Ayça Çubukçu
Biographic Data
| ID | 176050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayça Çubukçu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayça |
| FAMILY NAME | Çubukçu |
| SIGNATURE | ÇUBUKÇU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9396-4869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice
In this essay, I reflect on the problem of moral judgement with respect to the horrors we have been witnessing in Palestine, especially since October 2023. I offer these reflections primarily throu
David Graeber's Anthropology of Human Possibilities
This essay offers a close reading of David Graeber's posthumously published magnum opus The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), which he co-authored with David Wengrow. The essay engages critically with the concepts of “humanity” and “freedom” that The Dawn of Everything advances. Highlighting how Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004) foreshadows The Dawn of Everything in the kind of radical social theory both …
On Left Internationalism
This essay offers reflections on how contemporary left internationalism could think through-and beyond-both "humanity" and "nation" when positioning its struggles. With this aim, it first turns to philosophy and then to history to distinguish unsettled questions that animate dilemmas of left internationalism today. The essay is not, in a straightforward way, an attempt to draw the boundaries, offer the definitions, and determine the strategies of…
After Seeing Like a State: The Imperialism of Epistemic Claims
The force of nonviolence: An ethico-political bind
Of Rebels and Disobedients: Reflections on Arendt, Race, Lawbreaking
Hannah Arendt valued the unprecedented, the unexpected, and the new, yet in essays crafted at the end of the rebellious 1960s, struggled to square this valuation with a palpable desire for law and order. She lamented that criminality had overtaken American life, accused the police of not arresting enough criminals, and charged ‘the Negro community’ with standing behind what she named black violence. At once, she praised ‘the white rebels’ of the …
For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq
On the Exception of Hannah Arendt
This article offers a close reading of Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. It argues that in this text, Arendt consistently, even obsessively, evaluates the legal and moral challenges posed by Eichmann’s trial through the relationship between exception and rule. The article contends that the analytical lens of the exception allows us to appreciate the perplexities that Eichmann in Jerusalem presents – some fif…
The Responsibility to Protect: Libya and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity
The first part of this article examines some of the legal, ethical, and political dimensions of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine by engaging with cosmopolitan proposals for its application to Libya before the international military action to enforce it was initiated in March 2011. It presents reflections of a historical kind on state sovereignty, international community, and the political theology of humanitarian intervention while assessin…
Empire as a Practice of Power: An Interview
When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of "the black hole of Calcutta" was widely circulated and seen by the British public as an atrocity committed by savage colonial Subjects. Partha Chatterjee's The Black Hole of Empire: His…
On Cosmopolitan Occupations: The Case of the World Tribunal on Iraq
Within the tradition of ‘civil society tribunals’, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was an unprecedented endeavour in global scale, scope, structure and sophistication. Embedded within the global antiwar movement from 2003 to 2005, the WTI's praxis is provocative on several counts. While addressing the entanglement of cosmopolitan human rights ideals with imperial politics, this essay reflects on competing grammars of justice and legitimacy imagi…
Radikal bir ‘sıfat’ a yazılacak tebliğden asal kırıntılar Few prime fragments for a radical title
The force of nonviolence: An ethico-political bind
The Responsibility to Protect: Libya and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity
The first part of this article examines some of the legal, ethical, and political dimensions of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine by engaging with cosmopolitan proposals for its application to Libya before the international military action to enforce it was initiated in March 2011. It presents reflections of a historical kind on state sovereignty, international community, and the political theology of humanitarian intervention while assessin…
Of Rebels and Disobedients: Reflections on Arendt, Race, Lawbreaking
Hannah Arendt valued the unprecedented, the unexpected, and the new, yet in essays crafted at the end of the rebellious 1960s, struggled to square this valuation with a palpable desire for law and order. She lamented that criminality had overtaken American life, accused the police of not arresting enough criminals, and charged ‘the Negro community’ with standing behind what she named black violence. At once, she praised ‘the white rebels’ of the …
After Seeing Like a State: The Imperialism of Epistemic Claims
David Graeber's Anthropology of Human Possibilities
This essay offers a close reading of David Graeber's posthumously published magnum opus The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), which he co-authored with David Wengrow. The essay engages critically with the concepts of “humanity” and “freedom” that The Dawn of Everything advances. Highlighting how Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004) foreshadows The Dawn of Everything in the kind of radical social theory both …
On the Exception of Hannah Arendt
This article offers a close reading of Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. It argues that in this text, Arendt consistently, even obsessively, evaluates the legal and moral challenges posed by Eichmann’s trial through the relationship between exception and rule. The article contends that the analytical lens of the exception allows us to appreciate the perplexities that Eichmann in Jerusalem presents – some fif…
Radikal bir ‘sıfat’ a yazılacak tebliğden asal kırıntılar Few prime fragments for a radical title
On Cosmopolitan Occupations: The Case of the World Tribunal on Iraq
Within the tradition of ‘civil society tribunals’, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was an unprecedented endeavour in global scale, scope, structure and sophistication. Embedded within the global antiwar movement from 2003 to 2005, the WTI's praxis is provocative on several counts. While addressing the entanglement of cosmopolitan human rights ideals with imperial politics, this essay reflects on competing grammars of justice and legitimacy imagi…
Empire as a Practice of Power: An Interview
When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of "the black hole of Calcutta" was widely circulated and seen by the British public as an atrocity committed by savage colonial Subjects. Partha Chatterjee's The Black Hole of Empire: His…
The Responsibility to Protect: Libya and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity
The first part of this article examines some of the legal, ethical, and political dimensions of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine by engaging with cosmopolitan proposals for its application to Libya before the international military action to enforce it was initiated in March 2011. It presents reflections of a historical kind on state sovereignty, international community, and the political theology of humanitarian intervention while assessin…
On the Exception of Hannah Arendt
This article offers a close reading of Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. It argues that in this text, Arendt consistently, even obsessively, evaluates the legal and moral challenges posed by Eichmann’s trial through the relationship between exception and rule. The article contends that the analytical lens of the exception allows us to appreciate the perplexities that Eichmann in Jerusalem presents – some fif…
For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq
The force of nonviolence: An ethico-political bind
Of Rebels and Disobedients: Reflections on Arendt, Race, Lawbreaking
Hannah Arendt valued the unprecedented, the unexpected, and the new, yet in essays crafted at the end of the rebellious 1960s, struggled to square this valuation with a palpable desire for law and order. She lamented that criminality had overtaken American life, accused the police of not arresting enough criminals, and charged ‘the Negro community’ with standing behind what she named black violence. At once, she praised ‘the white rebels’ of the …
After Seeing Like a State: The Imperialism of Epistemic Claims
David Graeber's Anthropology of Human Possibilities
This essay offers a close reading of David Graeber's posthumously published magnum opus The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), which he co-authored with David Wengrow. The essay engages critically with the concepts of “humanity” and “freedom” that The Dawn of Everything advances. Highlighting how Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004) foreshadows The Dawn of Everything in the kind of radical social theory both …
On Left Internationalism
This essay offers reflections on how contemporary left internationalism could think through-and beyond-both "humanity" and "nation" when positioning its struggles. With this aim, it first turns to philosophy and then to history to distinguish unsettled questions that animate dilemmas of left internationalism today. The essay is not, in a straightforward way, an attempt to draw the boundaries, offer the definitions, and determine the strategies of…
A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice
In this essay, I reflect on the problem of moral judgement with respect to the horrors we have been witnessing in Palestine, especially since October 2023. I offer these reflections primarily throu
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