Author: saygun gokariksel

Saygun Gökarıksel is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He got his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and M.A. at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. His research concerns the reckoning with the communist past in Poland and Eastern Europe, especially lustration, with a focus on law, state and class formation, rightwing populism, and neoliberal globalization. He was a co-editor of an on-line forum on social movements at the Council for European Studies, Columbia University. His writings and political commentaries appeared in journals and forums across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S. He's been involved in collectives engaging in themes of equality, justice, and emancipation.