Kostakopoulou, Dora; Tataryn, Anastasia --- "Homo objectus, homo subjectus and Brexit" [2017] ELECD 937; in Bardutzky, Samo; Fahey, Elaine (eds), "Framing the Subjects and Objects of Contemporary EU Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 275

Book Title: Framing the Subjects and Objects of Contemporary EU Law

Editor(s): Bardutzky, Samo; Fahey, Elaine

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786435736

Section: Chapter 15

Section Title: Homo objectus, homo subjectus and Brexit

Author(s): Kostakopoulou, Dora; Tataryn, Anastasia

Number of pages: 13

Abstract/Description:

The chapter explores the relationship between objects and conditioning events, and the idea of an ingression of an object into an event. Taken from natural sciences, this idea can also be fruitfully applied to political life. The example of this is the transformation of a homo subjectus into a homo objectus through a conditioning event. This process is illustrated with a number of case studies that affected the citizenship and other statuses of people. The chapter discusses the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union (‘Brexit’) as an example of such a conditioning event. Keywords: Brexit, citizenship, irregularity, subject, object, conditioning event