Ayça Çubukçu
Dr. Ayça Çubukçu is Associate Professor in Human Rights and former Co-Director (2018-2024) of LSE Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before LSE, Dr. Çubukçu was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, and taught for the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University. In 2020, she was appointed as a Senior Fellow of the Fung Global Fellows Program at Princeton University.
A transdisciplinary scholar by training, Dr. Çubukçu holds a BA in Government with Distinction in All Subjects from Cornell University and a PhD with Distinction from the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University.
Her research and teaching interests are in social, political and legal theory, with a focus on human rights, cosmopolitanism, political violence, internationalism, postcolonial studies, and transnational social movements. In her research, Dr. Çubukçu examines the politics of transnational solidarity and the entanglement of international law and human rights ideals with the ethics and politics of violence. She especially welcomes MSc and PhD students seeking a critical engagement with these fields.
Dr Çubukçu leads the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity research group at LSE. She is also an Honorary Member of the Centre on Social Movement Studies at the European University Institute; Co-editor of LSE International Studies Series at Cambridge University Press; Co-editor of Humanity Journal, and Co-Editor of Jadaliyya’s Turkey Page.
Dr. Çubukçu is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence; the Award for Outstanding Teaching given by the Students’ Union of LSE; Major Review Teaching Award and the Excellence in Education Award by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
A scholar committed to public engagement, Dr. Çubukçu has contributed op-eds to the Guardian and Al Jazeera English, and has appeared on BBC2’s Newsnight, BBC3’s Free Thinking, and BBC Arabic’s television programmes.
Address: Department of Sociology
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
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A transdisciplinary scholar by training, Dr. Çubukçu holds a BA in Government with Distinction in All Subjects from Cornell University and a PhD with Distinction from the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University.
Her research and teaching interests are in social, political and legal theory, with a focus on human rights, cosmopolitanism, political violence, internationalism, postcolonial studies, and transnational social movements. In her research, Dr. Çubukçu examines the politics of transnational solidarity and the entanglement of international law and human rights ideals with the ethics and politics of violence. She especially welcomes MSc and PhD students seeking a critical engagement with these fields.
Dr Çubukçu leads the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity research group at LSE. She is also an Honorary Member of the Centre on Social Movement Studies at the European University Institute; Co-editor of LSE International Studies Series at Cambridge University Press; Co-editor of Humanity Journal, and Co-Editor of Jadaliyya’s Turkey Page.
Dr. Çubukçu is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence; the Award for Outstanding Teaching given by the Students’ Union of LSE; Major Review Teaching Award and the Excellence in Education Award by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
A scholar committed to public engagement, Dr. Çubukçu has contributed op-eds to the Guardian and Al Jazeera English, and has appeared on BBC2’s Newsnight, BBC3’s Free Thinking, and BBC Arabic’s television programmes.
Address: Department of Sociology
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
UK
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Editors' Note: The following exchange begins with Jodi Dean's response to a recent essay by Ayça Çubukçu. Çubukçu then replies, below.
Ayça Çubukçu outlines the logic of humanitarian intervention that has dominated the US approach to international affairs for the last thirty years and asks whether the US withdrawal from Afghanistan marks the end of this paradigm.
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Editors' Note: The following exchange begins with Jodi Dean's response to a recent essay by Ayça Çubukçu. Çubukçu then replies, below.
Ayça Çubukçu outlines the logic of humanitarian intervention that has dominated the US approach to international affairs for the last thirty years and asks whether the US withdrawal from Afghanistan marks the end of this paradigm.
Borderlines sat down with Ayça Çubukçu, Adom Getachew and Darryl Li to discuss their three books which deal with decolonization after the fall of Empire.
Speaker: Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University
Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Assistant Professor in Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science
Date: Friday 20 May 2016, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Venue: Old Theatre, Ground floor, Old Building
Professor Spivak’s lecture, “Solidarity: Call For Specificity” will examine the relationship between solidarity, complicity, globality and development in the context of “primitive accumulation.” While reflecting on race, class and gender as well as identitarianism, in her lecture, Professor Spivak will intervene into debates about nationalism and post-nationalism, humanism and post-humanism.
This event is organized by the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity (ICPS) Research Group led by Dr Ayça Çubukçu and is co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, Department of International Relations, Department of Government, Department of Law, Department of Anthropology and the Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies at London School of Economics and Political Science.
In political theory and post-structuralist theory, rightlessness and a-legality are topics of intense current interest that are being investigated in terms of the “excluding inclusiveness of law”. Influential post-structuralist critiques of the last decades have helped us to understand how law “produces” subjectivities and expresses power formations. Yet, a positive articulation of what “being through law” amounts to is still missing: the importance of legal frameworks for being a self, for being with others, and for being in a political community. Our working thesis is that law is not just an instrument or tool by which we realize our intentions. It expresses and mediates our individuality in modern society where human actions are to a large extent realized through formalized legal categories. The workshop aims at enriching these debates with an inter/subjective aspect of lived experience, its existential structures, and its political and social consequences: how law mediates—or fails to mediate—human action, and thus, individuality in plurality.