@aycacu.bsky.social
Author / Associate Professor at LSE Human Rights & LSE Sociology / Co-Editor, Humanity Journal & LSE International Studies Series at Cambridge University Press / Own Views / Rep: DGA Literary Agents https://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/people/academic-staff/ay
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."
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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-...
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 ⬇️
[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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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....
NYC, this is happening today, 5 pm. No registration required.
18.09.2025 13:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“The law is ridiculous.”
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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...
🖋️ 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.
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.
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02.09.2025 13:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'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...
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Yes, Madagascar comes to mind. Never again?
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“Hosting” ethnic cleansing in camps
@thetimes.com
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...
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...
📖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
Out now in French, with a chapter from me on #DavidGraeber's Anthrology of Human Possibilities.
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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...
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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London School of Economics NOW
#LSEDivest
#FreePalestine
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...
Thank you very much!
08.04.2025 18:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tesekkurler!
05.04.2025 15:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dear all, I am trying to migrate from X to BluSky--would appreciate your help in building a community on this platform.
Broad interests: politics, law, social movements, social and political theory.
Keep rolling over for billionaire bullies Harvard! Excellent strategy to destroy what is left of university from a leading academic institution.
01.04.2025 07:36 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Another scandalous case of authoritarian Staatsräson violating basic rights, and copying Trump: “What we’re seeing here is straight out of the far right’s playbook. Political dissent is silenced by targeting the migration status of protesters.”
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Everyone who speaks up makes it safer for others to do so. Everyone who stays silent makes it more dangerous for those who do speak up. The time is now folks.
“Thousands protest after Tufts grad student arrested by ICE, transferred out of state”
www.boston.com?post_type=po...
Incredible scenes from #Istanbul tonight where thousands of students are marching towards Şişli to protest against Erdogan.
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