ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a new research agenda that relates the idea of secession as emancipatory politics to the concept of responsibility. This association is important because the basic emancipatory elements of free will and self-realisation that often accompany secessionist rhetoric are simultaneously basic requisites for collective moral agency. In order to present secession as a project of political emancipation one needs to take into account the responsibility that secessionist collective action generates. Free will has a twofold meaning. In the first sense, it is considered as the ability to choose or decide among alternatives. The second meaning of free will entails the capacity to translate a decision into action. the capter articulates a model of collective moral agency which can be applied to secessionist groups. Secessionist communities should aim at being represented by a legitimate government that would be most appropriate to promote their common aspirations.
