Dr Seçkin Sertdemir Özdemir

Dr Seçkin Sertdemir Özdemir

Visiting Fellow

European Institute

Languages
English, French, Turkish
Key Expertise
Political Philosophy, Democracy, Political Participation, Turkish Studies

About me

Seçkin Sertdemir is a Collegium Researcher in the Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History, and Political Science at the University of Turku and a Visiting Fellow in the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Her research focuses on ideas of democracy, and current problems of political philosophy such as civil disobedience and political rights.

Her book manuscript, Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State will be published by Cambridge University Press (November 2024).

Expertise Details

Political Philosophy; Democracy; Political Participation; Turkish Studies

Books

Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State (November 2024) Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781009524599 (link

Recherches sur le sens de la liberté politique chez Alexis de Tocqueville et Hannah Arendt (Political Freedom in Alexis de Tocqueville and Hannah Arendt) (2015) ANRT, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France. 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

- ‘Civic Death as a Mechanism of Retributive Punishment: Academic Purges in Turkey’ (2021) Punishment & Society, 23(2): 145-163. (link

- ‘Civil and Civic death in the New Authoritarianisms: Punishment of Dissidents in Turkey’ (2019) with Esra Özyürek, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 46(5): 699-713. (link

- ‘Pity the exiled: Turkish academics in exile, the problem of compassion in politics, and the promise of dis-exile’ (2019) Journal of Refugee Studies, Oxford University Press 34(1): 936-952. (link

- ‘Exile and Plurality in Neoliberal Times: Turkey’s Academics for Peace’ (2019) with Nil Mutluer and Esra Özyürek Public Culture, Duke University Press, vol. 31(2): 235-259. (link

  • Translated by Çiçek Öztek into Turkish, Toplum ve Bilim (2021) 156: 116-139. (link)
  • Translated by Βαγγέλης Πούλιος into Greek, Feministiqa (2019). (link

- ‘The Gezi Park Protests as a Pluralistic ‘Anti-Violent’ Movement’ (2015) Pluralist 10(3): 247-260. (link)