Esra Demir-Gürsel
human rights • researcher • Hertie School
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- I am happy that this finally out now—and we are now very close to the publication of the full special issue. Stay tuned!
- Reposted by Esra Demir-Gürsela timely and important symposium at @voelkerrechtsblog.org : ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’ voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...
- “Both B’Tselem and PHR said Israel’s western allies were enabling the genocidal campaign, and shared responsibility for suffering in Gaza. “It couldn’t happen without the support of the western world,” Novak said. “Any leader that is not doing whatever they can to stop it is part of this horror.””
- Reposted by Esra Demir-Gürsel@jtheilen.bsky.social und ich haben für @verfassungsblog.de das Ramstein-Urteil analysiert. Trotz der sehr hohen Hürden, die das Gericht für staatliche Schutzpflichten aufstellt, wird klar: Bei Waffenlieferungen an Israel muss eine solche Pflicht greifen.
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- Reposted by Esra Demir-GürselYoung refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already
- How do we make sense of what's happening in Germany? "...there is active suppression of speech, but that the reason may not be law, but obedience or something beyond “law”." Stacy Douglas engages in a significant discussion here: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/08/i...
- From economy of occupation to economy of genocide www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
- Nervous Conditions
- ‘I appreciate depreciation’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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- "Trump is little more than a symptom of the forces that over decades have produced this gradual decline, though he may also prove to be the final nail in the coffin." www.bostonreview.net/articles/asl...
- When we are all enemies of the state www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
- Drawing a line under extreme wealth "the very idea of an extreme wealth line focuses public and political thinking and narratives around the question of how much is too much." www.openglobalrights.org/the-human-ri...
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- Following contributions by @cohelongo.bsky.social, @drqv.bsky.social, and @vanditak.bsky.social, the 4th piece in our special issue on Framing Europe in Human Rights, authored by Nurbanu Hayır, has just been published. Available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- "For the last thirty years there has been almost no new scholarship on the Peasants’ War. After reunification the subject was simply too difficult, because the former East and the former West had diametrically opposed interpretations of it." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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- Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI "We need the energy in all forms, renewable, non-renewable, whatever." futurism.com/google-ceo-c...
- Scary... www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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- I fell asleep reading #Arboreality by R. Campbell, a collection of stories about ecological collapse. In the morning, instead of news on degrowth, I find myself scrolling through headline after headline about expanding military collaborations and massive tech investments. Which one is the fiction?
- I have just heard of the passing of Françoise Hampson. Rest in peace, Françoise Hampson. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...
- This week, we had one and only @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social in my Human Rights & Global Governance class. Lys shared valuable insights into the role of special sapporteurs within the UN system, the mandate of the SP on the Right to Food, and the recent report on starvation. @hertiecfr.bsky.social
- Reposted by Esra Demir-Gürsel📄 New article: Colonialism continues to shape the project of European human rights. In this article I trace the continuity of civilizational hierarchies in the ECtHR’s case-law on extraterritoriality and European consensus Available in EJIL @ejiltalk.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
- Nazan, Unufak'ı Fındık, Azad, Maro ve Anna'yı anlamaya çalışarak anlatmış. ’Bu dört kadın da anlatıyı kuran, hafızayı taşıyan, hikâyelerinden güç alan karakterler. Romanın gerçek kalbi onlarda atıyor. Belki bu yüzden, Unufak aynı zamanda bir erkeklik eleştirisi.' www.sanatatak.com/o-zaman-cadi...
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- On European human rights, frames, and critique. @jtheilen.bsky.social and I had a very insightful conversation with Daniela Rau from Völkerrechtsblog about studying European human rights, authoritarianism, climate change, and migration through the lenses of critique and framing.
- The rise of end times fascism by Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- Some wounds, time never heals. #24April1915 Take some time today to read Antaram's Journey by my dear friend, Nazan Maksudyan: www.academia.edu/45188161/_An...
- Or politicians with weapons using force to aid in the resolution of 'political problems'? How nice it would be to read more on this from Graeber, if he would see a distinction between what is administrative and political in the uses of the police.
