Sergen Bahceci is a political anthropologist who examines violence and its role in constituting everyday life and lived experiences. He completed a PhD in Anthropology at LSE in 2023. For his doctoral research, he conducted 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork in northern Cyprus among elderly war veterans and younger generations of Cypriots who were born after the island’s civil war (1955 - 1974).
Following his PhD, he worked as a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Criminology where he was employed to conduct digital ethnographic fieldwork in Macclesfield, England, on everyday experiences of crime-related insecurity. He previously taught anthropology at Goldsmiths and University College London, and also worked for the UN Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus in 2020. He has also provided a COI expert witness report for a deportation order appeal tribunal.
Corruption & Impunity
Deportees/Criminal Deportees
Coercive Population Control
Ethnic Discrimination Or Persecution
Ex-Combatant Reintegration
Forced Conscription
Forced Marriage
Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
Honor-Based Violence
Journalist Persecution
Land Tenure Disputes
LGBTQ
Likelihood Of Destitution Or Homelessness
Religious Discrimination Or Persecution
Mental Illness
Military/Police Service
Political Persecution
Trafficking
Statelessness & Lack of Nationality Documentation
Risk Of Retaliation
Reintegration
Loader, Ian, Ben Bradford, Evi Girling, Richard Sparks & Sergen Bahceci. (2025). ‘Inescapable objects? Automobility and everyday disorder in an English town’. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-025-00256-w
Bahceci, Sergen. (Revise and resubmit; under review). ‘Acknowledgement without sanctions: dynamics of indifference towards past violence in a Turkish Cypriot village’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Bahceci, Sergen. (2024). ‘Exiles of the spiritual: secularization and the marginalization of oneiric imaginaries among Turkish Cypriots’, History and Anthropology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2024.2435661
Bahceci, Sergen. (2024). ‘Agency in Waiting: Repetition and innovation in a novel Turkish Cypriot nationalist commemoration’, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 24 (1), 35–54. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/sena.12411
Bahceci, S., Bradford, B., Girling, E., Loader, I. & Sparks, R. (2023). ‘Unsettled crossings: Underpass journeys in an English town’, Criminological Encounters. 6 (1), 81-94. Available at: https://www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/crimenc
Other publications
Bahceci, Sergen, Nunez, Jorge, Sharma, Sarbani & Suarez, Maka. (2021). ‘Facts and Evidence’, Allegra Lab. Available at: https://allegralaboratory.net/politicalengagements-facts-and-evidence/
Bahceci, Sergen. (2018). ‘New Myth, Old Conspiracies’, Anthropology News, Volume 59, Issue 3 Special Issue: #MeToo, e98-e103. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/AN.869
Bahceci, Sergen (2015). Universal Security/Emancipation: A Critique of Ken Booth, e-international relations. Available at: https://www.e-ir.info/2015/03/23/universal-securityemancipation-a-criti…