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Book SynopsisAt a time of rising populism and debate about immigration, legal academic Jo Shaw sets out to review interactions between constitutions and citizenship. With examples from the political and cultural processes of countries’ worldwide, it is an incisive, accessible and urgent read for anyone interested in the boundaries of constitutions and citizenship today.
Trade Review"Anyone who wants to understand the ambivalent dynamics of populism and globalism and think about the future of citizenship and democracy will profit immensely from Shaw's scholarly work." * Sandra Seubert, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt *
"Democratic constitutions invoke citizens as the ultimate source of political authority. Yet the link between constitutionalism and citizenship has been surprisingly neglected so far. In her magisterial treatise, Jo Shaw paints a sweeping panorama of the global landscape of “constitutional citizenship” in all its manifold and contradictory manifestations."
-- Rainer Bauböck, European University Institute, Florence
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Juxtaposing Citizenship and Constitutions What Is Constitutional Citizenship and How Can We Study It? Key Themes Within Constitutional Citizenship Citizenship in an Era of National Populism Shifting Spatialities of Citizenship Reconciling the Ages of Populism and Globalism for an Open Concept of Constitutional Citizenship