Hakan Seckinelgin
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Hakan Seckinelgin is a Professor of International Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He is trained in international political theory and has developed a multidisciplinary research programme by combining theoretical work with empirical studies. His work focuses on both the epistemology and politics of international social policy by engaging with people’s lives in different contexts. He is particularly interested in understanding how we think about policy processes by first thinking about the problems as they are experienced in the everyday lives of those who are supposed to benefit from the policies targeting them. His work has focused on HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In April 2025 he joins the IAS for a one-month writing residency.
Research project
Knowledge, policy, systems
Policy processes as ecological systems
Building on his past research, Hakan Seckinelgin brings together his analysis of international HIV and AIDS policies, his policy knowledge, and the concept of ecologies in the policy process. The aim is to examine the way in which policy knowledge claims underwriting such processes from the perspective of an ecology that takes people’s experiences of social problems as central, in order to create an original framework for critical policy analysis. The work aims to develop an analysis of the dynamic relations and the capacities created for actors from the lens of the complex ecological dynamics of symbiosis (mutualism, parasitism, commensalism), competition and predation. These ecological concepts will make possible to explore the quality of the relations between each agent’s ability to participate in a policy system, and how this participation (or inability to participate) is produced by a specificity of the relations in the system.
Key Publications
Seckinelgin, H. (2017) Politics of Global AIDS: Institutionalization of Solidarity, exclusion of context (Springer).
Seckinelgin, H (2020) ‘People don’t live on the care cascade: the life of the HIV Care Cascade as an international AIDS policy and its implications’ Global Public Health Vol 15 (3) 321-333 - first online Oct 2019.
Seckinelgin, H (2024) The Armenian Genocide and Turkey: Public Memory and Institutionalized Denial (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury Press).
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