Ayça Çubukçu

 

About Ayça

Ayça Çubukçu is an author, academic, and editor based in London, who writes about the operations of “humanity” as an ethical and political concept. After leaving Turkey at the age of 17, she was educated in the United States and began teaching at Columbia and Harvard universities. Ayça currently co-directs the human rights programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology.

Ayça’s writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Guardian, Al Jazeera, Jadaliyya, Thesis 11, Law & Critique, London Review of International Law and other academic publications. In her scholarship, she has explored the themes of humanity, violence, internationalism, racism, and solidarity, and has written on legal and political theory. Some of her work has been translated into Portuguese, Italian, and Turkish.

Ayça has lectured widely in North America and Europe, and has appeared in BBC’s Newsnight programme and other BBC productions. She has also served as an editor for a number of publications, including The Cobbler, Jadaliyya, Humanity Journal, and the LSE International Studies Series at Cambridge University Press.

Details of her first book, For the Love of Humanity: the World Tribunal on Iraq and other publications can be found here.

 You can find a selection of Ayça’s previous work below: