M. C. Loureiro (Leicester Law School) has posted Critical Citizenship Theory: Law, Race and Rights Through the Portuguese Empire (Colonial Citizenship, Bristol University Press, forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Critical Citizenship Theory advances critical citizenship theory organised around the concept of negatory nationality and colonial citizenship. It argues that citizenship operates through three constituents (race, civilisation, assimilation) that distribute belonging across a spectrum of statuses: from negatory nationality where one is accepted but denied rights, to citizenship proper where one is able to change and shape the constitutional system. Drawing on legal philosophy and political theory, the chapter builds the theoretical framework that the rest of the book develops, demonstrating that coloniality is not a residue of citizenship but its constituent. It positions Portugal as the urtext from which the legal theory of citizenship can be drawn and offers an analytical apparatus for identifying citizenship as a regime of oppression in any legal order.
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