organizations through state consent. However, this model fails to enforce compliance with the cosmopolitan standards and commitments regarding vulnerable populations. The paper argues (i) that the global standards of legitimacy operate as objective criteria of instrumental legitimacy for the reflective evaluation of democratic states, (ii) that the demand of consistent compliance with these cosmopolitan goals imposes external constraints on the institutions of domestic democratic deliberation; and finally, (iii) that if democratic states fail to implement reforms in this direction, then their citizens have the legitimate prerogative to disaggregate their cosmopolitan contribution and direct it to the global institutions that officially realize these goals.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Presentación

La edición 37 de Semestre Económico incluye un total de siete artículos, en los que se revisan temas económicos, tales como ambiental, laboral, industrialización, región, y temas administrativos y de negocios como la innovación en la organiza­ción, el marketing y la relación entre la antropología y los negocios. Cinco artículos son producto de trabajos de investigación, y dos son de reflexión. Dos de estos trabajos son de investigadores de universidades extranjeras y los restantes cinco son de investigadores nacionales