Başak Ertür
Reader & Convenor MRes in Forensic Architecture
b.etur@gold.ac.uk
Başak Ertür is a Reader and a Research Fellow at Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths. She is the author of Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political Trials (Fordham University Press, 2022) and a recipient of the Association for the Study of Law Culture and Humanities Julien Mezey Dissertation Award (2016). She is the editor of Manual for Conspiracy (2011) and co-editor of Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward Said (2008), as well as Something Is Rotten in the State, a special issue of Theory & Event. Recent articles have appeared in Critical Times, Law & Critique, Theory & Event and in the edited collections Vulnerability in Resistance and Law, Memory, Violence: Uncovering the Counter-Archive.
Başak has translated work by Judith Butler, Lauren Berlant, and Val Plumwood into Turkish. She is also the co-director and co-producer of the documentary film, For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq (2007). Başak serves on the advisory board of Forensis, and the editorial committee of Law & Critique.
Başak has translated work by Judith Butler, Lauren Berlant, and Val Plumwood into Turkish. She is also the co-director and co-producer of the documentary film, For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq (2007). Başak serves on the advisory board of Forensis, and the editorial committee of Law & Critique.