Erol SaglamGästforskare

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Dr. Saglam is a social anthropologist. 

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).

His more recent publications can be found here.