Simona Capisani

Simona Capisani

Simona Capisani
Simona Capisani received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine in 2018. Her research and teaching interests are in Political Philosophy and Ethics (both Normative and Applied) with a special interest in issues that intersect climate justice and global justice. Her current research provides a new normative framework for thinking about the moral and political challenges that emerge for the international territorial state system under conditions of climate change. Her work focuses on climate-induced displacement and its challenges to territorial sovereignty and birthright citizenship in the context of territorial instability and environmental uninhabitability. According to the normative framework she develops, the state system is obligated to protect climate refugees or those who are displaced when their territories of birth or residence are no longer habitable due to the effects of climate change. Her framework derives and justifies these obligations from the structure and aims of the current territorial state system, understood as a social practice. The project’s emphasis on the social practices and institutions that structure social and material relations offers a fruitful ground for addressing the specific ways climate-induced displacement and migration amplifies gendered injustice. Capisani holds a MA in Philosophy from San Francisco State University and a BA degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities from the University of San Diego.

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