Artwork: Critical Mass
The featured artwork on our website was submitted as part of an open call for pieces
responding to the Review’s focus on advancing understandings of statelessness and citizenship
phenomena and challenges. ‘Critical Mass’ has been developed by architect and artist Wasim
Z Habashneh. The artist’s statement is as follows:
Using the traditional sand art practiced in Jordan to fill discarded fluorescent tubes with
pixelated patterns.
This pattern reflects the critical mass, a term that indicates the sufficient number of
adopters of innovation in a social system, so that the rate of adoption becomes selfsustaining and creates further growth. The layers of sand are positioned to resemble the
transition phase of a critical mass affecting the existing mass.
The sand particles resemble the human presence and necessity in such an environment.
The piece questions the definition of a normal and healthy community: statelessness and
citizenship are now an inevitable reality in our world, therefore finding ways to include
them in our collective pattern is as important as retaining the current one.
Submissions
The Statelessness & Citizenship Review is an online, open source academic journal that
publishes two issues per year. Please send an electronic copy of your submission, preferably
in Microsoft Word format, to the Editors in Chief at:
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All articles, critique and comments and case notes published are refereed. Other pieces are
refereed at the discretion of the Editors in Chief.
Online Resources
All pieces in this issue are available from our website:
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All URLs cited in this issue are active as of August 2026.
Citations
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for the Citation of Legal Authorities (‘OSCOLA’) as supplemented by the Review’s House Rules
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