Dr Ayça Çubukçu

This course is available on the MSc in Human Rights, MSc in Human Rights and Politics and MSc in Political Sociology. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course has a limited number of places (it is controlled access). Places are allocated based on a written statement, with priority given to students on the MSc in Human Rights, MSc in Human Rights and Politics and MSc in Political Sociology. This may mean that not all students who apply will be able to get a place on this course.

Given the frequent overlap, in theory and practice, between visions of internationalism and cosmopolitanism on the one hand, and the remarkable internal variation—to the extent that two different and coherent bodies of thought can be said to exist in the first place—within internationalism and cosmopolitanism on the other, how should we think about the divergences and convergences between these two visions? When different versions of internationalism and cosmopolitanism as expounded and practiced by various theological traditions are added to the matrix along with their feminist, anarchist, regionalist, Third-Worldist, nationalist and militarist articulations, the nature of these phenomena proves too complicated to grasp in a single breath. This course aims to examine this problem by addressing the complications that arise in attempts to define, critique, and practice various strands of internationalism and cosmopolitanism. Cases considered will include communist internationalism, feminist internationalism, anarchist internationalism, Third-Worldism, human rights and liberal internationalism, and Black internationalism.

This course is delivered through seminars totalling a minimum of 20 hours in the WT.

Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6, in line with departmental policy.

Students will be expected to produce 1 piece of coursework in the WT.

Abstract (700 words) and bibliography of the summative essay to be submitted in week 8.

This is an indicative list. Titles may vary year to year.

• Kant, Perpetual Peace and Other Essays;
• Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto;
• Lenin, Right of Nations to Self-Determination;
• Hallas, The Comintern;
• CLR James, World Revolution;
• Mohanty, Feminism Without Borders;
• Anderson, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination;
• Hemmings, Considering Emma Goldman;
• Prashad, Darker Nations;
• Gilroy, Postcolonial Melancholia;
• Hopgood, Keepers of the Flame;
• Moyn, Last Utopia;
• Chun-Mu, Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era
• Makalani, In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939;
• Wilder, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization and the Future of the World;
• Mahler, From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity;
• Boaventura de Sousa Santos, The Rise of the Global Left: The World Social Forum and Beyond

Research paper (90%) in the ST.
Class participation (10%) in the WT.