Saygun Gökarıksel
Hukuk
Siyaset ve tarih antropolojisi
Geçiş adaleti ve insan hakları
Doğu Avrupa ve küresel güney
Saygun Gökarıksel's research and writing engages the themes of law, history, and politics, especially the field of transitional justice and human rights, from a critical legal and political anthropological perspective. His current research examines the legal and moral-political reckoning with the communist past in Poland and Eastern Europe more generally, with a focus on violence, archive, memory, and neoliberal and rightwing authoritarianism. His writings and commentaries have appeared in journals and forums across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the US.
Soc 281 Sosyal Antropoloji; Soc 286 Politik Antropoloji; Soc 375 Hukuk Sosyolojisi/Antropolojisi; Soc 480 Devrimler, Devletler ve Sosyal Hareketler; Soc 481 Geçiş Dönemi Adaleti, Soc 491 Şiddet ve Politika; Soc 492 Doğu Avrupa'da Çağdaş Meseleler.
Kitap:
--Moral Autopsy: Truths, Secrets, and the Judicial Afterlives of Communist Secret Service Archives (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Received the Honorable Mention of Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies, Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies.
Makaleler:
--"Naming the Secret Agent: Law, Suspicion, and Moral Autopsy After Communism," PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, November 2025.
https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/plar.70022
--"Two Bodies of the Accused: The Politics of Aesthetics and the Moral Autopsy of Communism in Poland after 1989" Cultural Critique," Summer 2025, 123-152 (Received 2026 Polish Studies Article Prize by The British Association for Slavonic & East European Studies)
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/article/966466/summary
--“Screening the Criminal Underworld of Capitalist Nation-State Making: Dogs and Memory of the 1990s in Poland,” forthcoming in Remembering the 1990s: Economic Change in East-Central Europe and Beyond after 1989 edited by Veronika Pehe and Joanna Wawrzyniak. Routledge.
-- “Judicializing Communism: Transitional Justice and Nationalist Populism in the Uneven Time-Space of Eastern Europe” In Law, Populism, and the Political edited by Rafał Manko, Adam Sulikowski, and Przemysław Tacik. London: Routledge.
-- “Anti-Fascist Strategy Today: Historical Lineages of Anti-Communism and “Militant Democracy” in Eastern Europe.” In Back to the 1930s: Crisis, Repetition, and Transition in the 20th and 21st Centuries edited by Jeremy Rayner, George Souvlis et al., Palgrave, 2020, 215-233.
-- “Facing History: Sovereignty and the Spectacles of Justice and Violence in Poland’s Capitalist Democracy,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, January 2019, 111-144
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417518000518
-- With Umut Türem, “The Banality of Exception? Law and Politics in ‘Post-Coup’ Turkey,” South Atlantic Quarterly, January 2019, 175-187
