Editorial

If we believe our leaders and politicians, or our algorithm-directed news and social media feeds, we live in societies that are rife with division.What divides us is continuously emphasised, exaggerated, manipulated and played back to us by people in positions of power and influence.As an antidote to such a damaging fixation that increases anxiety and erodes trust, we must strengthen efforts to forefront narratives and actions that reaffirm our shared humanity, common interests or joint purpose.So, as the Statelessness and Citizenship Review ('SCR') reaches its 7 th volume, let us recall the impetus for this dedicated journal: to convene a space to come together, in what David Baluarte described in the inaugural edition to be 'our collective project' on statelessness and citizenship. 1With each new issue published since, the contributors to the SCR have brought this collective project to life.Academics and practitioners from diverse contexts, backgrounds, disciplines and points of departure have found common ground on which to engage, placing statelessness at the centre of exploration, learning and knowledge exchange.Over time, the slow-form dialogue that is captured within the pages of the SCR has expanded and evolved.Scholarship has sought to peel back more layers of discovery, to dig deeper into the drivers, tactics, mechanics and manifestations of statelessness, as well as to unpack, evaluate and critique the strategies that have mobilised around the issue.The article by Brinham in this issue is an excellent example of this. 2 She observes that 'when statelessness results primarily from the misuse of state power, it has proved more challenging for international organisations to develop appropriate interventions' 3 and suggests that a way to 'further efforts towards responsive and accountable international programming' is through better understanding how impacted communities have organised in response to citizenship violence. 4 The article posits a framework to distinguish the concrete methods that states deploy to weaponize their citizenship regimes and exposes the modes of ground-level resistance that have emerged in response.Her evaluation includes lessons for statelessness scholarship.Among the strategies for collective resistance adopted is to counter erasure through community-centred knowledge production.As Brinham remarks, 'this challenges the anti-statelessness sector to centre the knowledge and analysis of people affected by statelessness at the same time as decolonising its own knowledge-production practices and approaches to international policy'. 5She closes her piece with an 'invitation' that, if accepted, will do much to further enrich our collective project: 'to all of us who do *