Esra Demir-Gürsel
@esrademir.bsky.social
human rights • researcher • Hertie School
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Esra Demir-Gürsel
@esrademir.bsky.social
· Apr 25
In today’s #Ö interview, @esrademir.bsky.social and @jtheilen.bsky.social explore the potential of critical frame analysis in European Human Rights Law.
#CriticalApproaches, #EuropeanCourtOfHumanRights, #Ö=DanielaRau
voelkerrechtsblog.org/on-european-...
#CriticalApproaches, #EuropeanCourtOfHumanRights, #Ö=DanielaRau
voelkerrechtsblog.org/on-european-...
On European Human Rights, Frames, and Critique
voelkerrechtsblog.org
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.
@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.
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An important and wide-ranging interview with Nahed Samour on international law and Palestine, among other things on the role of law and narrative, on the relation between positivism and critique, and on transnational resistance: academic.oup.com/lril/advance...
International law, populism and Palestine: an interview with Nahed Samour
In this interview, Dr Richard Joyce and Professor Sundhya Pahuja are joined by German-Palestinian international legal scholar, Dr Nahed Samour, currently b
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October 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
An important and wide-ranging interview with Nahed Samour on international law and Palestine, among other things on the role of law and narrative, on the relation between positivism and critique, and on transnational resistance: academic.oup.com/lril/advance...
I am happy that this finally out now—and we are now very close to the publication of the full special issue. Stay tuned!
Another article from our special issue on frames of human rights is out: @esrademir.bsky.social’s fantastic piece on oppositional frames, analysing how concepts like authoritarianism and populism are used and what this tells us about the Council of Europe itself
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I am happy that this finally out now—and we are now very close to the publication of the full special issue. Stay tuned!
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a timely and important symposium at @voelkerrechtsblog.org :
‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’
voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...
‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’
voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...
Introducing the Symposium ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’
voelkerrechtsblog.org
September 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
a timely and important symposium at @voelkerrechtsblog.org :
‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’
voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...
‘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.””
July 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“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.””
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@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.
Trotz der sehr hohen Hürden, die das Gericht für staatliche Schutzpflichten aufstellt, wird klar: Bei Waffenlieferungen an Israel muss eine solche Pflicht greifen.
Vertrauen und Vertretbarkeit
verfassungsblog.de
July 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
@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.
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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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency earlier this month. There's a LOT to be said about its content, but for now, I am sharing my first impressions in case you are interested 😎
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South Contribution to Climate Governance
On 3 July 2025, Justice Nancy Hernandez, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), announced the issuance of the new Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency (AO-32). In front o...
www.ejiltalk.org
July 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency earlier this month. There's a LOT to be said about its content, but for now, I am sharing my first impressions in case you are interested 😎
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Young 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
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
July 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Young 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
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...
"...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...
criticallegalthinking.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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...
"...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...
Nervous Conditions
July 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Nervous Conditions
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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...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/asl...
America's Imperial Unraveling - Boston Review
Could Trump's repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?
www.bostonreview.net
June 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"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...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/asl...
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...
"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...
The human rights case for drawing a line under extreme wealth
An extreme wealth line focuses attention on a simple question: How much is too much?
www.openglobalrights.org
June 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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...
"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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These are just lies. Iran didn’t actually leave the negotiating table. Israel simply bombed Iran and now the US has joined. And the UK just declared that it supports these bombings.
It’s difficult to stress how dangerous this all is, and how reckless Starmer is
It’s difficult to stress how dangerous this all is, and how reckless Starmer is
BREAKING: Keir Starmer reacts to the US bombing Iran’s nuclear sites
June 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
These are just lies. Iran didn’t actually leave the negotiating table. Israel simply bombed Iran and now the US has joined. And the UK just declared that it supports these bombings.
It’s difficult to stress how dangerous this all is, and how reckless Starmer is
It’s difficult to stress how dangerous this all is, and how reckless Starmer is
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....
www.tandfonline.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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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Another paper from our special issue on Frames of European human rights is out: “Seriously ill migrants in European human rights: Framing global inequalities” by @vanditak.bsky.social — absolute must-read on humanitarianism, responsibility & structural inequality
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
June 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Another paper from our special issue on Frames of European human rights is out: “Seriously ill migrants in European human rights: Framing global inequalities” by @vanditak.bsky.social — absolute must-read on humanitarianism, responsibility & structural inequality
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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If I were teaching a course on authoritarianism, I would ask students for an essay comparing Harvard with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. So different, on the one hand, and comparable, on the other.
May 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
If I were teaching a course on authoritarianism, I would ask students for an essay comparing Harvard with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. So different, on the one hand, and comparable, on the other.
"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...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Lyndal Roper | How is the German Peasants’ War remembered?
Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series of...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"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...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Join us for the conference "Utopian Imagination and Dystopian Practices: Future in the Past / Past in the Future"
June 6-7, 2025 @humboldtuni.bsky.social
June 6-7, 2025 @humboldtuni.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Join us for the conference "Utopian Imagination and Dystopian Practices: Future in the Past / Past in the Future"
June 6-7, 2025 @humboldtuni.bsky.social
June 6-7, 2025 @humboldtuni.bsky.social
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...
"We need the energy in all forms, renewable, non-renewable, whatever."
futurism.com/google-ceo-c...
Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI
Billionaire tech tycoon Eric Schmidt told Congress that 99 percent of electricity will soon be used to power AI.
futurism.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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...
"We need the energy in all forms, renewable, non-renewable, whatever."
futurism.com/google-ceo-c...
