Erol Saglam

About me

Dr. Saglam is a social anthropologist working as a postdoctoral fellow at Stockholm University. 

Following his studies at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, Erol Saglam completed his doctoral research at Birkbeck, University of London in 2017. He has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Stockholm University and Freie University Berlin, was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, and holds a lecturer post at Istanbul Medeniyet University.

In addition to his heritage preservation endeavours in collaboration with scholars from the UK, Saglam currently works on a number of research themes, ranging from the socio-political implications of the circulation of conspiracy theories to treasure hunts. Saglam has published articles and chapters on piety, masculinity, and conspiracy theories. His recent publications include:

• Saglam, Erol. (2022). "Subjectivity, Mobilization, and Everyday Politics: Reconfigurations of Conspiracy Theories in Turkey." Social Research: International Quarterly 89 (3): 831-857.
• Saglam, Erol. (2022). "Tracing 'Greek' Heritage: Anthropologicak Insights into Intangible Heritages, Collective Memory, and Identity on the Black Sea Littoral." Journal of Modern Greek Studies 40 (2): 373-394. (Link)
• Saglam, Erol. (2022). "Bureaucracies under Authoritarian Pressure: Legal Destabilizations, Politicization, and Bureaucratic Subjectivities in Contemporary Turkey." International Journal of Law in Context 18 (3): 288-302. (Link)
• Saglam, Erol. (2022). "How to Complain against Unfair Peer Review?" Political and Legal Anthropology Review Emergent Conversation 16. (Link)
• Saglam, Erol. (2021) “Taking the Matters into Your Own Hands: Ethnographic Insights into Societal Violence and the Reconfigurations of the State in Contemporary Turkey.” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2021.1909293
• Saglam, Erol. (2020) “What to Do with Conspiracies? Insights from Ethnographic Explorations of Nationalist Men in Contemporary Turkey.” Anthropology Today 36 (5).
• Saglam, Erol. (2020). “We Have to Grasp How Conspiracy Theories Work.” OpenDemocracy, May 19.
• Saglam, Erol. (2020). “Presumed Dead but Lived On: Treasures and Discreet Afterlives of Greek Heritage in Contemporary Turkey.” Allegra Lab, Thematic Thread: Afterlives.
• Saglam, Erol. (2020). “Commutes, Coffeehouses, and Imaginations: An Exploration of Everyday Makings of Heteronormative Masculinities in Public.” In Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality, edited by S. Sehlikoglu and F. Kariokis. New York: Lexington, 45-62.
• Saglam, Erol. (2019). “Bridging the Social with What Unfolds in the Psyche: The Psychosocial in Ethnographic Research.” In New Voices in Psychosocial Studies, edited by S. Frosh. London: Palgrave, 123-39.
• Saglam, Erol. (2018). “Aestheticised Rituals and (Non-)Engagement with Norms in Contemporary Turkey: A Contribution to Discussions on Piety and Ethics.” Anthropology of the Middle East 13 (1).

More of his publications can be found here.