Dr Ayca Cubukcu

This course is available on the MSc in Culture and Society, 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 uses controlled access as part of the course selection process. For information on controlled access courses, including eligibility, application processes, deadlines, and departmental contact details, please refer to the Controlled Access Courses webpage.

This course has a limited number of places. For information on how to apply for a place on this course, please see Courses offered and related information.

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 has a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn Term.

This course is delivered through seminars. There will be two hours or more of teaching each week in AT.

Abstract (700 words).

The formative assessment will consist of an abstract (700 words) and bibliography of the summative essay, to be submitted in week 8 of AT.

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

• Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto;
• Lenin, Right of Nations to Self-Determination;
• Mohanty, Feminism Without Borders;
• Ramnath, Decolonizing Anarchism
• Makalani, In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939;
• Mahler, From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity.

Course participation (10%).

Research paper (90%, 5000 words) in January.

Attendance at all seminars and submission of all set coursework is required.