Annual Jonathan Trejo-Mathys Essay Prize awarded to Jocelyn Kane (Ottawa)

The Global Justice Network [theglobaljusticenetwork.org] is very pleased to announce the winner of the sixth annual Jonathan Trejo-Mathys Essay Prize, awarded to recognize a stellar contribution to the political theory and philosophy of global justice, which was one of Jonathan Trejo-Mathys’ areas of scholarship. The prize is sponsored by the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy [bc.edu] at Boston College. 

This year’s prize goes to Jocelyn Kane, Part-Time Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada, for her essay “Intentional Noncitizenship: Politics, Harms, and Permissibility.” The essay brings together three case studies of noncitizenship – Indigenous refusal of colonialism, anti-statist resistance to imposed nationality, and seasteaders’ pursuit of recognition in international waters – to offer a nuanced account of intentional noncitizenship. The committee believes that the essay makes an important contribution to the scholarship on citizenship and cosmopolitanism, and the role of states in the global order.    An honorable mention goes to Santiago Truccone, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Graz, Austria, for his essay “The Need for Punishment in Global Climate Justice.”

The prize-winning essay will be published in a forthcoming issue of Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric. Dr. Kane will also receive $1000.00.