I am very grateful to the many colleagues who have taken time to prepare careful reviews of my book The People in Question. Having interlocutors of this nature makes the work of preparing the book for publication all the more worthwhile. Here is a running list of reviews.
Pride of place has to go to my colleagues at the GLOBALCIT Observatory for preparing a book symposium with many distinguished reviewers. Many thanks to you. It gave me the opportunity to write a bite-sized introduction to the book, which you will find here.
Here are links to the five reviews:
Sandra Seubert, ‘“Constitutional Citizenship” between is and ought’, https://globalcit.eu/globalcit-review-symposium-of-the-people-in-question-citizens-and-constitutions-in-uncertain-times-jo-shaw/2/
Helen Irving, Review, https://globalcit.eu/globalcit-review-symposium-of-the-people-in-question-citizens-and-constitutions-in-uncertain-times-jo-shaw/3/
Chulwoo Lee, Review, https://globalcit.eu/globalcit-review-symposium-of-the-people-in-question-citizens-and-constitutions-in-uncertain-times-jo-shaw/4/
Caroline Nalule, Review, https://globalcit.eu/globalcit-review-symposium-of-the-people-in-question-citizens-and-constitutions-in-uncertain-times-jo-shaw/5/
Rainer Bauböck, ‘Should citizenship be constitutionalised?’ https://globalcit.eu/globalcit-review-symposium-of-the-people-in-question-citizens-and-constitutions-in-uncertain-times-jo-shaw/6/
My response to these very stimulating reviews is here.
For the first time in my academic career, I was the subject of a review article in a major law journal.
Alex Green, Three Models of Political Membership: Delineating ‘The People in Question’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqaa040.
To Alex go special thanks for preparing an engaging review article in the OJLS which riffs on Alex’s own perspective on citizenship and membership issues. He’s somewhat critical of me for failing to nail my colours more clearly to a normative mast. I’ve incorporated some of my engagement with that criticism in my introduction to the GLOBALCIT symposium.
Other general law journals are reviewing the book, including the JLS and the Modern Law Review (forthcoming):
Devyani Prabhat (J. Law Soc., 2020, 47: 708–712. https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12261.
Devyani: so quick off the mark in the Journal of Law and Society. Thanks for the very first review of The People in Question. And so positive and engaging!
A number of colleagues got together and produced another Symposium in The Statelessness and Citizenship Review:
von Rütte, B. (2020). ‘Introduction’. The Statelessness and Citizenship Review, 2(2), 368–371. https://statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/journal/article/view/227.
Hase, J. (2020). ‘The Constitutional Citizen in Narratives of Peoplehood’. The Statelessness and Citizenship Review, 2(2), 372–376. https://statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/journal/article/view/233.
Baird, N. (2020). ‘Constitutions, Citizenship and the Shadow of Statelessness’. The Statelessness and Citizenship Review, 2(2), 377–383. https://statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/journal/article/view/229.
Sardelić, J. (2020). ‘Citizenship, Constitutions and Peoples on the Margins’. The Statelessness and Citizenship Review, 2(2), 384–388. https://statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/journal/article/view/231.
Kovács, K. (2020). ‘People, Sovereignty and Citizenship’. The Statelessness and Citizenship Review, 2(2), 389–394. https://statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/journal/article/view/235.
Several of these book reviews originated in presentations made by the reviewers to book events/presentations organised by Johanna Hase at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin in October 2020 (full recording available here) and (on Asia-Pacific time) by the Australian National University College of Law in conjunction with the International Association of Constitutional Law’s Membership and Exclusion Research Group in November 2020 (full recording available here).
I was delighted to be paired with Jelena Džankić and Yossi Harpaz in a multi-book review in the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology.
Szabolcs Pogony (2021): ‘Citizenship 2.0. The commodification of citizenship and the challenge of populism’, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, DOI: 10.1080/23254823.2021.1880151; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23254823.2021.1880151
