Ayelet Shachar’s latest book, The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility, has been shortlisted for the 2022 C.B. Macpherson Prize!
The prize is awarded every two years by the Canadian Political Science Association. It recognises the author of the best book published in English or in French in the field of political theory.
Ayelet Shachar is the Head of the “Transformations of Citizenship” Leibniz Research Group.
“The Shifting Border is at once creative and authoritative in its treatment state borders as concrete yet ephemeral, and as established yet shifting. Dr. Shachar’s specific intervention – of relaxing the linkage of asylum with the border – opens up generative conceptual and legal terrain for readers to contemplate the implications of accepting the terms of the shifting border by subverting them. An important impact of Dr. Shachar’s analysis is to reorient theorical and practical examinations of boundaries in contemporary times. Embracing scholarly work as a dialogue, the book is structured with a central essay by Dr. Shachar, responses by a selection of interlocutors, and her reply to their insights. This structure is novel and refreshing and, in combination with highly sophisticated and substantiated argument, results in a work that will remain significant to scholars of politics, political theory, and international relations.”
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