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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · 7h

“I understand why people feel sensitive right after the attack on a synagogue. Simultaneously, we can feel sorry about that, and we can be in grief about that and protest Israel’s genocide in Palestine. The two are not contradictory.”

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · 7h

'Watching on was a LSE professor Ayça Çubukçu, who said that it wasn’t all “un-British” to demonstrate ... “It’s in the tradition of this country to protest for justice, to engage in acts of civil disobedience,” she said.'

www.wsj.com/world/europe...

U.K. Government Asked Pro-Palestinian Supporters Not to March on Oct. 7. They Did Anyway.

After a terrorist attack on a synagogue, the government is caught between defending free speech and trying to reassure its Jewish population.

www.wsj.com

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 7d

Amazing victory. "A federal court today ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment."

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment

The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

www.aaup.org

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · 7d

Applications for the Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the humanities and social sciences are now open.

Please help spread the word.

www.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-...

Fellowships: Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships | PARC

The Palestinian American Research Center announces the 4th competition for PARC Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the

www.parc-us-pal.org

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 7d

In this paper by @aycacu.bsky.social on moral judgment and genocide in Palestine, Arendt and Scott are brought into dialogue to confront the ethics of responsibility, complicity, and redress in our present.

Read the full article here ⬇️

A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice

Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · 12d

[TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]

@aycacu.bsky.social’s short story “The Intersection”: a meeting, a collision, and the tension of caring “too much.”

🔗 bit.ly/the-intersect...

#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds #Fiction

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · 19d

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@lsesociology.bsky.social

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · 19d

I wrote an essay, "A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice" for the Journal of Genocide Studies..

Thanks to Dirk Moses for editing the roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies where it appears.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice

Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · 20d

NYC, this is happening today, 5 pm. No registration required.

Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion.

@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
@lsesociology.bsky.social

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Sep 6

“The law is ridiculous.”

Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · Sep 6

What will be the lasting legacy of Starmerism? Probably going to be inoring genocide in Gaza, and arresting those who dare to stand against Israel’s war machine.

Arrests made at rally against Palestine Action ban in London

Hundreds of people have gathered in Parliament Square to oppose the group's ban under anti-terrorism legislation.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Sep 6

My short story, "The Intersection," is now published by the one and only @markaz-review.bsky.social.

The entire issue, OUT OF OUR MINDS, looks fascinating.

themarkaz.org/the-intersec...

The Intersection—an encounter

A drink at a pub, a conversation about psychoanalysis, then an accident — a short story.

themarkaz.org

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The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social · Sep 5

🖋️ Featuring: @warghetti.bsky.social, @joelleabirached.bsky.social, @jordanelgrably.bsky.social, Sara Shamma, @bookfabulous.bsky.social, Malu Halasa, Mohammad Rabie, Real Bakhit, Dina Shehata, Safa Elnaili, Robert Bociaga, @aycacu.bsky.social, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social, and Farah Ahamed.

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion.

@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
@lsesociology.bsky.social

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'll be delivering the 2025 Social Sciences Annual Lecture at @uniwestminster.bsky.social on Sept 15. If you would like to attend but are not affiliated with the university, please kindly drop me a note and I'll see what I can do.

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-manifest...

@lsehumanrights.bsky.social

A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice

Ayça Çubukçu is Associate Professor in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yes, Madagascar comes to mind. Never again?

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Aug 14

“Hosting” ethnic cleansing in camps

@thetimes.com

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Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social · Aug 6

My latest for the LRB is on the insights of David Graeber's 'baseline communism', and 'dialling to the left'. As @aycacu.bsky.social puts it, Graeber was an anthropologist of human possibilities.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations

In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Aug 7

A must-read by Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social, on David Graeber for the @lrb.co.uk

Baseline Communism —> www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations

In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...

www.lrb.co.uk

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LSE Human Rights @lsehumanrights.bsky.social · Jul 29

📖New publication: @aycacu.bsky.social's chapter "David Graeber's Contributions to Anthropology: The Anthropology of Human Possibilities" is out now in French.

🔗https://presses.univ-lyon2.fr/product/show/9782729714734/penser-et-agir-avec-david-graeber

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Jul 28

Out now in French, with a chapter from me on #DavidGraeber's Anthrology of Human Possibilities.

@lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Jul 4

This is a brilliant essay by Kevin Okoth for the London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk on Achille Mbembe's work. I am delighted to be cited thoughtfully in this critical engagement.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Kevin Okoth · The Pessimist’s Optimist: Beyond the Postcolony

Achille Mbembe is the pessimist’s optimist: he delivers a devastating analysis of the contemporary moment while never...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Jun 16

University of Pennsylvania Press @pennpress.bsky.social has selected my book, For the Love of Humanity, as one of their 20 favourite books. This means that the book is available now at a 75% discount.

www.pennpress.org/franklins-fa...

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Franklin's Faves: 75% Off Select Titles! - University of Pennsylvania Press

Welcome to Franklin’s Faves—a special section of the Penn Press website where you’ll always find 20 of our favorite titles for 75% off the listed price! Below, you can shop... READ MORE

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Jun 12

London School of Economics NOW

#LSEDivest
#FreePalestine

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · May 8

Here is the video recording of the recent lecture by Professor Kristin Ross at @lsehumanrights.bsky.social and @lsesociology.bsky.social, titled "The Ecological Face of the Commune Form," based on her recent book, The Commune Form, published by @versobooks.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnYQ...

The ecological face of the commune form

YouTube video by LSE Sociology

www.youtube.com

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