A new book, co-edited by Kent Law School doctoral law scholar Elena Paris, offers a radical political philosophy of cosmopolitanism.
Migration and cosmopolitanism – the ideology that all human beings belong to a single community – are said to be complementary but Migration, Protest Movements and the Politics of Resistance, explores how the intensification of migration, through an increasing number of refugees and economic migrants, has generated anti-cosmopolitan stances.
Using the concept of cosmopolitanism as it emerges from migrant protests like Sans Papiers, No One Is Illegal, and No Borders, the book’s contributors explore how migrant protest movements elicit a new form of radical cosmopolitanism.
Elena is also the author of one of the book’s chapters entitled ‘No One is Illegal: Law and The Possibilities for Radical Cosmopolitics’. The book, published by Routledge, is co-edited by Tamara Carus, a researcher at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest. Elena and Tamara previously co-edited Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism. Towards a Post-foundational Cosmopolitanism (Routledge 2016).
Before beginning her PhD in Law at Kent, Elena taught interactions among legal orders, and European Union law at the Law School, University of Bucharest. Her research interests lie in the fields of international legal theory, intersections of law and theology, legal pluralism, international economic law, continental philosophy, international refugee law. Previous book chapters include ‘International law-making and foundations of universality: retrieving an alternative metaphysics’, in the edited collection International Law and Religion. Historical and Contemporary perspectives (M Koskenniemi, M Garcia-Salmones, P Amorosa eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2017).