Faculty Member, Sociology
About
Ayça Çubukçu joined the LSE in May 2012 as a Lecturer in Human Rights at the Department of Sociology and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. Before the LSE, she taught for the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University. During the 2009-2010 academic year, she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute.
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. In conjunction with the history and critique of international law, her research and teaching interests are in the fields of social and political theory, human rights, cosmopolitanism, secularism, postcolonial studies and transnational social movements. She especially welcomes MSc and PhD students seeking a critical engagement with these fields.
In her research, Dr. Çubukçu examines competing grammars of legality, justice and legitimacy imagined by scholars and activists in response to cases of war, intervention and occupation for “liberation.” Throughout her scholarship, she focuses on the entanglement of international law and human rights ideals with the ethics and politics of violence.
Articles:
Çubukçu, Ayça (forthcoming 2012) “The Responsibility to Protect: Libya and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity,” Journal of Human Rights, special issue on Humanitarianism and Responsibility.
Çubukçu, Ayça (2011) “On Cosmopolitan Occupations: the Case of the World Tribunal on Iraq,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 13 (3): 422-442.
Çubukçu, Ayça (2010) “Few Prime Fragments for a Radical Title,” parallax, Vol. 16 (3).
Çubukçu, Ayça (2006) “Can the Network Speak? A review of Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri,” Arab Studies Journal, Vol. 8 (2)/Vol. 9 (1): 168-174.
Public Writings include:
Çubukçu, Ayça (2011), “Turkey: the ‘Progressive’ Land of Repression” The Guardian, December 11.
Çubukçu, Ayça (2011) “Killing in the Name of: Libya, Sovereignty, Humanity”
Jadaliyya, March 11. Also available on Immanent Frame, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) blog on Secularism, Religion, and Public Life.
Çubukçu, Ayça (2011) ‘‘The Responsibility to Protect’: Notes on Libya, Sovereignty, and the UN Security Council” Jadaliyya, February 28.
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