- Günlerdir ne zaman Sırrı Süreyya Önder'i düşünsem, hafızama kazınmış bir yazısını hatırlıyorum: "Kazandılar. Ülke, güvercin kasaplarının darbesine teslim oldu. Çöpçüler, kuşlarla beraber insan ölüleri toplamaya başladı." Yazının tamamını şurada buldum: kedikoprusu1.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/s...
- Istanbul last night. Protesters saving another protester from being detained. 📸: @emreorman.bsky.social
- “If I die, I want a loud death,” ... “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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- "Yeni gelenlere yapılan şakaları burada anlatıp 'spoiler' vermeyeceğim. Memlekette yaşadığı topluma ve dünyaya sorumluluk hisseden herkesin yolu cezaevlerinden geçtiği için, yaşayarak öğrenme deneyimini elinizden almak istemem." kaosgl.org/haber/yildiz...
- A very insightful essan: "The world is thus entering a new era in which the rich countries will follow an unusual two-pronged policy. Having jettisoned neoliberal globalization, they’ll now press ahead even more firmly with a project of domestic neoliberalism." jacobin.com/2025/03/what...
- "Gordon calls this ‘a white response’: it is a response typical of those who had the privilege of being surrounded by scholarship that is not offensive to their being. ... www.diggitmagazine.com/column/racis...
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- Last week, Wiebke Judith of @proasyl.de joined our Human Rights & Global Governance class to discuss asylum politics today. It was an eye-opening session on the challenges facing asylum work and how the far right and conservatives have advanced anti-migrant agendas. @hertiecfr.bsky.social
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- Fresh from @jtheilen.bsky.social: Framing Migration in Human Rights on how the ECtHR frames border control measures and legitimizes border regimes. Open-access read! #FramesProject @hertiecfr.bsky.social
- Do human rights provide a progressive counterpoint to migration law? In this article, I highlight their structurally conservative side & argue that the European Court of Human Rights legitimates the foundations of border regimes even when finding rights violations #migsky brill.com/view/journal...
- What is happening in Turkey goes well beyond the detention of Istanbul's mayor and his team on bogus charges. People are resisting the enrenchment of fascism. There are calls for a general strike and an academic boycott.
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- So true.
- Istanbul University students in Turkey are protesting against the detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the main rival of Erdoğan in the upcoming presidential elections, along with other mayors and opposition politicians.
- They are also standing against the university's embarrassing decision yesterday to cancel İmamoğlu’s diploma in an attempt to prevent him from running in the elections.
- I hope it is not too late to start working more seriously on fascism, setting aside discussions of authoritarianism, populism, democratic backsliding, etc., for the moment.
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- Reposted by Esra Demir-GürselI’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
- It was wonderful to have @grabaranowska.bsky.social with us in my class on Human Rights & Global Governance. She introduced us to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances and explained how it works. Thank you, Grazyna! Hope to have you with us in person next time. @hertiecfr.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Esra Demir-GürselMy essay on the Hague Academy's centenary is available at EJIL. It's about order in and through law - from the invention of a 'Grotian' international order to the 'rules-based international order' and the hypocrisies that come with it academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
- The most insightful thing I have read in a while: "On the politics of signing things" criticallegalthinking.com
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- After reading Khaled El Mahmood's piece on Völkerrechtsblog, which I posted below, this is the second piece I’ve read in a row this morning that reminds us of our responsibilities as academics, lawyers, readers, or viewers—perhaps even including the responsibility of remaining hopeful.
- Khaled El Mahmoud argues that the silence surrounding the suppression of #AcademicFreedom in #Germany raises urgent and fundamental questions. He asks: What responsibilities do academics and institutions bear in times of grave #Humanitarian & #LegalCrises? voelkerrechtsblog.org/special-edit...
- A banker, a social welfare recipient and an asylum seeker are sitting at a table. There are 12 cookies in front of them. The banker takes 11 cookies and says to the social welfare recipient: “Watch out, the refugee wants your cookie.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
